Counting

Jake is counting now! He can count to 10 and then he says 13, 16, 19, 20.... so cute!!

Corn on the Cob

Jake and I visited Mamaw and Papaw while Trip was out of town one day last week and Papaw had some corn ready in his garden. He and Jake picked it and he sent it home with us to eat. It was Jake's first corn on the cob and he was excited about it since it came from Papaw. He carried his around for a little while before Trip cooked it and he would say... "corn.... Papaw" and just smile. Well...in 1996 Trip taught our niece, Carley, to eat corn on the cob and
we have always loved the pictures I got because you can literally watch her figure it out. It was one of the first times that I knew Trip would make a wonderful father and I was right. Thirteen years later he taught our son to eat corn on the cob the exact same way and it was just precious. Below are photos of both corn on the cob eating lessons. REMINDER: If the pictures are too small for you ... just click on them to make them big and then you can hit your back button to return to the original blog page.



Papaw gave me some corn!


Our local Nature Center had a free day this past Saturday for local residents and we took advantage of the chance to take Jake to see some animals. He really enjoyed it and learned several new words including wolf, coyote and peacock. He's still all about the hugs too so he would say things like "wolf... hug".

Bear....HUG!

I'm Daddy's best buddy!

Run... I think I saw another bear!

Mama ... are you sure that was a wolf because it really looked like a dog to me?

Jake still loves to "drive" ever since Papaw and Uncle Russell let him do it a couple of weeks ago. Every time we go anywhere now Jake wants to "drive". He just giggles while he turns every dial and pushes every button within reach. He also throws his whole body weight into trying to turn the steering wheel... ADORABLE!

I love driving Daddy's truck!

We're still enjoying our homegrown tomatoes. Jake loves to pick them and eat them. We can barely wash the cherry tomatoes before he takes a bite.

Mama... what do you mean we have to wash it first?

When Jake and I visited Mamaw and Papaw last week they treated us to burgers from a local drive-in that has been around pretty much my whole life. Jake had never eaten a hamburger but he decided to try mine and he really liked it.

Where have these been my whole life?

You might have noticed a new picture of Jake at the top of the side bar on the right of this page. It was his very first professional picture session and it was hard to keep him still but we got some cute shots. After we finished having his picture made I was being silly with him and Trip loved his laugh so he shot a little video to share. His laugh is wonderful! I would walk a million miles just to hear it for a even one moment.

Mama... you are so silly!