Swings

It was a beautiful day, so we took advantage of it and went for a swing.

Stepping up!

Jesse tried taking a few steps and then got side tracked by his napping daddy. So he decided to stop by and try to wake him up.

Jesse is starting to get adventurous and let go to take steps on his own. Last night he took 7 steps unassisted. I didn't get that one on video though. But here are a few of his attempts at the new world of walking.

Random Things

I thought I would post some videos of Jesse from the last few weeks. He is almost 9 months old now.

Sleeping Baby

One day last week, we had an interesting morning where everything seemed to go wrong. Well, Josh and I were extra exhausted that morning and Jesse woke up before we did. I put him on the floor to crawl around as I was trying to wake up. When I picked him up again I noticed that something didn't smell right. Oh yeah, big dirty diaper. So I got him cleaned up and then got myself ready.

As I finished getting dressed, already pressing time to leave, I looked over at Jesse who had a brown spot on his pants. I looked closer. Yup, poop. When I checked his diaper, it was clean. Then I noticed he had some on the sleeves of his shirt. Then I discovered it was smeared in the carpet and some other things on the floor. Earlier in the morning it must have leaked out of his diaper before I changed him. Yuck! So we got that cleaned up. I was in a hurry to get Jesse ready to take to my mom's house.

On Tuesdays she watches him while I am at work. Then Josh hurriedly helped Jesse and I get loaded into the car. It had rained hard the night before. I had about 4 bags in my arms and Josh had Jesse and the booster seat in his. I quickly threw the bags in the back seat to grab the seat so Josh could get Jesse buckled in. And the bag holding Jesse's bottle warmer, baby food, bottles, bibs, etc... didn't quite make it in the car and tumbled into the large mud puddle just below. Deeply annoyed at what I had just done, I looked up and Josh, not seeing what happened, was chatting with the mailman about football. Trying to stay calm, I asked Josh if he would give Jesse to me and go back inside to get something to clean up the muddy stuff. So we got that cleaned up. I got Jesse over to my mom's and hoped that the curse of messes would be broken for the day.

Crawling to Mommy, Then distracted by a toy

Fun with Cousin Keaghan

My sister, Jennifer, and her six year old son, Keaghan came over on Labor Day. Jennifer said they were just shopping around in Joplin and Keaghan asked to come see his favorite little baby. He really loves on Jesse. It was so cute to watch him try to hug him, and Jesse doesn't like to be constricted so he would wriggle away.

Jesse hasn't learned it isn't nice to pull on people's faces.

Reading Time!


Jesse lost interest, but Keaghan looks surprised by the ending.

Keaghan wanted to get on the play mat with Jesse.

Jesse was wondering, "Will I ever be as big as you?"

Husker Season

Daddy and Jesse kicked off college football season with a win! Jesse is experiencing his first Husker football. He has 2 outfits for the season thanks to 2nd cousin, Tonya. Go Huskers!

Family Reunion in Nebraska

Josh's mom's family, the Teafords, got together to celebrate Grandma T's upcoming 90th birthday. She had 5 children- Josh's mom is the youngest. Each of her kid's family got their own color of t-shirt. The Udells were brown.

The Omaha Zoo has been rated as the second best zoo in America. So since we were headed to Omaha, we had to make a visit. The aquarium was probably our favorite as you can see.

Some fun videos

Give Daddy a Kiss

Come to Daddy

China!

For those of you who know me or have been to my apartment, you know I have had an interest and love of Chinese language and culture for 7 years now. Last night, I watched the opening ceremonies and was in awe of the presentation they gave. I really wanted to post a link to this thing they did with hundreds of guys under boxes. My father-in-law and I went back and forth debating, "That has to be done by computers. How are they doing that?" Then at the end the men pop out the top of the boxes. I haven't found it on Youtube yet, but if you haven't seen it, you need to.

A Few of My Favorite Things

Well, not a whole lot is new this week, so I thought I would write about a few of my favorite things. In no particular order...

Blue Bell Chocolate Covered Cherry Ice Cream Bars
Jesse and Josh
NY & Co. Clothes and Accessories
The Office (The show and my own)
Sunsets
Nostalgic TV and Movies

Fireworks
The Glenn Beck Radio Show
Little Caesar's
Pajamas
Poker Night
When Jesse laughs in his sleep
Target
Cherry 7-up
Gerbera Daisies
Pay day (The money, not the candy bar)
Frappacinos
John Mayer songs
Smallville
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

Shakey's

To name a few. Share some of your favorites in the comments section.

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