Funny Noises

Jesse has started making this funny noise where he sticks out his lower lip and blows. He seems to get a kick out of it and we can't help but laugh.

Cap for my Cutie Pie

Well, Jesse's one year birthday is quickly approaching and my best friend, Joelle, sent his present early. It is an adorable "Cutie Pie Cap" with a small football pattern. Her aunt makes these adorable baby hats. You can check them out on this link. http://www.cutiepiecaps.blogspot.com/

Jesse says, "Thanks, Aunt Joelle."

Batman!

Jesse loves his new Batman pajamas. Check out the cape!

In this video, you can see how long his pants are and that he walks on the pant legs. I guess we need Grandma to hem them.

Jesse's first Halloween was fun. We stopped in at the party at our apartment complex office. Above - Jesse and our neighbor are watching the big kids play games and win candy.

Jesse wanted to pick out his own piece. He chose taffy, which he later tried to eat through the wrapper. Taffy is not a good choice for a 10 month old. Mommy made sure he didn't eat it.

Jesse wanted to try on his daddy's boots. Perfect Fit!

Our next door neighbors stopped by with their adorable girls dressed up for Halloween.

Walking!

It has officially been 2 weeks since Jesse started walking. He is really good at it already. He does not crawl anymore at all. He still falls occasionally, but gets right back up to explore. He has found new entertainment in opening and shutting the cabinet doors. He has not really messed with much inside, but just loves to see himself open and close them. I know, I need to baby proof this. It is difficult to find something to hold the doors closed when there aren't knobs or handles.

Anyway, here are some videos to check it out. The first one was taken a week ago and the second was filmed today. You can already see that after a week, he isn't as wobbly.

Punkin'

We took a trip to the Pumpkin Patch in Carl Junction on Josh's birthday. Josh and I had a blast watching Jesse try to figure out what the big orange balls were. We always call Jesse our little "Punkin" so he had to be a pumpkin for Halloween.

Sorry, this one is a little shakey.

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?"