He's One!

The cake
My little firefighter
mmmmhhh!
Looking for any crumbs he can find leftover!

I can't believe my baby is already one!!  He's not really a baby anymore...I guess we should stop calling him Baby Jake.  We had a little first birthday party for Jacob on Saturday, thanks to all those who came.  I thought I would post some of his favorite things and things he is doing at his 1st birthday:

His first word:  dood (good)

His newest favorite word:  Mmmmhhh (he says it whenever he eats anything new)

His favorite toy:  Ruby's princess books and dollies (He only wants them because he knows it makes her mad when he takes them...it's amazing how fast they pick up on these things)

His favorite song:  "If you're happy and you know it" (He's recently learned all three verses...my favorite is when he shouts Hooray!)

His favorite place in the house:  Ruby's bookshelf (He empties it appx. 20 times/day!)

His favorite food:  sweet potatoes

His favorite person:  Mommy (That one is just for me to feel good:-))

He's not walking yet, but has recently mastered what we call the stinkbug crawl, where he crawls on his feet instead of his knees.  I'm sure it won't be too long before he's walking.  I can't believe how much babies learn and change in their first year!  He has been just about the best baby EVER and we're glad we have him.  HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LITTLE JAKE!!

First Haircut

Before the first haircut
She wasn't super thrilled at the thought of getting a haircut...
but I guess when your're two, a sucker can fix almost anything!
The after pictures
So it's probably pitiful that Ruby is over two and a half, and she just got her first haircut yesterday, but I couldn't imagine cutting off all of her cute curls.  I guess I shouldn't have been worried, because there are still plenty of curls left!!  We have been talking for the last few days about getting a haircut (hoping to make it really fun and exciting and something to look forward to :)) and Ruby seemed really excited about it until we got there.  You can tell from the picture right before we started that she wasn't too happy about the idea, but luckily I brought plenty of suckers and a portable DVD player with Finding Nemo.  Once she started cutting her hair, it was like she didn't even notice.  She got about 5 inches cut off, who knew she had so much hair!  Anyway, in my opinion, the wait was worth it, thanks for the cute haircut Dianna!