{january}

This blog post is dedicated to my sister Makell who checks this blog everyday for updates and I've been slacking this month and she demanded something. So here's January's recap and mostly pictures she's of course already seen :)

Jake got to eat his first Oreo and was so upset when I wouldn't give him another one!

One time we watched Frozen together and he actually sat still for 45 minutes of it and watched while eating Goldfish. I could just eat him up.

First real haircut! Hard to get a non-blurry picture of this mobile boy.

Me and Jake love fruit/spinach smoothies.

He always needs to see what dad's working on.

One of Jake's favorite things is playing in the car {while it's parked} and pressing buttons and holding onto the steering wheel.

He can stand! And walk. He walks for a bit around the house and then decides crawling is a much faster alternative and switches to that. Then switches back to walking.

I screamed really loud watching a UNC basketball game which terrified Jake. 

Aren't these two just the cutest.

He only wants to sit sideways in the grocery cart so he can look in the direction I'm pushing! He kills me.

Trav's been lucky enough to go to two Duke basketball games at Cameron Indoor. It is generally very expensive and difficult to get tickets, so we are grateful for his friend who goes to Duke getting him in!

Jake's favorite show {and really only show he'll watch} is Daniel Tiger. I think it is the cutest show ever! It's based on Mr. Roger's but is a cartoon and based in the land of make believe. So educational and I find myself singing the songs to help Jake all day long.

Bubbles are his new favorite thing.

Jake and Nora on their date to an Italian pizzeria.

Pudding fun! And messy fun.

He found a perfect spot on Dad's leg.

Licking the cheesecake filling for dad's cherry cheesecake. He was in heaven.

He has this thing with this particular cabinet and will stick stuff in the pots and move stuff around. Even though we have child locks on I open this one for him!

These two doing the laundry together was just the best. Jake is a really good helper moving the clothes into the dryer.

Vegetables are his favorite thing. As in we can't show them to him until the end of the meal or he'll only eat those and refuse everything else. He's also been into resting his arm like this sometimes!

Looking all handsome before church.

Learning to drive.

The tithing page is his favorite page in his quiet book. He always has to go directly to that page and take off all the tithing pieces and just carry them around. He is always making me laugh!

With friends banging on the washing machine and life can't get any better.

We had family pictures with Trav's family taken in Washington over christmas and here are some of them!

What a miracle Jake is looking at the camera in the group picture!

{christmas}

We had a great trip in Vancouver, Washington for Christmas! Lots of fun game nights, movies, catching up, yummy food, and catching up on sleep! We saw a play, had lunch with the girls, built a fire, and went shopping at IKEA too (I may or may not have bought a high chair there that I've wanted and fit it in our suitcases!! It's completely plastic so no more trying to clean nasty fabric). Jake did pretty well flying on such long flights. Although he only slept a total of 30 minutes on the plane which made for a crazy day! A 3 hour time zone change is no joke for anyone.

Lots of playtime with daddy! I spy dad...under the blanket.

Lots of fun with lots of cousins! Jake loved all the attention. 

We had fun meeting up with our friends Blaine and Jessica!

Jake found the stairs and was obsessed with climbing them! He can go up great; never figured out how to go down very well though.

Jake doesn't let others nap; he has to figure out what they're doing! He was quick to wake grandma up.

 

We ate breakfast one morning at a yummy waffle place in Portland. Where's the waffle??!

Travis' brother Scott and Asher with Trav and Jake waiting to see Santa!

We went to the mall to see Santa! I may or may not have gone up a floor to sneak a pic from the balcony since they were charging a ridiculous amount of $$ for a picture!! 

Jake thought these cars in the mall were better than Disneyland.

Story time with Grandma Dyer.

Christmas Eve family selfie. Jake looks 3 years old here.

Our little nativity sheep!

Dyer cousin nativity!

Christmas morning!! 

This kid was yawning all morning---he was wide awake at 2:30am! I guess he was just too excited. 

We had one suitcase get lost flying home to NC. Luckily they located it and delivered it to us the next day. We came right back into real life with Jake getting his 1 year old shots at the doctor the day after flying in. He did great though and I am now in the process of weaning him completely. He's down to just nursing once a day before bed at night. It's amazing the growth that happens everyday and all the things he catches onto. He knows what the words clap, kisses, and high-five mean, and I'm sure a lot more we haven't identified. He could totally walk if he wanted it too---we think he would just rather crawl. He walks like crazy if he's even barely holding onto something, but just doesn't want to let go completely. It's crazy to think we've had him for a whole year, but then another part of me can't believe it's only been a year that we've had him since he's always felt like a part of us!