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Tonight we went out to dinner with Grammy. Jake was sitting next to Grammy and was picking things off her salad, mostly the cheese. At one point he picked up a shredded carrot, thinking it was a piece of cheese, dipped it in ranch dressing, put it in his mouth and almost immediately made an awful face. Then he says "That was not cheese!" We all just laughed because it was hilarious. I only wish we had had a video camera rolling on that.

How we fix a sick baby

We really try to avoid meds in this house unless they are really needed. Jake has only been on antibiotics once and for fevers we try everything we can to bring one down before resorting to meds. So on Monday when Jake randomly spiked a fever we stripped him down and put him in a cool bath. He wasn't really feeling up to playing around in the tub (and we wanted him to relax) so we rigged up the portable dvd player for him to watch while sitting in the tub. And then he asked for a popsicle. Well he was in the tub where any drips would be contained so why not!

Unfortunately dude still had a fever after the cool bath so meds it was. They helped quickly  though and by Tuesday mid morning he was back to himself again!

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Just wanted to share a picture of Jake with 2 of his great grandparents.

Art work

We needed something up on the wall in the playroom, it is white and was completely bare. But since  it is a playroom we wanted something fun (and cheap!). Thanks to a combination of ideas from us, pintrest and help from our family art expert, Nikki, we came up with something for Jake to paint himself. He had so much fun with this and was so proud of his art when he was done!

Getting ready to paint!

Cute face!

So proud of his work!

Future Olympic Gold Medalist

Jake is ready for the opening ceremony tonight! We love the Olympics in this house and I for sure will be glued to all the swimming and gymnastics coverage. And as you can see from these pictures we have high hopes for Jake's athletic career! He is shooting for 2028.

4th of July

We spent the 4th with a few families that live on our street. We had everyone over to our house for a bbq. This was the first time we have had all our neighborhood friends over with their families and it was great! It started out a little rough when Jake and one of the twins from down the street that is the same age as Jake decided they wanted some of the cake that was on the table. Somehow they managed to get the cake to the edge of the table and knocked it off. It landed frosted side down on the floor. Oops. I really wish I would've thought to have grabbed the camera before we cleaned it up because the boys were sitting there with the cake between them licking the whipped cream that was on their fingers. It was too cute! We managed to save the cake, it somehow did not break at all during the fall, it just wasn't as pretty as it had been! I also failed to take a single picture while everyone was over. I get caught up in talking and watching Jake play and forget about the camera.

We tried to talk everyone into going to see fireworks but being in the middle of the week some people (the dads) had to work the next day. (Side note: I LOVE that Josh gets to be home during the summer!). So we headed out when everyone left to go to our city's 4th of July festival. Jake got to jump in the bounce house and play in and on a firetruck. Both of which he loves. Then we had to find a spot to sit and watch the fireworks. He LOVES fireworks. It is so cute watching him get so excited about them!

Jumping in the bounce house

"Driving" the firetruck

Running around waiting for fireworks

"Wow! Amazing!" Loving the fireworks

First ice cream cone

All gone!

Playdate and Swimming

Last week Jake and I had a playdate with Kathleen and Austin. We were supposed to go to a big and really good splash park. But it was closed, the entire huge park was closed, with no notice or anything. So plan B was to go to a fountain for kids to play in at an outdoor mall. Neither of us had been there so we didn't really know what to expect. It ended up being a lot of fun and pretty busy, partially due to the splash park being closed. So Austin and Jake played in the foutain for a while. Austin kept bringing Jake back to me on the side, it was so cute. He would go find him, grab his arm, and they would walk back. It is so fun to see Jake playing with other kids now instead of just in the same place.

We have still been doing a lot of swimming this summer. We got a waterproof case for the camera before going to San Antonio so we took it out to the pool the other day to see if we could get some underwater shots of Jake swimming. We were surprised at how well the pictures turned out! They will be good to show when he becomes an Olympic swimmer!

Diving for his goggles