What a week

When I looked at the pictures I had taken this week I realized I had a lot to put into the blog. So there are quite a few pictures that are here this week that I just thought were really cute.

Here is my little Jakey sleeping...he is so darn cute when he is asleep...especially since he is cuddling with his little bear.
Ryan taking a picture of himself and the little man. "the boys"

Ryan was helping me with the laundry and realized that a pillowcase was the perfect size for a sleeping bag for Jake. Here is Jake modeling his daddy's new idea. hehe

We have been swaddling Jake since he came home from the hospital and he really seems to like it for when we put him at bed at night. He likes to be all tight and snuggly even when we just put a blanket on him. But we have also called him Houdini because he is really good at breaking out of it or somehow moving his body across the bed. Here is where I found him the other morning when I went to get him, we had put him in the center of his crib when we put him to bed. (he was good enough to stay here for the pic as long as I gave him his pacy)

And the big event of the week...Jake had rice cereal!!! His pediatrician told us that we could start him a little early because of his size and so we gave it a try. He actually had a lot of fun trying it and was smiling and moving around the entire time. Not much made it into his tummy as he was having fun spitting it out and letting it dribble down his chin. But he did swallow some and the next day we tried he did even better. So here are a few pictures documenting the event.

Jake with his first solid food.

Jake with his bowl of food looking forward to spitting it right back at mommy. :) He seemed to be very excited for this event.

"What is this strange thing in my mouth?"

Here is Jake celebrating the 4th of July. Our little American Boy. :)

The other bog event this week was that Jake was in a swimming pool for the first time. We had a 4th of July picnic at the public pool with our church and they have a baby pool that they refill every day. So we felt safe seeing what Jake thought about dipping his feet in. Well he was fine with his feet and ended up going in just over his belly button ("standing" on the bottom with daddy's help) before the desert wind started to bother him too much. We did not get a picture of the pool event as Ryan and I were looking after him, but here is a picture of him all ready to go to the pool for the first time.

I hope that everyone had a great 4th of July!!!