Boyd Orchard Field Trip

This past Wednesday, Jacob's 1st grade class took a trip to Boyd Orchard  (in Versailles, KY -- and yes, you should pronounce that "ver-SAILS" because we ARE in Kentucky, after all...)

 Jeremiah & I got to go along... (Daddy was working, of course, but remember last year when Rich & I both got to go?  Might have been the one single solitary benefit of working  midnights/weekends!). 

Besides being FRIGID, it was a very pretty day.  But I have to admit, keeping up with Jeremiah made it very hard to get good pictures.  :)  But here are a few anyway...

At the petting zoo, Jacob fed the goats...

And the whatever-this-animal-is... a turkey maybe?

Jeremiah played in the sand...

 

...while Jacob went on the BIG slide!

(Look for him at the top of the slide, on the left... and notice the 

"absolutely no adults" sign at the bottom...not fair, if you ask me!)

Oh, No!

Now, multiply that by about 3 hours...

Catching Up Chapter 3: Jacob turns Six!

Jacob's 6th birthday was June 21st... We seems to be on an every-other-year pattern for parties... Last year was the great Bliss Water Park party, with pool & sprinkler & slip-n-slide, so this year was a "just family" year. It also turned out to be a "one-present" year, because it was such a BIG present! :) We sent him on a scavenger hunt...

and the clues eventually took him to the present...

After some more practice rides, we let Jacob choose where to go for supper, and he picked Gattitown. I was so glad he picked it -- I was wishing I had gone there for MY birthday, but didn't get to! :) Both the boys rode the (lovely pink) car... love those faces!

And Jacob took a ride on the bumper cars:

He also did great at the skee-ball & the whack-a-mole games. It was very fun for everyone!

(And that concludes our catching up adventure! I think we're up-to-date. :))

Catching Up Chapter 2: Fun Moments

Here are a few fun moments from January of this year:

Ring-around-the-rosie:

Jeremiah playing along to Rowlf the Dog's "Halfway Down the Stairs"...Listen for Jeremiah's enthusiastic "hallelujah!" part-way through. heehee.

And, one rare quiet moment that I caught. Check out those faces! (Jacob's eyebrows, especially!! Yikes!)

Catching Up Chapter 1: Jeremiah Turns Two!

Jeremiah's 2nd birthday was April 1st... He opened some presents:

And played:

He did great at blowing out the candles:

And eating cake:

The present that Jacob picked out for Jeremiah (with Nana's help) was this microphone... which Jacob also enjoyed a lot:

I remember thinking "I can't believe he's TWO!?!?!" ...and now I'm still thinking, "I can't believe he's TWO & a HALF!!" :) Arrrrgh...

I miss my baby

Well, in 2 days (October 1st) Jeremiah will officially be a year and half old! I can hardly believe it. He's a full-fledged toddler these days: getting into everything, talking with almost-real words, trying to feed himself, climbing jungle-gyms without any help (!)...and honestly, some days I really miss my little baby! So I was reminiscing through some old videos & thought you'd better see them too!

Here is Jeremiah almost crawling...he's about 7 months old, October 2006:

And here's what we like to call The Happy Dance... November 2006:

Sigh... a lot changes in a year. Here he is today (literally):