Another Christmas tree

We took a photo in front of a Christmas tree at the Iowa Hall of Pride and now we have one in front of the tree at Raccoon River Lodge.  I'm sure we will continue to build our collection of 'J in front of Christmas trees' photos ... stay tuned.

My friend Quinton's 1st birthday!!!

Quinton Hall's first birthday party was Saturday, Dec. 12 at Raccoon River Lodge in West Des Moines. 

Lots of friends, lots of family ... and one 'little' cake that Q tore in to after getting a little help from dad and mom (Ben and Melissa Hall) to blow out the candle.

In this photo, Jasper was still trying to decide if he liked the mini ball pit shaped like a fire truck with Q showing him how fun it was. The tears started to flow about 5 seconds after we took this photo, but J spent most of the rest of the time on the outside of the fire truck, tossing the balls around.

J and cousin Sydney

Just a couple snapshots from Thanksgiving, with Jasper and cousin Sydney hanging out together, playing on grandpa Paul and grandma Debbie's front porch and then Melissa and Syd posing with Jasper and Nat. Yeah ... it's almost been a month and I'm only now getting these online. What of it?

Trying something different

Bear with me as I try to load a short video of Jasper sitting in his Bumbo chair on our kitchen floor in September. Not too exciting, but we're trying.

Yes ... Cozmo thinks he's the star of the show.

Bath time

Jasper has outgrown the bath chair we used for the first few months so we've been sitting up like a big boy in the bathtub.

Mom doesn't like the towel, but dad thinks it's the best idea until she decides what kind of bath mat she's going to get.

Here are two photos taken tonight of Jasper's bath, with his rubber duck covering what needs to be covered so we can still post these photos.

Cookie Monster Cutie

Caden Ziegler was kind enough to give Jasper tons of his old clothes - thanks so much, Zieglers! Jasper is definitely getting good use out of ALL of them! One of my favorites is his blue cookie monster fleece - I snapped a picture of him in it yesterday and had to share! ...ok, I have to admit, I thought it was Elmo at first and was telling Jasper how cute he looked in his Elmo fleece, until Adam heard me and came to correct me that it was indeed Cookie Monster...."Natalie, Elmo is Red, not BLUE" he said....whatever, I knew that - I was just testing Jasper :)

Gearing up for Christmas!

Miss Alissa has helped us make some great crafts to gear up for Christmas. Jasper came home a couple weeks ago with a construction paper link leading up to the 25 days of Christmas. Jasper gets so excited to take off a link each day. He does want to chew on the paper after we take off the link, so that sometimes is a challenge. And he also made a glittery pine cone ornament. It's up on the tree - smack dab in the middle where everyone can see it! Cozmo was thrilled to see that on the tree - pine cones are his FAVORITE, especially the ones out at the Wilson's house - he could play with those forever!

Hope everyone is having a great holiday season!