CHEESE

Jacob was in a super smily mood the other day

So I had to pull out the camera and soak it all up =)

Summer Fun!!! Jet skiing!!!

This summer we got to go jet skiing a lot! It was SOOO fun!

We brought a few friends to join in the fun!

Jacob LOVED playing at the beach.

Here's my besties and my baby before taking off for the day

That's me driving! I'm not as brave as everyone else,

but I did get it up to 53 miles per hour!

It was scary!!! But FUN!

Here's Josh! He was by far the craziest out there

Rachel and Jen about to go

the had WAY too much fun LOL

Jacob liked chasing the birds

9 Months

Sorry, I just keep getting later and later about these Month updates

Here are some of the new things Jacob is doing:

He has been army crawling for a whole month, he's getting really good at it.

He figured out how to get from his tummy to a sitting position.

He started eating Cheerios and other finger foods.

He figured out how to hold his sippy cup.

He is starting to climb on things, mainly mommy.

He stopped playing with his tongue =( it was so cute!

He's decided that he does not like winter squash and loves pears.

He will give you "raspberries" hee hee.

He's discovered doors and cupboards and loves to open and close them.

He also discovered the door stop and loves to make noise with it.

He has grown attached to a certain book and it always makes him smile.

He tries to clap his hands.

He shakes his head "no" I don't think he knows what it means.

We think he's trying to wave, he doesn't always do it.

He dashes for the front door and the fridge when ever they are opened.

When he's in a silly mood, you can really get him going with laughter if you blow on his sides and belly, that sort of thing.

He bites EVERYTHING! There are bite marks pretty much on everything in our house. Including this low window seal, he bites chunks of paint off and I have to hold him down to clean his mouth out and sometime I miss a few paint chips and they end up in his diaper... not good!

He pulls the curtains that cover the sliding glass back door and ruins them. We haven't figured out how to make those baby proof. So we have to chase him away every day.

He loves to chew on cell phones and TV remotes. Needless to say we try our best to keep those away.

He sometimes gives kisses. Always open mouth, we are still working on that.

He loves being outside or looking outside and watching birds.

Monkey see monkey do

Jacob can now pull himself up into a standing position

As you can see

But it looks a little funny that he chose to do it

for the first time in front of the open fridge LOL

Wonder where he got that from...

He loves the fridge

You will see him dash across the room

whenever you open it

Beware of Baby

Diaper head!

It's the little things in life =)

He thought this was the greatest thing ever

Honestly... tell me the truth

Does the cry out method REALLY work????

Jacob is almost 9 months

Not sleeping through the night

Him and Josh were sharing a bed while I slept on the couch or air mattress cause it was just too cramped and every time Jacob sees me in the night we wants to nurse BUT he slept through the night twice and only got up to eat once the rest of the time. BUT that was short lived cause he is a mover in his sleep and fell head first of the bed... so that's not gonna work. Plus everyone says it's really bad to sleep with your baby bla bla bla

We JUST finally got a crib but have no idea how to train him to use it

He has NEVER put him self to sleep cause I was stupid as a first time mother of a new born and thought "if he nurses to sleep then I have a good 3 hours till he wakes up and needs to eat again verses taking an hour to get him to sleep on his own and then only getting 2 hours of sleep myself" I didn't know any better

We put him in his crib for the first time and an hour later he OF CORSE FREEEEEAKED out when he woke up cause it's new to him or what ever

So Josh and I thought maybe it's time to try the cry out method, and holy cow!!!! I have never heard him scream like that. I seriously doubt that he would be able to calm himself down after that by himself. It not like when you pick him up he stops either. He's like FULL ON melt down and he is SOOOO worked up he wont even nurse which is his favorite thing in the whole wide world (trust me).

I don't see how on earth letting him cry like that will do any good for anyone. 

I don't know what I'm doing. I feel like the worst mom ever. I wish I could start over with him. Back when he was a new born. 

I'm sorry to vent and get you all involved. Being a parent is seriously the hardest thing in the entire world

Here are our goals:

we have no idea how we are going to achieve them

1. to have him sleep in his crib

2. to have him sleep the whole night

3. to have him be able to put himself to sleep with out nursing or assisting 

It's SOOO overwhelming. I don't know where to start, I don't know what to do, but I felt like I needed to write out our goals and maybe the way will be shone to us as we seek it out.