Little Mr. Parrothead

We are having a beautifully warm day in SoCal today...so Jake & I took advantage with some warm-weather shorties and a little outside excursion. He got another chance to wear his little 'Cheeseburger in Paradise' Parrothead outfit from Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville in Key West, FL that Uncle Allen & Aunt Sabra got him. Such a handsome little Parrothead!

Drinkin' up...

"License to Spill" -- and 'spill' he does! Reaching for the camera, as usual.

Steppin' outside...

Bird watching...

I'm the cutest Parrothead ever.

"I can wave so fast that my hand disappears!"

Say Ahhh!!

We have this new game that Jacob & I play...it's called 'Say Ahh'. This little scrounger will find any random thing to put in his mouth (usually paper), and all I see is something going in, or else I see his mouth chewing, when he's obviously not supposed to be eating anything. It has proven nearly impossible to pry his little teeth apart to see what he's put in his mouth, so our new game is much more fun. I open my mouth wide and go "Ahhh!!!" and he thinks this is so funny, that he does it too. Lo and behold there is a chunk of paper in his mouth that I can easily grab. Jacob thinks this new game of showing Mommy what's in your mouth is so fun, that he plays it all the time, including when he's eating Cheerios. He was being especially silly yesterday morning... :)

Happy Birthday Uncle Greg!

Today is Uncle Greg's 50th birthday - wow! Jacob & I wish you a fabulous birthday and a great birthday week! So in honor of Greg's birthday, I will finally post some of Jacob's long-awaited birthday pics.....

Now let it be known, that Jacob did not just have ONE birthday cake....he officially had six of them. Yup. His mama (that would be me) made him a cake on his first birthday, including his own personal 'baby' cake (which he is digging into, above). Then for his party, the cake place made him what I call a 'dyslexic cake', below:

I was horrified after seeing this cake! I wanted to tell the bakery that if my son ends up dyslexic, I was going to blame them for messing up his very first party cake. But after my neighbor Elisa was nice enough to call and tell them they made Jacob a backwards cake, they volunteered to quickly bake another one, promising to not make it dyslexic again. Along with this big cake came TWO little cakes! Enter the final, and sixth, birthday cake....

He lovvvved the blue icing, and for some reason decided that it felt good to smear it down his neck. He had blue icing from his nose to his collar bone....but isn't that what birthday cakes are all about?! :) Every time he saw me get out that blue cake in the next few days, he went crazy wanting some of it. Once he about climbed out of his highchair when he saw the cake on the countertop.
First picture of the day on his birthday, Jacob had the whole blanket wrapped around his head, and his body was perched up on top of his stuffed giraffe in his bed. And he was actually sleeping this way...His morning bottle from Grandma...(with one froggy slipper missing):
A sip from Grandma's coffee cup:

A quick peek in the garbage can:

Birthday bath in the kitchen sink - woohoo!
Sucking the water out of the washcloth:

Happy to be clean......