Lots of Updates

(Please click on the photo to see many more pictures.)

Before you shake your head and rub your eyes, this is NOT a picture of Jacob. This is Jessi and Harlan's daughter, Isabelle. Even if the Spartans can't beat the Fighting Illini, it looks like she still sticks by them. I'm sure that won't always be the case, so it's good we caught it on camera.

On Saturday, we left Jake with GnGT while Michele and I headed to East Lansing for MSU's Homecoming. We tailgated with Dan and Lynette, Craig and Kari, and Mike and Dana. This is our third or fourth year tailgating as a group. We started off in a parking lot by Grand River, and then made our way to BW3 to watch the game. Een though the Spartans lost (first time Illinois has won a Big 10 game since 2004 - very depressing), we managed to have a good time. In fact, here are a few pictures and here are a few more.

After the game Michele and I headed to Charlotte to see Jessi, Harlan, and Isabelle. Jessi and Harlan seem to be adjusting quite well to being new parents. Isabelle is an angel! It's amazing how small she seems next to our growing 6-month-old.

On Sunday we headed down to Dan and Lynette's to celebrate Colin's 3rd birthday! Lynette made him an awesome train cake. He also got a lot of cool toys including a Leap Pad and several activity books to go along with it.

Today, Jake started going to day care. He is going to The Learning Tree. It seems like a very cool facility and they have a structured lesson plan even for the infant rooms. He seemed to do really well today, so hopefully that keeps up. While we didn't get to see it, we heard he got to do some art today. I guess it's just moving any object around with paint on it, but it's something he's never done at home. Maybe he can continue practicing at Meme's house. We would have never been able to paint in the living room as kids, but maybe Alison has softened her up enough so that she'll let Jake!

Lastly, here are a few videos that I finally transferred off of our video camera.

When in the right mood, Jacob laughs at pretty much anything. Here, all I had to do was breathe in loudly, or say his name and he was off!
Make sure you have your audio up!



Jo and Elle were over, and Elle shows us her new trick (while Jake continues to laugh in the background).