Happy Halloween

(Links to photos can be found below.)

We hope that everyone had a wonderful Halloween. From what we can tell, it looks like Jake sure did enjoy his.

GnGT came down and took Jake to a shortened day of day care. Every year, the director of The Learning Tree rides in a helicopter and drops candy down to the kids. The infants, obviously, can't really participate, but they get to go and watch. Pete was kind enough to record part of the event with our camcorder. You can see the video below.



After the excitement with the helicopter, they took him to Salem Elementary for Michele's Halloween party. A few other teachers had their babies there as well.

When he got home, we threw his costume back on to get a few more photos and eventually Elle came over to take some photos with him.

Jake then went to bed before the first trick-or-treater arrived, and luckily slept well even with all the noise out on the porch.

Here are our Halloween photos. You can also see photos for the DLnC and MPnA's.

The weekend before Halloween, Jessi, Harlan, and Isabelle crashed at our place while they were in town for a wedding. Isabelle is a doll! It's actually hard to remember when Jake was that small!

The day before they arrived, Michele went to visit Steve, Melissa, and Jack. He was a week old, and didn't look quite as big as he sounded, but definitely huge compared to when Jake was born.

You can see photos from both visits here.

If you already followed the link to the photos above, you may have found out that shortly before Halloween, Jake cut his first tooth! We can't quite get a picture of it yet since his tongue always seems to be in the way, but trust us, it's there. It's like one little dagger in the abyss that is his gums.

Even BEFORE that, Jake turned 7 months old. He actually turned 7 months at Meme and Papa's house when we were off in DC. We still managed to get our photos, although he was not as cooperative as he has been in months past. You can find those photos here.

Lastly, we got his 6 month photos back from JC Penney. While probably not completly legal, I scanned them in, and you can see them here (1, 2, and 3). I left the quality fairly poor to discourage printing of the copyrighted photos (that should make up for the illegality of scanning them).