Reaching New Heights

Auntie Drea has taken Jacob rock climbing at REI before and I've seen him scale the wall at the community center (about 10 ft high), but I was really impressed when I went to REI yesterday with him and he rang the bell at the top of the beginner wall. Adrea got us a membership at REI, so he could climb once a day for free, we need to get over there more often.

Jacob ready to climb

Drea reaching the top of level 2 wall.

Jacob on his way up, I was so intent on watching I almost forgot to take pictures.

See how high he is!

Ringing the bell.

Other pictures from last week:

Wyatt has found his toes and loves to put them in his mouth.

He doesn't always like to hang out in his exersaucer or his swing, but he'll lay around in his playpen for a long while and he's happy about it - see.

Finally, they take a suggestion from me. Jacob is "teaching" Gavin to read.

A lego tower taller than mom!

Friday Jacob had off from school, so we went swimming in the morning and then there was a "carnival" at the community center in the evening, so we went to that too. Jacob and Gavin made new friends while waiting in the long line for the bounce house and played many games of tag.

My parents came down on Saturday to take us out to lunch and hang out. Then Fred's parents came down in the evening to watch the boys while we went to card club. Only thing was was that I had missed the email telling me that card club was postponed. The hosts were quite surprised when we arrived on Saturday night and we felt pretty silly. But, we made the best of our pickle roll-ups for supper and hit a movie instead. We say "Just Go with It" and enjoyed it.

Jacob sang in church on Sunday morning - "When we Praise God". It had a lot of actions and Jacob really seemed to like it.