By Melanie on 10/20/2008 7:25 PM

Baby Grant is on the move! He has begun real crawling and not just army crawling, and he's also cruising the furniture like a champ. His current obsession is my laptop which he tries to smack every chance he gets. But it's a great opportunity to teach him the word "no" which he clearly understands but regularly ignores.

Grant and his friend Graydon on a ride to the park.

Monday, James had rock climbing and there was a local company selling climbing shoes so he tried some out and found a pair he really likes. However, they're purple so as soon as we got home he got a black Sharpie and colored in all the purple parts of his bran ... Read More »

By Melanie on 10/13/2008 8:37 AM

Okay, so we're only doing highlights because um...I forgot stuff since I didn't blog when I should have.

Significant/noteable stuff last week:

Our ward book club read The Knitting Club and the author Kate Jacobs called in to do a Q&A with us, which was really fun.

On Thursday, James finished his Level 3 swimming class and his teacher said he did really well. At first, the teacher said James should maybe start in Level 2 but he could stay if he wanted. Since Level 2 was full, I just kept James in. The teacher said he would need to take it only once more and most kids have to take it several times, so that was pretty cool. He was proud of himself and we were, too!

Saturday was the Jacobson Rocktoberfest, which was so fun! We invited everyone we knew who even might kind of be nearby and lots and lots of people came. We barbecued out by the pool and had a nursery room with three young women to wat ... Read More »

By Melanie on 10/5/2008 6:33 PM

Sunday was a wonderful fast and testimony meeting. Sometimes I kind of cringe inside when I know it’s going to be testimony day b ... Read More »