What we were doing, other than dealing with snowpocalypse

Pre-snowpocalypse:

We signed Jake up for baseball for the spring. We didn't feel like he was ready for it last year, so we tried soccer. Soccer was okay. We weren't crazy about the league and lets face it, no one in our family really watches or cares about soccer, so it was new to all of us. Jake liked it okay, but didn't love it and certainly didn't ask to play again this year. We felt like he was ready for baseball this year, so we signed him up! He is very excited. Robbie played baseball his whole life growing up, so I think he has had fun working with Jake when Jake listens.

Okay, so we've got a little bit of work to do

Snowpocalypse:

When the snow started falling last Tuesday and once I got to Jake's school, Jake was so excited to see the snow. He wanted so bad to play in it, but I told him we needed to wait until we could get home (whenever that might have been). He was okay with that answer. After walking a mile in the cold, wet, slippery icy snow to get to a car to take us home, by the time we got home, Jake wanted nothing to do with snow. We got in dry clothes, snuggled under a blanket and watched a movie. Later in the day on Wednesday, once Robbie made it home safely, I could let go of a little of my hatred for the annoying white stuff. By this point, Jake was ready to play in the snow. We just played in the backyard, so I didn't even take a picture of the front of our house all covered with snow.

Barf

Robbie trying to teach Jake to make a snowball

Post-snowpocalypse:

(Basically, I just like saying snowpocalypse)

The snow finally melted away by Friday, and then of course we experience spring like weather over the weekend. How wonderful to experience all 4 seasons in 1 week. Yea, right. On Saturday Jake had baseball evaluations. He was picked for the Pirates team. They start practice the end of February, so we are excited to see how the season goes!

On Sunday, after church, we were wasting some time waiting on the restaurant we wanted to eat at to open. So we stopped by Dick's Sporting Goods. They had a hammock, which Jake thought was awesome. He asked if he could get one for his room to use as his bed. I told him to ask Nana & Gran for their house.

In other extremely exiting news that will keep you on the edge of your seat, Jake finally got a haircut and he lost his first tooth! At his last dentist appointment, his dentist said that his bottom 2 middle teeth were loose and could probably fall out soon. We would wiggle it a little at night, but didn't want to just pull it out too soon. It was finally getting super loose and his permanent tooth was coming in behind it, so we figured it was finally time to pull it. You never know how Jake will handle something. Sometimes he can be so tough and other times, he can be so dramatic over the smallest thing. Thankfully he was tough with this one. When Robbie was trying to pull it, he said it didn't hurt and when the tooth actually came out and there was some blood, Jake didn't freak out. I think he was just too excited about the tooth fairy coming.

Robbie working on the tooth
And do not get me started on Jake's hair. He honestly has to get it cut
every few weeks. We were already a week late making the appointment, then
it got cancelled due to the snow. So his hair has been a stringy mess in his eyes.

Last picture with a mouth full of baby teeth

We finally got the tooth out Wednesday, Feb. 5. And Jake finally got a haircut that afternoon. He was a brand new boy!

Some sport pictures throwback:

Robbie's parents have been organizing some old pictures. They found some old pictures of Robbie. They couldn't find one from the first year he played baseball (when he was Jake's age), but they did find this one from when Robbie was 8.

This was the back of his baseball card

 They also found this picture of Robbie (at age 8). How much does Jake favor Robbie?!?!? Because during the week, most people just see me with Jake, they always comment on how much Jake looks like me. I have to tell them, just wait until you see my husband. Jake favors Robbie so much.