and a few more pictures...

Loving these beautiful fall days!

wanting to be independent with eating...we're working on it!

Spaghetti makes me happy!!!

hmmm...maybe this birthday thing is okay after all ;)

Oh my...I'm a bit of a mess!

1st Birthday

One-handing his bday banana muffin
Not sure about this blowing out the candles thing, but that light sure is neat.

Playing with Papa

That's It! I'm off to Grandma's...

With Mimi & Papa on Sunday

Wow--how did I get so far behind on the blog again? Don't know why I even try to keep it up really...I'm thinking about just letting it go. If you can think of a reason why I shouldn't, please leave it in the comments so I can consider it. :) If you're on Facebook, you see most of the same pictures as here anyway...but maybe we have several readers who aren't on FB and then I can see that I might need to keep it going. :)

Anyway...Jacobi turned 1 a week ago! We can't believe that our little 7#8oz bundle of joy is now hovering somewhere near 25# and almost 3 ft. tall and has been the center of our attention for a whole year already! He's still a bundle of joy, of course--and also energy! He loves to eat, thinks it's incredibly fun to play in the toilet water, loves anything with wheels and can now make a car noise, loves to be outside, and has the cutest laugh I've ever heard. :) Of course there's more, but I don't want to take all day writing this...I only have a limited amount of time while he's happy in his high chair. :P His latest antic was to lose the tracker ball to the computer mouse here in the office...it has simply disappeared. We searched everywhere and it hasn't shown up yet, but maybe it will yet. We got a wireless mouse instead so he can lose the whole thing. :P No, now we can put it up on the shelf above the computer where he can't reach it when we're not using it. He can still reach the keyboard which makes doing anything on the computer when he's awake almost impossible unless he's contained somewhere else. I'm not complaining, though, because I know these days will be past all too soon and I'll be wishing he wanted to be right next to me as I go about my day before I know it.

He's enjoying playing with our 4yo foster son and they get along great most of the time. They've both loved the new toys a birthday brings and have managed to share them quite nicely so far. Of course there have been moments...but that's expected. I'd be shocked if they got along 100% of the time.

Jacobi is starting to fuss to get out of his high chair so I'd better call it quits. A year later, we're still the luckiest people on the planet to have such an amazing boy for our son & will never forget the day or the way that he came into our lives! I've been working on "Jacobi's Story," the story of how he joined our family, since he was about a month old...I NEED to get that finished and printed so I can start reading it to him! It's nothing fancy; I just kind of forget about it from time to time.

Stopping now...hopefully will add some pictures before I publish this. We have 1 more Birthday party left with the Spinar side of my family this next weekend, so I'll have more birthday pictures then. For now, here are a few from when my parents were here. :)