Almost Turkey Day

Blake is getting ready to dive into an awesome Thanksgiving meal, are you?

PlayDate with the Jagers

If you would have told me about 5 years ago that I would be having playdates with my boss, I would have laughed in your face. Well fast forward and Katie and Blake are now playing together. Katie just turned one so they are super close in age which is an added bonus. Dave and Katie came over to play (Amy was working, booo) and I think it was a definite success. It took a little bit for both Katie and Blake to warm up to one another and start playing but they managed pretty well. Blake is used to other kids from daycare and so I was thankful he didn't try and push Katie over a million times.

Since the weather was super nice we took them outside. Fresh air is magical for babies. Both Blake and Katie were super happy to be outside playing. We even ventured to the park for some swings and slides. All around, it was a successful playdate. We can't wait for many more.

Young House Love

Fair warning, this post contains no pictures of Blake.

 

As many of you probably know Katie and I have consistently had a monthly date since graduating college, that is 6 years strong now. For this month's date, we decided to make it a girls day out to go to the book signing of Young House Love. To give some background, Young House Love is a home decor, DIY, and lifestyle blog that we have been reading for a few years. Katie and I feel like we are friends with John and Sherry (the faces behind the website) so when they announced they were writing a book we were excited. Katie pre-ordered the book for me as a birthday gift and since they were making a stop in Chicago we decided to go meet our "friends".

 

Luckily Katie and I are type A personalities so we knew that due to their popularity we needed to get downtown early and have fun waiting in line. We timed it perfectly, we got front row FREE parking and we were inside waiting in line (which was perfect for Raegan and the fact that it started downpouring).

 

Raegan was such a trooper, honestly she was quite perfect the entire day. Kudos Raegan!!

 

 

 

The only time she was mildly upset is when Katie forced her to wear shoes, haha.

 

I am not loving how I look in this picture but because there aren't many Katie and Jenny pictures I feel obligated to share

 

Our Lunch, provided by West Elm

 

When John and Sherry first came out they did a mini talk, as luck would have it the talk was right in front of us.

 

Us meeting Sherry and John, they were super sweet and nice

 

I think Katie and I can officially say we are now BFF with John and Sherry

 

 

I am so glad that Katie, Raegan and I were able to have a great girls day and I see this as a start of a fun tradition. Eric, Louis and Blake can go golf, us girls are hitting up the spa!

Walking the Dog

I know what you are thinking, we don't have a dog. And you are right, we don't. However, Blake is in love with dogs. Over Labor Day Grandma Kathy got him a little puppy "Patch" and at the time Blake wasn't super into the toy. However, over the last few days I think he thinks it's his real pet. So this morning I decided to take one of my skinny belts and create a leash so Blake could walk the dog. Needless to say, he was a fan.

We are still working on keeping Patch upright :)

Apparently the leash tastes good as well.

Like Father Like Son

Some of you may have already seen this picture because Louis posted it on Facebook. Over the weekend we wanted to take Blake outside for some fresh air because its magical powers make him happy and tired so he naps well :)

Blake is a master at trying to find anything he can get his hands on and play with so naturally he found some golf clubs in the garage. Have no fear, Louis would NEVER allow Blake to touch his nice stuff, these are his old ones. Blake just carried the club around thinking it was the greatest thing on earth. I forsee many Daddy and Blake golf course outings in our future.

Dancing

Lately Blake has been really into dancing. At daycare he dances all the time and when he hears music he just starts groovin! Over the weekend he received this puppy from my Aunt Darnece that when you press his foot it sings The Adams Family theme song, well Blake is in LOVE with this. He plays it on repeat (ugh) and dances. We love watching him dance, we could definitely do without that song stuck in our heads. :)

Here is his holding his new puppy.

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween!

This morning Blake was really into wearing his fireman helmet around the house (he got it at daycare when the Cary fire department came to visit). He didn't dress up as a fireman, but I thought it was super cute so I had to share.

We decided that the criteria for Blake's costume was the following: 1) He would wear it 2) nothing he can rip off 3) comfort.

Enter the MickeyMouse Costume

Don't be fooled, he doesn't mind the costume, he is really mad I made him sit and attempt a picture. I swear in the last 3 months I don't have one picture of him smiling. grrrrr.

Even MickeyMouse needs to drink milk

Watching MickeyMouse :)