Jadon opening his first ever Christmas gift, two books! Gotta get him his book collection started while he is young. It's tradition in our family to give all the children one gift (all the same thing) to open on Christmas eve, this year it was books!
I wear him on my back quite a bit now because he is so big (20 lbs) and likes to grab things. Usually he falls asleep back there. Jaren (age 7) took this picture for me.
Jolie entertaining Jadon. About once a day I set the timer and have each of the 3 older kids watch Jadon for me for 10 minute increments to give me a small break. Jadon loves it when his brother and sisters play with him.
Jadon is getting close to being able to sit up on his own.
The kids have been interested in the guitar because we had Daniel stay here who can play the guitar. Daniel showed Jaren how to play guitar on his little guitar, now daddy is showing Jadon.
Jadon's first Halloween. Yes, he's a frog. I was going to have him be my black cat, but I was too lazy to make a costume and the only one I could find had pink ears and a pink bow, nope, not for a boy. So, we found this frog costume. He didn't seem to mind wearing it to a party, trunk-or-treating and trick or treating around our neighborhood.
The kids were begging me to get them pumpkins. Finally today Jaren, Jadon and I went on our date to the pumpkin patch and picked out 4 good ones. The kids weren't too thrilled about the pumpkin slime, but did like the seeds. Jenea and Jaren carved part of their own, I carved Jolie's and Jude's. It was fun! We lite them up and put them out on the front porch.