Jacob's First Flight

I had to add these because it was such a momentous occasion. He was so good. However he did try to grab the hair of the person in front of us. One guy had a huge bald spot on the top of his head and I told Jacob (signed only of course) that some other kid had already pulled that mans hair out so we should leave what little he has left alone. He didn't understand, but Brancent and I had a good laugh. He also polished his flirting skills every time the flight attendants walked by....oh boy.

Such a ham!

Hey, what are they doing with my car seat?

The very first flight...soooo early!

The tell all miss piggy article in SW Spirit Magazine

Rockdale, TX

January 16-19 we were blessed to be able to spend some time with Katie, Jesse and his girlfriend Krystal at Jesse's house in Rockdale. Jesse and Brancent have been friends for a long time and Katie knows him as Uncle Jesse. Jesse and Brancent are two peas in a pod and are so funny when they are together. We had a blast. Katie got to play games with Krystal, ride and feed horses, and ride 4 wheelers. Krystal was great helping with Jacob, who was into everything!!! Jacob got to see and pet his first horse and would get so excited any time we would walk near the horses. Jacob did so good on his first plane ride. He played with the seat belts, tray tables, flirted with the flight attendants and tried to play with the people's hair who sat in front of us. Getting off almost every flight people commented on how good he did. Please God let that continue!!! Thanks to all of you who prayed for us concerning our trip. One of the highlights was Katie getting to go hunting with Brancent and Uncle Jesse. They didn't get any pigs but she said "I could hear them but we never saw them!" sneaky porkers. We also got to watch Jesse train a horse for his cousin. (but first she jumped the fence and Jesse had to get her from the neighbors field where other untrained horses were, there was a small fight then everyone went back to grazing-it was pretty exciting. and of course Jesse caught her. She stayed penned up for the night. Katie and I decided that was her time out). We went to church Sunday morning where Jesse's uncle is the pastor, his mom plays the piano etc. Brancent had always told me about Jesse's parents and how Jesse's dad would teach them in Sunday school and tell him stories from the Bible. Talk about a rarity, a dad who signs and teaches his deaf son the Bible. I had to fight back tears watching him teach. How I long for every deaf (and hearing) to have a parent like that. Here are a few pics and of course more will be on the shutterfly site.

Katie and Krystal

Ready to hunt!

Celebrating Jesse's 32nd birthday! We ate lunch at his parents house after church. We couldn't have had better food or company. His family is fabulous.

Feeding Tuff and Socks

My favorite picture!

Bubble Boy...who needs cable? :)

When Jacob was about 4 months old Brancent started blowing bubbles with his gum and Jacob would stare at them for the longest time. Not to long ago he was blowing bubbles again Jacob tried to grab the bubble. It was funny to watch Brancent suck the gum back before Jacob could get it. Recently Jacob has developed a new response when he is not allowed to grab the bubble.....

In his blog début "Bath boy"

Disclaimer: I sign sloppy. I was mortified when I saw this video. I was to tired to shoot again and if we took Jacob out of the bathroom he would have not been happy :) So if you are deaf and watch this....my deepest apologies




Coming soon: "Bubble Boy" (and no it's not bath tub related:)

Forgot him....

I forgot the cutest part of all the little elephant! There are several more things in each room but can't fit them on the blog. The church website www.pbdc.us has a link to photos where more are posted.

Church nursery

These are picturers from our newly made over church nursery. The jungle themed room is the baby room and the other is the preschool room. So much fun! The baby room is complete and the preschool room needs a few small touches to be done.

Wow

Totally embarrassed I have gotten so behind in blogging, but with good reason. Christmas was a lot of fun. Katie was here Christmas week and it went by way to fast. Thanks to the family (and Apryl) for all the fun goodies. The kids were well spoiled as well as Brancent and myself. All the Christmas pics will be on my shutterfly site. www.lyonsfamilyadventures.shutterfly.com. If you need the password leave me a comment. One of the reasons for my lack of blogging is that the week after Christmas we had ASL honor students come help work on the preschool area at the church. It looks so good and I will be posting pics of it later today. Jacob is good just trying to survive his toothies. He is still crawling and pulling up on everything. Every now and then he gets brave and cruises between couch and recliner. Katie is doing good still enjoying dance and gymnastics and quickly approaching womanhood (Oy!). Her big gift from Daddy and I was Nellie an American girl doll. Nellie is the best friend to Samantha which the doll I got when I was Katie's age. Katie asked me "I get Samantha when you die right?" Good grief, the fact that I'm turning 30 this year prevented me from finding the humor in her comment. I taught her the word morbid and told her we weren't going to talk about it but yes she might get Samantha. We are going to Austin the 16-19 so will get to spend the weekend with Katie. This will be Jacob's first plane ride so super excited about that too. Hope everyone had wonderful holidays and a big Happy Birthday to Jaxson Mendoza who turned 1 on Jan 2!Katie and Jacob with cousin Simon SwopesOff with their heads!Silly siblingsKatie and Nellie

With the Barton cousins Drake Derek and Saige