New Year's

We spent New Years at Dominic's Aunt Chela's house. Dec. 31 was also her 50th birthday, so it was quite a celebration. I got a new book for Christmas, and I couldn't put it down. I spent half the night in a chair reading and holding my sleeping baby. I didn't make it until midnight, Jacoby was still waking up every 3 hours or so and I just couldn't do late nights with no sleep.


Jacoby went down for a bit and Dominic and I just had to take pictures with him. Not the best family picture, but it'll do.



Grandma Speer just couldn't get enough of her grandson. She loved on him and played with him as much as she could.



Bobbi just loved holding Jacoby. I swear that she was happiest with him in her arms that night.

Christmas in Vegas

It's Jacoby's first Christmas! We decided to head to Las Vegas for Christmas this year and let Grandma and Grandpa Speer spend some time with Jacoby. Dominic and the boys went golfing while Cynthia and I played Bingo. Grandma watched Jacoby and had him all to herself for several hours. I think we were all in heaven. Christmas was wonderful and we had so much fun. Unfortunately, we didn't take many pictures to document Jacoby's first Christmas. We have a few, but most of them are in the morning when everybody was just waking up.

Christmas Pictures

We decided to send out a Christmas card this year with a family picture on it. We just set up the camera in our front room next to the Christmas tree. The pictures turned out pretty good, but we had a hard time getting Jacoby to fully face the camera. After we got a decent family photo, we tried to get one of just Jacoby in his cute little Christmas onesie, but he wasn't having anything to do with it. Oh well.

Little Naked Bum

I love baby's bum's. I think that they are so cute, so I decided that we had to have naked bum pictures of Jacoby. He doesn't have much of a bum, but I had to take pictures of it. If he ends up like his dad, he'll end up naked most of his childhood so a few pictures at 5 weeks old isn't going to matter.

Dress up

I had so many cute clothes for Jacoby and I couldn't wait to dress him in them. The problem was that he was so small when he was born, most of his clothes were huge. I couldn't wait though, and had to try out some of his cute outfits. The pants that I put on him in both pictures were 0-3 month and he was a month old!

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving at the Wilson's! I dressed Jacoby up in a cute little outfit and off we went. It was the first time that many friends and relatives got to see Jacoby and he was passed around like a hot potato. Jacoby mostly slept through it all and didn't really care.



Grandma and Grandpa Speer couldn't wait to see Jacoby again. When they arrived, it turned into a "My Turn" tug-of-war with the baby. It was fun to watch.

Bath Time!

8 days after Jacoby was born, his umbilical stump fell off. I was able to start giving him real baths. I didn't care for bathing him in the kitchen sink, and I had a baby bath tub, but I didn't like that either. I found it easiest just to put him in a couple inches of water in the big bath tub. These pictures weren't his first bath, but close. These were taken Thanksgiving morning as we were getting him ready to go the the Wilson's. He's so going to hate me when he gets bigger for posting nude pictures of him on the internet!




After his bath, I cuddled him close to me to warm him up. Dominic thought it was a great picture of Jacoby, but my nose looks huge! :)