Globe Trotting

Jake did some traveling this past week. He was so excited about meeting lots of new people on the east coast that he slept the entire flight across the country. Even though Jake is not a Native New Yorker, he has always been on an east coast time schedule. This is not always the best since we live on the west coast, but it made our time traveling a bit easier. While Jake is a super -snuggler, during our travels we found out that he also likes to nap naked, in the breeze, taking up an entire couch. Jake is a man who knows what he likes and will settle for nothing less than the best.




While we were off visiting Lola stayed at doggie daycare. While I do not do too well while Lola is away and spend the day worrying about how she is doing, Lola spends the day eating frostie paws hanging out by the pool with her puppy friends. When we went to pick her up today, she was running around outside with her favorite friend, Fin. She was very happy to see us, and the first thing she did when she got in the car was check on her buddy Jake. Lola however, was not too happy when she got home and realized that the only thing left of the bone she dug up from the yard and buried in the couch was a large muddy stain.

Jake also missed his furry friend while we were away. Jake has lots of toys, but he LOVES his Puppy. Puppy looks just like Lola. He has lots of spots and ears that are darker than his body. Puppy hangs out with Jake when he is in his swing, stroller or car seat. Jake gave Puppy lots of extra snuggles on this trip.


As a rule, Jake hates any kind of restraints. We have to delicately time when we put him into his car seat or stroller so that we are about to run out the door once the screaming starts. However, he got pretty darn excited when we told him we were going to pick up Lola from school.


This is Jake when we were headed home from the hospital for Jake's first car ride. I love the look of pure annoyance.


This is a picture is taken on Jake's second airplane ride. I was going to take a picture of his first flight, but forgot that my phone has a camera.


This is Lola's first ride in the car when we took her home.


This is Lola coming home from doggie daycare. She likes to sit in the back and sniff out the window and check in to make sure Jake is ok.



While we were away we took Jake for his first swim. There are a lot of great pictures on our big camera, but since I forgot to download them and left the camera in NJ, they wont be posted for quite some time. Here are a few from camera phones.


As you can see he was thrilled for the new adventure.


It was great to finally introduce Jake to everyone back east, but being home is also fun.



Jake LOVES to stand and is getting really great at his exersaucer.




"Get the camera, we're going to go assault the dog!"







* after we took these pictures we informed Jake that dog riding is not good for Lola's hips. He promptly retired from the sport.

Lola was so happy to see Daddy when we came to pick her up from daycare she almost jumped the fence to get to him. After she got home, she was less enthusiastic.


Here is a video of Jake playing with the bird. While it may look that he is easily frustrated with the toys, he was laughing and playing with them for a hot minute before I realized I never pressed record.