Enjoying the great outdoors!

Who needs toys when you have kitchen utensils? ;)

You can't see it, but he has a fist full of grass...

and now a leaf in the other hand:)

A trip to Gettysburg...

While Grandma Pat & Aunt Ali were here we  took a trip to Gettysburg.  We stayed for two nights and saw as much of the battlefield as we could.

The Virginia monument (Robert Lee on top of his horse, Traveller)

On top of one of the towers overlooking the battlefield

Aunt Ali with a replica soldier on top of Little Round Top

Jacobi & daddy at the top of Little Round Top

A cannon ball made a whole in this barn...it is the dark spot that you see just below and to the left of the diamond on the right.

Mommy & Jacobi at the top of the Pennsylvania monument...

overlooking the battlefield and the Confederate High Water Mark.

Ready to watch a movie about the battle of Gettysburg at the Gettysburg National Park Visitors Center.

Jacobi with Grandma, mommy, Aunt Ali & a bunch of guns from the battle.

Mommy, daddy & Jacobi with a monument to Lincoln (at the National Cemetery) commemorating the Gettysburg Address.

The Soldiers' monument at the National Cemetery.

Daddy by a statue of Luther at the oldest Seminary in the country(Lutheran Theological Seminary of Gettysburg)

Jacobi's favorite part of the Seminary...the fountain!

Grandma Pat & Aunt Ali came to visit...

Jacobi trying on Aunt Ali's glasses...don't worry, we only left them on long enough to take the picture:)

 Daddy took Grandma Pat & Aunt Ali on the Duquesne Incline

 Check out the view of downtown Pittsburgh!

Carrots...

Here you will see Jacobi's first taste of carrots.  Mommy didn't have them pureed as well as he would have liked so the texture was a bit of a shock for him.  The next day he tried them again after mommy had given them a whirl in the blender and he gobbled them up!

Some of mommy's family came to visit...

Here we introduced grandma Dodie & grandpa Jeff to Gus & Yiayia's ice ball stand.  This stand has been "on the north side since your dad was a lad".

Here we are standing in line at the best ice cream shop in town...Brusters!

Everyone agreed it was a pretty tasty treat!

On August 1st, Jacobi got to go to his first major league baseball game...Cubs vs. Pirates.  Thanks to grandma Dodie & grandpa Jeff we all matched in our blue Cubs shirts:)

Jacobi was a trooper the whole night.  It was nice that we had access to an air conditioned room so he took a little snooze on mommy and then....

was ready to join everyone in the stands again:)

"watching the game" with grandpa Jeff

Lunch at Peppi's...a yummy sandwich shop downtown

making friends with great-grandma and grandpa

having fun with great-aunt Diane...

and great-aunt Doreen

4 Generations!