Disclaimer - Joe wrote this post as if it were me!

Here's the latest batch of Jensen family photographic amazingness. Thanks to my old roommate (well, really I should say "former" roommate. She's hardly old) Katrina, we've got some really cute pictures of both the little guy and the full family. He steadfastly refused to smile for any of them, but he's still just too dang adorable for his own good.

He seemed a bit surprised to be set down in the middle of the strawberries at first, but they did make a great background. My wonderful husband, Joe, suggested this picture. I think it was very creative and wise of him to do so. He is great!

In deep thought.

He always gets excited when he gets to stand up. His balance is really quite good for his age, and since he shows absolutely no interest in rolling over, it's entirely possible that he may try walking before he crawls...
Red White and Blue so he can prove his true American bona fides when he runs for kindergarten class president.
The whole family, with a very cute expression from our junior-most member.

For the record, he was NOT a fan of the leaf pile, but it was simply too good to pass up. The autumn colors were perfect, and the flannel shirt just seems right in this pic.
This is quite similar to a purely reflexive hand gesture that he used to make all the time as a newborn. It looks somewhat revolutionary.
By this time he may not have been loving the leaf pile, but he'd given up on being rescued from it any time soon.

Cute. That's all.

Here you can finally see the setting that served as backdrop to our photo session. That's the BYU MOA in the distance- we were by the waterfall most of the time. Many thanks Katrina!!
A rare smile caught on camera. I love that he smiles with his whole face.
Tai chi is excellent exercise for ALL age groups.
Over Thanksgiving, Grandma and Grandpa Biggs came to visit, along with brother Mark and two of his girls. It was great having a chance for our little guy to hang out with some of his California cousins. We went to see Tangled in 3-D (the glasses forming the basis for his rather spot-on Ray Charles impersonation, above). (Ray Charles is a blind jazz pianist, for those who don't know. Amy didn't.) The movie was a lot of fun for all of us, and he watched the whole thing in rapt attention.
Getting ready to give his daddy a BIG HUG! He sure does love his daddy! Yup!
His most recent doctors appointment (end of November) went great. He didn't exactly love the shots, but we certainly don't blame him for that. The best news was that he got to start rice cereal! He seems to love it, but is a little uncertain as to whether it should go ON his face or IN his face. Prepositions are hard when you're a kid.
He's learning to play with his toys more and more every day. The lion is one favorite.
He really loves this mirror too. Yea for the dollar store.
Somehow this outfit manages to look both ghetto, and effeminate. As long as the hat and the track suit aren't paired up they both work fine.
We call this toy the "thing". We got that from one of our new TV shows that we follow- "Running Wilde". The tween girl in the show grew up in the Amazon with only one possession which she refers to as her "thing", and we thought that was pretty funny. At first, our little guy had a hard time keeping hold of it, but we discovered that if we slipped his wrists through some of the loops, then it stayed in place. In this picture both of his wrists are trapped- pretty effective handcuffs.

Aw, shucks!

Hanging with mommy, one of his favorite pasttimes.
The fingers have now definitely displaced his binky as a chew toy. We call them his "fishhooks".
Meeting Santa at the ward Christmas party. He didn't seem at all upset, but he also didn't seem at all impressed. We ate his candy.
Playing with the ornaments on cousin Brittany's tree. We all had a great time at our first "monthly" cousin get together in over half a year. He had tons of fun playing with the other kids, and we had a very delicious dinner.

This is as close to rolling over as he's gotten. For some reason he is a lot more likely to be mobile when we put him on his back rather than on his tummy. Tummy time often turns into nap time.
This morning he was super fussy (by his standards, at least). We're pretty sure he's in some sort of pre-teething phase. We put him in his bear costume to cheer him up, and he spent several hours chewing on mommy's finger, and pretty much anything else he could get his hands on.