Tuesday, September 30, 2008

happy anniversary, pete!

happy 2nd wedding anniversary, hubby! i hope you enjoyed breakfast, it was nice to celebrate with you this morning. looking forward to tonight and the rest of our lives!! i love you.
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roll on you bears!

here is a slideshow of our first family cal game. jack was great the entire day! we took bart, ate at the lair of the bear, walked to the stadium, and cheered the bears on to victory. jack slept through a couple touchdowns (such a sound sleeper) and enjoyed watching the band.

Monday, September 29, 2008

silly goose

jack is so silly! he has such a great, funny personality already, we just love it! here he is doing a morning routine - head-butting himself in the mirror. i didn't catch him laughing this time, but it's still silly:

Saturday, September 27, 2008

a little mischievous


we have a step that goes from our bathroom to bedroom... jack climbed off the step and into the laundry basket. he smiled for a picture, the little stinker!

Monday, September 22, 2008

he's crawling!

jack's spent quite a while doing the 'worm' around our house. lunge, up on all fours, lunge again. but, last week, he crawled on all fours! we were lucky to have the camera near by to catch our little dude:

Sunday, September 21, 2008

jack's adventure in the kitchen


jack loves water, so we aren't surprised he was splashing in pepper and bailey's water bowl!

Saturday, September 13, 2008

bath time

we got jack a nifty little contraption that helps him sit up in the tub. we've been passing on the bath, opting for showers for a while because jack didn't like to lay down. he'd shower with daddy, getting water all in his face and loved it. we were waiting for him to sit by himself before attempting baths again. he loved it! we filled up the tub more than suggested, use 'minimal water - babies have drown using this seat'. but jack loved splashing and there wasn't a nano-second that my eyes and hands weren't ready for a rescue. enjoy a video:

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

cantaloupe!


jack has this nifty (but difficult to clean) contraption that allows him to eat a variety of fresh foods without teeth and the fear of choking. he's had banana and cantaloupe, messy but fresh and fun! yummy :)

Monday, September 8, 2008

jack's new highchair


here's jack enjoying his high chair. he likes to watch his reflection in the plastic tray cover :) it is a lot easier to feed him now that he is locked in good and at proper table height!

Sunday, September 7, 2008

jack's learning to drive...

practicing his look for his license pic
look! no hands!
beep, beep! out of the way doggies!
pepper giving a little push

happy grandparents' day!

today is grandparents' day! jack would like to wish his grandparents a great day and to thank them for being such great grandparents!

Saturday, September 6, 2008

the big 7

jack is now 7 months old and as he naps, i am going to try to blog-update you on our experiences the last few months!

jack has had an exciting month! we went to pennsylvania on the 26th of august to visit super pop pop and gang in millersburg. jack was great on the flight home (slept the whole way!) and very good (about 20 minutes or so of screaming) on our way there. we were super happy with our choice to fly direct (we had debated about needing a 'break' in our travel day but thought we'd just get it over with) and our carrier: jetblue. i've loved this airline since they started flying cross-country because they are nice, not too relaxed or too snobby, they provide entire diet coke cans (i hate the deflatedness of ones that are opened and you only get a cupful), a choice of yummy snacks, and tvs at every seat! jack-jack's plan was to watch cartoons the entire way (again, we don't promote television time in our house, but jack does all he can to catch a show when he sees a tv... in some cases, like a 5 hour flight, he's fully allowed to watch as much as he wants!). we had a great visit, spent tons of time with pop pop and even took jack's very first trip to an amusement park! pop pop showed us around williamstown (where he was born and raised) the day before we left - it was really nice to have that whole day with him. we had a great time with family and plan to return next summer, too!
on to jack's other accomplishments this month... jack's been scooting around, more of lunging around but whatev., for a while now. he sees something and goes for it - fast! we've enjoyed watching him improve his scooting ways and were admiring his ability to worm his way around pop pop's porch when he sat up! he was on the floor, then up like a big kid in a split second! it was so cool pete and i were there at the same time - i feel like jack knows to show off new skills when we're both there. like he practices in his crib until he's got it, then waits until pete gets home to surprise us! we had a mini-celebration adn jack thought it was funny. i have to say i had a moment... i've been watching and loving him, playing with him, learning with him all this time - almost seven whole months - and he's been this cute little bean pod. then the bean moved. but always on the floor - ground level. now you can turn around and he's sitting up looking at you like he's 10 waiting for a hamburger or something. it's amazing, and another reminder that he's growing fast. so fast. but it's fun and it happens, so we're taking it all in, every single minute, every single new skill. we celebrate, take pictures, and watch the new skill fade as it is mastered and a new one makes it's way into his repertoire.
another, much anticipated moment occurred on our vacation, too. baby jack-attack (and now he can really attack) got his first tooth! the bottom right tooth was discovered on sunday morning. i have been obsessive about checking his mouth since he was three months old. a day doesn't go by that someone asks 'is he teething?'. maybe it's just me and the way jack is, but i never knew. there were no signs i can thing of...(just read the 6th month blog and i guess i saw signs!) he wasn't extra drooly or chewing more than he's been for the last 4 months. he wasn't cranky or not sleeping. he didn't get a temperature or tug at his ears, but alas! a tooth. now i know that when someone asks that question, the answer (with confidence) is 'yes, he is!'
jack has also moved along in his food - tyring oatmeal and bananas! he loves food, so we're super thankful, every new food has been welcomed into his little tummy. we're going to try cantaloupe and avocado this coming week (well in the next 10 days, can't expose them to more than one new thing every 5 days, in case of reaction, you can determine the source!).
here are some pics: