Hmm, for some reason this wouldn't come up any larger than this. But it was super cute i thought.

Big steps today...

Well actually just little tiny baby steps. Today I was holding Jack, who for those of you that don't remember is only 5 months old, and he decided to push his body down my leg so that he was standing on the floor, then proceeded to start taking just a couple steps while holding my hands. Mostly he just stood there holding himself up on flat feet without even wobbling!!! This is after he teased me in to thinking he was about to crawl only two days ago....Either way I doubt it will be long before I"m having to chase him down.

Just as a side note to these pictures of him standing up, do not let that smile fool you. He spent the twenty minutes prior to this screaming his head off because he didn't want to be in any position, to play with any toy, to talk, to sit by himself....he wanted just to scream about not feeling good. Though I'm liking that right now if he gets that way for the most part I can just brush his teeth and he gets all happy instantly. Hope that continues...




Oh yeah and he learned to read in his spare time..
I love how he almost always looks drugged up. I promise it is just that he refuses to take naps because he is too excited about the happenings in our apparently stimulating house.

hmm...this is interesting..

Decorating the tree last year:
PS: its amazing that I'm standing in this picture as it was during the coma phase of pregnancy...ah how I miss that sleep



Decorating the tree this year(2008)





Do I not own another color shirt or is this outfit a requirement in our home on Christmas decorating day? And also don't you think it's super magical how we started decorating for christmas this year in Jan of 2006 until 11/30/08? geez! and didn't age at all!

Just some delightful pictures..

What other 30 year old do you know that has never put together a ginger bread house???

The kid spent an hour licking the mouth on this sock monkey..weird!

Too tired to really give any explanation of pictures tonight, viewing pleasure only today friends.

Eat your heart out Kristen...

Not the best quality pics as they were taken with a cell phone but still proof that Alton Brown touched me!!!!

Also Jack's first trip to the park. FYI: these pictures are from months ago. I just couldn't figure out how to get them off Sam's Iphone.

Fun day...

So if you read Kristen's blog then you know about the project we are trying to get involved in. I really wanted to participate but also have Jack involved in some part of the butterfly creation. I went out and bought some craft supplies yesterday to complete some Christmas projects and found these super adorable markers called Pipsqueaks- they are just the right size for Jack's hand and they were on sale for less than a dollar. We tried them out today, I figured most of the time would be spent trying to keep the marker out of his mouth. Not at all, in fact he went on for several minutes before putting one to his mouth..apparently pink is incredibly tasty looking. Anyway I figure I will have him scribble all he wants an then use that paper to make the butterfly.

Here some fantastic pictures from our day...it was a pajama day by the way. Its way too cold to go anywhere and we spent most of the day playing on the bed anyway.

I told you pink is yummy.

At nap time the tornado siren went off and like always it woke him up. Only this time I didn't know he was awake until he started babbling and giggling at something. I went in to our room (he doesn't normally sleep there but it was an easy transfer after hiding under the covers in our bed) all I saw were those little feet sticking out. I thought he might be stuck at first but he pulled them back through and started giggling. He was in there doing that over and over and laughing..I guess he and the duck thought it was rude that I started taking pictures though.

This is kid is learning like crazy

He has been sitting up on his own if you help him get that way first for about 2 weeks now, but this morning he decided that he was going to sit up without assistance, he grabbed the end of his jammies and pulled himself right up and just smiles. He gets to proud of himself when he does something new. He is just exploring his new found balance all the time now. Still the kid won't roll over though!! Well he has done it once but will not repeat these actions to spite me.

Next on our achievement checklist: the sippy cup!!!

Today I was babysitting a friend's little girl, who is about 15 or 16 months. During lunch she was using a sippy cup for her juice and Jack was just chilling in his swing next to the table, watching her. Out of nowhere he gets so upset and nothing will calm him down. He would look at her and scream and then look at me and scream...finally I decided to give him a cup with a tiny bit of water in it. He was all over it! I think that being around older babies a bunch has made him want to be that way already. We have KinderMusik and a playgroup every week, not to mention when we have Finley over and he just happens to be the youngest kid in all these situations. He will just sit and watch all the other babies play and laugh at them, but he is obviously paying attention. I'm pretty impressed with him, he isn't even 5 months yet! Oh yeah, and Kristen totally heard me tell him "hush" when he was fussing and he completely was quiet after that! Genius, right sis?!

This is the fun new way to help mommy with her chores...He looks a little scared but I promise it was just because of the flash, he giggles the whole time he is bouncing in that basket.