More pictures...but with words..

So recently Jack has been pulling up more on things, particularly in his bed. he was climbing up on to the bumpers and looking over the side. Obviously this placed a great deal of stress on me because I would constantly want/ have to check on him at nap and bed times to make sure he hadn't accidentally flipped over the side of the crib and what not. Thankfully, Sam stepped in and lowered the mattress down so it's no longer a worry at this point. So yesterday during nap I was trying to organize his bedroom (it is pretty sad that his is probably the messiest room in the house considering that he doesn't even crawl yet) and I heard the little guy start to move around but just kept going. Well eventually the sounds of little movements turned into grunting so I turned around to check on him and this is what I saw

Also to prove that she is not anti baby Caitlin actually touched Jack yesterday and let me photograph this:

He actually really likes her, that or he thinks she looks weird but he constantly stares and smiles at her.


Jack has also learned how to get his toes into his mouth in the last few weeks and loves chewing them..weird...

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.