Get Your Toes!

Jack's newest trick is grabbing his toes! He does it all the time! He does it on his changing table, he does it in his bed if he wakes up in the middle of the night to smile at mommy and touch his toes (sigh), he does it in his car seat and tries to do it in the air if you hold him up.

Daddy Dressed Me For Church

I asked AJ to dress Jack for church, and I guess it was my fault for even having a "hand-me-down" camo outfit in his closet and the only pair of slippers in his sock bin.. but down came 2 very proud boys ready for church.... sigh.... needless to say this was the first and last time Jack was in camo, good thing it was too short for him anyway! He's going hunting for moose in his snowman slippers!

Out for Fun!

On a beautiful day we took Jack out for our many walks on the weekends! He'si n his Christmas long johns.... at least, that's what they look like! We all happened to be in fall colors!

BIG BATH

So we went a little overboard and instead of putting him in the bath tub in his bumbo seat, we thought for fun we'd try our own little "pool" time! So we went in our master tub and filled it up and wanted to see if he liked it. Well, he LOVED it! He splashed and kicked and "squak'd" while AJ took pictures.

When it was time to get soapy and wash his hair, AJ got in and held him while I scrubbed him up and then we dumped watered over his head and into his face! We want to get him used to it early so there is no screaming if water gets in his eyes! He held his breath the first time it got in his eyes but he "coo'd" it off and kept on splashing! I have a video to show later on too... super cute!

Last Sponge Bath

I captured Jack's first bath time when we got home back in July and now at 5.5 months old, this boy has out grown his Puj tub! So into the big tub we shall go next! He loves to look at himself and watch me sing to him in the mirror during his whole sponge bath! I sing the entire time so I guess bath time is pretty fun in our house... AJ makes me sing to him while he's in the shower too now! ;o) HA!

New Toy

I got Jack and Camden a new chew toy (sounds like it's for a dog... I know)! But it rotates and is easy to hold and great for chewing on any one of the numerous knobs! Jack loves it more and more every day! It matched his outfit this day so I thoguht I'd capture it's use!

Before Church

Last Sunday at church I kept Jack in his sleeper because I figured he would sleep the whole time and not get out of his infant carrier in the service. Boy were we wrong. There were so many babies in the overflow room at church second service so Jack of course wanted to see what all the noise was about. So we had to take him out of his seat to hold him and every baby was dressed in a cute sunday church outfit except poor Jack who was still in his PJs!

So this Sunday I made sure to dress him up even though he might be napping the whole time. Well, AJ put on my favorite shirt of his and I dressed Jack in his puppy dog outfit and cordaroy pants to match so we had a picture time before we went out the door!

Fall Leaves

God is so good! What colors and stunning crisp air that just refreshes our lungs and our soul to breathe in! This truely is my favorite time of year! I could take pictures every single day! I'm still wanting pictures of Jack and me but AJ is always holding him so of course I have to take the pictures!

We took a walk on a clear Saturday and got some pictures of the brightly colored leaves with my boy in his handsome blues!

Handsome Blues

My son may not be a midshipman at the Naval Academy in his winter blues uniform, not yet anyway,... but his Grandma gave him this handsome quilted winter suit from Nordstrom! It's georgeous! And he's got plenty of room to grow in it as well! It's surprisingly hard to find a time to wear it but for a walk with Daddy in the baby bjorne was the perfect thing to cover his legs and arms in the Fall breeze!

Thank you, Mom!

Discovering His Hands!

I have been waiting for this moment for so long! Everyone told me Jack would be just looking at his hands which helps with hand control and depth perception. I had yet to see Jack looking directly at his hands but thought it just wouldn't happen now that he's 4.5 months old!

But then... I caught  him! The sun was beaming in on his changing table and my son found his hands!!!

Morning Back Home

Jack and I had just got back from visiting Camden and Aunt Melissa for 2 nights and we were both so tired! But I had to unpack us and clean up for company coming that night, so I set Jack up to play on the guest bed with some toys. He was sqaulking and talking the whole time and I occasionally came to check on him and found him looking at his hands! I tried to catch him on camera but he caught me and looked right at the camera! Sigh... I did eventually catch him looking at his hands which I'll post later.

Here is my cute little boy who just bubbles over with smiles at the camera!

Daddy Time!

Jack and I both look forward to AJ coming home in the evenings! I get a small break to cook or clean up from dinner while Jack gets to touch his Daddy's scruffy face! He's very into touching faces these days! Thankfully, I caught him making some cute faces himself!

Airplane

Jack an evening at play, I decided Jack was big enough to sit on my feet and do a mini-airplane! He was loving it especially every time I did a "crunch" with my abs I would say "boo!" and he'd giggle! Needless to say I got a great ab workout and now make it part of our "play time" routine each day!

Happy Halloween!

For this Halloween, AJ and I didn't feel right about trick or treating with Jack just to get candy that was obviously for us and not Jack, so we walked around briefly to find our neighbors and get them to take our picture and then headed back in the house. It was a cold and windy night, perfect for Halloween weather!
Jack was our sweet pea and we were his Farmers who are raising him!

Before AJ got home from work he begged me to pick up a pumpkin for pictures with Jack and I drove to 3 grocery stores and a produce stand on Halloween and NO ONE had pumpkins!! UH! So I dug up a plastic one from our long gone Halloween parties we used to have and got Jack picture! He's such a ham!