Family & Fun!

Jack has had quite a few visitors since he's been home! We've loved sharing our joy with so many! I wish I got pictures of everyone who came! I guess we'll have to have everyone over again for pictures with Jack!

Aunt Jen enjoying a cuddly little baby boy for a change from her 3 girls!

Uncle Bennett holding his youngest daughter, Charlotte (18 months) and Jack.

My Mother, Grandma, holding her 10th grandchild, Jack!

Here is AJ's Dad (aka Pop) getting a snuggle in before bed time.

 Here is my sister Holly and her oldest, Jacob, who came over for a back-to-school dinner for her boys!

My Little Lion Heart!

Jack is our little fighter! To make a very long story short... maybe I'll tell the long version some day... Jack was born with a heart murmor which was ultimately diagnosed as Pulminary Stenosis. We spent the first 2.5 weeks of Jack's life in Children's National Hospital in DC. The Lord was good to us and with people all over the world (yes, the world) praying for Jack, God stretched out His healing hand and gave us our baby boy back as normal can be! We will still have to go for cardiac check ups once in a while but the procedure he needed, fixed his little heart and he is a strong and healthy boy! He will still be able to run and play sports with the best of them!

Thank you everyone for your prayers! Jack is a testimoney and a witness to God's healing power and love for even the smallest of us... babies! Because of Jack's condition he caused a lot of people who are not usually pray-ers to get on their knees! Jack was serving a greater purpose with his heart condition and AJ and I are so thankful he is a missionary already!! What a blessing!!

I hope you check back often to see our our little boy is doing with a heart of a Lion!

Jack Can Sleep Anywhere!

I know they say it's easy for the first baby to sleep everywhere because there is no other noise in the house! With a second baby trying to sleep with a little toddler running around, it's almost impossible for them NOT to be in their crib. So Jack and I are taking advantage of him being an only child, for now!
He can sleep anywhere! And he just looks so cute in all these places, I just had to take a picture! AJ loves to go wake him up no matter what time it is! He usually gets to wake him up for his dinner feeding at 6pm, his last night feeding at 10pm and his morning feeding at 6am. Lucky Daddy!

He sleeps in his vibrating newborn napper that came with his pack n play, but sadly he's pretty much outgrown it but I tuck his knees so he can still fit... for now!

 He sleeps in one of his boppy's because he can chill on the sofa with me and it keeps him secure on his side and he looks great in blue!! I call it his blue inner tube!

 He can sleep on his play blanket at the end of the sofa too!

 He sleeps in Daddy's arms, of course!!

And of course, he gets to sleep in his crib a good portion of the time!

Tummy Sleep!

Jack took his first nap on his tummy! Don't worry, I checked on him often. It started because he screamed on his back and I'd pick him up and his eyes would close and he'd be asleep and I'd put him down again on his back and he'd scream... so I figured, the position when I pick him up is on my chest and on his belly so I'll try and lay him on his belly and sure enough... he LOVED it! Instant sleep! But he hasn't napped like that since... maybe it was a one time thing. He is a side sleeper though. He only ends up on his back in the mornings after a long night sleep! So thankfully... no flat head!

Lots of Smiles & A Yawn!

Jack's smiling a TON more and I finally got some on camera!

Aren't these the cutest little footed PJ's?! I just love the feet!!

8 Weeks Old!

So we've done a lot in just one week! For Jack's 8 week birthday (Wednesday, 8/10), he slept his first 8 hours through the night! WOW! I was so stunned! Woohoo! He had been sleeping 6-6.5 hours for the past 2 weeks and then 2 nights of 7 hrs and then a whopping 8! It just happened so fast! It's amazing how effective scheduling his days have worked for us! What a blessing!! So the last 2 nights we've bounced between 7-8hrs so lets hope he keeps it up!!

I'll probably write more about our effective scheduling during our fabulous days together soon! I want all new moms to know that to give your baby the gift of sleep is the best thing for the entire family as God intended!!

4 Weeks Old!

8 Weeks Old!

Finished Nursery... Almost

We finally got up the wall decals and such like 3 days before Jack was born! Just in time! I still have some empty picture frames to fill with new baby pictures of Jack and we still want to paint the "J" above his crib a dark brown to match the rest of his furniture. Other than that, his nursery is a joy to be in! I love looking around it every time we nurse! I love my rocker, swivel, recliner chair even more every time I sit in it!

Every time I read the bible verse on the wall, God reveals something more to me. We pray for everyone we can think of while we read our baby boy devotions out of a book a friend gave us!

Also, can you believe how full Jack's book case is already!? It was because my sister's threw me a shower and asked everyone to bring a baby book and lots of people even wrote little notes inside the books, and would you believe it... NO DUPLICATES! I plan to make it a habit for us to pray for the person who gave us the book each time we read it!

And of course, we have little matching hooks to hang his super cute little blue bath robe! (Which we haven't used yet, I've been using the hooded towels right now because they are easy, but the blue bathrobe just looks so cute because it's so little... so it's kind of part of the decor! HA!)

Thank you everyone for all the gifts you gave us to make this nursery possible!