Sitting and crawling

Jack has become real good at sitting these days. He's no pro at it just yet as he still loses his balances from time to time but he's close, real close.

And he's trying to crawl. He gets up on his hands and knees and rocks now, sometimes he goes forward and sometimes he goes backwards. I can't believe how quickly he's learning right now.

Before I know it, he'll be pulling himself up and taking his first steps.

Jack's 6 mos check-up

6 MONTHS!!!!

Today Jack weighed 17 lbs 4 ozs (50%) and he was 26 1/4" long (45%).
His head circumference was 44cm (50%).

They were real happy to know that he was still on breastmilk. He has a touch of eczema which they weren't too worried about. He also had more vaccinations today that he did real well with. Each time now he seems to cry less and less.

Also, I found out today that a boy will have grown to have of his adult height by the time he's 2. So when Jack's 2, I'll be able to double his height for an indication of how tall he'll be full grown. Interesting I thought.

Vacation

We're on vacation this week with MumC and Brian up at Bethany Beach in Delaware and the weather has been so-so.

The first day we were here the weather was nice, beautiful even. Jack had his first day at the beach that day. He seemed to like it but then again he likes being outside. He got to dip his toes in the water and sit in the sand. As soon as MumC sat him in the sand he got a whole handful of the stuff. I didn't care for that so much because he eats his hands still and now they were covered in sand. Bleck. He even got to take a nap on the beach in the stroller. However, all good things must end and that's when I felt the first few drops of drizzle. At that point, we packed up and went back to the condo but not before I burned my shoulders pretty good. 3 days later and they still hurt.

We got some great pics! I can't wait to download them (I didn't bring my USB cord for the camera).

We've been out to dinner every night except for tonight and MumC made us spaghetti. It was so good but now I feel full as a tick. It was my best meal all week!

Tomorrow Shannon, Ronnie, Kyle and Ainsley are coming over and we will spend the day with them before heading home on Saturday so that Austin can spend Sunday (Father's Day) with his dad.

I'm going to wrap this up now. Goodnight!

5th Grade Graduation

My first baby is already graduating 5th grade!! I said it before and I'll say it again, "How time flies!"

Today was Austin's graduation. I'm so proud of him. He's so proud of himself. He looked so grown up in the suit that he HAD to wear with the tie that Billy gave him to wear...awwww...

I'm a little upset that the camera decided to act up today and all the pics we got were really dark. Now I need to call ex to see if they got any real good pics of Austin graduating.

The ceremony freaked Jack out. Everytime everyone clapped he cried. Anyhow, we're off to the beach now!!

Ainsley

Today is Ainsley's birthday. Ainsley is my niece and she's turning one year old. I was at her birth and I remember it like it was yesterday. She was a couple weeks early so she was just a tiny little thing weighing around 5 1/2lbs but she had the longest feet and fingers any newborn (other than her brother) I have ever seen. She was also covered in vernix, you know that white sticky stuff that protects the newborn skin from the amniotic fluid. A baby born at 40wks doesn't have this but the earlier they are born, the more they have, she seemed to have a lot.

Alas, she already one! How the time flies. Happy Birthday to my beautiful (and only) niece, Ainsley! xoxoxo

Jack's 4mos check-up

Jack is 4 mos old now so it's time for the growth measurements.

Today he weighed 14 lbs 15 ozs (25 - 50%) and he was 24 3/4 (25-50%).
His head circumference was 42 1/2 (50-75%).

He did much better today with his vaccinations. But he's growing like a weed.

Jack and Austin

Jack is such a great baby! I could not have asked for a better baby and I hope that I'm not jinxing myself by bragging. Jack has to be one of the happiest babies ever. All he does is smile and laugh at me all day. Sure, he nurses (which he has now decided to stop so he could smile at me then too), sleeps and poos but aside from that, he's smiling. And he doesn't even cry when he wakes up so even though his room is right next to mine, I need a monitor. For example, just now, he made a noise in the monitor so I went to check on him and he was laying in there wide awake and when I said "Hi baby" I got great big smiles (he's laying on his belly so he couldn't even see me, only smiled at the sound of my voice)!!

My mom is coming into town tomorrow and I just can't wait for her to see him. She's going to enjoy him so much b/c he's such a pleasure!

Also, I'm going to make Austin's day tomorrow. I'm having a Tastefully Simple party. We went to one about 2wks ago and Austin had to come b/c I didn't have a sitter. Well, he tried everything everyone else tried and he loved it all. A party where they're there to feed you, he loved this idea. So we're having our own tomorrow. He can't wait.

Not to mention, Bill left this morning to go snow mobiling in Idaho for 5 days and since my mom and step-dad will be here I told Austin he could sleep in my bed so that they could sleep in his. He's beside himself with excitement! It's great to see him so happy.