Jack with his walker

Lately our little crawler has been more and more eager to stand and even dance everywhere he goes. Before now he'd only ever really loved playing with the dials on the front side of his walker, but now he's realizing what else he can use it for. We're not ready for this!

It's really cute how proud of himself he is when he realizes he's starting to walk with it



Then he walked over to say hi to mom and then crawled over to say hi to dad



And finally, he experiences his first taste of traffic with Mr. Bill being the only casualty of the collision. He was safely able to crawl away from the accident

Silly afternoon with dad

Jack definitely inherited his goofy side from Jay. After work one day the two of them started to wrestle and give each other raspberries and we just happened to film the silliness:

Save the date!!!!

I promised myself that I was not going to start planning Jack's first birthday till July.

I really tried.

I promise.

I really tried to ban all birthday thoughts out of my head.

It didn't work.

Soooooo, save the date. Jacks first birthday will be August 13, 2011!!!

Can you believe it that he'll be 1 in such a short time? Time really does fly.

I don't remember my birthdays taking such short time.

And yes, becuase it's me, I'll probably go overboard.

Sleeping positions

I guess this is a normal sleep position????

From sleeping

I just don't see how it's comfortable though.


Here is another night. I took a picture of the video monitor screen because I don't have a flash on my phone.

From sleeping

Stimpy love

Stimpy has been with me for a long time. He's 12 years old and has always been grumpy, even as a kitten. We joke that he was destined to be an only child but never was. Stimpy had never really been around dogs when we adopted Dexter so they took a while to warm up to each other. I do catch them being nice to each other every once in a while though so there is hope. Stimpy wasn't thrilled when Jack came home with us from the hospital either. He likes a quiet house and Jack is definitely not quiet. He normally keeps his distance which is why you don't see him in many pictures but every once in a while he'll get brave and walk next to him.

And then Jack gets to give him some loving.




Stimpy wasn't really a fan of Jack's loving. He spent the next hour grooming himself and dodging Dexter.

Jacks first lemon

Jack meet lemon. Lemon meet Jack.




I was at dinner with a few of my friends and Melody (Jacks Godmother) wanted to give him a lemon. I just had to capture his first taste of something really sour. We're pretty good about giving him a variety of foods but he'd never had a lemon before.

9 Month Stats

I am sorry this is posted a bit late but I wanted to wait 'til I'd taken Jack to his 9 month well baby appointment. I had to wait 'til my contract was up at work before I could take him.

Our "little" man isn't so little.

He's 24.5 lbs which is the 95%
He's 30 inches long which is 94%
His head is 45.5 which is 50%...who would have known his head is average. He is Jay's kid.

He's the size of a toddler! The doctor isn't concerned though becuase at least he's proportionate and he's always been a big little man. Luckily (for my back) he's slowing down.

From 9 month pictures

Check out these chubby legs and belly!

From 9 month pictures

He's always happy.

From 9 month pictures

Did I mention he's into EVERYTHING!!!

From 9 month pictures

Then he gives me this smile.

From 9 month pictures

And goes right back to doing whatever he wants.

From 9 month pictures

Did you know he's got 6 teeth? His bottom two came in first, then his fangs, and now his top teeth finally cut.

From 9 month pictures

And in case you were wondering he still sucks his lower lip.

From 9 month pictures

He's talking a lot too. He loves saying, "Dada," "Mama," and even responds, "Yeah," when we ask him questions. He wakes up by yelling, "Dada," 'til Jay comes and gets him, and when he's tired he crawls to me saying, "Mama." He gives hugs and baby kisses that are slobbery and absolutely wonderful. He also loves everybody he meets...I swear he's the only baby I know who never got stranger anxiety. His favorite place to visit is the grocery store (not suprising) but he might like the splash pad just as much after this weekend when I take him for the first time.