One Large Post and A Lot of Pictures

Long time, no post! Yes, we're still alive. I'm sorry I haven't posted in a while. I don't really know why I haven't. I guess I have had "Blogger's Block" and couldn't get it all together. But I'm back and I have a lot of pictures. Jack has really been growing and maturing. He is sleeping great. He slept from 7:00 last night, until 9:05 this morning - straight!! Then he napped for two hours around lunch, an hour in the afternoon and went back to bed at 6:30 tonight. I can't complain. This week we are going to work on taking a shorter morning nap and a longer afternoon nap. Without a long nap after lunch, we have a very long afternoon and a minor meltdown around 5:00pm. But like I said, we can work around all of that.

He's almost there!! Last week we put him in his Bounce, Bounce Baby that his BeBe and Granddaddy Guy gave him for Christmas and his feet touched the bottom!!! We were so excited. He needs to gain a little more upper body control before it is a perfect fit. He still tends to fall forward when he is sitting in it. On this day he stayed in it about 10 minutes and really seemed to enjoy himself. It has music and flashing lights and that's all he needs. In another week or two, I believe he will have the hang of it.

Jack making a silly face!

He makes a lot of silly faces these days and has learned to blow razzies. He blows them all day long and laughs at himself. Once that old colic lifted, he became a happy, silly baby!! We couldn't be happier ourselves.

Bless his heart, we had to go to Madison Friday for his 4 month check-up and shots. He did great - on the ride there, during his shots, and on the ride home. I couldn't resist taking this sweet picture, on the way there, of him sleeping.

Are we there yet?

This picture is of him waking up around

Winona on the way home.

Below are pictures of his wounds. He is happy to show them off, especially the band-aids. We kept telling him they were "Wild Thang" band-aids just for him. I think he liked them better than the Charlie Brown band-aids he got last time.

He did a few "Body Builder" poses for the camera. He wanted me to make sure I got word to Maggie that these handsome pictures were on his blog.

In the other pictures, he kept hiding his zebra print band-aid. But I managed a close-up.

He got a great report. He weighs 15lbs., 10oz. and is 26" long. He is in the 75th percentile for his age group and Dr. Ellison said that was perfect!!

Here he is waiting to go to the ballpark

to see his cousin Austin play ball.

During his 2 month check-up, Dr. Ellison said we could start trying him out on baby food around 3 months. We decided 4 or 5 baby spoons everyday at lunch. Just to slowly get his stomach accustomed. He loves his baby food!! Especially his sweet potatoes. Friday, Dr. Ellison said since he had done so well with the sweet potatoes, applesauce and pears, we could start trying other foods and he could have as much as he wanted three meals a day if we wanted to. So today he tried carrots and really liked them. I don't want to give him a stomach ache, so we're going to continue taking it slow for a few more weeks. I'm still going to feed him baby food at lunch, increase the amount a little bit, and try a new food each week.

Right now, his Bumbo makes the perfect high chair.

As you can see in the picture below, taken 2 or 3 weeks ago, Jack is outgrowing his little bath tub hammock.

So, tonight we decided to take the hammock off and see how well we work without it. We figured he would like his tub better without sitting in the hammock, because he could play in the water more.

He loved sitting up in his tub and playing in his tub. Since he can't sit by himself yet it was a little hard for us, but I think we can get use to it. Things were going so well until John spotted a UFO (an Unidentified FLOATING Object). Needless to say, Jack was forced to make a hasty exit from his tub. I won't go into detail about the UFO or it's "origins", but I imagine you know what I'm talking about so no explanation is necessary.

Now that we know he enjoys playing in the water so much, I don't think we're going to put the hammock back on. we'll just have to keep our eyes opened for those UFO's.

He loved his yellow rubber duckie!

Last weekend, Jack went to Winona for a couple of days and I have several cute pictures of his exciting time. I'll post those later in the week. I just wanted to catch everyone up on our Chunky Monkey.

He is enjoying this great weather. He loves to be outside and he loves to go for strolls and wear his red sunglasses.

We hope everyone has a great week!!