Little Jack

Jack's first Christmas present- from Memommie.

Chillin' with Aunt Laura

Jack has been learning some new tricks lately. He really enjoys holding onto his feet! He can sit up for very short periods by himself, and when you throw a burp rag over his face and ask "Where's Jack", he pulls it off by himself. We're really having a good time with him!

Jack weighs about 15.5 lbs now and is 24" long. He'll be 5 months old this Saturday.

Jack's head is finally big enough to fit into the hats we bought him about 2 months ago! Here's a picture with the bear again. He is 4 months old as of yesterday. He's really started babbling away lately, and he and Grandpa have some very interesting "conversations".

Wow, I've really been lax about posting pictures lately! Jack is working on his push-ups here. I haven't been as good about putting on his tummy as I should have been, but lately we've been working on it a lot. It's really only taken a couple of days for him to get to where he is able to lift his head up and look around.

Well, I'm having some technical difficulties getting most of the pictures to my PC from our trip to Texas last week, but here's one of Jack with his Great-Grandmother, known in our family as "Memommie". (We have my cousin LouAnn to thank for that creative name) We had a really good visit with her and Jack's Great Aunts Neva and Clara and Great Uncle Bob, and even got to visit with his Great-Great Aunt LaVelle.

Jack is still a little floppy, but sturdy enough to sit in the high chair while we eat dinner. We padded him with towels to keep him sitting upright and to make sure he wouldn't hurt himself in case he flopped forward! He sure enjoyed sitting up where he could see everyone at the table.

Don't I look rested in this picture? Jack slept through the night last night, with a little help from me. He woke up about every hour, but I got to him each time before he got fully awake and was able to settle him back to sleep. Part of our "go to sleep" routine is me rocking him a little and humming "Amazing Grace" just before I put him down, and I'm beginning to wonder... will he get sleepy for the rest of his life whenever anyone sings Amazing Grace?

I love this sweater - he looks like such a little man. He's starting to enjoy the sound of his voice and was doing a little yelling while I was taking these pictures.

I borrowed Laura's camera, which has made me realize how limited my camera is. This one takes much better close ups and captures motion much better. Here are a couple of pictures I took this morning.

Boy is it hard with my ancient 5 year old digital camera to get a non-blurry picture of Jack! He's constantly in motion.

Mom moved the mobile we had over Jack's cradle upstairs to hang over the Pack-N-Play downstairs so Jack could enjoy it during the day when he was more awake. It's the craziest looking mobile- Jack sure is having fun looking at it in this picture.

We took a trip to Winchester, KY last weekend to see Mark's parents. They hadn't seen him since we moved back to Ohio 5 weeks ago, so Jack had changed a lot. Here's a picture of Jack with his Granna and Granddad.

We take a picture of Jack with this bear every month or so to see how he's growing. Mark and I built this bear at the Build-A-Bear Workshop when we were dating.

Jack has recently started smiling - it's really cute!

Jack is still getting used to the idea of having to "go #2", and sometimes it really makes him upset. The doctor says lots of babies have the same reaction and that it's not hurting him. Sure looks like it is though! He's a great screamer - maybe he'll be an opera singer when he grows up!

Here's a video "montage" of Jack. It will take a little bit to download- it's almost 4 megs.

The "spoiled" bib is a huge understatement! Next he'll be stealing the pacifiers out of Jack's mouth... Maybe it's a jealousy thing, since he's not the baby anymore...

Jack already wants to be just like daddy...He sleeps a lot.