Little Jack

to take Jack's picture with the bear each month. We'd prop him up, and he'd smile such a cute smile. Alas, those days are gone...

Jack's great joy in life for the past couple of weeks has been practicing his new skill of pulling up. We put him down in the middle of the floor to play and he immediately begins to crawl to the nearest thing he can pull up on. When I put him down for "night-night", no matter how tired he is, he must pull up in the crib at least once. I know he's done it when I hear the celebratory "Aaaaaaaggghh" in the trademark Jack growl that sometimes reminds one of the demon in The Exorcist. Good thing Mark is ordained, just in case.

Now that Mark has a permanent job here in Columbus, which we're very grateful to God for, I am trying to build up a piano studio. If you happen to hear of anyone who is looking for a teacher I would appreciate you passing along my name and number (614-864-2616). I will also do short term voice coaching to prepare for choir or other auditions, but I don't plan on teaching voice on a long term basis. (My strengths in the voice instruction area are much more suited to coaching preparation for a specific goal than long term instruction.)
Thanks!

Per the request of Miss Judy today at "L at the W", I have put all of the bear pictures on one web page since it's fun to see them all together and watch that white teddy bear shrink! Here's the link to the page and I'll put a link in the sidebar for future reference.

Jack has given up rolling for the more efficient crawling, and can pull up to standing in his crib. His top two teeth are coming in, so he is a veritable fountain of drool right now. Only 3 more months of formula! Yay!

What do you want me to do? Crawl? Ok... let's see...


Hmmm.... now what do I do?


Ugh... it's just too hard! I need to rest.

(part of me is enjoying watching Jack figure out this crawling thing, and part of me watches with dread!)

We had a great week in Texas. Sure was a shock to the system going from 30-40 degree weather to 90 degree weather! Jack had lots of people to play with and there are lots of fun toys to play with at Aunt Neva's house- he had a good time.


Swimming in the not-so-hot hot tub


Getting a little too big for a bath in the sink!



Oooh, Memommie's necklace is pretty!



Feeeeeeeed meeeeee!


I wish someone would come swing me... sniff....


Wheeeeee!


Whew... I need a nap after all that playing.

Mouse is so tolerant- he doesn't care who it is, as long as someone is petting him. One of these days we are sure Jack will get ahold of his tail with the same death grip with which he gets ahold of our hair/necklaces and that will probably be the end of Mouse's patience.

This is Jack's Great-Great-Grandfather on Mark's mother's side. Since Jack doesn't look much like me or Mark, we've been puzzling over who he takes after. We see a lot of Laura in him, comparing their baby pictures, but also a lot of the Wells side of Mark's mother's family. The head shape and nose, etc. are very similar to Jack.