Category Archives: sweet boy

jack: forty-six weeks old

Here is Jack at 46 weeks old…
(December 13, 2012)

46 weeks old!

This week’s photo shoot was a disaster. Not because Jack was upset, or tired, but because my camera has suddenly lost it’s focus and Jack would not sit still for 2 seconds. The only way I got the photo above was because of his dog lovey. The focus on my camera, which used to blink in the viewfinder, never came back, so all the photos I took were slightly blurry. Em? Any ideas?

Even with Grandpa Jack’s help, the shoot was really just a fail. Ha…

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After we gave up, Jack went into the living room and sat still next to the tree, of course…

but he will sit still next to the tree

Other than photo shoots, this has been an amazing week for Jack! He turned a corner with food and will now eat most anything and everything we put in front of him. He suddenly adores pouches and will often eat a whole one in a sitting. He also loves bagels & cream cheese, scrambled eggs, cous cous salad & chicken. It’s awesome! We are so happy. And frankly, Jack seems happy about it too.

Here he is getting tired after a delicious meal…

messy little eater

Jack is still playing with sounds and does his best to repeat what we say. The newest development is “dack” for Jack. Pretty cool to say his own name. We clap.

For many weeks, Jack and I have attended a Mommy & Me group down the street. This Thursday we closed class for the year with a potluck party and a visit from Santa. Look how much Jack liked it…

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Poor kid. I thought he might be okay with it because we have two Santa decorations in our house. One of them sits in eye view of his high chair and every morning he points at it and I say Ho Ho Ho and he says Huh Huh and we laugh. But when the real Santa appeared it was more Ho Ho NO.

Luckily his stress didn’t last too long and he calmed down for the group photo…

mommy & me potluck party with Santa

He also ended up having a very fun time at the party…

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In that last photo, Jack plays with Lucky. They share a birthday!

Unfortunately Jack and I will not be attending this group anymore because next week I am going to be going to work 4 days/week, Monday-Thursday. I’ve signed us up for a Friday music class to start in the new year, which I think we will love!

Jack will now be going to his daycare Monday-Thursday also. My mom and Jack will miss spending their Wednesdays together and I will miss him on Thursdays, but it makes sense for our family at this time. My mom will pick Jack up early on Wednesdays since I work late, so they’ll still get their weekly love fest, which is great.

I don’t want to jinx it, but we think that Jack’s new bottomless appetite might be leading to a huge development in the sleep department. I will report back about this next week.

For this week’s last image, here is a picture of Jack and me together at the potluck party…

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I suppose it’s really more a photo of me and neither of us is looking, but something about the photo just makes me happy. And now I’m all caught up on blogging. Yay!
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jack: forty-five weeks old

Here is Jack at 45 weeks old…
(December 6, 2012)

45 weeks old!

This was a week we didn’t take many photos. And we sure didn’t get the formal photo done. But, I think this photo of Jack in his Grandpa Larry’s cowboy hat more than makes up for it.

I did take some cute photos of Jack one morning in what we like to call his big boy pajamas. These were hand-me-downs from Jack’s big-boy friend Johnny in Montana. I call this photo “Mr. Hilarious”…

mr. hilarious

Jack gets more and more fun and more and more active every day. He continues to be a huge fan of taking random objects out of containers…

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That may be the only time you see him with a pacifier in his mouth these days. He hasn’t taken one since before he could sit up, but they are very good items for the random container unloading game.

Jack is cruising furniture with more confidence and making many more attempts to mimic our words. The only one we are certain he knows is Book. But it comes out Duutk. We love it. I love watching him begin to identify things easily. My favorite thing is to say “Jack, where’s the monkey/dog/train/car/book/etc?” and have him point or grab it. Then he gets really proud. It’s very cute.

Jack still loves the outdoors the best! Especially on walks with his Dad…

going on a walk

See him pointing, like, Come on, Dad, let’s goooooo! And now for a 2006 hip-hop song reference: Look at me I’m ridin’ Daddy! Yes, we sing that to him.
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jack: forty-four weeks old

Here is Jack at 44 weeks old…
(November 29, 2012)

44 weeks old!

We had the sickies this week. Stomach bugs all around followed by colds. Boo.

Despite feeling lousy, Jack was active! As usual, getting him to sit still during his photo shoot was a lesson in bribery. I coaxed him back to the fabric several times with his lovey. Meet Blue Doggie…

favorite lovey

It is so funny and sweet when Jack is united with his doggie – his face lights up, he reaches out with a happy squeal and plunges him into his mouth for a kiss. It has become such a great soothing tool!

Jack’s new favorite thing this is his love of taking everything out of a container. He is careful to inspect every item. This keeps him busy for awhile, which is very nice sometimes.

Here he is discovering and inspecting everything in his toiletries basket…

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busy bee

These last two photos from this week make me happy…

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sweet giggles

Not too many things to share this week since we were all so low energy.
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jack: forty-three weeks old

Here is Jack at 43 weeks old…
(November 22, 2012)

43 weeks old!

Besides this fabric being my favorite one yet, can you get over this look over the shoulder pose? I can’t stand it, I think it’s so cute. I swear, this child of ours is hilarious and he doesn’t even know it yet.

Jack continues to be a total charmer. He is an active little guy who gets bored easily. He is quick to inspect whatever lands in front of him and does his best to figure it out. I love Jack’s enthusiasm for life and love of interactive play…

pick me up!

Shine on, sweet boy!
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