Here is Jack at 22 weeks old…
(June 28, 2012)

Jack turned 5 months old this week! He is a little chunk-a-monk, isn’t he?

Jack is exploring everything – he wants to touch, grab and hold everything in his path and once he gets what he wants into his grasp, he immediately puts it in his mouth…

The big news this week is that Jack now rolls over in both directions! He likes to roll from belly to back, but when he rolls from back to belly when he doesn’t want to, he sometimes gets stuck there and fusses out of frustration. While we don’t want him to be frustrated, it is kind of cute.

Here are some more photos from Jack’s 22nd week…

First, Jack still loves to grab for the iPhone. He was on my lap and I was trying to take his photo when all of a sudden his little fingers reached around and he snapped his own picture. No joke. We’ll call this Self Portrait #1…

Jack is now wearing 6 month size. It is fun to be dressing him in new outfits – I like his 6 month clothes a lot. Here he is rockin’ a hot day in a sleeveless pirate shirt that I found on sale and some plaid, hand-me-down shorts…

Jack is lucky to have received many awesome hand-me-down clothes from his second-cousins in NYC. Thank you, Matthew & Drew!

Jack always loves to hang out with his grandparents. All of them!

Here he is with Grandpa Jack…

And then he tried on Grandpa Jack’s funny hat…

Dear Jack,

Some things I love about you at 5 months are:
–When you eat, nursing or from a bottle, you like to hold onto my finger.
–Your sly, little half-smile.
–The way you bury your face into my neck when you’re starting to get tired.
–You have noticed the cat and now watch him with wonderful curiosity.
–Your desire to be involved in everything we do.
–Sometimes when you nurse you take a pause to gaze up at me as if checking to see that I’m still there.
–How intently you listen and enjoy the pictures when we read you a bedtime story.
–This look…

Jack Lawrence, you are our treasure.
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