First Sentence??? 2nd Tooth

If you have spent much time with Jack, then you know what a talker he is. Even when Jack was first born, everyone that visited us in the hospital commented on how much he talked. This seems to be the only trait that he got from his mama. Well, I guess with the law of probability, if you babble all day long, you will eventually land on some words, so recently Jay and I heard "Mama" (for about 30 minutes straight!) and now we even heard a sentence too! Last Friday night, I was tickling him and I said "How do you like that?", Jack answered clear as day, "I like it". Jay and I laughed pretty hard, figuring if you babble all day, eventually you will hit actually words. We had just never heard him string them together so clearly before. I figure that I still can't count it as his "first sentence", but it will make for a cute story to tell him someday.
In other Jack news, he popped his second tooth today. This one seems to have bothered him a lot worse than the first one, so I am glad that he finally got it through. Or maybe he was fussy because Nana went home today after a weekend full of cuddling and spoiling, hmmmm, hard to say which.

First Tooth! First Cold:( Standing!

What a week! Last Friday, Jack popped his first tooth! He wasn't acting all that differant from usual and all sudden it was there! To celebrate, we let him have a teething biscuit and he loved it!
The next day, Jack developed a light case of croup. So we have been staying home waiting for him to get better. His spirits were never hindered by the croup, he stayed happy as ever!
On Wednesday, Jack stood up for the first time! He was taking a bath and that is his favorite place to try and pull himself up. (Not at all the safest place in the house to work on that skill!!) All of the sudden, he was up with both feet planted firmly flat on the bottom of the tub. I would like to say that I was excited, but honestly, I am a little sad to know that his bath time will be getting shorter and shorter now that he will want to pull himself up the whole time.
Crawling looks like it will be any day now, so Jay and I have been doing lots of baby proofing, but several friends have told me that baby proofing is a never ending job!
As you can tell by the cheeks in this picture, Jack is still a good eater. The only foods that he doesn't really like are avocados, real peas and real carrots. (What I mean by "real" is that I buy them and puree them myself. He does like Gerber's carrots and peas though. Go Figure!) His favorites are sweet potatoes, yams, applesauce and pears. Jay REALLY wants to give him Cheerios, but I don't think Jack is ready quite yet, and since Jay does not know the Heimlich or CPR, he doesn't get a vote on this one. Jay is watching him next Saturday night though, I better make sure there are no Cheerios in the house before I leave (or Dippin Dots).

First Election

On Election Day, Jack went with me to go vote. As you can tell by Jack's shirt, Jay was out of town that day. I was a little nervous to show this picture to Jay, but he misses us too much while he is gone to stay mad at me for long!

Too Cute!

Here is my Monday Mommy group: Mickey Mouse, a skunk, a Tootsie Roll, a spider and a lamb!

Jack and Harrsion's costumes doubled as "Sprockets" from Saturday Night Live.

Happy Halloween!

Jay and I had a ton of fun dressing Jack up for his first Halloween! I had a hard time deciding what he should dress up as, but when I saw the Mickey Mouse costume, I knew it was the one!
This picture was taken at story time this week. He is sitting with his friends Claire and Harrison.
I know Jack looks less than thrilled, but I swear he enjoys story time!

Here is our little Mickey Mouse! He didn't mind it too much and even allowed me to put whiskers on his face!

Here he is Trick-or-Treating at our neighbor's house. He really enjoyed picking candy out of the bowl.

We didn't get very creative with the pumpkins this year...not enough time, but Jack still liked them.

Here is Jack and Jay shopping at MOA the next day. This is Jack's newest trick, sitting up in the stroller! He thinks he is pretty cool pulling himself up and looking around! He just looks so goofy doing it!