Jack at 7 Months

** You are now 20.5 lbs and over 28 inches...still a big boy - In the 92nd percentile for height and 80th for weight. Your head is humongous and is in the 85th percentile.

** You have gotten so big the baby swings motor finally stopped working from the excessive weight.

** You eat a tablespoon of rice cereal in the morning (soon it will be oatmeal...much better) and a half a jar of baby food in the evening. You will eat ANYTHING!

** You drink water out of a sippy cup...sometimes too much comes out and you start to cough/choke and you make a funny face. It's pretty cute.

** You sleep from 8:30 pm to 7:30-8:00 am....and I am still very thankful for your sleep habits.

** You hold your own bottle now, although you have a tendency to play with it while feeding and it gets all over your face.

** You are in the beginning phase of scooting to get where you want to be. It seems that you know what you are supposed to do with your legs, but not quite what you are supposed to do to get your arms moving. So you just kind of projectile your way across the floor.

** You do not like to sit and be still for as long of periods as you used to. In fact, you do not like it much at all and are always trying to move.

** You bounce up and down when you are on your legs.

** You still do not have any teeth....or hardly any hair.

** You have started trying to break (or create) the world record for loudest/strongest raspberries and you are very cute when you spit all over your father trying to do this.

** You just took your first plane ride and had your first vacation in Wisconsin. You did very well on the plane, especially because any time you started to make noise, we stuck a bottle in your mouth and that always helps.

My New Baby

Welcome to the family Apple iPhone 3G...

I love you!!!

Not a great picture, but here's a photo that you took of me with human baby Jack...

I'm looking forward to all of the good times we will spend together.

Love,
Mommy

Why?

Well Jillian, my choice for you from the beginning was Kiptyn You didn't listen to me and now here's what happens .

Why aren't the peeps on this show ever normal? Why is there always so much drama???

Jack at 6 Months

• You like to eat paper (e.g. magazines, catalogs, etc...) and you get angry if we pull it away from you because you are not supposed to be eating it.

• You are really trying to get up into a crawling position...and you have, for about a millisecond.

• You have eaten (in this order) rice cereal, squash, green beans, peas, and applesauce and you have not protested any of them...this contributes to your chubbiness.

• You still do not have any teeth, but I swear they are coming soon.

• You are quickly growing out of your infant car seat, and just about everything else.

• You love to blow raspberries.

• You have gotten sick for the first time and had your first fever (103.3)...apparently due to an ear infection. You have received your first taste of antibiotics...and you seem to like it.

• Those antibiotics gave you diarrhea, which has been absolutely wonderful for mommy and daddy (I say sarcastically).

• You are 19.5 pounds. Up two pounds from your checkup in early June. We only found out due to the after hours visit to the doctor's office for your high fever. You keep getting bigger and bigger and the only assumption that I can make is that you will be 850 pounds by the time you are 20.
  

It Was Inevitable

So,

The little guy got sick for the first time yesterday. He was a little bit grumpy on Sunday and then a bit more grumpy yesterday. And Jack is not a grumpy boy. He's usually very mellow. My sister, his "nanny", said that he had been pulling at his ears a little bit, but when we got home, he wasn't doing that. We took his temperature and it was 103.3. We called after hours care and they said to bring him in, so we took the first non regular check up visit to the doctor's office. We thought we might dodge this until Jack went back into a daycare center, but not so. Looks like he has the beginnings of an ear infection (one of his ears apparently much worse than the other). Bummer. They gave him a shot of antibiotic and sent us home with some and we gave him some infant Tylenol. At first, when we tried to put him to bed, he was screaming, crying and just not having it. He wouldn't calm down until I picked him up. I know somethings wrong when he's like this because my baby is a sleeper and usually has no problem going down. Well, after a while of him not going to sleep, we decided to put a couple of pillows under his mattress to raise it a little (as I read on the internet this may help with some babies). Well, he was either very confused by it or it worked because he fell asleep after that. I had to go in a couple of times to give him more infant Tylenol and he fussed a couple of other times, but for the most part, not so bad. At the beginning of the night, I thought I wouldn't get any sleep, but he did well. He had no other symptoms, which is good, and this morning his temperature went down to 99.1. So hopefully with the antibiotics, he will get better quickly. It's so very sad to see him in pain. I don't like it at all.

I'm so Behind the Times

So, I'm sure a lot of folks already know about this web site, Delicious, where you can bookmark all of your favorite web sites and blogs. You will have to excuse me for my lack of Internet social and bookmarking web site knowledge. I wish I would have known about this before. I bookmark on all of my different computers (work, home, husband's laptop) and so one computer may not have a favorite web site that I saved to another, which is quite annoying. On Delicious you can store all of your bookmarks in one place and access them from any computer. It's brilliant! I have already started taking my all over the place bookmarks and adding them to my account. This is definitely a helpful tool.

My Future's So Bright...

I got to wear shades!

We bought Jack some cool baby sunglasses from mfs eyewear. They are absolutely adorable on him! He's one cool dude.

Jack had a play date over the weekend. His buddy is three weeks older than him and he seems more advanced for his age than Jack (it's always hard not to compare). I don't think Jack is behind or anything, I just think that his friend is ahead for his age. One difference though is that Jack sleeps through the night and his friend doesn't (his poor mommy). I guess I will take that. I like sleep!