So, you're Santa?

I was so proud of how Jackson handled sitting on Santa's lap for the first time. His bottom lip came out once and then Santa started talking to him and he just stared at him for the longest. Too cute!
Dad was here this past weekend. It went by way too quickly. We had such a good time! We went to Louisville twice (which I now realize I love that town. So much to do, everywhere to eat and shop. Love it!) Chloe enjoyed Dad and Angie being here, she got lots of attention too.

These pics are in reverse order I believe....This was this morning before they had to leave.

Playing with Uncle Brian last night

Brian has a pretty bad cold so he is staying with us for a couple of days. Originally, he was coming up to see Dad but we talked him into staying.

The beginning of Jackson's first Christmas. Thanks Dad!

He was so into all the toys. He loves this table. It teaches Spanish too!

Discovering his presents

This looks fun!

Jax loves it when Brian sings to him. He will listen forever!

Sharing Poppa's sweet potatoes at Logan's Steakhouse

Jax got to pick a plush toy after his picture with Santa, out of 5 different choices he chose a panda bear :) So sweet

Inspecting the fire with Daddy

Yumm Cheesecake Factory! This boy has been eating good! Mashed potatoes this time.

We rented a little car stroller in the mall and he knew just what to do with it.

In the Disney Store. He loves Phineas and Ferb and we found them.

Hello Minnie Mouse!

Where's Jackson?

He was very interested in that tree!

Dad, Angie, Chloe and Jackson

Chloe striking a pose

I am late posting these below, what else is new....but Thanksgiving was nice here in Kentucky. We sat around the fire and relaxed, ate too much, watched the games and parade, and made a trip to Nashville to watch Brian perform.





Kind of dark, but he is standing on the bar leaning over singing to someone (below) It was packed in there. Very fun night!
He was interviewed the other day for a web broadcast and radio show. They said Brian Mullen is taking Nashville by storm. How exciting!

Jeremy fixing the awesome turkey on Thanksgiving!
Jack has been sitting like this a lot lately
Helping daddy with the fire


We are caught up now. Yay!

So Jackson is cutting his 2 top teeth now. One is all the way in and the other is almost. He is standing for several seconds on his own without even realizing it! He says Momma, Dadda, Bubba, and Oh. :) He is a very happy baby and we are loving this stage!

No more paparrazi!

That is what Jackson is saying in the picture above :). So, of course the Razorbacks won the other day, Jackson was in his attire!

Mom and I made a trip to Nashville the other night to see Brian play at the world famous Tootsie's Orchid Lounge! It is only an hour and 45 minutes from here so the drive wasn't too bad. He is playing there tonight too, so grandma and grandpa stopped in to see him play on their way here. They should all 3 arrive here tonight around 1:30 a.m.
There were people dressed up in Nashville for "Superhero Sunday" they called it. They were nice and pretty funny! Here is mom with Super Simmons
Since it has been so cold lately, Jackson has been staying inside but I let him go out for a little while the other day.

Here is a good shot of his 2 teeth, the best shot I have so far anyway. If you click on the pic it will appear larger.


Jax is in such a fun age

That is all for now. Stay tuned for Thanksgiving pictures!

8 months and Playing Hard!

We have a little monkey that demands all of our attention around here!
Out front being a little Curious George

He naps 3 times a day. Once around 11:30, 3:30, and 6:30. Bedtime is between 9:45 and 10:30. we usually lay him down for one of his naps but the other 2 we like to snuggle with him.

He is already wearing his Christmas pajamas because we are afraid they may be too small by then. Hopefully not, they are 12 month

Chloe and Jackson love their play time, she does her part in entertaining him
The damage Jax has done to his crib with his 2 teeth
We (probably 75% Jeremy 25% me) have made lots of progress on the yard. Can you see Chloe hiding in all the brush we are clearing out? It is all gone now and the yard is much cleaner looking!
It was game day, and every game day that Jackson wears his Razorback clothes we win and when he doesn't we lose, so here he is representing the Hogs! It was nice out so I let him play around. as long as he has his pacifier in, he doesn't try to eat the leaves.
He is almost too heavy for his bouncy chair
At 8 months he is 22 pounds and 12 ounces (90th percentile) and 95th percentile on length but I will have to update on that later because I don't remember the exact number.

Hopefully we will get a paycheck next month! The army has Jeremy's pay all messed up, so we haven't been paid since October 1st. He had to make some people mad but I think it is finally taken care of and they should back-pay us on December 1st. Also, it is still looking like next October that we will be moving to Ft. Benning Georgia. Exciting! I can see where moving state to state can get addicting. Sounds crazy I know, but you never get bored that is for sure.

I am so excited about Thanksgiving next week. We are having some family here for the week and then watching the Arkansas vs. LSU game Friday. The high is 47 so I'm hoping to use the fireplace that day for the first time. Then December 3rd Dad gets here! He hasn't seen us since April, so Jackson has obviously changed a lot since then! After he heads back on the 6th we have a couple of weeks and we head to Arkansas to have at least 4 Christmases!

This Week/Grandma and Grandpa Visit

Just pitiful!
Today Chloe was standing next to his crib on the ottoman trying to get in bed with him once he woke up from his nap. I gave in and let her in with him since they are getting to be such great friends.
They enjoyed it!
Jack likes his Elmo house shoes! For the record, they are size 5-6 and he has a little growing room. He also has another tooth coming in on the bottom. 2 total!







Wishing they could go out back









We had a great time with grandma and grandpa last weekend. It went by way too fast. We drove up into Indiana and through Louisville just to sight see.
Jackson slept forever on the morning that grandma and grandpa were leaving. He was so relaxed and sleeping good! I think he was trying to postpone their leaving.
We were driving around Fort Knox and came upon these soldiers with their guns pointed at us!
Nap time
Sitting outside

He finally woke up and they had to go once they told him bye.

"Mama", crawling, and pulling up

Lumber Jack O Lantern!

It was a great day to be outside, so we bundled Jackson all up and went out back

Brian and Ashley came up on Halloween and stayed with us. It was a great visit!

Next weekend my grandparents are coming up. So excited!

Lets See if I Can Stay Caught Up Now!

Hey everyone! I'm sorry I haven't put any pictures up since we have been here. I have gotten to the desktop several times to upload pictures but something is always happening! Well Kentucky is pretty good so far. I am homesick for sure, but it feels more like home than Hawaii did to me at first. Jeremy says he likes the people he works with, but he will be busy at times as the basic trainees come and go (since Fort Knox is a training post and they have 9 week cycles). I like our house it is cozy. We actually have space in our living room for both couches, both love seats, coffee table, 2 end tables, and a tv stand/tv. I am really surprised because I didn't know what we were going to do with our extra couch...not the sleeper sofa we got in Hawaii but the extra couch they gave us with the furniture we ordered in Hawaii haha! When our furniture was shipped to Kentucky we had 4 couches and 2 love seats. We got rid of one couch. So anyway Jeremy got the tv stand put together tonight and we were talking about how we hoped it would take Jackson awhile to discover the doors, I think it took him about 3 minutes.

So funny! I wonder what he will think of the tv? It gets here Wednesday and I'm hoping we can keep him away from it. We may have to fence it in! Last night we bought a baby gate at Target and it has been very helpful today. The living room is mostly baby proof now, so it has made it easier for me to get things done. Don't worry mom I'm just talking about grabbing clothes to fold or getting something to drink not running to the store. He is never left unattended for very long at all! Maybe 20 seconds or something, and Chloe helps me out anyway :)She has been so good with Jackson. Today he yanked on her ears twice before I could stop him and all she did was yelp (poor girl). She didn't snap at him or anything. She stays pretty close by his side. Jackson is into everything he can get into. He crawls at lightning speed and feeding him in restaurants is getting to be a problem...he is such a loud, vocal eater. Every bite we gave him he squealed until it hit his mouth and then he said "ummmmm" really loud. Every bite! People were looking at us at another table, they had kids but she was still giving me a bad look. At this point he really doesn't understand how to be quiet no matter how hard we try to get him to. I guess we will be doing takeout from now on!

So these pictures are from the week before we left and also since we have been here in Kentucky. We got Jackson a santa hat and realized it was pretty much too small already, so we went ahead and got some santa pictures, Merry Christmas 2 months early!

You aren't putting these online are you momma?

Nap time before Target
I love the tree in front of the house across the street

I love the golden leaves

Not the best pics because we took them going down the road, but this is down the road from us.

He is standing really well

Our neighbors cats like to come over and they drive Chloe crazy! Here is a good action shot :)

Big boy at the table, He is on level 2 and 3 baby food

I took this pic while driving, really safe! But we were sitting still in construction. Anyway, this is a view of an old bridge by the Ohio river. Those trees are in Indiana. I never realized how close we were to Indiana.

Helping unpack after his bath

Chloe is ready to go back to Arkansas I think

Daddy's first lunch break with us at home, Jack was surprised

She likes the backyard, especially when she can chase cats

Snuggle Buddies!

Grandpa and Jack walking the day he left

Jackson and Peepaw

Mamaw and Papaw Louis

Papaw Shoptaw and Rosie

Our 5 Generation Pic again, with Jackson a little bigger and easier to see :)

Jack exploring with Aunt Joan

I will have a few pictures soon of a little punkin!

Settling In

I have some pictures to put on here, but for some reason it won't let me upload right now! Of course, when I have time blogger wont let me upload. We are getting settled in here at our house. I really like it so far. I have finishes with the kitchen and Jackson's room is next. Kentucky is a pretty state. The leaves are beautiful up here, bright yellow and orange everywhere. I don't think Jackson is feeling too well. The first night we were here he slept great, all the way through the night, but last night was terrible. I had to sleep reclining on the couch all night with him. He couldn't sleep in the crib for long at all and wouldn't even sleep in our bed (usually that works every time). So I'm hoping tonight will be better. He may be having a hard time adjusting to the new place and wondering where everyone is. Brian was on speakerphone earlier and Jackson was looking everywhere for him :( Other than that, we are doing good! I really wish mom didn't have to leave Wednesday. I'm already looking forward to the holidays! I miss everyone already. I will try to put some pictures on again later.

Going out with my boots on...

I got Jack some boots to wear to the pumpkin patch tomorrow :)
They are a little big length wise but not width. They are size 5!! I'm hoping he stays in a 5 for awhile.
Mamaw Louis got Jackson this outfit. So cute!



Chloe is getting more used to having Jackson around
Mamaw and Papaw Louis (Jeremy's grandparents) came down to see us the other night. We had a great visit and went to Larry's pizza!

Jackson likes sitting on Papaw Louis's lap

Well Jeremy is signing the lease tomorrow on the house! He gets to "move in" this weekend. Our stuff from Hawaii can't be delivered until next Thursday. He has a little bit with him though (remember the storage building we had to get?) Even though I'm sad to leave here I am so ready to get there!

We got our house!

It is so funny how things work out! Jeremy was in the housing office this morning and they wouldn't even let him speak to our housing lady. The office was packed. All he wanted to know was do we have a house on post or not? Are we assigned one? They wouldn't even tell him. So the sweet landlord of the house that listed for a split second online that morning called Jeremy as soon as we got off the phone and told him she wanted to rent the house to us. She called our Hawaii landlord on Saturday and he gave us a great review. We are so glad! Now we have a house 3 miles from post, bigger than the on post duplex we were going to get( eventually but who knows when) within our housing allowance, fenced backyard, fireplace, 3 bed 2 bath AND Barney and Chloe get to go too!! We don't have to wait until Thanksgiving to move in, we get to move in next week. This was such a long shot for us we are really surprised it worked out. Thank You God!!

Pictures and Update

My dad got him this little newsboy outfit! I love it!


He said enough already!

Game day! Everytime Jack wears Razorback gear we win!


Jeremy is at Fort Knox now trying to make heads or tails out of what we are supposed to do next. Since we have been sick, we decided that Jack and I should stay back and let Jeremy go to Kentucky for a couple of weeks without us. It is a good thing he did because he got to Knox with our stuff in a Uhaul and they notified him at housing that our temporary house was being demolished and that we had nowhere to go. He was now number 12 on the temporary housing list and who knows about our permanent house. Our agent won't be back until Tuesday because she took a vacation. He had about 3 hours to find a storage building and a place for him to stay that did weekly rates. In the middle of the night a rent house listed (miraculously) and we called on it first thing. Before noon she had 4 calls so she took the listing offline. Anyway, since Monday is Columbus day we won't know until Tuesday or Wednesday if we got the house. People are FIGHTING for housing out there right now. It is ridiculous! When Jeremy and I went up there on the first of October to take care of everything (which wound up being pointless) there were 90 something people on the E1-E5 list for on post housing and no houses. It is really bad. We were second on the list when we left Fort Knox a week ago which is why we chose to stay on post.

So now Jeremy is staying in a hotel 30 minutes from post, we are having to pay for that and a storage building. He unloaded the entire Uhaul into storage by himself on Saturday morning and now we are just waiting to see what is going to happen! If we don't get that house I don't know what we are going to do. Tuesday Jeremy plans on being in the housing office first thing because obviously it isn't right how they are doing people. There are tons of families up there right now paying for a hotel because they have nowhere to go. The Command Sergeant Major wasn't there for him to speak to, they told Jeremy that he wouldn't be back until Tuesday also.

Jeremy also starts work on Tuesday too, so we are hopeful that things will go smoothly! On the 22nd of October mom, Jack, and myself will be driving up to Fort Knox then she will fly back the next week.

Jackson is feeling better and I'm on my last day of steroids. I feel better but my chest is still hurting. I think I'm just going to start ignoring it and maybe it will go away. They started me on new antibiotics and cough syrup. I am so ready to feel better! This time of year is usually so beautiful and fun and I'm ready to enjoy it. We have been staying in too much, and we have family that we really need to see before we head to Kentucky! The holidays are right around the corner though.

Kentucky is Good!

I just wanted to let everyone know that we are at Fort Knox now and I think we are really going to like it! It seems way more like home than Hawaii did and I feel much more comfortable here. I do miss Hawaii some but not too much. The only negative so far is that our friends and family aren't here with us :( 550 miles is the distance from home and it is a very pretty drive so I hope everyone will come see us! It looks like we will be staying on post, but we will be in temp housing until mid November. It is fully furnished so that's good. We have a couple more houses to go check out today off post, just to make sure we don't love them! By the end of the day we will have a decision made. On post is just so convenient, but there are some very tempting places about 7 miles from here, so we will see! The hotel is awesome! It is more like a show apartment. Kitchen, living room, etc. Brand new and so nice! I wish this could be our temp house. Tonight od in the morning we are driving back to Arkansas and getting our things, and we have to be back up here by the 9th. We decided to come up and house hunt since Jeremy had to sign in on the 1st and they gave us ten days to do EVERYTHING. Kind of stressful but manageable! I hope everyone is enjoing the fall weather! The leaves are already changing up here. Love it!

Some pictures!

We attempted pictures the other day at Sears...considering Jack and I were sick I think they turned out pretty good! He was so funny. I went to the doctor today and found out I have pneumonia. My chest has been hurting forever but they never did an x-ray until this time. I am on 5 different meds and I am so glad, because I'm ready to breathe again!
I feel like since I had Jack I have been falling apart! We are sleeping with a humidifier too so I'm hoping that will help to clear Jackson up. He has a runny nose and is coughing a lot. I've talked to his doctor's office like 5 times now and they still don't want me to bring him in and risk getting swine flu or something. He gets a tiny bit of Children's Benadryl before bed.

We have done nothing to prepare for leaving Thursday :) No worries though! I think we will have everything together in no time. I just hope we are feeling better.

Parade, Pageant, Fair and Cookouts

When we get to Fort Knox I promise to update more! Here are some pics of what we have been up to. Busy, busy as usual!!

Jackson and Grandpa at the fair parade

Grandma, Logan (our nephew, Eric's brother) and Jackson
Mamaw Louis and Jack
Jeremy's Dad Steve, Jack and Logan
With Mamaw and Papaw Louis

At the Grant County Fair, he loved watching the rides and he loved the ducks
Our cousin Hope won Grant County Fair Princess
And her sister Hannah won Miss Grant County Fair Queen
Eric and Jack at Jeremy's counsin Chasity's wedding
At the parade

Jack driving his firt Shelby GT 500


Papaw Louis with his great-grandsons. So far all boys! Landen, Logan and Jackson
The wedding was in a barn in Scott, AR. It was so cute!
Chasity and Justin


Jackson loved the miniature ponies at Aunt Kira's parents house!
I loved their view from the back yard.
Jackson loves showers!

We went to Jeremy's mom's house yesterday for a get together.

Jack and his great-uncle Mark

Jeremy with his grandparents, mom, and siblings
Jeremy, Eric, Michael, Amanda, and their mom Linda
Jack had his 6 month appointment last week and felt pretty bad after his shots. He ran fever that night and we were up all night. He weighed in at 20 lbs 5 ozs and was 27.75 in long. Still in the 90th percentile on everything. He is eating good, everything but green beans, and says mmmmmmm!! at every bite. It is so cute!

We leave for Fort Knox this week and it's bittersweet...probably more bitter than sweet right now :( We don't want to go but we are ready to get our house and settle in.

Just a little bit ot life lately

Rubbermaids are fun!

My computer is letting me upload pictures tonight, of all nights. I am so tired so not many captions but I'm doing my best and will get better. You know I'm good for it! There are plenty of pictures coming. Jeremy gets here at the end of this week with our wonderful Nikon camera containing lots of memories of the past month.

Picture below is at the Roundup in Jonesboro. Brian sounded great!
Jackson with his buddy, Becky's son Brennan (Becky used to work with Jana).
They are a month apart.
One of his first successful nights on baby food, sweet potatoes are his favorite!



At the hotel restaurant, we got free meals because one of the elevators wasn't working part of the time.
At the pool on the 2nd floor

I always do this

There comes a time (after I have been in Arkansas for a little while) that I miss Hawaii. I don't really know why, because when I'm out there I always want to be here! I guess it is just one of those things. This is my favorite time of year, and I am very glad to be here for it and not in Hawaii. Football season, Halloween festivities and then kicking off the holidays, cool breeze blowing in fall, the state fair, I love it! I guess I just get a little homesick for the snow cones and beach. Who wouldn't? I remember being out there back in the fall 2007 and I wanted to be back home so badly! Halloween is huge out in Hawaii...I don't know if I've ever mentioned that before. I mean, they all decorate their houses like you would see around here for Christmas. Purple, orange, and green lights, blow up yard things, the works! Pretty neat! Anyway, I am so happy that Jeremy gets to be home with us for the holidays. We have never spent a Christmas together! Our first Christmas together as a family and we have a baby. It is going to be fun.

Jackson is being such a big boy. He has conquered:sweet potatoes, sweet peas, squash, carrots, peaches, bananas, and pears! Baby food is his thing! He is also rocking on his hands and knees. Almost crawling! He actually can be on his stomach and push up with his arms, extending his legs all the way like he is standing up, and then he falls over. But he gets up really well on his arms and he will make some progress and then he flattens out onto his belly and scoots. He gets around sooo quickly. Any day now we will have a full blown crawler on our hands.

Jeremy will be home soon and we are really looking forward to hanging out here at the house without having to work on a huge project or something. It will be nice, but we will probably have a hard time sitting still for long. We have our work cut out for us up in Kentucky. Once we get up there for him to inprocess, we have to figure out how our living situation is going to work out. They tell us we are number 36 (today) out of 175 on the waiting list. You can check it online and I probably already check it too much. They told us we need to find temporary lodging :( The army will only pay for ten days in a hotel so we will have to either fight for a house on post or get one off post (Jeremy seems pretty confident that they tell everyone that there is a wait at first but there are ways around it...we will see won't we). Our stuff is in storage in Louisville, and we have until late October to get it out. Oh the journey we are on, sometimes I wonder what is over the next mountain. Reminds me of that Miley Cyrus song haha.

I have been having horrible headaches again, but thankfully my MRI and CT scan results both came back clear. I guess it is just all muscular. I do have neck and back problems from time to time and stress doesn't help. I was having headaches every night for awhile there, but I think they have gotten a little better.

I had many failed attempts at uploading pics yesterday and today, so for now I don't have any pictures. For some reason my computer won't recognize the external hard drive where I uploaded all my pics.

Update

I went to upload all of our Virginia/D.C. pictures the other day and realized I couldn't! Jeremy has the SD card in our camera because he is going back to D.C next weekend. So sometime later in the month I'll have to put up those East Coast pics! I still have my smaller camera that I have been using, so I do have some pictures I need to post. I just wanted to update and let everyone know that we are doing good. Jeremy is almost finished with school and we go to Fort Knox in October. I checked out the floor plans for the housing we are supposed to get (3 month waiting list, we'll see). I'm kind of worried because I don't think the master bedroom is big enough for our furniture! It is always something. Anyway, more later it is so late here, for some reason I can't sleep but I need to try.

5 Months

I don't know how time is moving this fast, but yesterday my baby turned 5 months old :( He will be graduating before we know it!

Jackson at 5 months:

Size 3 diapers

Size 6-9 month clothes

Eating cereal from a spoon better and better each time we try (we have been putting a couple scoops in his bottle for over 2 months now).

Rolling over since June, but he is a champ at it now.

Almost crawling, he can fully get up on his hands and knees and rock. He gets so frustrated when he can't move! He definitely makes his way across the blanket before you know it though.

Loves to squeal!

Favorite thing to do is bounce in the jumperoo chair that hangs from the door way (thanks Aunt Rachel!)

Takes an 8 ounce bottle with 2 scoops of cereal every 2 to 3 hours.

Still fits in the bumbo chair, but before long his thighs aren't going to let him.

Very curious, looks around and has to see everything.

Smiles a lot, and has the best squeaky little giggle. Laughs most when you hide behind a blanket and say boo!

Wants to stand as much as you will let him.

Shows emotions very well (bottom lip, fake cry, big smile, real cry :(, grins and hides his face because he gets shy especially with strangers)

When he sees us eating he chews with his mouth and wants the fork! We feel bad for eating in front of him.

Drooling a lot, but still no sign of a tooth.

Hair is getting lighter and thicker.

Eyes are still changing..Greenish brownish with a hint of blue.

Well that is all I can think of so far! I have taken so many pictures but my camera takes forever to load pics onto Jeremy's computer so I guess I will post a ton when we get to Arkansas. I did take some 5 month pics of Jack out here so here are a couple.

Virginia Part One

Jackson's new way of riding in the shopping cart. Backwards standing up in his carseat. He loves it!! All smiles and giggles and he thinks he is so big! We were holding on tight to him don't worry and yes I know that we have started something!

He had lots of people talking to him it was too cute.

Our trip has been great so far! We got to Petersburg Virginia on Friday at about 5 p.m. after driving over night. We left home at about 10:15 p.m. Thursday night. It wasn't a bad trip at all. We didn't get into any traffic until we got to Richmond, and that only lasted a little bit. Jackson slept all the way to Nashville and only woke up because we stopped. That was our first stop, so we were doing good. Overall I think he slept for about 75% of the trip. After Nashville we stopped quite a bit for coffee, bathroom, or to get Jacks out to stretch his little chubby legs! So anyway Jeremy was waiting outside when we got here! Jackson was so surprised to see him. It was too cute, he dozed off right before we pulled up and Jeremy got him out of his car seat when we pulled up. He just stared at his daddy and grinned. So sweet! Since then he has been so playful and happy with Jeremy especially. I am so glad we came out here.

Once we got in the room and settled in all of us took naps! Luckily Jeremy was out of class that night so he was free to hang out with us. We woke up at 9 p.m. and went to Buffalo Wild Wings for dinner. It was good! Jeremy didn't realize we have one in Hot Springs :) There is a town called Colonial Heights right outside of Petersburg, like 2 miles. We like that town because it has everything. On Saturday after resting in the hotel, we went to Uno Chicago Grill for dinner. Another new restaurant for us all. It was also pretty good. Their dessert menu looked awesome but we didn't order any. After dinner we went to the mall (hello Macy's I missed you!) Sunday was filled with Washington DC! We got back and were SO TIRED! We saw the pentagon, Washington Monument, and the Arlington National Cemetery. We walked all around the cemetery and saw where JFK and his wife are buried and the tomb of the unknown soldier. You just can't comprehend how many men and women are buried at that cemetery. It is unbelievable. Today (Monday) Jeremy had to go back to school but he was out by 4:30. We got lucky today because he normally isn't out until 9:30. We went to a local Mexican restaurant for dinner and hit up Target for about 2 hours. Of course I took a lot of pictures and I have plenty to post...but for now I wanted to document everything we have done so far before I forget! I took over 200 pics yesterday and I plan on posting a lot of them.

While Daddy is away!

I just love laying outside on the blanket with my sweet baby...who is ready for the weather to cool off just a little?? I am so ready for football season.

When it is just me and Jackson, sometimes he hangs out here (next to the bath tub) while I take a shower. We talk the whole time :) I worried about Jeremy leaving, because I didn't know how in the world I was going to do these things. Like before he would hold Jackson while I took a shower and he would help me give Jack a bath every time, but now I do it all myself and it has been a breeze. I don't know why I was so worried...the unknown I guess. He is so pleasant and he just hangs out and smiles at me and talks to me. The perfect little side kick!

We went to Jana's last Thursday to see her and Autumn and Torri. We have to plan these nights at least a month in advance but we always have a great time! Good friends, good conversation, and good food!

Jackson was trying to think of something funny to say since he was sitting between "two vewy pwetty guls". (Autumn and Torri)

My roses from Jeremy, I love them! They are our wedding colors too. Note Jackson in the back getting ready to chow down on the Wal Mart bag.

"I dare someone to say I don't look like my daddy"

Yes I actually do more than just take pictures of my baby! Last weekend Brian had a gig at OC and I got to go. They sound so good! The latest status on Brian and his band: He is interviewing drummers and they go to Nashville in mid September. It is hard finding band members in Arkansas that can give 100% to the band. He has had some great musicians but they all had full time jobs or families that they had to take care of. Now every one is sitting on go and ready.

Pitiful little legs! He got his feelings hurt at his 4 month check up. Ouch!

"This stuff tastes weird, what you looking at?"

Grandpa telling him in just a little bit it will all be over and we can go out there
Listening to his doctor
As always he decided he was "starving"
Such a good baby!
So at 4 months his weight was 17 pounds and ten ounces (97 percentile) His length was 27 inches (97 percentile) and his head was 17 in (75 percentile). It was a rainy day and I had already been to the doctor that day too. We went home and snuggled on the couch after this!

I guess things have slowed down enough that we have to speed them up again. Thursday we head for Virginia! I know they say it isn't smart to post on here when you're going to be out of town, but I have a guard dachshund so you think I'm worried?

I will be taking lots of pictures while in Virginia. Mom is going with me (we are driving) and we are so excited! I think Jeremy is too.