01.30.08 - Home at last

We got back from St. Paul on Monday night and boy was Jackson happy to see us! I know he had a great time with his grandparents while we were gone, but I think he's happy to be back home again. He's been awfully clingy in the past couple of days. I don't know if it's because he missed us, or if it's from teething pain...maybe a little of both. His second tooth has cut through now, so that could have a lot to do with the extra fussiness lately. We got him a few souvenirs from Minnesota: a Snowplow Sam stuffed animal, a Minnesota Wild (hockey team) sweatshirt, and a Minnesota Wild sippy cup. They didn't have any figure skating related baby items, so we had to resort to hockey.

01.21.08 - new foods and flu shot

Jackson acquired some new tastes over the weekend. While we were at playgroup on Friday, I noticed a lot of the other babies his age were already eating Cheerios and such, so I figured we better get on the ball! We had gotten so many stage one foods back during the coupon madness, that I was just trying to finish those up before moving on to stage twos and finger foods. Then I looked at how many I really had left and figured if I didn't soon move to stage twos, he's be nine or ten months old before the stage ones were gone, so we just went ahead and switched over and I'm sure someone from the group will be happy to get some free food. The stage twos are a lot thicker, which he seems to enjoy, plus there is meat! He's quite the carnivore the way he has been eating his chicken the last two nights, haha. He also tried Gerber puffs, which he wasn't too fond of yet, and Cheerios, which he loves. He can't quite get the hand-eye coordination down to get them into his mouth, but he is trying really hard. It's times like this that I wish we had a dog because I sure vacuumed up a lot of Cheerios yesterday! It looks like his second tooth is just starting to cut through his gums, which kept him up for hours last night, ugh. Poor thing, I know that has got to hurt. Today he had his flu booster, which went pretty well. He wasn't happy, but at least it was only one stick and he got over it by the time we left the exam room and checked out. I've been pumping him with Tylenol to keep any fever he may develop at bay. My fingers are crossed that it won't be as bad as last time he had his shots. His suitcase is pretty much packed and ready to spend a week with the grandparents. I've been feeling really guilty about leaving him behind, but my lovely ladies at the TTC forum have assured me that I'll be fine and that I deserve a break and quality time with Adam, so I'm feeling a little better about it all.

01.16.08 - Dancing

Jackson is starting to dance when he hears music now. Pretty much all of his toys make some kind of music and whenever he plays it, he starts grooving to the beat. It's so cute! I guess his teeth were bothering him again last night because he was up for two hours from 2:00 till 4:00. That was fun. We leave a week from today for St. Paul, so I've been trying to get everything organized. I've got tons of lists for Jackson - stuff to pack, daily schedule, etc. I'm going to be as prepared as possible since it'll be the first time he's been away for more than a night.

01.14.08 - Playgroup and teeth

Jackson's first meet up with the playgroup was on Friday morning. There was one other 7 month old boy there when we arrived and Jackson's face just lit up when he saw him. He was just fascinated with the other baby, and then became even more so when the others arrived. He chatted up a storm with them and played real well on the floor...although we're going to have to work on sharing toys. He was especially interested in the two five month old baby girls, so he's already becoming quite the flirt. We're going again this Friday morning. We didn't get to see Jackson much this weekend. We had an event an church that was on Friday evening, and all day long on Saturday, so Jackson spent some quality time with his grandparents. He cut his first tooth on Saturday too, so he was pretty cranky and refused to take a bottle. He only had one the whole day, but he ate tons of squash, rice, and oatmeal without any problems. He had a hard time falling asleep on Saturday night because of the tooth pain, so after a little bit of baby Orajel and Tylenol, he slept really well the rest of the night. I think his second tooth is already through now too, or just about. He doesn't like me looking in his mouth or putting my finger in there, so it's hard to tell. I scheduled him for his flu booster shot for next Monday. I hope he doesn't have the same kind of reaction he had with the first one a month ago, especially since we're leaving for Minnesota on Wednesday of that week. Fingers crossed!

01.10.08 - 7 months old

Today is Jackson's seven month birthday. Seven whole months now, wow. He is keeping me on my toes with all this crawling and pulling up. I have hit a new level of fatigue at the end of the day, haha. His favorite thing to do is chase a ball around. That occupies him for quite a while actually. He'll go up to grab the ball, but instead he accidentally sends it rolling further along and goes off to chase it. It's so funny to watch. He doesn't even get frustrated, which is surprising. He just picks himself up and crawls to wherever the location of the ball is. He is definitely teething. He woke up the other night just screaming, so I think his gummies were hurting a little bit. He is in love with his chilled teething ring and is starting to take a little bit of interest in his sippy cup of water. I don't think he's getting much, if any water down, but he likes to chew on the spout and he actually is holding the cup pretty well...if only he could do that with his bottle, hmm. Tomorrow morning is our first playgroup, so that should be a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to see how Jackson interacts with the other kids/babies.

01.06.08 - crawling like crazy!

Jackson was crawling like crazy tonight. He's gotten much better at it just in the last few days. He's also pulling up on EVERYTHING! The coffee table, the ottoman, his dinosaur, his rainforest gym, jumperoo, us, etc. We also noticed tonight that...drumroll please...he's starting to get teeth! I noticed little white blister looking things on his bottom gum, so I think his teeth will start popping through soon. I'm working on uploading a couple more videos from him pulling up and crawling tonight, but YouTube is not being very agreeable tonight, so we'll see...

01.05.08 - New videos

I added four new videos yesterday (I know...finally, right?). Three are from Christmas day and the other one is from last weekend of him crawling for the first time. It's kind of at a bad angle, but you get the idea.

01.04.08 - happy new year!

I can't believe it's already 2008! It's no longer even the year Jackson was born anymore. He is just growing up so fast *tear*. He is still crawling, but just a little bit at a time. He prefers to roll to where he wants to go and finds that much easier. He is pulling up on everything now. We had to lower his crib mattress last night because he's starting to stand up in there. You have to watch him every second now too, or he will get into something. I looked away for two seconds last night to tell Adam something while he was working on the crib and while I wasn't looking, Jackson went head first into the corner of his bookshelf. I felt so horrible because it was all my fault for not watching him. He got a little cut on his eyebrow and cried for a minute, if that. It barely bled, but I got weak to my knees and had to sit down knowing I had caused him this pain :(. Gah, I could kick myself! Anyways, in other news, I've joined a playgroup in Winchester, so Jackson and I will have something to do. I talked to the lady that started it seven months ago on the phone the other night and she was so nice. I think it'll be a lot of fun for both me and Jackson.