4 Months

Here are some of Jackson's 4 month pictures. His personality is really starting to show and he was pretty funny the other night when we took his pictures.

I think this picture is hilarious! It's like he's Joey from Friends..."how you doin'?"

Just chillin out here...

He's getting pretty good at sitting up, but has apparently decided that he should lean forward when sitting, which sometimes works out well...

And sometimes it doesn't! He clearly found this to be extremely funny!

Jackson seems to be doing well. His breathing is much improved. The ENT doctor today said that while his breathing is still a little loud, he isn't concerned. We go on Friday for our 4 month well baby visit and for a follow up from the last ear infection.

Here are a couple of pictures from Sunday morning of Jackson wearing Daddy's WVU cap.

Uncle Evan Knows Santa!!!

On Saturday Uncle Evan flew Santa Claus and 2 of his Elves into a Christmas Party on Evan's base in San Diego. If Jackson were just a few years older he would be totally impressed!!

Look close, there's Santa waving and that's Uncle Evan in the seat in front of him...

Jackson has yet another ear infection- that's 2 in 2 weeks- so he's been a bit grumpy and not himself the last couple of days, but he seems to be on the mend today.

Laundry Day

Some know today as Sunday, but around here it's known as Laundry Day. After a 2 1/2 hour nap (woo-hoo!) Jackson volunteered to help his mommy match socks. He wasn't so sure about it at first...


but he soon decided that sock matching was actually not too bad. He only made it through the white clothes and we are now up to our 7th load today and he's sound asleep in bed.


Actually, the laundry was so exhausting that he wasn't able to completely make it through his cereal tonight.

He slept for about 30 minutes this way. Jared ran the vaccumm and I used the blender, he never moved!

When he did wake up he had the cutest smile on his face as though he was thinking "oops, I didn't mean to doze off!"

O'Christmas Tree

The Sunday after Thanksgiving Jared and I ventured out to Pliny, WV in the pouring rain to choose the family Christmas tree- luckily Grandma and Grandpa agreed to watch Jackson and loan us their truck! We hadn't been to this place before and will probably not go back there next year- although the experience was ruined somewhat by the rain. The trees were a little holey and not as pretty as the trees from last year's tree farm.

But, we finally found one that we thought was suitable. We got it decorated on Monday night and I have to say that I think it turned out quite nice. Jackson has been less then impressed, although in the past several days he has really started noticing it and seems to be enjoying it.

Now if I could just find some time to get some presents wrapped and under it! Here is a picture of Jackson "helping" us decorate the tree on Monday

We have started reading books often and Jackson clearly has a love for "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" he can be crying but will stop to listen. We tried "The Cat in the Hat" tonight and he didn't seem to be as into it.

We had Christmas pictures taken today at JcPenney's. Picture taking in studios is not going well. The first attempt at Walmart in October was a 30 second session that ended in a total melt down. Today he was happy as he could be while we were waiting, but the minute we went back to the studio he turned on the tears and turned up the volume! We took a quick bottle break, during which he was smiling and having a great time, but again the minute we went back to have pictures taken things totally fell apart! But we got a few good ones anyway, if I can figure out how to post scanned images I'll post some once we get them.

We have a fairly busy week ahead, hope everyone has a great week!