My 5 month old!?!?

My little big baby boy slept through the night last night for the first time. 6 p.m. until 5:30 a.m. Which means I'll probably be up with him all night tonight. What a big boy. I put him in his Johnny Jump up today and he had a blast. He's sitting up (on the couch) while I sit beside him. He still falls over when reaching for a toy or just gets tired of holding himself up. No real rolling over. Jack felt no need to roll, and I kinda think that's what Todd is doing. Jack could do it at this age, but just didn't. Todd rolled from tummy to back the other day, but doesn't do it on a regular basis.

Todd is getting to have quite the personality. He's a feisty little thing. He's starting to grunt and growl when he isn't getting his way...which is usually only when I put him down for a nap. He grunts, goes stiff, cries some crocodile tears, I leave and he's usually out in about 5 minutes or less.

Jack is starting to push the limits with Todd. I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with, "not knowing his own strength", and everything to do with the fleshly desire to beat up the little thing that came in between your momma and daddy time. Mostly he's just trying to see how i'll handle it. Sometimes I fail, get impatient, and yell. Other times I do the right thing, breathe deeply, and pray, then hug him a little more that day. Motherhood is THE most transforming journey I've ever taken.

Best Friends Forever

At 2 yrs 3+ months Jack will absolutely not cooperate when a camera (or cramra -- his pronunciation) is near. I guess he's all pictured out!
These pictures show Jack's BFFs.
The year Jack was born there were 4 January babies in our Sunday School class. 1 is not pictured as he is no longer a member at FBD, so we don't get to see him.
Here are the 3 amigos:
Jackson (1/14/06), Ben (1/30/06), and Jack (1/4/06)

Making up for lost blogging time!

So here are a couple of pictures I took last night while watching our best friend's little girl Elle. Jack is obsessed with older women. ;) wink wink. They look as though they are playing together in the pictures. But Elle has gotten to the age where Jack's a little nuisance. :) She was actually doing puzzles and Jack says, "I want to sit beside you Elle." Then proceeds to not crawl up beside her, but in his clumsy 2 year old way, climb up over her, messing up her puzzles etc... needless to say her thoughts on the nuisance were confirmed I think. I got out the camera & Elle said, "Are you gonna take a picture of us?" I said, "yes." She said, "why?" I said, "because you guys are cute and little now and you're not always going to be this way, so I'm take pictures to remember."

Note conductor hat...when Jack wears it he's "Ductor Jacky" as in CONductor. When Jack wears his cowboy hat he is "Cowboy Jack".

Note also the lovely PBK quilt layed/laid?? over the ultra hip C&B couch. Why? you ask, Do we have a blanket over the couch...well I'll tell ya. When we were sans kids, and livin it up with two incomes we decided to buy this couch. WE LOVED this couch, and when we went to order it from Crate and Barrel (from a guy who OPENLY hit on my husband in front of me I might add) the only color on display was white. Well as much as we would have loved a white couch to go in our white room, we quickly decided it was probably not the best decision since we had two dirty furkids at the time and I was pregnant with Jack. So we chose another color from a 2"x2" fabric swatch. We took the swatches home to see them in the light it would sit under, and decided on the blue. But that 2" swatch made that blue fabric look oh sooo much darker. When it was delivered we gasped! Yes, gasped! Because we knew that the furbabies would be sure to rub their dirtybird bodies up against it and get it un-blue (in other words...brownish blue). And they did. But then we had Jack...and Jack being the spitter upper that he was we quickly covered the couch with the quilt. It will probably be there until the boys are 18 and out of the house...then we'll be ultra hip sans kids again. How sad.

AHHH Technology

So, it's well past Easter and you have not seen Easter pictures. Ahhh technology. We have a new camera. A digital video camera that takes stills. Unfortunately our computer for some reason is not reading the minidisk that the pictures are saved on. Our old digital camera is pretty much obsolete and the battery is very hard to find. When we finally found a battery, it doesn't get nearly the charge the original batteries did so we are constantly running out of batteries. This is the very reason for lack of posts...but i've taken a few cute pictures on the old camera this week. Toddy now weighs a whopping 18# 12oz. as of a drs. appt. yesterday. We (Jack, Todd, and I) caught a nasty cold this week. I was giving Todd ibuprofen and read the back to see the dosage...Ask Doctor for under 6 months. BUT since Todd weighs what he does he can get the dose that goes for 18-24lbs. At 4.5 months he weighs what an average 7 month old weighs. CRAZY! That still only makes him 95%, he's 95% on height too, so not just big, but tall. This weekend we will dedicate baby Todd at church, and have the family over for a dairy free baked potato bar. Mmmm mmm! And now for pictures...

One of my heroes

I'm not a huge country fan, but this man is officially one of my heroes. His latest release proceeds FAAN (The Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network). This organization I hold near and dear to my heart. Most of you know Jack has anaphylaxis to dairy, egg, & beef. FAAN is full of those who have blazed this path before me, and those families that have just been diagnosed with deadly food allergies. They are definately a helping hand for me, and are a huge part in getting the word out about these food allergies. Not to mention the research for a cure! Support FAAN! www.foodallergies.org