First Tooth

Jackson got his first tooth last week. Lots of drool and only a little crankyness and then a tooth appeared (bottom left tooth). I couldn't get Jackson to stay still or keep his mouth open long enough to show off his cute little tooth!

Jackson and Hadley

Jackson and I have been watching Miss Hadley on Mondays and for a few hours on Wednesday and Thursday. We have been having a much better time together lately- now that Hadley is a little more used to playing with us. She has been teaching him to yell loudly and encouraging him to crawl. He has been worming all around the living room lately and he can get pretty far. (I'll have to figure out how to post movies so i can share it). Here is the two of them in a happier moment.

Ralph's Big Ride

We spent the weekend of the 10th in Oklahoma for the Pryor Dam Jam (a 100 mile bike "race"). Ralph pedalled his way through some beautiful terrain in NE OK and the day was beautiful!

Yoga Baby

Jackson is getting ready to crawl and has been showing off how strong he is. He is sitting up on his own very well and in his attempts to crawl has been pushing himself all over the room..... backwards.... not exactly what he was wanting.

The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From the Tree

WORST DAY EVER

I don't have any pictures for this one- sorry. The saying goes an apple a day keeps the doctor away, therefore we are going to buy at least 9,125 apples so that I never have to take a sick Jackson to the doctor's office ever again. Thursday we took J in after he had a temperature for 2 days. (He weighed in at 17 lbs 3 oz) His temperature at the doctor was 103.6- but the doctor couldn't see anything wrong with him, so he ordered a urine sample and blood draw to check things out. So poor Jackson had to endure 2 catheters to extract the pee they needed and 3 needle sticks to try to get the blood (which they ended up doing the heel stick anyways- and it 25 minutes to catch all the blood drop by drop). They ended up calling us to say one of the test they hadn't gotten enough blood for.... I told them we would have to do without it cause i wasn't taking him again. The whole thing took 4 and a half hours just to find nothing wrong with him. He's finally fever free and playing like normal today! Long story short, we will go in for well child visits to get our vaccine shots (which must feel like nothing compared to what he had to go though this week), but we are staying home next time we are sick.

5 Months

For FHE we had a 5 month photo shoot.