I realized that it's been a very long time since I've posted.  Life has consisted of a little boy I love and a job I love.  Jack has been learning so many things it's hard to keep up with him.  He went from an army crawl, to a crawl to a sprint.  There was no walking phase.  He's got a big head though that is only balanced out by his bigger belly!  He's a trooper though and even when he looks like he's been through a boxing match fromfalling or running into things, he doesn't slow down.  He's eating with a spoon now and it about to tackle the fork!  He's set to get tubes put into his ears in the next two weeks to combat the ear infections.  The ear infections have kept him from speaking a lot but when he shakes his head "no" it's emphatic enough where he may as well be shouting it!  He's a dancer now

 too!  Take a look at the video!  The dancing bear has taken quite a beating.  

He's also taken to reading!  I'm still hoping for a literature professor say at Cambridge!  He is after all named Jack (C.S Lewis's nickname)!  He's not to the point where he's reading the Chronicles of Narnia by himself yet but he LOVES Doctor Seuss and is sure that he can read them to Mommy better than Mommy can read them to him.  

Here are some more pictures of my little guy!

These are for my mom!!  Happy Mother's Day Mom!!  I'll be better about posting on this! We love you!

Sickies and Ouchies

The last week Jack has been battling an upper respiratory infection and bacterial infections in both of his eyes.  He's a trooper though and within a few days they were downgraded to a simple cold.  He, however, was not happy simply being healthy and in one piece.  He figured he felt better so it was time to commence with the "exploring."  Jack has been in love with nature since birth and he cannot stand anything that separates him from the great outdoors.  I knew it was inevitable that the dog

 door would be his next escape route but I wasn't prepared for it at all. 

This morning within seconds, he escaped my sight and all of a sudden I heard a THUD and a cry!  I rushed to the scene, which was the doggie door, and he was inside thankfully but not without proof he had at least gotten half way out.... a rock (there are rocks in the back yard but not within arm reach of the dog door).  The cry lasted maybe a second or two and then came the look of such pride that I might have let him keep the rock had there not been a second rock....

growing on his head!!  I grabbed him (and his treasure), took him to the living room and put an ice pack on his face.  He kept squirming around so much to observe his rock that I finally took it and threw back outside where it belonged.  He cried harder about that then he did the lump on his head!  He was so hurt that I would deny him his prize and was even more mad when I again, put ice on his face.  The swelling has gone down some even though it's beginning to turn black and blue.  Sadly, I feel that by throwing the rock outside I'm only created more of a resolve in 

my little boy to revisit the scene of his adventure and to discover the treasure Mommy so evilly denied him (sigh). 

Jack versus Pasta

Jack loves food.... to death!  One of his favorite meals is what I call, "Hodgepodge pasta."  Basically whatever I have goes into it.  This particular night it consisted of chicken, eggplant, red onion, green peppers, squash, zuccini, pasta and Trader Joe's vodka sauce (not really vodka in it). Well at the onset of dinner, a battle ensued.  I'll let you decide who won!