Jack is 9 months

Another month down already? Gosh it seems just like minutes ago I was posting about Jack turning 8 months  ;) haha I'm sorry I like to post in 3 month intervals I guess...

There has never been a month so full of changes quite like this one!!

One word to describe Jack these days: BUSY!

This kid keeps getting funnier and funnier. I say it comes from his daddy! He has such a little personality! He is constantly singing, talking or screaming his little heart out! He is now crawling away and started with a "worm" crawl where his legs went first followed by his belly then hands. It was quite hilarious to watch! He LOVES the bath and whenever we walk around with him he walks strait to the bathroom to take a bath. he is now sitting up like a big boy in the tub! He loves the beach and we have visited a few times. We also gave him his first real HAIR CUT. I was kinda sad... but he was looking like a girl with a serious mop on his head! haha so now the mohawk is back :)

Valentine's day was this month! We had a fun time celebrating it with Jack. I got a bit carried away with the  Valentine's things, but I can't help it! Its my favorite holiday! 

This was the best picture I could get of him. (see what I mean when I say girly mop top? haha)

We got FLOOR seats to the Harlem Globetrotters thanks to our friend Michelle we lived with in New Jersey! She works for them in their sponsorship department. We had such a fun time! Baby sure loved all the action. And he just had to wear his basketball shirt :)

My two guys :)

We went to Disneyland for a third time this season with Steve's dad and his fiance. They were so glad to get away from the snow and we were glad we got to see them!

Jack loving the parade :)

Lets talk for a minute about the great Winston/Jack duo. Almost every picture I take of Jack involves Winston either laying right next to him or photo bombing with him walking in between me and the babe. They are becoming soul mates very quickly! Jack will hit Winston's face and pull his mustache hair, and Winston will jump on him and sometimes bit (softly I might add) Jack's limbs. They are totally brothers! Winston has done some pretty mean things to Jack (and rightfully so, Jack is sooo mean to him!) and Jack just takes it like a man. One time Winston whipped his stuffed animal out of Jack's hands and caused the toy to fly into Jack's eye. He just looked at me like why do you look so concerned mom? Man this kid is tough! I am used to my sisters as babies who cried over everything! Having a boy is sure different...

This is Jack's go to pose while trying to figure out how to crawl around. We call it the downward Jack. :)

Can you say trouble? We are in so much trouble with these two! This is Heidicita. She is part of the Franco family who moved down here with us while Walter (her daddy) is going to school with Steve. They are the only two from Utah, the only two married, the only two Mormons, and the only two with kids! Needless to say we hang out with them quite a bit. "Baby Heidi" is what we call her because her mom's name is Heidi. She is 16 months and such a little cutie! They absolutely love to kiss! haha she goes in for the kiss first and he opens his mouth willingly! haha but after a while, she keeps trying to kiss him and he starts pushing him away. typical boy and girl relationship! 

Can I just say we literally live in heaven? This picture is of the most gorgeous palm trees I have found down here. We are so blessed to live in such a beautiful place! 

This was of us on Jack's official 9 month day. We spent the afternoon at the pool (in our complex) with Rachel and Braden (our good friends we met here who live in our complex and are also LDS!) The water is still too cold to get in, but we loved soaking up the rays!

This was a little photo shoot later that night. I finally figured out how to use our camera and I think my picture taking has greatly improved! He is such a little explorer :) That top right picture makes me laugh! That was him eating the grass... haha He is just so stinkin cute! We sure do love him very much!

And then my heart melted all over the floor :)

Jack is 8 Months

Wow the time is flying by! Have we already spend a full month here in San Diego?

This Month:

Jack is growing up so fast! He now does so many funny things like clapping, motor boating with his mouth, making that Indian holler sound with his hand and mouth (with his tongue out I might add). He loves walking! He thinks he can walk all by himself... but he does about 10% of the work himself. haha silly baby! I guess he just thinks he's bigger than he really is! He is trying to figure out crawling, but still hasn't moved anywhere yet. 

He eats everything we feed him which is AWESOME! He has started to eat "puffs" and that's really his first solid food. Is it just my baby or do all babies love to put EVERYTHING in their mouth? My goodness I could have taken 2,000 pictures of things he has to put in his mouth! haha He is now starting to look like a little man! His hair is growing so fast and no longer can be spiked up :( its too heavy! He also has to grab everything! (hence the grabbing picture) There is nothing I can eat, play with, or look at without him grabbing it right out of my hands! I guess that's what babies do! (also isn't that eating pic hilarious? He was biting down on the spoon and woudn't let go! haha) 

Among everything else, we got a season pass to Sea World! Jack loved the Shamu show :)

This month we celebrated my birthday! It wasn't the same without family here but we still had fun! This was the only pic I took of my actual birthday... haha

We celebrated the big 23 with a trip to Disneyland! It was raining but that didn't stop us! We basically walked on to every ride. Steve surprised me and made reservations for the Blue Bayou restaurant and it was so fun! The pictures are a little fuzzy because it was dark. They gave me some mousse for dessert and Steve and Jack ended up eating more than me! (I just have to look away when Steve feeds Jack all of these sweets. He tells me every baby eats ice cream and treats like this! Please tell me he is right...)

On a ride in Bugs Land! Isn't he looking so old these days?

The cutest family shot of us on that trip! I love how Jack just looks like "Ok I'm sick of pictures, when is this ride starting?" haha He LOVED the rides by the way. He would scream and grunt when we got off of them! (he never usually gets upset, so to tell us he is not happy he grunts. haha its pretty funny!)

Another thing we weren't expecting is how much Jack loved the characters! He would light up and start high pitch squealing when he saw them! He loved touching them and also eating their noses! haha isn't this one precious with his hand on Pluto?

That pretty much sums up this month. We are enjoying the outdoors here in southern Cali and can't wait for it to get a little warmer outside! Steve started school and jumped in head first! He has become super busy and its definitely an adjustment getting used to him doing so much homework! We still have lots of fun though! :) We have met a cute family that live in our apartment complex and are LDS like us. The crazy part, He loves sports as much as Steve and they have a little boy just two months younger than Jack! Rachel is the girl's name and she stays home just like me! We have had a blast hanging out with them and are glad to have found someone to play with!

I thought I'd add a little "behind the scenes" collage of what it takes to actually get one of these pictures taken. haha I guess you could say the sun was too bright in his eyes? He melts my heart :)

Jack is 7 months

Ugh I have been dreading this post... I'm going to keep everything super simple because I have so much catching up to do!

This month:

Baby's first Christmas! He has become such a little explorer and loooved the Christmas tree! And look at our big boy sitting up all by himself :) He was tearing apart all of our presents that weren't his, but it was just too cute to tell him no! 

Christmas morning. The picture of Winston and Jack cracks me up! They sure have their game faces on! We only ended up buying Jack one present because we KNEW he would get millions of presents from all of our family. Besides, he had no idea! haha

We went to my Mother's house first and there was soo many presents! The best ones were the surprise trip to visit us in January and also to go to Disneyland in April!! There were definitely tears shed over these two exciting trips :)

(Isn't he so cute in his Christmas outfit? and his sweet little Mohawk :)

The pictures started to get skimpier as our day went on. We went to Mimi's house (Steve's grandma) next. Jack looked so cute with his sweet cousin Lexi. There was once again loads of presents to open, our families sure love us!

Jack's new favorite thing is to eat everything! So of course the wrapping paper was his favorite part of the day. haha he loved helping open up presents! We wen't to my Grandpa and Grandma Taylor's house to end the night and I only ended up getting a picture of him with my Dad and his new wife Connie!

And that was our Christmas! We had such a fun time! That was the last time seeing the majority of our family before we moved, so it was also just a little bit of a sad day... But overall we had a good time! 

Then this happened.

 It was a whirlwind of a week starting with Christmas eve, and ending in San Diego! I still cant believe we did it all in one week. But here we are! and we couldn't be any happier! 

And this is what I came home to from the airport. 

I had never even seen the apartment and this was my first look! Yikes!

(yes that is our couch in the middle of the room. It now sits under that heater on the wall. haha)

We decided to spend New Year's Eve at the San Diego Zoo! Not bad weather for someone who just came from the snow and ice...

We also visited the beach and it was Winston's first time there. This picture doesn't do it justice, there were actually a million dogs there and he is chasing after one of them in this pic. This was a dog beach on Coronado island. We had a great time and he was in doggie Disneyland!

Speaking of Disneyland...

We got season passes! we went before Steve started school and it was actually sad to just leave it after one day. I guess we have to get used to that now that we are locals!

I couldn't help but share these pictures of a random night we had. I love Jack's cute hair! He is seriously getting so big. Turning 7 months means big things for this little guy! Like eating more solid food (and loving everything he eats I might add!) He now sits up and plays all by himself. He is talking up a storm! He still doesn't make any clear words except for dada. No mama yet :( But we will work on that one!

Lastly is a random things collage. He LOVES making that ooo face in the top left. He does it all the time! Which is funny because I have a whole bunch of pictures from when I was a baby making that same face, so you know where he gets it! Steve thought it would be funny to put the dog in Jack's bed... I didn't think it was that funny... The next pics is one of the last times Jack and cousin Lexi got to play before we moved! And as we were packing up we found a Halloween costume we bought for him before he was born and he actually never wore it, so we had to try it on! Its funny to see him wearing sweaters here because then we quickly change to warmer weather clothing when we move! The last pic was of him taking up the seat next to me on the plane to move down here. It was our last glimpse of Utah!

We are so sad to have left Utah, but we know we'll be back soon enough! And hey, we live in San Diego for crying out loud. We might love it here way too much to come back! haha so come down and visit us! We would love to be your tour guides :)

Jack is 6 months

What? Our baby is already halfway through his first year of life!? Geesh time flies.

Measurements: 27 in. (70%) 17 lbs. (43%) Once again, long a leeean! haha

This month: 

- This month has gone by so fast! We have finally gotten in to a more regular schedule of still waking up, but only once a night. Which I can handle, I just wish he would sleep through the night!

- He is SUCH A WIGGLE WORM! My goodness I definitely have a boy. He would JUMP out of my arms if I let him! He thinks he can crawl, walk, and even sit up. (which he is super close to doing by the way!)

- He slobbers and drools like none other! Which has actually been going on since 4 months, I just forgot to mention it.

- He has to still put everything in his mouth. And is great with finding his binki and putting it in all by himself! He loves his binki also.

- He loves solid food! We have fed him squash, sweet potato, green beans, apples, bananas, pears, and avocado! So far sweet potato wins on his list of favs. 

- He talks up a storm! He has been doing the little "uh"s and "oh"s for a while, but now he is in to doing "ee" and "baba" its so cute to see him experiment and try to make sounds!

- He squeals with delight all the time, just out of the blue we will hear a big scream that I'm sure even scares himself :)

- He is just starting to get stranger danger, which I am so not excited about. But at the same time it makes me feel  so important when he wants me or Steve :)

Random Happenings

- He is finally done being swaddled at night. Now I know you are probably laughing to yourself thinking he was WAY too old to be swaddled but I had a little swaddle sac that velcrowed together and that was the only way he could sleep! Now he wears that little football sleep sack which he also loves.
- He is starting to sit up great! But only with a few distractions in front of him :)
- Daddy loves dressing him up in Ute gear and watching football games!
- Also, every time I look away for one minute he has something terrible in his mouth! haha this one is Daddy's computer cord... (also, why does his hair look SUPER red in some pics?) he is definitely a blonde in person.

Thanksgiving

We went to my grandparents house for Thanksgiving and had such a great time! The bottom left picture is of my two cousins Reggie and Dillon, and my brother Mitchell. They are all so tall!

We went to St. George after Thanksgiving to visit Steve's mom and we took a day trip over to Vegas! Jack loved the lights, fish and of course his great-uncle's Bellagio fountains!

We had our first Christmas party of the season! Jack sat on Santa's lap and wasn't scared at all! I don't know if he even knew he was on Santa's lap actually. haha He loved opening his first present too! The bottom left picture captures exactly his personality these days, grab everything! haha 

Just thought I'd share the funniest pictures ever. I thought he would like a little taste of my ice cream one day, but then he cried when I took it away! I finally had to eat it out of his sight because he just kept demanding more! haha We are so in trouble with this one...

Had to throw this one in. Me at 6 months, Jack at 5 months and 3 weeks, and Steve at 6 months! Everyone says he looks just like me, but I think he is a great mix of us both. :)

My camera has this setting that if it knows you took a picture of a face, it crops it up all big looking. This one melts my heart! I love the amazing quality of the pictures our camera takes! Of course I'm a terrible photographer, but it's good enough for me! 

Jack is 5 months

Wow! This has by far been the most eventful month in the life of this little babe.

This month was crazy....

Jack decided to wake up about FOUR times a night, take only 30 minute naps and drive his mother crazy!! Sheesh I got no sleep between mid October to mid November. Yet somehow, I had sooo many pictures from this time! haha go me!

This Month: 

Random happenings

- He loves sitting in his little bumbo chair! 

- He also is loving the dog now. They are so cute with each other!

- He is great with his hands and grabs anything! (even his car seat handle at the store... haha) He held on to that handle the entire time we shopped!

- Also he puts EVERYTHING in his mouth! Ugh... I'm really in trouble with this one! We have to watch everything he touches now!

- The dog has gotten interested with the empty bassinet that sits by my side of the bed and one day I caught him in the act of lounging in it! haha I was laughing so hard at this.

- He now sleeps in his own crib for naps as well as at night! I thought this could help out with his crazy waking up every 2 hours through the night phase. So far... not working!

- We went to cute Tasha's wedding and had so much fun!

- Jack tried his first taste of cereal this month! He wasn't such a neat eater in the beginning. haha

- Halloween was the best part about this month! We had so much fun celebrating it with family parties and a fun night at the symphony where they played spooky music. We also went to Gardner Village with my mom as well as took some cute pictures on Halloween night with our friend James who lives upstairs. We all dressed up as a family of supers! Steve as Clark Kent, I as Wonder Woman, Baby as Batman and Winston as Super dog. We had such a fun holiday!

On November 2 my dad got married to his girlfriend of 2 years! We were so excited for them and they had the sweetest little wedding at the Lion House. We love Connie and are so glad to have her as a part of our family!

 Fall is our favorite time of year and we had so much fun getting in the fall season with walks in the park and amateur photo shots of the fam :)

Love those little shoes :)

Our little guy is surely getting big! I am so glad we have lots of pictures to look back on! He is getting to be so fun and has the sweetest little personality.

Wouldn't be a post about Jack if I didn't leave you with a little something to make you smile :)

Jack is 4 months

Well hello all! We are still alive and still trying to keep up on this blog. I just am so busy now and  blogging is the last thing on my mind! Anyway...

Measurements: 26 in. (85%) 15.4 lbs. (50%) This little guy is long and lean :)

This month:

Random Happenings

 

- He got his first haircut! It wasn't in a salon with my camera in hand, instead it was me cutting off all of his wispy newborn hair on top of his head. haha In the words of Steve it was his "Skeleton Hair"

- He got his first cold this month :( it was the saddest thing not being able to help him! and him getting so mad and screaming about me suctioning snot from his nose :(

- The next one is with Jack and his cute cousin Lexi. She is 1 year old in this pic! They are about the same size.

- We went to the State Fair this month! Of course the only picture I took was of Jack. haha

- Jack with... you ready for this?.... Poppa Wheeler..... Yeah that's what my dad wants to be called. haha you want to know why? Because he loves riding motorcycles and he likes to do wheelies. haha yep. My dad is still a kid.

- Jack is still not sleeping through the night but only wakes up once which isn't terrible. 

- He is always so happy and never in a bad mood! 

- He can sure ham it up for the camera now and I absolutely love it!

- He pretty much only smiles for me and Steve at this point. But you better believe my mom is working on changing that! 

- He has found his hands and tries to use them all the time! He is still pretty terrible at holding things but he is still learning! 

We went to San Francisco this month! It was Jack's first vacation and plane ride!

We had a blast! We went to visit family and have a little reunion. I was meeting some of Steve's family for the first time here! We were total tourists and did everything you could do as tourists! This was my first time in San Fran and Steve's second, but he hadn't been in a long time. We chose San Fran because Steve's aunt Suesan and uncle Barr live there as well as her daughter Megan with her husband Adam and their too cute twin girls Dillon and Aza. Here is some pictures with us and Steve's mom, Step dad, Chris and his cousin Megan.

Here is some other random pictures from the trip. Baby loved the crazy bread shaped like sea creatures at Boudin Bakery! We of course had clam chowder in a bread bowl :) We saw the beach (Jack's first time!) and of course the cute seals on the docks! There is also the cutest picture of Jack with his only cousins Parker, Emmie and Lexi!

This is a picture of all of us having a picnic at the coolest park in California! Golden Gate Park.

Oh this picture kills me. Such a happy baby! We are truly blessed!