Jackson 14 Weeks old

Today Jackson is 14 weeks old. He is over 13 pounds and doing great. Last night he slept from 9PM to 6AM. He is doing much better than I expected and was warned about. We have been continuing with his dreaded "tummy time" he can stand a few minutes of it at a time. This weekend we walked up to the Saturday market, he like going for field trips which is great. I have some weekly pictures from that trip. And as always we have updated his week by week up date. This week I am going to try something that we haven't done since Jan. A few sound clips, this week he was very very talkative so we have two.

Jackson Sound clip one.

And then

Jackson Sound clip two.

I will test them out tonight before we go to bed so I hope that they work for you all. Mary has survived her first week back at work and I only have three weeks left in my internship. Keep you fingers crossed for us.

Jackson Rolls over

Today Jackson rolled over from his back to his stomach. He was not too pleased with himself once he realized what he had done. We have not been able to get him to roll the other way, front to back. And he is still not a fan of "tummy time", but we have been doing at least 5 minutes a day on his front. On other news Mary survived her first week back at work and Jackson's Gram survived one week with him. We will get the weekly update up soon [i.e. Monday].

Jackson 13 Weeks old

This week has not been that busy, but the past three days have been. On Saturday Gram and Bebo came down. Then we all went to the fair that evening. We have two sets of pictures: one for the week and a second from the fair. We also have our weekly Jackson update. Today Mary went back to work, it flew by for her. And Gram brought Jackson over for an afternoon meeting. All the critters were well behaved. My internship is going well and I have to go back to school soon to finish. I will really, I mean really try, to do a mid week upday.

Jackson 12 Weeks old

Jackson has grown a lot in the past week. [Weekly update] We have been weighing him at home by difference from one of us on the scale. (I feel like Homer in the Simpson's episode where he raises a lobster and he doesn't tare the scale to his own weight. He just "remembers" his own weight, which was years past. From that he thinks that his lobster is over sixty pounds. When I do that I think of the South Park line "Simpsons did it." As if nothing new can ever been done.) Jackson is now up to about 13 pounds, and when he sleeps he really sleeps. At his last doctor's visit he was right on track where he needed to be. Over the past few days we've noticed him becoming more aware of his body. I think mostly his feet. When we have been playing with him we pretend to eat his toes, he laughs, then puts his feet back up by your face. And then today Mary had him on the floor on his little gym and he was kicking the hanging toys and reaching with his hands with real purpose. You can see for yourself in the small gallery of pictures from this week. We will try to update more often but unless you want Chemistry talks as well, this may been where we are in terms of frequency. We have been doing more evening walks now that it has cooled off. We got an inStep jogging/running stroller last week and have been putting it through its paces. On Saturday I bought a cheap bike computer from Joe's and installed it. That afternoon we walked to the downtown and back, 2.85 miles. Mary has been using it during the day as well on trips to the store. From one of the baby showers we got carseat/stroller insert for smaller kids so that they don't slide around as much. Besides we don't jog with him, we just walk. I will have to get pics of this soon.

Jackson 11 Weeks old

I know that every week we look back at when he was born. He sure has changed a lot. I look at my week by week pictures almost daily. I just can't get over how much he has changed. Last week was a growing weekend for sure, there were days of just crazy fussing then it look liked he slept most of the weekend. He may have caught up on sleep but we did not. But due to a couple crazy nights we were not able to make it out to family camp this last weekend. Last week my brother was here from CT. He taught us how to use our camera. And he took some pictures of us with Jackson. I even think that I have some of him with Jackson somewhere. I will try to get those up as a mid week bonus.

Jackson 10 Weeks old

I am behind as usual. But we have some pictures from the last few days. With the visit of Uncle Brandon there have been lots more pictures. Jackson is doing a great job dealing with all the new people. Brandon has been practicing his photography on Jackson, I mean what a great subject. I will post more of his gallery later. But I do have the weekly progressions updated. We are having lots of fun seeing his personality appear.