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.