Jackson 306 Days

It has been a busy few weeks for us. This last week was Easter and Gram and Bebo came down from Seattle for the weekend. Jackson had fun with them. We have been having lots of work done on the house. We have a contractor that has replace the roof of the car port and it looks great. And the best part is it does not leak. So the more important part is Jackson: Pictures from the last week; the weekly update pictures; and some videos: jumping in his crib (02/15), playing the "piano" (02/16), getting tickled (02/22), crawling (02/23), exploring in the house (03/15) and peek-a-boo with Gram (03/22). I will get pictures up of our home improvements. The dogs did decide to get in and help. They ripped up the carpet in Jackson's room/office, so we had to finish the job.

Jackson 296 days

Jackson is now on his third ear infection of the season. He is back on his medicine and is now doing much better, happier, hungry and with good color. With spring here we have been able to get outside, and no longer just for walks with him bundled up. This last weekend we (Mary and I) got to go out on Sat. It was great to be social and see other adults. We went to a chili cook off from my lab, then to a party at one of Mary's co-workers. Mary won the non-meat division at the chili contest. So we have some great pictures from the last few days. We have some spring pictures, pictures of Jackson outside, our Chili cook off and then some pictures from yesterday with Jackson outside. Then we have our weekly update pictures, he is growing so fast.

Jackson 290 day

Jackson is getting so mobile. He crawls fast. Pulls himself up on all sorts of things. It has now gotten to the point where he has the strength, he just needs the slight extra support as he raised and lowered himself without a handle. As seen from him on the window. We have some new pics from the week. Jackson eating, then we had what looked a hummingbird fight outside, and then Mary has gotten Jackson a play piano. ( this one above I call "Hello, Detroit! Are you ready to Rock?") He loves it, as seen from the still pics. We have video which I will get put up later. It looks like he is over the last cold. Which means the next one is right around the corner, or already here. We have also updated his weekly picture page.

Jackson 281 days

As always we have been busy. But here are some pictures from the last weeks events. We have some pics from last weekend when Gram, Bebo and Uncle Mike came down from Seattle and then some from Jackson's wild bath last night. Then we have a few pictures from this weekends Birth to Three gathering. We were very light on attendance. A lot of people and kids are sick. Jackson is still getting over his ear problem. We have a new picture ( as seen on the left ) in his weekly update. Jackson is doing well, he had a Dr. appointment yesterday and was great. It helped that there were no shots.

Jackson 270 Days

We have been busy, sick and negligent in our web duties. We have been taking pictures and videos, I have just not put them up on the "intertubes" as fast as I should have been. But hopefully without much more ado here they are: First some still pictures. Feb 3rd, Jackson around the house, eating and playing. And Feb. 9th Jackson "talking" on the phone to his Gram. He definitely knows that it is her and he sure lights up. To add to this set we have the weekly update: New update. And we have a whole set of videos. Feb 2nd, Crawling: video 1, and video 2, video 3 and finally video 5. We also have a video of playing in the tub on the 2nd. Feb 6th, of hide and seek with Mary, crawling video 1 and crawling 2. Then Jackson rocking himself in the chair on the 10th. I will try to work on more of the smaller updates than these huge ones. But no promises.

Video update

Yesterday was busy; we had swim lessons and we played at home. We have lots of videos to show. First of all the little digital camera case works great. (you saw the sills last week of swimming) So I changed the camera settings to take movies. They are short 10 to 15 seconds each, but they show the swimming. And I was surprised to hear that it picks up sound well despite the water proof case. So here are swimming videos: Video 1, video 2, video 3, video 4 and video 5. Then while at home we used the larger (real video camera) to film Jackson. This first video is him playing with the electronic drum sticks Mary got him. This second video is him playing with a book. I think that he says something there, but I can't quite make it out. (Mary was saying she didn't hear it, but now that I have AV proof she has changed her mind and agreed with me.) So we are looking for confirmation of the word. Technically this is not the first word he has said, just the first recording (I have heard "mama" before). Then the third video is him "crawling" we did get more moving early, but I was too slow with the camera. But this is still a good video.

Snow day

Monday was a snow day. Jackson's day care follows the Eugene school district (now we know) and they were closed on Monday because of the blizzard...cough, 4 inches, cough...that rolled through on Sunday. We tried to take him to day care but there was no one there. And when Mary got into her office her boss was in to call people to tell them not to come in. So Mary got a snow day as well with Jackson. But the very sad part was that the pool was also closed, so, there where no swim lessons. Jackson is for sure over his cold as he is back to his regular appetite. Today he started in a new room at day care. He has moved up from infants and is now in "wobblers", which are not quite toddlers. He has been visiting there for the past few days and gets along there as well. Today we each saw him crawl, independently. So neither will confirm the others observations, but we both saw it. He will be a bigger handful soon. And then today he got veggies and noodles from soup. He seems to like them and todays treat were gold fish crackers. Good day and hopefully the schools will not be closed tomorrow so we can have swim practice. But there was some more snow this evening. EVERYONE PANIC....we will see.