jack's 3rd haircut

brushing his new haircut at toys r us

no more conan!

jack has a new obsession with pacies...it just took him 11 months to figure this out!!

happy 3rd birthday pete!

this is the night we got pete, january 3, 2007

this is not a great picture but look how small he was compared to my hands!

the second night with pete.

i loved how his ears flipped backward

our pup!

pete is legal in dog years today!! i can't believe he is 3! it seems like just yesterday that we drove to gulf port to pick him up. we went there thinking we were going to get a girl dog and ended up falling in love with pete. he had such a round tummy and those eyes...how could we resist those eyes?!?

pete still has that puppy look to him and feel. he has brought so much love and joy to our family over the past 3 years. he loves us so much and shows us that everyday. he lives to please us and to be there for us. we love him and thank him for being such an awesome dog and wonderful part of our family!

happy birthday house!

we celebrated house's birthday on friday night and jack wore a special shirt in honor of house!!

auburn vs ball state

jack loves to play tug o war with pete and then when he gets the toy he likes to make this noise right at pete like "haha i won!"

about to leave for the game

my mom got free tickets from one of basset and becker's clients for the ball state game and of course me johnny jumped on the chance to go to a game. we have not been in like 5 years. we had sooo much fun going to auburn and walking around and talking about old memories. we love auburn!! this is a picture of my favorite part of the game...when the band comes out at the very beginning and plays the fight song! oh it is great. i used to get to the game early and get seats with molly behind the band because we loved watching the tuba players. anyway, so when the band comes out the main guy(i don't know what he is called..i think the drum major) runs while leaning backward..almost like he is going to fall backward...it is very impressive and i LOVE it! this all happens right after the eagle flies (which is another one of my favorite parts about the game). johnny doesn't really remeber all of this in college because he didn't get there until the game had already started...lame! anyway, we had so much fun even though we got rained on the entire time we were there. my mom and dad had a blast with jack and i am sure that jack had a blast with them too!!

me and johnny at the rainy ball state game. rain or shine it was still a blast!

jack had a lot of new toys to play with at mimi and papa's house...including this fun toy from his aunt martha! he really enjoyed dancing to it. you can kind of tell that he is dancing in this picture because his knees are bent...he just does the squat dance right now.

another fun toy at mimi and papa's...jack wanted to sit in it or stand in it for some reason :)

when my mom and i came back from printing out jack's invitations we found jack asleep with his daddy! they were watching finding nemo :)

11 months old

i can't believe that jack is 11 months old (as of yesterday)!! he is growing up way too fast...in a month he will be ONE!! crazy!
at 11 months he:
* is walking...pretty much all the time
* has 3 teeth
* makes everybody smile with his smile
* pretends to talk on the phone with anything (there is a picture of this below)
* weighs about 21 and 1/2 pounds
* still does not want to eat real solid food
* does not nurse to sleep anymore :)
* does not show signs of wanting to stop nursing
he is one of the happiest babies i have ever seen and i love him to pieces!

see his teeth?

lots of random pictures:

walking with the remote

hello

we took a family trip to the zoo the other day and had a blast!! we rode the train for the first time and jack seemed to really like it. he loved the wind blowing in his face.

johnny finally got to see jack play in the water fountain. jack had so much fun now that he can walk around and splash in the water.

on the way home

johnny took his last step!! yay! step 3 is over :)

pete thinks he is the king of the house

i let jack feed himself with a spoon the other day. he had fun getting messy...he is such a boy!

he did pretty well getting the spoon into his mouth

i caught him with a pink oven mitt on :)

enjoying a rainstorm on our screened in porch

renovations

we are finished with our renovations (except for a few little things...we still need to paint our kitchen, put our thresholds into the kitchen, and add some trim). we love everything that we have done and thank my daddy very much for all of his hard work!!

if you click on the slideshow you can make all of the pictures bigger

top teeth!

jack watched his first auburn game on saturday! he didn't get to see them win because he had to go to bed, but he did get to hear me singing the cheers and johnny screaming at the tv (probably words that he shouldn't hear!!)

jack has 2 top teeth. they are so stinkin cute, but they hurt when they chomp down on me! luckily he understands "no bite".

so cute!

jack is doing really well these days. he is walking so much better and loves to play really hard! the only thing that we are struggling with lately is real solid food. i was really scared to give it to him so either i waited too long or he is just not interested, but either way he will NOT eat the solids. we have tried the gerber puffs, cooked carrots, and cooked sweet potato. if anybody has any thoughts on how to get jack interested please let me know. he has to start eating the food so that he can eat his birthday cake!!