jack is ONE!!!

i had to put a few pictures from the day jack was born on here :)
he pulled his hair almost the minute he came into the world! that is how he falls asleep now!

my parents were here for the birth...dad waited in the waiting room and mom held a small fan for me!!

my nurses were amazing!

my doctor


sweet baby


good morning birthday boy

jack and i went to botanical gardens for jack's birthday with andrea and clara

this is at 4:14 pm...one year after he was born!

jack got his first skinned knee :( he was tough though and didn't even cry...such a boy!

clara was trying to give jack a hug for his birthday...

and i swear he was trying to give her a kiss back!

his one year old picture with curious george

opening his gift from mom and dad...we gave him a tricycle! we just need to put it together

the birthday boy with his dada

A year ago today at 4:14 pm jack was born. He weighed 8 pounds 3 ounces and was 21 inches long. I went to the hospital at 7:00 am to start all the paperwork to be induced. They started the pitocin at 8:00 am and I started having contractions but didn’t know it. I thought they were the Braxton hicks that I had been feeling a few weeks prior to labor. At 3 cm I decided that I wanted to go ahead and get my epideral before I started to feel the pain! At some point (not quite sure what time it was) I went from 4 cm to 9 ½ cm in 50 minutes (thanks to the purple jolly ranchers that my cousin amy told me to eat). So I began to push…still not feeling a thing!! Legs felt like a foreign object! I pushed for about an hour with my nurse and then my doctor came in to deliver precious jack! I pushed a few times with dr. klienpeter and then he had to use the vacuum to help get jack out. It was scary, but I knew it had to be done and at 4:14 our bundle of joy came into the world!! When jack was born I instantly fell in love. I began to cry and wanted to sooth him, kiss him, and hug him. He was the most precious baby with a head full of dark hair. He had to smallest fingers that I loved to have wrap around my finger.

The moment he was born changed our life in the best way possible. He has been such a joy this past year. I can’t believe that I am so lucky to spend everyday with him and see all the new things that he does. He has changed so much since he was born. I can remember him holding his head up for the first time, sitting by himself, crawling, and then walking. We have had a blast this past year and can’t wait for all the years to come (hopefully they will go slower than this past year).

About jack at 12 months old:
• weighs 21 pounds 11 ounces (gained 13 pounds 8 ounces since birth)
• he is 31.5 inches long (grown 10.5 inches since birth)
• said “bye bye” once to kelly
• said “ball” once at andrea’s house
• says “t” (throw) in a high pitched voice when he throws anything and everything
• knows to lift up his foot to put on socks and shoes
• still doesn’t eat “real” food
• his favorite baby food: apples and chicken, pears, and carrots with bananas
• eats 3 baby food meals a day (sometimes 2 jars at a time) and nurses 5 times
• words he knows (but doesn’t say): duck, ball, nose, shoes, pacie, alligator, monkey, hungry, hat, no, daddy, momma, pete, book, hammer, etc
• when I say “are you hungry?” he hands me his pacie and makes the “h” sound
• knows how to drink out of a sippy cup
• doesn’t crawl at all anymore
• actually listens to the word “no”
• shakes his head when he doesn’t want something
• loves pete to death
• says “dada” to mostly everything
• climbs on the couch
• ‘babbles all the time
• wants his pacie all the time
• loves to read books at night
• doesn’t nurse to sleep anymore
• holds things up to his ear like a phone and pretends to talk

he is the best baby boy in the whole world and I love him with all of my heart! He makes me smile and laugh everyday! i want him to know that we love him and always will.