johnny graduates today!!

i can't believe that johnny graduates medical school today! 4 years went by really fast. we had a fun 4 years in mobile and made a lot of great friends. we have many wonderful memories throughout medical school. i am so proud of johnny! i don't know how he did it. he spent many many hours in the library first and second year and many many hours in the hospital third and fourth year. he not only has been a wonderful student who is in the medical school honor society (AOA)...he is also a terrific father and husband. he always puts us first! i am excited to see what the next 4 years will bring us!

happy cinco de mayo (one day late)!

man he is a cutie!

i took this with jack after his haircut but after i downloaded pictures already...my baby is getting so big!

good ole pete

we went to the beach for cinco de mayo with some friends. it was fun and not too hot which was nice.

we didn't spend the night, but we did take advantage of all the amenities at the condo. there was an awesome lazy river. jack laid on my belly on the float. it was nice and relaxing except for all the crazy boys trying to dump over the girls...good thing i had jack in my lap :) then we went down the water slide. it was so much fun! after that we took a dip in the hot tub. all in all it was a fun day.

this is a video of johnny tickling jack. he loves for johnny to do this. i try and it doesn't work...he loves the scruff. he was laughing harder before i took the video (i think he was already tired by the time i got the camera).

first haircut!!

jack had his first haircut today!! he did great. i was really proud of him. he was very interested in what was going on and what the lady had in her hands. we went to a kids salon in mobile...they were amazed at how much hair jack had at 6 months old. he got to watch tv, play with my phone, and look at himself in a big mirror while he was getting a haircut. i think he had fun!

(above) jack in his new pjs the morning of his first haircut

jack is making a great face in this picture...it is the before shot!

look at the mullet :)
also look at the face i am making while she is making the first cut...haha!

so interested! (and a great shot of the mobile mullet)

he loved looking at my phone...that is the only way we could get him to look down for her to cut the back

getting his hair dried

his reward was to pop some bubbles

after!! doesn't he look like a little boy?

playing in the hummer

the back looks so much better!

we also had jack's 6 month checkup today. he got 2 shots :( he did great though. this time i brought a pacie with me and he sucked on it while they gave him the shots. he only cried a little! he cried more when the lady checked his temperature :) he weighed 18 pounds 9 ounces and was 27 1/4 inches long. he is still in the 75th percentile...so that is good! his doctor told us we can give him stage 2 foods and a sippy cup of water or watered down juice. we have had a very eventful day today.

lots to catch up on!

nicolette and candice's birthday celebration. we went to taste of thai to eat and then came over to eat cake!

painting some furniture

before (above)

after (below)

before (above)

after (below)

bellingrath gardens

our friend kelly went with us to take some pictures at bellingrath and just to see it one last time before we move. we were taking some pictures to put on johnny's desk at work.

my very favorite

i can't believe i actually took a good picture without smiling at the camera...i cannot take a good candid picture to save my life!

we walked around auburn with jack and pete again on the way to columbus since we had time before my mom and dad got off work. this is where we ate dinner before johnny asked me to marry him. we have great memories in auburn!

we went to columbus to take jack's 6 month pictures. i didn't get any pictures at my parents house though :( jack did fine at his pictures, but he was of course a crazy man! he wanted to crawl off of the table they put him on. the photographers wife (who is in charge of setting up the babies and making them smile) told jack to act like a baby because he wasn't doing what most 6 month olds do at the photoshoots. again that is why we call him the crazy man!!

jack is really sitting up well these days...he still has crashes with no warning, but other than that i would say he is doing pretty good :)

grandmol feeding jack

swings!!

swinging for the first time. he loved looking down at the ground. he loved them!

we met andrea, clara, katie, kate, and sawyer at spain park. we had a great time! it was so nice to see our friends and play at the park. i guess there will plenty more playing at the park when we move :)

kate had to show off her fancy glasses since jack was wearing his cool shades!

jack couldn't take his eyes off of clara...they are going to be best friends!

welcome to moes!

we met at moe's to give clara her birthday present since we couldn't be there for her first birthday. it's so weird to see clara eat...she ate asparagus, chicken, noodles, and blueberries. it will be weird when jack can eat big boy food like that!

we gave clara a tutu and a sheep for her birthday. doesn't she look so cute in her tutu?

our house!
well it is official...we are homeowners!! we were waiting to post until we closed on our house. it was a long process and we are so glad that it is done and that we can say it is ours!! so here it is...

our kitchen...we are going to open it up to the den which is behind the sink

the den

the fancy pink bathroom...we were going to change it but now we are just going to embrace it. the pink, green, and blue bathrooms are popular in the houses in our neighborhood.

our bathroom

our backyard...we love the yard! pete and jack are going to have so much fun :)

the living room (this is going to be our living room/johnny's office)

the dining room...with a ladder in it (this was during our inspection)

our baby is definitely crawling!

jack has definitely got the hang of crawling...he likes to crawl toward things he shouldn't have (like my purse, computer, cell phones, camera, etc)

standing all by himself...he can stay this way for about 30 seconds to 1 minute

sweet potatoes!!

crawling toward my phone...i love how high up he gets his arms and hands



pulling up on the bumbo...he would much rather do that than sit in it :)




he can even stand up by himself for a bit...it scares us though because he falls pretty hard. we try to be there just in case, but sometimes we don't catch him in time :(

6 months old!!

my little stud in his bathrobe...that is still too big for him

peas!!

this is jack's little sock compared to his dad's

after his bath...we have figured out that if we brush his hair still somewhat wet that it will stay down for a while and look halfway decent.

in pensacola, fl for michael and michelle's wedding.
jack loves his stacking rings...he can't stack them by himself, but he loves to watch me do it :)

his new trick...standing on all fours!
my mom said that my brother crawled like this...i wonder if jack will do that eventually

the cutest boy in the world!!

carrying on the tradition of taking a picture of jack on the hotel room bed :)

sleepy baby

how precious is he?

on the beach...it was so windy and a little chilly.

jack couldn't take his eyes off of the waves

in a pool for the first time. he hated it! it was a heated, indoor pool so we thought that he might really like it since he loves his bath. we were wrong! he cried! when he got out i held him and he held on so tight to my shirt. we just hope that he likes the lake this summer.

michael and michelle's recepetion

i don't know how he can sleep through a band playing and people talking.


he wanted to eat his sign so...

we had to tape it to the chair!

this is a video of jack crawling. he is still pretty slow, but he is getting the hang of it! i think he is doing pretty good since he just started crawling last night (4-20-09)

about jack at 6 months old:
* crawling
* eating peas and is going to try sweet potatoes tomorrow
* staying up for longer periods of time in between naps
* loves being tickled
* likes for me to act like i am going to eat his fingers
* loves all the many funny faces his dad makes
* still loves pete (and his toys..yuck)
* likes for the wind to blow in his face
* still can't hold a pacie in his mouth by himself...although is is getting better at it
* we cut his toenails for the first time today
* wakes up 1 time in the middle of the night to eat...i can handle that!
* loves for you to put lotion on him after a bath...he gets this look like "ahh that feels nice"
* needs a haircut
* is still the sweetest baby in the world