cooper's wedding

topless party! house and kelly had a tapas party that they called the topless party. jack is with his friend maddie.

this is jack's favorite stuffed monkey...can you see why?

jack is obsessed with our remote. we try to hide it from him because he turns the channel but sometimes he gets a hold of it. he will climb up on the couch and look behind the pillows because that is where we hide it!

swinging at a park that i found. it is called the triangle park and it is so nice. it is shaded and has nice slides and swings.

we went to cooper vines (one of johnny's childhood friends) wedding on september 5th.
jack did soooo good. he had so much fun!

"footlong...get your footlong"

we went to the zoo with katie, kate, beth, and maddie the other day. katie and kate fed the giraffe's...she was more excited than kate!!

jack's mohawk!!

my first footlong hotdog!!

last bite :)

botanical gardens...two days in a row!

walking with daddy.
we had so much fun at the botanical gardens last saturday afternoon. it felt amazing outside and jack really liked crawling on the grass. i told johnny that i wanted to go there everyday!

feeling the grass

this picture cracks me up!

me and my boy! too bad we can't bring pete there :(

family picture! the best we could get using the timer.

jack picking up the grass or leaves

playing with dad's flip flop. you can really see his birth mark on his back in this picture :)

crawling on the big lawn

day 2:
we had so much fun saturday that we had to come back on sunday. robby, andrea, and clara came along for a picnic!

jack playing with clara's ball and mking his funny face.

robby and andrea showed us one of the things that clara loves to do...swing in a blanket!

sweet baby clara swinging in the blanket

jack enjoying the new game!

i love how the sun is coming in behind them...and then you see that jack is going after clara's boo boo :)

i love this boy!

10 months

i have been letting jack crawl around other parts of our house recently...i am slowly getting our house somewhat babyproof (although i don't ever think it will be baby proof for jack). he played with pete's leash for like 45 minutes today.

my parents gave me some toms shoes for my birthday and they came in the mail yesterday. i wore them today and they are soooo comfy! jack likes them too.

pete loves to sleep under jack's crib

jack is 10 months old today!!
(notice the conan o brien hair that jack has. it is always like this no matter what i do to it!!)

at 10 months old he is:
* walking (not across the room but he does take like 4 or 5 steps in a row)
* still has 1 tooth
* is trying to drink out of a sippy cup
* can climb up on the couch with a lot of work (hopefully it will take him a while to master this)
* can recognize duck, monkey, light, ball, book, hat, and alligator
*takes 2 naps a day
* likes the grocery store

he changes everyday...and he amazes me everyday.

hanson tshirt

i let jack play with my phone the other day. he had a lot of fun playing with it because he never gets to. he likes to play with his hat that clara gave him!

grandmol babysat for us on my birthday so that we could go to my favorite restaurant...pf changs

the fam on my bday

kelly and house gave me a hanson tshirt for my birthday!! i am holding my great wall of chocolate from pf changs...yumm!

jack checking everything out on the porch

dinnertime

ball, hat, duck, book, and light

these are the words that jack knows. he may not know how to say them, but he for sure knows which word i am saying. he is so stinking smart!! tonight we laid out the hat and the ball and asked him to get the hat and he did. and then i asked him to get the ball and he did. then i pulled the duck out of his toy basket while he was doing something else with his back turned. i said where is the duck? and he turned around, looked around for a few seconds and then spotted it. he crawled toward it and picked it up. later i said where is a book? and he thought about it and then crawled toward his book basket, got one, and then turned to me with it up in the air. he also knows light. when you say where is the light? he looks up and points at the light! man oh man. i love that boy way too much! i will post a video of my einstein later!!

video of jack walking!

this is a video of jack walking. it is very hard to get this on camera. he is getting pretty brave with his walking. he takes steps more often, but still likes to crawl because it is a lot faster.

on a side note: i have been working on "nose" with jack. i will point to my nose and point to his. today i said "where is momma's nose?" and he pointed to it. it may just be a fluke but he did it 3 different times this morning.
we are also working on "ball". last night i said "where is the ball?" and he crawled for the ball, picked it up and came to my lap. he always comes to my lap...because we throw it for pete. i am very impressed with how smart my baby boy is! he amazes me every day!!