My babies...

Just an update on our crazy little family (mainly because I feel as though I’ve neglected Jax and his baby days—truth is, we’ve just been SO busy)…

Something about that 6 month mark with a baby that makes you feel like, Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh…I’m alive, I’m out of the dark, we’ve made it!!!  Because man, those first 4 months, and maybe 6, are tough!  I think the first 5 were miserable this go round because poor Jax was sick constantly.  Nothing too serious, but always a cruddy cold and cough that made all of us sleep-deprived!  Despite that on-going cold, Mister Jax is the world’s most smiley baby!  Seriously.  The kid can’t stop smiling!  And it’s like an all out, wide as his face, twinkly eyes kind of smile.  Infectious!  On Friday, my little man turned 7 MONTHS OLD……I’m not quite sure where the time goes, but it sure does fly!  He’s been crawling since about a week before his 6 month birthday, and he pulled himself up to a stand last weekend…milestones that Marley didn’t hit until she was 8 ½ months or so!!  At this rate, he’ll be walking come fall.  Oy vey! 

I truly do LOVE this baby stage…all the smiles, the peek-a-boos, the giggles, the drool, the curiosity.  He’s ALL boy, but he is SWEET!  Trav gets a bit frustrated because he is a total mommy’s boy!  If I walk out of the room, he can go from happy to a crying mess in about 5 seconds!  And as soon as I’m back in sight, he’s happy again!  Last week, my heart about melted when I went to hand him off to Trav and he VERY CLEARLY did the whole, lean into mommy/wrap arms around my neck thing…………awwwwwwwww!!!  I could’ve just eaten him up—my little sweet boy!

Here's what he is especially loving at the moment, besides MOMMY:

1.  The Batman song...Trav started singing it to him one day and he got so happy.  Now, if he hears, "Dun-a-nunna, dun-a-nunna, BATMAN" he breaks out in the biggest smile!

2.  Patty-cake & peek-a-boo!

3.  Sucking his thumb...this must be genetic, I swear!

4.  Marley, except I suppose when she pushes him over and then he cries...darn sisters!  His eyes are glued to her when she's around, curious as ever and wanting to be off and running with her!

5.  The apple and cinnamon puree I made for him!  Yum!  The boy loves to eat!!

6.  Bedtime.  7pm sharp.  He doesn't like to rock...just wants to eat and then he's ready to lay down, wide awake in his crib.  He does his whole "restless leg" re-arranging for a minute (must get that from his father) and then he's passed out!
 

Miss Marley continues to chatter away, get into trouble, and make friends with every spider, bug, toad, animal that comes her way!  A daredevil, to say the least.  But I am not going to get in the way of her and all her tomboy-ish bravery!  You go, Mars!!!  She’s all dirt and funny faces and jokester by day, and sweet, baby-loving, momma hugging girl by night.  She can’t fall asleep until I sing her “Rock-a-bye baby”!  And the other night, when we were getting ready to say our nighttime prayers, she starts off by saying, “Thank God…for ev-y-ting!”  Couldn’t have said it better myself, baby girl.  Wise beyond her years!

So we’re all good—busy, but great!  We have a couple crazy weekends coming up…trips to the cabin, a trip to Chicago to visit auntie Brenna (which we are soooooooo excited about), and another trip to Fifty Lakes, this time with all of my sister’s kids in tow.  I really wish I didn’t have to work all summer long, so I could just soak it all in! 

Wishing you all a fabulous and safe summer!