The Story on Morning Glory

In the past month or so, I've become quite the coupon clipper.  Blame it on boredom, write it off as a stay-at-home mommy thing...I don't know.  All I know is that I've always loved a good deal, and now I'm in love with coupons! 

I was just telling my mom about my cute little strawberry that had turned red over the weekend, and she said it's probably ready to eat!  So I went outside to pluck that adorable berry and taste the goodness God had gown in my backyard, when I found this.  

Jack is 8 months now....8 months!  I can't believe it. 


Anyways, I've read at 8 months, babies can start eating meat.  Now, meat has a much tougher texture than other fruits and veggies they've been eating, so you have to either buy it in the jar (oh-em-gee, no thank you...that's like dogfood, ya'll!) or make your own chicken baby food.  I'm always up for a challenge, and really, how hard can it be, let's do it! 

It was great.  I wish I had more pics, but of course, I don't.  When will I learn!

Jack gave me some cool crafty things that I'll show you later, and he Jeff transcribed the sweetest card from him!  :)

At church they made these adorable Mother's Day crafts!  I know Susan was in charge...she's my craftiest friend.  PS I had some problems scanning it....my scanner was being a freak and wouldn't scan the whole thing...that's why his name is chopped off...but you get the point...

Do you ever think back on points in your like and think, "Gosh, I was so prideful, and just a selfish, rude person!  Man, I'm glad I'm not that way anymore!" and then really sit back and think, "Um, yeah I am," and sit further back and think about all the times that same day that I did stupid things, thought I was better than I was, acted like I owned the world. 

I'm just saying...thank you Lord for those wake up calls.

Remember back here where Jack got his first tooth?  And it was so exciting!  And still is.  They're growing in and you can really see them!  I just can't imagine what he'll look like with a mouth full of teeth!  I'm kinda sad to see the toothless baby go, but teeth are, for whatever reason, an exciting milestone!

Anyways, we're working on the top two front teeth now...and it's been a beating.  Jack is such a happy baby!  So content...until teething enters the picture.  And this makes him a very unhappy baby.  Poor thing!  I can only imagine what it feels like to get teeth (thank the Lord we don't have to remember) but it's obviously very uncomfortable! 

The teething waves kinda come and go.  We're in the middle of the longest one yet for this set.  It started Sunday...and hasn't stopped!  I checked his mouth on Sunday (which is no small feat) and could see the white nub that I just knew was going to pop on through that day!  Well, I still see the white nub. 

I put him down for a nap at 8:45 and he's been struggling to go to sleep ever since...and as I type it's 9:45!!  Prayers for Jack, that he can rest and that that tooth will do it's job and get on out here!

1.  Peeking over the crib rail to see Jack's face light up when he sees me...even if he was fussing 3 seconds before!
2.  Listening to him learn his voice...it's loud, no doubt!  I think he'll be a talker.
3.  Watching Jack learn how to use new toys, and learn how to use old toys differently.  There are a few toys that he got for Christmas that he played with then, and is still playing with now, but he's totally figured out how to use them, where as before, he didn't really get it.  It is consistently amazing to see how God forms us.
4.  Watching Jeff be a daddy.
5.  Hugging and squeezing Jack while he laughs.
6.  Hearing Jack laugh at his daddy from the other room.
7.  Introducing him to new foods.  His latest and greatest is pasta!  I cooked up some whole wheat spiral pasta and he noms on a few spirals at dinner each night...and he loves it!!
8.  Playing peek a boo...his favorite game!  In fact, Jack loves to be startled!  We have his jumparoo in a door way that you can access from two halls.  So he might be facing one way when we walk out of the room and so we walk in the room from the other hall and say boo...he LOVES it!  Jumps up and down like crazy, screaming like a banshee!!
9.  Watching Jack squirm around on the floor, trying to figure out this whole crawling thing...
10.  Saying bed time prayers and kissing him goodnight.

Friday afternoon we packed up the house, put it in the car, strapped Jack into his big boy car seat (which I'm still not sure he loves) and started the 2.5 hour drive down to Palestine for the weekend.  I grew up in Palestine...the East Texas one...not like Middle East one...and you're probably only pronouncing it correctly if you live in Texas. 

Jack is a pretty good traveler, slept about half of the way and just played for the rest...which is a far cry from our first trip to Palestine back in October where he basically just cried the whole way.  Ugh.  Glaaaaaaaaaad we're past that stage!  

We had a great weekend hanging out with my dad, Barbara and Grandpa. 

Didn't do much, ate a lot, visited a lot, and went out to the lake!  Jack took his first trip out on a boat and watched Jeff, Dad and Barbara fish...ate some grass...you know, nothing big!