Since Hawaii

We have been busy since we got back from hawaii spending time with friends, spending family time together, here are some pics from the last few weeks.

My new haircut

I had a job interview this week, it went well, it was nice to get all dressed up in my suit.
All dressed up for my interview



My friend Jenny sent Jack a GI Joe, He loves it!

Kicking GI Joe

The GI Joe makes noises when you push a button or move his arm. He is so proud when he makes it make noise.
Jack with GI Joe

some cute pics. jack has been loving books lately
Bedtime storytime with Daddy





Blowing Rasberries, so cute

Some of our friends have a boat in Carolina Lakes, here are Ian and Jake with Jack
On the lake

At the pool, Jack loves the water now, and our friends gave us this float that their boys grew out of.

Pool with Luke and Nicole

Jack and I are headed home to Indiana next week to see Uncle Trent and all of the family in Indiana. But we will try to put up a 9 month update before we go.

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North Shore Day

Let me just say that I missed Hawaii very much and when we got to the North Shore I remembered what we LOVED most about it!



Jake and I driving in the jeep with the top down after a day at the beach and some good food and friends.



Or the girls going to our beach after church, so many wonderful memories.



Here is the beautiful view




Of course now going is alot more complicated...

Here are Jessi and I with the babies and all of our stuff!





Jack's super cute bottom, he is borrowing a swimmie diaper from Holden and it is a little too small...

Caedmon, Jack, Nora, and Holden

At Haleiwa Eats, we tried to go a second time while I was there, but it was closed, so this was the only time we got there, the babies did really well.

Jack and I

Jack showing off his funny self and if you dont' recognize that look on Nora's face I believe I have a few pictures of her mommy with those eyes!

I dont' know why this pic is upside down...oh well, cute anyway, Nora trying out the high chair

We have had some fun things going on since we got back, we went to the mall in Raleigh, had a pool day and spent Sunday at the lake with some new friends. Jack is doing well and we are heading home to Indiana over Labor Day weekend because Uncle Trent is coming back to the mainland for the first time in a year and a half.

Day 2

On our second day we went to McDonalds for breakfast because Mike and Jessi like to go there on Saturday mornings, I got to dress the twins and I loved dressing Nora, notice the big bow on her head :)

We spent the day at home trying to get Jack on a little bit of a schedule and catching up.


Jack with the mesh feeder, he loves to feed himself

Swinging at Auntie Jessi's. Jack liked swinging so much that we got a swing for our house here on our swingset. He really loved it. I am trying to post a video of him laughing, i don't know if it will work. Hope you are enjoying our Hawaii pics :)

First Day in Hawaii

On our first day in Hawaii Jack met his Uncle Trent for the first time. Uncle Trent helped with dinner and bath time. Jack really loves Trent and they had a good time together.


Jack and Trent

Trent brought Jack this bear, he loves it!

We got up early that morning to go run. This is Ko Olina in the early morning, it was sooo great to be back.

Jack and I that morning. I had a really good time running at Ko Olina most mornings. Some of the mornings I was able to run with Jenny, which was great!

Trip to Hawaii

The beginning of my Hawaii posts. Here are daddy and Jack before we left for Auntie Jessi's mom's house :)

We stayed with Jessi's Mom and stepdad the night before our trip so that we could then get up and wonderful Megan Barbre took us to the airport so that I didn't have to pay for parking.

We were only about 1:20 away from the airport that way because we flew in and out of Charlotte. It was a straight flight which was great!



The flight went really well, Jack was sooo good. And I will just say I had been praying for a while that I would have an empty seat next to me. So I went up to the lady at the counter and asked her about a possible empty seat, she was not very nice, but I smiled and walked away. A new lady came to help later and I went up to the counter and asked her about an empty seat, she was very nice and moved Jack and I so we had an empty seat next to us. It was a huge answer to prayer and it made the flight much easier. No empty seat on the way home, but at that flight was at night so we didn't really need it because he slept most of the way.

Here we are after we arrived and were picked up by Jessi and the twins :)




We met up with Jenny Watson (my wonderful friend from Kentucky who is now in Hawaii) and her sister for a snack and then on to Jessi's. Jack did very well for all of it and stayed awake until about 6 Hawaii time 12 midnight our time, then he went to bed and really got on a pretty good schedule very quickly.

Here are the babies playing after arriving at Jessi's




More Hawaii pics to come :)

Photo shoot with grandparents and great grandma

Before Grandma and Grandpa and Greatgrandma left we needed to get some pictures, so here they are.

Jack and Great Grandma


My three favorite men

Family shot

All of us :)

grandma and grandpa and Jack

Fourth of July

I am usually not too domestic, and I usually don't bake more than cookies or brownies, but for the fourth I wanted to make a cake. It was a box mix, but I was very proud of my frosting job :)




We had a cookout after church and the boys played horseshoes. Our old friend Matt Murowski came up for the weekend and we did some bike riding and had a good time with him as he met Jack for the first time. The Plotts' came over and the McConnell's. We had a great time!



Megan and the boys with the swing set. The boys call the double swing the space ship :)




Fireworks, Our own small version. It was pretty funny to see the big boys playing with fireworks. They loved it just as much as the little boys loved the sparklers. We did go see the big fireworks on base that night.

Jack and I

Eight Months Old

I have lots of blogging to catch up on, like an entire month, but I wanted to make sure I post Jack's 8 month updates.



Jack and I spent most of the last month in Hawaii. We had a great time!!!



But I will leave that for future blog posts.



Jack turned 8 months old the day we got back from Hawaii. He is doing really really well. He is talking, scooting, eating, laughing, and is very fun.



He loves to play!



He is sleeping well between 12 and 14 hours with 1 feeding. He sleeps on his back most of the time, but has recently started sleeping on his side and belly occasionally. He doesn't fit in any one piece sleepers anymore so we have moved on to seperate pj's.



I am still nursing him about 4 times a day and he can go up to 6 hours now between feedings. He is eating babyfood, fruit, puffs, and cheerios. I feed him real food once a day at dinner time and fruit in the morning. He loves to eat, he will never turn down food. He is still growing like crazy.

In this picture he is wearing his 18 month overalls. His shoes are size 3 and would fit, except that his feet are too chubby. No shoes really fit him.







I would guess that he weighs about 21 or 22 pounds and he is very tall. He seems to be built like Jake, he has a long torso and long legs too. He carries most of his weight in his legs and lower half. We say he is bottom heavy :)



classic Jack face



He makes all sorts of faces now. He is very expressive. He makes faces that definitely are soo excited, surprised, mad face, pick me up face and he raises his arms to be picked up. He is making all sorts of noises.

He loves to laugh, sometimes he will be in a room by himself playing and he will start laughing because something he did tickled him. He has a great laugh and loves to be thrown up in the air. He also now rocks his body when he is excited. He sits on his bottom and starts rocking, it's soo cute. We love him so much.



He is saying Daddy (his real first word), Doggy, kitty, duck, Jack (or a form of jack)

He still sucks his fingers for comfort, but not as much. He can drink from a straw or a sippy cup now.



Movement wise he can scoot on his bottom on wood floors, but on the carpet he is rolling and reaching for things. He can go from sitting to his belly, he is really close to crawling.



He has 7 teeth now, 3 on the bottom and 4 on the top.



He is soo much fun. He loves toys. He can play for up to an hour just sitting with his toys. He is very methodical. He will pick up a toy, look at all sides of it, move all the moving parts, chew on it, and then put it behind him and move onto another toy. He still loves his jumper and he now has a swing on the swingset that he enjoys.



He is in the big boy stroller now and moving up to the big boy car seat this week.


Hope you enjoyed this update





Hope you enjoyed this Jack update, more to come this week dating back to 4th of July.