stuffed animals

Well, Jack is almost 16 months old and he has recently been making some big strides in his gross motor development. He has started climbing, standing up on anything, trying to stand up from the sitting position, and standing for a few seconds on his own without falling. So he is on his way to walking, we are hoping it happens before daddy goes away, but we'll see, we don't want to rush him, he will do it when he is ready (not that we could rush him if we wanted to :)

So I love stuffed animals, and before I had Jack if Kohls was selling books with stuffed animals I couldn't help from buying them, so Jack has quite a collection of stuffed animals. He has never been too interested in them, but just the other day he found them and got in the middle of a big pile of them and started hugging all of them. He loves his giant dog from grandma and grandpa sweatland (he woofs at it now) it was too cute to not take pictures. Enjoy!
Thrilled by all his new friends!

Hugging his Doggie

Ohh, what happened look

Aww....

tickled

These are better in reverse order...this is jack playing, me getting out the camera, him getting excited and coming after the camera...

Oh, good mommy you got the camera for me...

ohh yeah...getting closer

Excited face and hands....here he comes

What's going on mommy?
He is allowed to play with the plastic cups...he loves to pretend drink from them

He is sooo cute!!! we love him soo much. God has blessed us with such a happy little guy. He has been sick again this week, but just a virus we hope....no screaming so we don't think his ears are bothering him...he has been sleeping better still. last night from 8 to 7:30 (yea for mommy)

Jake is at the Bataan Death March this weekend competing with the team from Ft Bragg. There are 5 of them doing a 26 mile ruck through the desert, so if you think of him on Sunday morning, I'm sure he could use your prayers.

And you could pray for me, it's my trial run Sunday without Jake here...it will be interesting. He has really been there for me on Sundays by taking care of Jack, helping with my Power Point, helping with skits, etc. But God knows, He has it under control.

I will post about Bataan when Jake gets back with the camera.

fun times

Standing like a big boy

chasing the camera

In our PJs

We recently went on an overnight trip to Wilmington. It was really awesome! We went downtown and got good food. We went to Fort Fisher (a very important fort from revolutionary and civil war history) as well as the aquarium, and the battleship :)

we also got a kelty! (backpack for bigger kids)

jack loves it, but he loves to pull my hair too (we're working on that)

Jack loves!!! the aquarium, we stood at the fish tanks for a very long time and he really wanted to hug the fish! Fish is also one of our new words.

sharp!

we think that he thinks we're being silly

on the battleship USS North Carolina

Jack is doing better now, we are on some new ATB and he has slept well for 2 nights in a row...we'll see how tonight goes, maybe make it 3.

he is standing and spidering around the house, but no walking on his own yet. He did climb a step all on his own yesterday. He is talking alot now, he says:

ball, mama, dada, papa, gaba (grandma), woof woof, please, thank you, this, fish, light, stop it (i say this if he is screaming or when i want him to stop something, and now he says it to his toys), he says something that sounds like obey which would be wonderful, but we think it means okay.

His communication is really improving. He still points and is very sure of what he wants.

he is still eating almost everything, but he is having food stubbornness occasionally, he just won't eat something one day that he loved the day before, but we just let it go (not worth the fight at this point since we still can't really communicate) usually, most of the time he just eats around the object he doesn't want...

he has not been sleeping well, but we are hoping it was related to the sickness and lingering ear infection. He has been napping once a day now consistently for 1.5-3 hours. We still go to bed at about 7:30-8.

He can sit and stand now all he wants so he doesn't get stuck standing up in his crib anymore, which is nice.

One last thing before I head to bed. Can I just say how many germs he can now get into....wow! trash, anything on the floor, dirt...thank the Lord for a good immune system!

Thanks for reading!!!