Great Grandpa and Grandma Sweatland's

On Sunday Jack and I went to church and then we headed to Great Grandparent Sweatlands for a family lunch. Jack had a great time with some of the toys that Jake played with when he was little, especially the Noah's ark. He was a good boy all day and showed off his scooting. Aunt Judi tried to show him how to crawl, but he just wasn't ready yet :)

Jack and Great Grandpa


Jack and Auntie Emily

Auntie Rachel

Great Grandma and Grandpa and Jack

Great Aunt Judi, Great Uncle Doug, and Uncle Mike

We had a great time! Thank you to all of the family that could make it over to see us!! We are looking forward to seeing you all at Christmas.

Grandma and Grandpa Sweatland's house

Jack and I went home to Indiana over Labor Day, we flew in on Friday to Ohio and drove to Indiana that afternoon. On Saturday Jack and I went down to visit Grandma and Grandpa Sweatland, Jack was very excited about all of the animals, he loved watching them, especially the chickens. I was not prepared for the cold weather in Indiana, it got down to the 50''s. Which was beautiful.
Jack and the goats
Grandpa and Jack and the cows.

Grandma and Grandpa and Jack

We went to go get a sweatsuit in the afternoon because Jack was cold and we were going to go the auction that evening. Here is Jack with Mike from the auction.

Jack helping Grandpa sell things :)

Jack and Grandma

Grandpa and Jack, in their matching Elmo's

It was great to see Grandma and Grandpa, we can't wait to see them again!

9 months

Wow, 9 months, that is 3/4 of a year, I can't believe time has gone so fast. This weekend to celebrate we went to the aquarium and beach down at Fort Fisher, and we went out for seafood with some friends. We had a great time! Jack was very interested in the aquarium and loved all the fish, he took a nap at the beach and had a good time at dinner and even ate some Red Snapper.

Here are daddy and Jack with the big fish

The Alligators



Jack and an Atlantic sea turtle, the sea turtle was 1 year old and soon to be released into the wild
I love this picture



My favorite exhibit, can you see the sea horses?

Jack and I at the beach

We LOVE this picture of Jack being surprised :)

Jack in his big boy car seat.

9 months old!

So this month Jack has gotten alot of personality, he has really been showing us how happy he is and he lets us know when he wants something.

He talks all the time now! He has his own language and we think it occassionally includes bad words...or at least angry words, the only time he makes them is involving food :) Usually when he wants more of it.

He loves to eat. He eats anything we put in front of him. This month we have started many new foods. Salmon, red snapper, chicken, turkey, beans, tomatoe, cheese, taco meat, bread, crackers. He has also perfected feeding himself. He can pick up even small things and get them to his mouth, he doesn't really like to feed himself mushy things like banana. Up to this month we have been feeding him dinner at night and otherwise he has just been nursing usually at 4-5 am, 8-9, 12-1, 5, and before bed. But now I am going to start feeding him twice a day consistently. He drinks water out of his sippy cup or from a straw, we have given his prune juice, to help deal with constipation issues that he has. We have to be very careful with what Jack eats to make sure he doesn't get too constipated, he went almost 5 days this month without going, so I have been very careful since then.

Look how big he is!

We have an appointment on the 10th to see what his weight and height are. We think that he weighs around 23-24 pounds and he has really gotten taller this month, but I have no idea how tall.

He is still sleeping from 8pm to about 5 usually, sometimes only till 3:30, but then he goes back to sleep until 8 or 9. I am really ready to get rid of the middle of the night feeding, but he always just eats and then goes back to sleep, so I am going to try the higher calorie intake during the day with the extra feeding to see if that helps with the sleep. Some weeks he sleeps well for multiple nights in a row, there doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason to why he does or doesn't sleep well. Napping has improved, he usually takes one good nap 1-2 hours and one shorter nap about 45 min. We are down to just 2 naps.

Isn't he so cute, here he is saying hey guys, look how cute I am. He still loves to play. He loves his toys, especially things that you can put things in and out of and makes noise. He is loving books too, soft books, plastic books, and board books. He is doing well sitting in the bath like a big boy.

He is wearing all 12-18 month clothes. His hair is rally coming in and comes over his ears a little bit, it is brown with a little red. His eyes are turning a green/hazel color. He has a great smile! He now has 7 teeth, with 3 more on the way.

Movement wise he isn't crawling yet, he still scoots on his bottom. It takes great interest in something to get him to scoot towards it.

He has also become a belly sleeper. He pretty much always sleeps that way.


Autie Carrie came by for a few days this week. We had a good time together just hanging out and seeing the Loar family.

Hope you have enjoyed our 9 month update, only a few more until we hit 1 year!

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 :)