Jackson's 10 Months!!!

Today Jackson celebrates another monthly birthday Jackson is now 10 month’s old!!! We are making a lot of progress, he’s finally signing back to me!!! He know how to sign, “milk”, “all done”, and blow kisses. He’s still not walking but he will take a few steps when you hold his hand in front. He is a self praiser and likes to praise himself when HE feels like he’s done a good job. And while we probably won’t have to worry about self-esteem issues, we may have someone who may be too assure of himself – but hey confidence isn’t a bad thing. Our method of praise is “yay” with a hand clap and boy does he love this!

He has added “stop”, “pup pup” to his vocabulary. He loves to tell us “stop” and with attitude when we tell him “stop” as he’s doing something he’s not supposed to do. I’ve got him pretty well trained when I yell his name or say it with force I sometimes don’t even have to say stop, he’ll just automatically say it for me. Now, most of the time he stops what he’s doing but then goes right back and does it again but we are making progress:-)

Dirty Looks...Just for Play?

All those that have been around Jackson over the past several months has seen his famous dirty look. At first he was just doing it for fun, now he knows how to use it in context. It's funny because he'll even play with you, if you give him a dirty look he'll give you one right back. He'll go back and forth dirty look, release to a smile, dirty look, smile.

Trip to San Antonio

Jackson and I drove down to San Antonio for my nephew's birthday. This was my first time driving a long distance (4.5 hrs) with Jackson by myself. Jarvis stayed behind because he had tickets to see a UFC fight and the Cowboy game in the new statium.

As you folks with children know, we become a slave to our children's schedule so it was important that we leave during jackson's nap time so I could get as much driving done while he was sound asleep. The plan was successful and he slept for the firs 2.5 hours. By the time he woke up we stopped so I could change him and feed him. Then back on the road for another 2 hrs. Well he wasn't so excited about that. He fussed for about 15 min then miraculously fell asleep again!! I guess the ride was too relaxing for him in the end or was tired of fussing and realized he couldn't get out.

We had a great time in San Antonio at Chuck E Cheese. I guess that will be us someday...parties for Jackson at Chuck E Cheese. At least jarvis and I love the pizza there! After the party we went to meet one of my best friends from high school and her mom. Jackson was excited to see them and it was great catching up with auntie april and her mom. The drive back was much of the same but we stopped off for a nice treat at the Kolache Bakery!

Jackson is Dedicated to the Lord

Soo sad about this one as we do not have one single picture!!! We were too busy rushing out the door to make it to church and then when we got there everyone, including our friends and family, were in the pulpit for the dedication. Jackson had a very cute outfit from his Ne Ne (Jarvis' mom) that he wore. He was also on his best behavior, but no surprise with that. Our Pastor wrote a nice poem that we will treasure as Jackson gets older. We felt so blessed to share this momement with our friends and family that were able to join. Here are a few pics with his cousin Karys...

Jackson's Play Dates!

So for all our blog readers, we are of course behind in the blog, but catching up quickly...

Jackson had more play dates this weekend. First we went over to Noah's house for some Friday afternoon fun. Noah and Jackson played very well together, no fighting just sharing and pushing up on each other... well Jackson did most of the pushing:-)

Then Monday for labor day we invited Miss Zoe and her parents over for lunch. We met Zoe at Gymboree and come to find out her parents are good friends with some friends of ours from cincinnati, small world!! Jackson is such a loving person, he greeted Zoe with kisses and many times tried to yell and scream in excitment at her... to which Zoe showed no interest:-) All I have to say is You go Zoe...Let the boys chase you...

And Low and Behold, We Have Teeth!

At 9 mo, 3 wks, Jackson's teeth have finally started to emerge. I know you are not supposed to get caught up in those developmental milestones, but I have to admit it's hard not to. So since 7 months, I've been looking, asking the doctor is there any sign and now they are here. I probably would not have known for a while because he has been his normal self, still sleeping through the night, not iritable, no excessive drooling but when I went to put him to last night he put my finger in his mouth and I was like "whoah, what's this scratching me?" In my excitement, bedtime quickly ended so we could go show daddy. Then in normal fashion the Boyds made a song out of the milestone, well Momma Boyd did..."you gotta teethusus, you gotta gotta gotta teethusus." Then the next day I noticed his second one was cutting! So I am hoping this is how he will be, calm, cool and collected. Now on to walking:-)

P.S. No pictures yet, it's been difficult to get them with his mouth open.

Jackson Learns to Swim

We have enrolled Jackson in a baby swim class through Emler Swim, which teaches babies through the age of 5 how to swim. He has the cutest little trunks, babies still in diapers are required to wear two pairs of swim trunks so if the first pair doesn't catch his business, they second one will... don't think he'll be excited to wear these speedo type briefs when he's 20 but they are cute now:-) At his age, he's in the waterbabies class so there is not a ton of backstroke or freestyle practice but they are learning to hold their breath under water, become acustomed to the water and how to get out quickly if they ever fell in. Jackson absolutely loves the water! He's not afraid, he kicks and plays and when I'm busy trying to get him to follow our instructor he drinks the water...I know, not so appetizing but I am constantly trying to keep him above water to prevent the swallowing. Now if I could just get him to drink plain water from a bottle!


Slide action...