7 Months

Its hard to believe that Jackson turned 7 months earlier this week.  Every day he seems to do something new and manages leave us in amazement as to how much he has grown over these past 7 months.  Two weeks ago we were finally able to get Jackson's 6 month appointment taken care of. He is not a big fan of the shots...he is all smiles until we get into the room and its like he knows what is going to happen because the melt down starts before we even lay him on the table.  Thankfully the tears don't last too long and he isn't the worst to deal with after.  The charts showed that he is way more active than he was at 4 months.  As of two weeks ago the little man is now weighing in at 18.5 lbs and is 27 inches tall! Up until this appointment Jack has always been around the 70% for height/weight/head circumference but at this appointment he moved down into the 50-60% for weight.

Here are some things that Jackson has been up to:
- he LOVES to eat with us at meal times! and we love watching him explore new foods and figure out how to eat them
- Getting read to is one of his favorite things.  We let him pick out what book we read at bedtime and he is always super excited about it....sometimes to excited and he tries to eat the book but we are working on that!
- He is getting closer and closer to crawling and navigates all around our living room.
- He is full of love, smiles, laughter and so so much more.  He really does make Josiah & I the luckiest people ever!
- He is very, very shy around new people or larger groups at first but he usually warms up to them pretty quickly
- He is understanding words more and more...."No Jackson" comes out of my mouth many times a day and sometimes he actually listens for a few minutes!
- He has also started giving kisses and snuggles/hugs to us....he really is super sweet and knows just when one of us could use some snuggles
- Our doctor has told us we are extremely lucky because Jackson has been sleeping for about 12 hours straight at night since he has been 4 months old...there have been a few nights this hasn't happened but they had to do with his teething and not feeling well

 He loves to Skype with people...most of the time :)

 He kept bouncing up & down on the horse!

 He loved his Halloween costume and didn't mind trick-or-treating

Here it is

Now that we are officially at 20 weeks I thought I would unveil our baby boy's name.

In case you forgot you can read about all the name options in the Explanation of Names post

While Josiah and I were Skyping we decided to talk about the 2 boy names we were thinking about.  We both were hoping we would decide on 1 name but we were both ok with not being able to decide until the baby was born.  Well it took us a whopping 2 minutes to agree on a name. We both love the name, the reason behind the name and the potential nicknames.

Our baby boy's name is Jackson Henry

Best Week Of The Month

This week has seemed to be eventful and crazy but yet some what relaxed Yes I know that doesn't make much sense But the best part of this week was getting to Skype with the Man!!  Some of you may be thinking its not that great of a thing or gag but it really was the best part of the ENTIRE month!  Before Monday & Tuesday's Skype dates I hadn't seen the Man's face or heard the sound of his voice since September...in case you forgot November is now half over with!  We were lucky enough to be able to Skype for 3 hours between the two days the last time we Skyped it was only for an hour and the internet was HORRIBLE. 


Best Parts Of The Date:
- Seeing the Man's face
- Hearing his voice
- Seeing his face when he saw my baby bump for the first time he has only seen the weekly pictures I have taken before this
- Deciding on a baby name for OUR baby boy
- Talking about the future and how lucky we are even though we have/will spend 90% of 2011 apart

Sorry if this made you all gag from the sappiness, I am blaming it on the hormones!  I really can't wait for him to get home.

Skype Date

Sunday & Monday I was lucky enough to be able to have a Skype date with the Man.  Who would have thought hearing someone's voice and seeing their face could make someone so happy.  Before this Skype date I had not heard the Man's voice or saw his face since July for anyone that thinks that is not a long time it really is Now we didn't get to Skype all day or anything like that but we did get to talk for about a total of 2 hours.  And let me tell you it was a much needed 2 hours for both of us.  The Man and I both agree that the very rare Skype dates we do get to have are bittersweet...LOVE seeing and talking to each other but hate saying good bye again Lucky for us we both agree that the positive out weighs the negative big time.  

So for this I am grateful for the very rare Skype dates I have and will get to have with the Man while he is gone.