7 months

Jack turned 7 months old on Thursday. He has learned so many new tricks this past month. We went to Children's hospital on Wednesday to have his heart murmur checked out. After being there for over 2 hours and having a lot of doctors and nurses listen to him, as well as have an echo and and EKG done, they determined that everything is fine. Yes, he does have a murmur, but it is innocent and nothing to worry about. Chances are he will outgrow it. We had his Christmas pictures taken today. I can't wait to see how they turned out. Despite Jack's runny nose and scratches on his face, Melinda seemed to get a bunch of cute pictures.

Here are some of Jack's stats:

- He weighs 18.1 lbs and is 28 inches long.

- He sleeps from about 7:45 pm to 6:00 am. Lately though he is moaning a lot in his sleep, so even though he is not awake, Kevin and I are!

- He still wears size 2 diapers.

- He wears a variety of sizes of clothes. If it is a two piece outfit, it is 6 months. If it is a one piece it is 9 or 12. He wears 9 month pajamas.

- He is crawling. He started this the beginning of the month. Every day he is getting faster and faster.

- He can pull himself up on the couch, however, he doesn't know what to do once he is up and falls very easily.

- He still does not have any teeth.

- He eats 6 times a day. An 8 oz bottle when he wakes up. Cereal and a stage 2 fruit at 8:00. At 11:00, he has a 5 oz. bottle and a vegetable. A 5 oz. bottle at 3:00 with some puffs. Dinner is at 5:30 with a fruit and a vegetable. Finally an 8 oz. bottle at bed time. For now this is working but I have a feeling it will change again soon!

- He makes lots of noises including mamama and dadada but has no idea what they mean.

- He still loves his blanket and pacifier. They are his comfort items.

- He loves things with tags but does not like the taggie blankets.

I tried really hard to take his picture, but he wasn't having it. I will keep trying. It is so much harder, now that he is on the move. Stay tuned for a sneak peek of the pictures that were taken today and I will keep trying for some official 7 month pictures!

MIA

I know it has been a while since I posted anything, but we have all been sick and typing on the computer is the last thing I have wanted to do. It all started last weekend with Kevin getting sick. Then by Sunday night, Jack had it and I really don't remember what day I started feeling yucky, but it was sometime this week. Jack ended up going to the doctor Monday morning because his eyes were stuck shut. I was sure it was pink eye, but the doctor said it was just bacteria from his cold. She gave us some drops. His eyes are better but he still has a terrible cough. Kevin and I are better, but still tired because we aren't sleeping well at night!

In other news, Jack is crawling!!! He started on Monday at school and he hasn't stopped since. He loves if you toss something across the room and then he will crawl to it. It has been so much fun watching him figure it out.

Other than that, not much else is new. Just trying to get better!

I know I never posted his Halloween pics...so here you go...enjoy!

Our friendly little dragon!

His scary monster shirt!