Pictures!

Okay, I am finally putting some pictures up. No, none of them are from graduation because we cant find where they were saved on the external hard drive so these are just some pictures that we have taken over the past little while.
Jackson absolutely loves his bath. One Sunday while we were getting ready for church he kept trying to climb into his tub. Andrew finally just sat him in it and that kept him happy until we were ready to go. He has now graduated to the BIG tub and boy does he love it! He realized a couple of days ago that he can crawl around and lay down in the tub so he takes full advantage of that. He also takes full advantage of drinking the water. Yeah, some battles just aren't worth fighting.

Just a happy boy!

He knows exactly where his toys are at and if he isnt happy with the ones he already has out he will go and grab his baskets and pull ALL of the toys out. Yeah, not such a fun game but it sure gives us a laugh.

Jackson posing with his "ugly" monkey. This is one of his absolute favorite toys. We think it is because he likes to chew on the legs, arms and tail. Plus it still has the tag on it and he LOVES tags.

Jacksons other favorite toy. For some reason he absolutely loves my pump. We try to keep it up out of reach but occasionally he will find it. He loves playing with the tubing.

One day while we were at work, we were playing in the back and I had to go help a customer so I let Jackson stay back there. WhenI got back he was trying to climb over the diaper bag (yeah dont know why he didnt go around it). He started to get really frustrated because he was high centered and couldnt get off. I had to get a picture of it because it was too funny. The best part was seeing his legs high in the air. Still makes me laugh (does that make me a bad mom?)

These are my great grandpas sheep this year. The picture is kind of far away, but you get the idea. This was actually really funny. Andrew and I were working in the garden and the 5 sheep would take like 2 steps closer to us and then stop and stare.

The Long Awaited Update

I know! It has been quite awhile since we have updated our blog! A LOT has been happening around here. First off, both our families came into town 2 weeks ago for Andrews graduation! He did it!! It was great to see him walk across the stage and get the empty folder. It was also so much fun to have both of our families here. We had a blast with them. We have pictures but they are all on the external hard drive and I dont know how to get them off so Andrew will have to update again. Now on to finding a job that we feel he should take. He has had a couple of offers but none of them were right so he keeps on applying and interviewing with different school districts. Who knows where we will end up in the fall.
Jackson turned 7 months on the 1st. I can't believe how time has flown (I know, everybody says that). He is eaing all sorts of baby foods now but he prefers whatever we have on our plate (tomatoes, cucumbers and strawberries are some of his favorites). He has also started crawling!! He has been moving and rolling and scooting for quite awhile, but he finally figured out how to move his arms and legs at the same time together. Being even more mobile he can get into more things but it is so cute to watch him crawl. Now he is now working on climbing up on things and standing up by himself. If we are sitting on the floor he will crawl over and climb up on us. Evidently we are now his jungle gyms. We have been trying to get video of him crawling but everytime we turn the camera on he stops and smiles. Hes such a ham.
Well I think that that is all of the exciting things going on right now. Life in general is just keeping us busy. Ill have Andrew put pictures up on the blog tomorrow.

New Family Pics by Emily!

Wahoo! Blue Easter Eggs!

So this morning we had an easter egg hunt where Jackson had to pick up all of the eggs and put them in his pail. It was a lot of fun. The very first egg he found was the blue egg. It went right in his mouth. Because it was a colored egg, thats exactly where the blue dye stayed...on his mouth! haha it was pretty fun. Here are some pictures of our hunt.

Preparations for Easter

So today we started preparing for Easter by coloring eggs and also painting Jackson's Easter pail. We had a lot of fun, Jackson even helped put the eggs in the cups, and he tried to help paint, but of course he wanted to eat the paintbrush. First here are the pictures of painting the pail.

Now here are the ones from us dying the easter eggs.

Portland Job Fair

So this last weekend we went to Oregon for Andrew to go to the Teacher Fair in Portland. We flew into Portland and then we drove down to Medford to stay the weekend there and on Monday Andrew set up a couple of interviews with Medford and Central Point School Districts, then we went up to Portland and he had a lot of really good interviews, but because of budget cuts the districts arent hiring much yet. So we will find out more here at the end on May.

We stayed two days in Portland and the second day there we just hung out in Portlnad going to a couple of different places like the OMSI and saw the exhibit on DaVinci and Powells bookstore which is huge. Not just like "borders at the local mall" huge but like "the size of the mall where borders is at" huge! It was awesome to see tons of old and new books! We ended up buying Jackson a couple of books which he absolutely loves!

I think the most ironic thing was that while we were in Oregon it didnt rain at all, even while we were in Portland! But as soon as we landed in dry Utah it was pouring rain! haha

Anyways, here are some pictures from our trip.

Hes on the move!

So between scooting backwards (still hasnt figured out forwards but we know hes close because he gets up on all fours and rocks back and forth) and rolling (he has decided it is okay to roll to his back) he is getting into all sorts of trouble. The first picture Andrew laid Jack on his back on our bed while he was putting his shoes on. Jack rolled over and kept scooting backwards into our pillows. The other picture Jack rolled all around and ended up underneath the bassinet! Oh that kid!

Bath pictures

These are from a couple of nights ago. As I was giving Jackson a bath and washing his hair he managed to wiggle to the side of the bathtub silly boy! Doesnt look very comfortable but he was happy!

What a day!

Today after I ran a couple of errands I came home and was changing Jacks diaper. Right as I was about to put the fresh diaper on he starts to pee! He sat there smiling at me and thought it was kind of funny. So after he finishes peeing and leaving my sofa wet I put him in the bath. After the bath I put him on my bed to lotion him up and dress him. Well, right after I move his towel to put his diaper on what does he do? HE PEES! AGAIN!! Oh my goodness! Now I have a wet comforter! I finish getting him dressed and put him in his jumper. I throw my comforter and sofa cover into the wash. I come back to find he had pooped and it had come out of the diaper! All this happened within like 20 minutes! Holy cow! So another change of clothes and we are good! Let me tell you though, that was crazy!

After our pee/poop incident I moved our coffee table and laid blankets on the floor so he could roll around and play while I was folding and putting away laundry. This is what happened. He went from being in the middle of the blankets to being by the door. I guess he wanted to get away.

Laughing Jackson

So tonight we captured Jackson laughing and we thought it was pretty funny.

Graduation Pictures By Emily!

So as we have been talking about in our last couple of posts, my friend Emily did some more family pictures and pictures for graduation. First we went to her Mom's house and did some pictures there, mostly of Jackson but we did some of the family then we went to BYU and took some graduation pictures for Andrew. She is so talented!! Here is a preview of some of the pictures that she did:

Happenings

Well, not to much has happened this past week. Basically I have done lots of laundry, Andrew went to a teacher career fair (turned out very well) and Jackson well he just eats plays and sleeps anyways so nothing changed there.

Yesterday was a teacher career fair at BYU. Andrew went to it and was even offered a job on the spot! How great is that? He should be getting some more job offers after April 1st once the school districts know what positions they have open (that is when the teachers have to say whether or not they are returning). He said that basically every school district he talked to was very interested in him and a couple even said that they want to offer him a job but have to wait. The job offer that he did get was up in Idaho. Idaho=COLD! So we will wait and see what else comes about. We are going up to Portland, Oregon the beginning of April for another teacher fair so we will see what comes about there. We are really excited! Things are looking really good for him getting a job in a place that we would like so thats good!

Jackson started scooting backwards last week or this week. I cant really remember. Anyways, its really funny because he will see a toy that he wants that is in front of him and he starts pushing backwards and gets frustrated because he cant get to his toy. He has definitely mastered going backwards- now just for the forwards part. He also gets into sticky situations when I turn my head for a second. He managed to slide over the bar on his bouncer and get completely underneath it. He got really mad because the wall was there and he couldnt go any further and then ended up hitting his head on the seat. Thats why hes crying in the second picture.

Jackson has also gained enough strength to sit straight up in his bouncer. He has been doing this for awhile but he was sitting up so straight and leaning over teh edge (dont worry I was sitting right there- it was while we were at work) that I had to take pictures. This doesnt even really show how far up he was sitting. He would lean over and grab his toes! I was worried he was going to flip over. I guess we wont be using the bouncer really anymore.

Today Emily- photographer extraordinaire/neighbor/my best friend- took pictures mostly of Jack but some family ones too! They are SO cute but you will have to wait and see! Also, we almost died! Well, we probably wouldnt have died but Mr. Crazy Motorcycle man would have. So heres what happened. We were driving along on State Street in P.G. There is a motorcycle man and he looks like he is on a scooter but as he passes us we realized that he was on a Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle. He was so goofy looking! He was wearing a goofy helmet and had a red water bottle holder around his waist. Well, we're driving along and he speeds on our right hand side cuts in front of us and hten into the left lane. Then he cuts Andrew off so Andrew honks his horn. They guy FLIPS HIM OFF! Seriously! Well this makes Andrew really mad so he speeds up and gets really agressive (I told Andrew that I am going to make him go to a angry driving management class). Anyways, the motorcycle man keeps goes back into teh left lane so Andrew speeds up and is driving next to him. Andrew throws his hand up into the air just to show Mr. Motorcycle man that he is mad. Well, and mind you, there are other cars around, Mr Motorcycle cuts over and seriously we almost hit him!! It was SO SCARY! I was yelling at Andrew to knock it off. I seriously thought we were all going to die. Here is a picture of him. It doesnt show how goofy he really was looking but now you know who to look out for! Oh I almost forgot! Andrew graduates APRIL 24!! YAY! I am so proud of him!

Back to Normal

Well, that night must have been just a freaky night for Jacks because the past couple of nights have been just fine. Thank goodness. Either that or he realized what happens when his mom does not get sleep and he didnt like it. Who knows. Im just glad hes back to sleeping well.
Today I worked in the morning and Andrew did my check for me so we had time after I got off to go run some errands. While we were at Target we found large receiving blankets!! I like the ones that are AT LEAST 40 x 40. These ones that we found are actually 42" x 42". I LOVE LOVE LOVE them. Jack still likes to be wrapped but he is too big for standard receiving blankets. This means I now have 6 large receiving blankets! They are also big enough to lay on the floor to play on. I have been looking for awhile and no one has had any so today was my lucky day! Needless to say, I was very excited (obviously if I am blogging about it)!
Just a side note, tomorrow BYU plays AirForce at 7:00. A very important game because if BYU wins then that guarantees MWC championship (even though depending on how the other teams play they may have to share it) But what else is happening at 7:00? The adult session of our stake conference! Who does that when most of our married STUDENT stake go to BYU? It must be a test of faith. Hmmmmm...

Maybe it wasnt teething?

So, last night Jackson slept perfectly fine! He slept about 8 and a half hours before waking up to eat. So maybe he wasnt teething the night before. I dont know what happened then. Im just glad that last night was not a repeat of the night before. It seems like tonight should be a pretty good night too. I guess only time will tell.

Tell me whats wrong?

Sometimes I just wish Jackson could say, "Mom! Im tired!" or "My gums hurt" or whatever it may be. Last night he went down for bed so easily. I did our normal routine and wrapped him up and laid him down and he fell asleep rather quickly so I thought it was going to be a good night. Two hours later he starts to fuss but then he is able to go back to sleep. Another hour passes and he wakes up screaming and crying bloody murder! I go out there and try to calm him down without picking him up. He calms down and eventually goes back to sleep but it takes a good ten minutes of me (while he is still laying in bed) rubbing his hair and holding his hand and singing to him. Finally I go back to doing whatever I was doing. I fall asleep and wake up to screams of bloody murder again. Now its 11:00. I go out and try to do teh same thing I did earlier to no avail. He was not having it so I had to pick him up. Even after I picked him up he was still crying so what is the deal? I have no clue. I rock him and he finally goes to sleep. I try to lay him down in his bed and he wont have it. I finally give in and decide to just lay him in bed next to me cause I am tired and need to sleep. I figured when Andrew got home from work I would try and put him in his bed. Well I lay him down in his bed just before Andrew gets home and luckily he stays asleep. We slept until about 5ish when he started stirring again. Thankfully Andrew got up and got him. I always wait until he starts crying to get him but Andrew said he was already awake so he figured that he might as well get him. Well, he tried putting him back to sleep but everytime he laid him down he woke up again. Not good. Well, we finally decided that I should nurse him so I do. He goes to sleep and sleeps until 9:30. What was the deal? I think that he may be teething. This morning I could see two little bumps on his lower gums but then when I showed Andrew you couldnt see them so who knows. Hopefully tonight will be a better night because lack of sleep equals a grumpy/emotional Christina- you can just ask Andrew.

5 Months!

Jackson is now 5 months which means he is almost 6 months which means he is half way to being year. I cant believe how fast time flies. Andrew and I have decided he is going to be a little sassy boy (I dont know if you can use the word sassy to describe a boy but I cant think of another word so it will have to do). So Andrew taught Jackson how to take his socks off and Jacks thinks its hilarious. The other day Jackson pulled his sock off and so I looked at him and asked, "Jackson! Did you take your sock off? He tosses his sock, looks at me and starts to laugh." Then yesterday, Andrew was changing his diaper and said, "Jackson, dont roll over." Andrew turns his back and sure enough Jack starts to roll over. Andrew turns around and says, "Jackson, did you roll over?" Jack then rolls back and starts to laugh and cover his face with his hands. Oh that kid. Im pretty sure that we are going to have our hands full once he starts crawling and walking. Which he is getting close to crawling. He lifts himself up with his arms and can get his knees tucked underneath- he just hasnt figured out the coordination of it. Andrew thinks that if he starts crawling around it will make Jack figure out how to do it. His logic behind this is that Jackson gets fussy and wants to stand all the time because he sees us standing.

We have tried giving Jacks rice cereal about 3 weeks ago and he liked it but it didnt sit so well on his stomach (he so has my stomach). Anyways, we will probably try again here pretty soon. Im not in too big of a hurry to rush it because the AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics) recommends waiting until 6 months if they are a breastfed baby that way the continue to get the full benefits of that. He does sleep 10 hour increments at night without eating so I think thats good. One night he slept 12 straight hours! That was a glorious night! Last night, he took a late nap at 6:00. He woke up at about 7:00. We played a little bit and then I started feeding him. He got really relaxed and so I could tell he was ready for his bed. Pretty much every night he goes to sleep at about 7:30. I laid him down, he rolled to his side so I couldnt wrap him like I usually do and he was out. He slept until 5:00. It was pretty good. He also is getting better at taking his naps- its still a struggle (he thinks he is missing out on something if he goes to sleep) but there is not as much screaming and crying to go to sleep during the day.

He is so much fun lately! We are so happy to have him (most of the time, just kidding all of the time, just sometimes its hard to remember when he is screaming and you cant figure out why). I need to get video of him laughing because it is so contagious. You hear him laugh and cant help but laugh also.