Birthday Party Number 1

Since we were in Virginia so close to Jackson's birthday Mimi decided to throw an early 1st birthday party for him. He had several friends here, his own cake, raked in a bunch of loot and tried potato salad for the first time which he loved. He's also been sleeping until 7:30 every morning since we've been here. I'm assuming it's the time change, but it's been great for mom! He's picked up a few new words while in VA - Mimi, stinky feet, no, no, no, no and uh oh.

Here are some picks from the trip and the party.

On vacation

Stacey and Jack have been in Virginia for the past week visiting Mimi, Papa and Aunt Kim. Sounds like they're having fun. Daddy misses them, though, and can't wait to see them on Monday.

Jack swims...sort of.

Saturday morning was Jack's first 'swimming lesson.' He didn't really swim, though. I just held on to him and kind of glided him around the pool. He wasn't too crazy about it at first and whined pretty much the whole time. However, by the end I think he was about to stop hating it. He did like the part where I had him sit on the edge of the pool and then lifted him up as I swam backwards, like he'd just jumped into the pool. Big smiles. And when we were drying off, he kept wanting to walk back over to the water, so maybe all was not lost. No swimming this weekend or next, since Stacey and Jack will be in VA, but in 3 weeks we'll try it again.

JACK WALKS!

Sleep? No way.

Jack decided that 11pm was a good time to wake up last night. For the next hour, he tried to convince Stacey and I that he'd had enough sleep and that it was time to get up and play. Despite his very vocal protest, we let him 'cry it out'. He fell back asleep around midnight but woke up again at 5:15am. Neither of us could endure more crying, so I brought him into the bed with us, and after a bottle he fell back to sleep until almost 7. Sweet. It's 9:45am, and he has been asleep for about 20 mintues, after crying for about 25 minutes. He must think he's missing something when he is supposed to to taking a nap. Hopefully, he'll sleep for at least an hour, so he's not grumpy all day.