How Much Do I Love This Boy??

To the moon and back! ;) I swear, I could just eat him up!! I thought it would be really tough taking care of J by myself while Phil was gone for two weeks, but it has actually been fun! I love being with him every day. I even miss him at night after he's gone to bed. Don't get me wrong, the first few hours by myself after he's gone to bed are glorious, but then I start to miss him. We've been finding things to do almost every day, which has been fun. Today I even had him miss his morning nap so that we could go to a Moms' Club meeting and then to the park. He did great! He got a little grumpy at times, but was really good for the most part. I was hoping that he would take a really long nap this afternoon, but it was only about an hour and 45 minutes (which I guess is not necessarily short). We've been going to the park to swing almost every day, are going to the library and dinner at a friend's house tomorrow, and to a fair on Saturday! We do miss Daddy, though, and are really ready for him to get home.

Jackson loves this blanket. He really loves any blanket, but especially this one. Whenever he sees it he immediately grabs it, buries his head in it, and laughs! I had just washed it and was folding laundry to put away and he grabbed it and started rolling around on the floor with it. It was really cute.





J is so happy now whenever he wakes up. Very different from his Mommy. I can hear him in his room just squealing and laughing and rolling around in his crib. He loves to walk around the edge of the crib and then fall down and bounce on the mattress. He also loves to play this game with me where he'll stick the blanket through the crib slats and want me to pull it through. He cracks up! Then he sticks his little hand back through the slats and I hand him a piece of the blanket and he pulls it back through, falls on it, and cracks up again! We end up doing this over and over b/c we both love it! :) In this picture he's handing it over the railing, but you get the idea...


We played outside for a little bit this evening...


Hank is getting a little more used to J. Here he is awaiting a belly rub that never came... :(


Here's J in mid-spin on his bottom...


Having some fun in the grass...