Jack: Four AND Five Months old!

Wow. The past few months have been CRAZY! We have been told where were moving. We have flown out to Washington. Found a house and were now in the process of buying it! Gosh! Jack is getting more cute every day. I love that little kiddo. I just realized I missed his 4 month update AND his 5 month update.. well, this is whats going on in the life of baby Jack:

• He can roll over. More on his right side than his left. 
• His little arms and neck are strong enough for some good head raising on his tummy.
• He still sounds like a dinosaur, a cute one though.
• We have slipped him some rice cereal and put it in his bottles. Nothing has really changed except for his farts. They are TERRIBLE!
• He smiles most all the time, not just in the mornings.
• For the most part he goes to bed at 8:30
• Hes still not sleeping through the night.
• He still likes my boobies.
• He's almost out of 3/6 month clothes and it makes me sad. 

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Wordless Wednesday | Two Month Favorites

I havent uploaded a lot of photos of Jack to my blog. This is mainly due to them all being online on facebook. I am doing a 365 project with the little man and its going well ... some days better than others but good all the same. Here are a few of my favorites from last month. If youre interested in the whole set they can be found here: three six(ty) five!

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Pinned Up! {footprints}

So, I have a new love that isnt a little boy named Jack. Its name is Pinterest. Its awesome. I love it. It has so much eye candy its ridiculous. Makes me excited to get into the new house already so I can start doing things to it! So I think I'm going to ACTUALLY start doing things from the site. Thats what its there for right? Ill start with one thing that has stuck out.

Source: sidebysideblog.blogspot.com via Marga on Pinterest

Since little Jack is still a baby I could totally do this! So about a month ago I bought the canvas. I got a HUGE canvas too. Like 24x30 or something. My plan is to have three babies and I think it would be neat to have them all on there. So I bought it with room to grow. I finally got around to painting it grey. Which I notice the original also painted it grey. I picked grey so it would match more things. Anyway, today was the day to try and I think it went pretty well. Here is our take:

ill only show you a little of the canvas.. cause it big. He got a little excited on the right foot.. and I wish we could redo it but whatevs. I guess it adds character. Oh and he D O E S have 5 toes on each foot though it doesnt look it.

See, here's my proof!

We tried his hands too

that there is his baby book. He wasnt having his hands outstretched. Oh well. His feet were lame too. It happens eh?

Funny I chose a blue that was the same color as his diaper for the day.

Anyway, Im excited to see it get better and better..and by better I mean more and more feet!

 If you would like an invitation send me an email at mercer.hilary@gmail.com and let me know you need one!

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Wordless Wednesday | What Chu' Talkin Bout MA?

I love his face.

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Jack: Two Months Old

Oh Boy! My little boy is growing up so fast on his dad and I. Its nuts how big he is.. and to think women still pop babies out his size. I bow down to any of them that do and I am still thankful for my little 5 pounder. I sure do miss him being so tiny though.

Here are his stats from his 2 month appointment a few days ago:

Weight: 10 lbs. Solid.

Height: 21.5

and his head circumference is 37.

Which puts him in the 15% for weight 8% for height and 4 for head. Poor guy. Im glad he was early but I want to know that hes not so low. I know he isnt and its just because he was born a whole month early but still.. At this appointment he also got his shots and thank the lord Neil was able to take leave this week since the inlaws are in town and he was able to go with me. If theres one thing in life I dont like its needles and seeing them poke my little guy well I just didnt want to do that so Neil took that role. Surprisingly little Jack only squealed a tiny bit and then he was out. For like the rest of the day.

A few things Ive learned this past month:

1. It is possible for a newborn to stay awake from 9am til 11pm. CRAZY! He STILL woke up at 4:30am to get his grub on.
2. Breastfeeding is going awesome still. I am so very thankful he is a good feeder
3. Jack isnt someone you really want to take on a road trip. Hes fine once you get there but once nightfall settles in he isnt a happy camper.
4. Neil and Jack have a special "whooo" language. The other night they had a whole conversation "whoo'ing" at eachother. It was pretty much the cutest thing ever.
5. Jack is becoming WAY more responsive and awake. Its awesome.
6. I dont want his eyes to change colors. But.. they are. I miss the blue already.
7. He has a lot of family and non related family back from in Florida that love him. I already knew this but.. I think after having seen him with everyone its SUPER obvious.
8. Jack likes to see everything. He really liked when I hold his back to me so he can see all 180 degress.
9. His frowny face is still the cutest ever.
10. He likes dances. He has been to two so fat and hasnt been too cranky at all.
11. He DOES get really cranky around 4ish 5 and that time is no fun.

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Jack: One Month Old

Jack is a month old! Well, technically today he's one month and one day old but.. who's counting. Last weekend I got to celebrate my first mothers day as a mama. Its crazy still that one day little Jack is going to call me Mama. He's probably going to call me lots of other things in his life too but Ill only focus on the positive for now. ;) I decided to end my journey with little Jack. I think this series turned out pretty darned well. Its pretty neat to see the progression.

As my first month as a mom I learned...

•  The Iphone app Total Baby is the best invention ever. 
• Babies grow. Quickly too! I took him to get weighed today and he weighed in at an awesome 7lb 2 oz. WHOA baby! Slow down.
• Growth Spurts arent fun when babies arent exactly on the boob full time.
• They are much better without nipple shields
• Breastfeeding without the nipple shield is much better then with it, man i hate that thing.
• Jack has the cutest pout ever.
• Im not a fan of disposables. Weve moved on to cloth (finally!)
• Cloth is pretty good so far.
• Jack likes baths.
• His eyes are still slate blue and they are beautiful. Im hoping they wont change even though I know they will.
• His hair is turning a bit more gingery every day.
• Im sad he's not 5 lbs anymore. I want to keep him small.
• His startle reflex is super cute.. and he gets startled by everything!
• His pout is seriously THE CUTEST THING EVER
• Ive learned how to eat with my left hand.
• How to surf the net on my phone while pumping.
• It drives me crazy when LJ spits up. Not because I have a mess to clean up but ... because he's wasting that precious milk I pumped out for him!

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Jack: Week Three

This week has been an interesting one.

• We had our first solo shopping trip- we ALMOST made it through the whole trip without him getting hungry.
• I love target. Not for the awesomeness that IS target but that they have starbucks and starbucks has HOT water for these bottles.
• He's like the cutest ever when you take the bottle out and he keeps sucking like its in there still.
• When he's searching for my boob and flings his head left to right.. that comes in as a tie to him and the lack of bottle sucking
• Still a big fan of this nipple shield but he can feed without it. He just continues to hate my right boobage.
• GROWTH SPURT- kid is eating like he wont ever eat again! Which really caught us off guard.
• Neil is a good dad but he can sleep through anything which isnt good when its HIS turn with the kiddo.
• Preemie diapers hate us. Hopefully the cloth (once he fits into them) will be WAY better and leak less. Youd think being preemie and all there would be no leaking issues but no. BAH!
• He smiles more than any 3 weeker I know.

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Jack: Week Two

What Ive learned this week:

• I can do this!
• Jack has T H E cutest cough ever. Like seriously.. its adorable.
• I am THAT mom that opts for the photo of her son peeing on himself during a photo shoot rather than help him not get it in his mouth. Poor guy. Oh well. Its one of my favorites of him. Is that sad?
• Cluster feeding is no fun.
• The boobie shield is probably like the best thing ever. Its totally helping him latch which makes me a happy mama.
• Dad is becoming an expert in the ways of swaddling.
• I love the way dad looks at you.. and me for that matter.
• I am still growing more in love with Neil as the days go on. Strange youre supposed to fall more in love with you baby as days go on. Im ok being in love with both of them. They are the absolute best things in the world and I seriously cannot imagine my life without either one of them.
• I like Neil being at home, not at work.
• Jack is the model Ive been waiting for. Ive done so much with him already and I cant wait for more. I sure hope he doesnt hate me.. or the camera when he's older.
• His breastfeeding poops arent as bad as I anticipated they were going to be. Neil makes it to be a lot worse than it is though.
• His little coos are the sweetest thing.

Also I finally got around to posting some more photos I have taken of him since he arrived. Go to my photography website to see them!

More photos of Jack!

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Jack: Week One

My goodness. I am a mother. Neil is a father. We are parents.

Jack decided to enter this lovely world a bit earlier than we thought. Eventually Ill blog about the amazing birth of Jack Romeo!

April 12, 2011

5 lbs 7 oz

20 in

100% Awesomeness

In one week I've learned:

• that its true, you'll never know true love til you pop one out.
• that some babies dont know how to breath AND breastfeed right after popping out.
• breastfeeding is hard work, especially with tiny mouths.
• Im 10,000 times more in love with Neil than I was before.
• hospital food is not that good.
• late nights arent that bad.
• jaundice is no fun.
• cutting off penis' is no fun.
• feeling helpless is no fun.
• stringy poop is really strange.
• he props himself up in the cutest way.
• Jack has awesome pee range. All over the sheets, over his head. Twice.
• I dont want him to grow. I like him being 5 lbs.
• youre never truly prepared for a new being coming into your life.
• after 4 nights in a hospital I really love my bed.
• I have the cutest son in the world.

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