Look at Him Go

I forgot to mention that while on our vacation, Jackson learned to feed himself with a fork.  This is helpful because he was a bit of a picky eater but his fascination with the fork makes me want to eat more.

Grow buddy grow!

He's Trying

Jackson has started trying to take a few steps.  It will be a while I'm sure before he is really off and going, but progress is being made.

Yep...

Well we were back at the doctor today.  Elli hasn't gotten over her ear infection yet.  It only clears up when she is on antibiotics and as soon as we stop them, she is in pain again.  So today they decided the only option left was a shot - not just a shot - but one a day for THREE DAYS.  Are you hearing me people??!?!?  I'm going to have buy a lot of bribes to get through this.  Tonight her first "Elli got a shot prize" was a princess pony.  Wonder where it will go from there?!?  And to top it off?  They put her back on the steroid that makes her CRAZY because her breathing is asthmatic.  Fun times at our house!

In the meantime, as if it wasn't crazy enough around here, Jackson has mastered the art of pulling up.

On. Everything.


















Is it spring time yet?!?

And He's Off!

Almost a Year Ago Today...

My birthday last year (December 19th) was spent in the doctor's office while Elli got chest x-rays.  Guess where we were this morning?  Almost exactly a year later and we were back in there about to have the same thing done.  Luckily, the doctor decided to just go ahead with medication and not take time to do the chest x-rays.  Elli has a major ear infection and a horrible chest cough.  The doctor said it may be bronchiolitis.  She has been sick ALL weekend with a high fever and just feeling awful.  We even tried to go see Santa when she seemed to be feeling better, but when we got there she told Santa she couldn't sit on his lap because she was too sick.  She was right, when we got home she looked a hot mess. I took her temp and it had spiked to 103.1.  It has been over 101 for the past three days.  Hopefully the medicine will help...

On top of that, my boy Jackson has been SUPER busy.  He learned to crawl this weekend and even pulled himself up twice.  Add that to the new teeth and this is a great place to be.

Sleep is over rated anyways right?!?!

Happy Four Months Jackson

He is now a whopping four months old!  He is really rolling both ways now and LOVES to talk.  He is constantly cooing at us.  He is a happy kid in general, always stopping to smile.  We are still working out his nap times (he likes to cut them short by about 30 minutes) but his night time sleep is pretty good.  We are so in love with this little fella!

He looks like he is doing some kung-fu here!

Thank Goodness for Short Names

This is why we call Elliana "Elli"

Potty Update

So we weren't sure whether or not to potty train, but Elli has been showing some interest lately.  We decided not to do the Potty Training Boot Camp and just kind of introduce her to the potty and see what happens..this basically means I am making it up as I go.  We started working on it Thursday a little bit.  Since Elli and I are here in the mornings, I decided to just let her wear panties and try taking her to the potty every 15 minutes or so.  It went pretty well actually and every time she went to the potty she got one (ok 3) M&Ms.  Then, when we wanted to go outside or to eat or something, we put a diaper on and didn't worry about it.  As soon as we would get home, the panties would come back on and we would try some more.  This method seems to be working pretty well.  We had a few accidents on Friday which gave me opportunity to talk about pottying on the ground versus pottying in the toilet.  That night she told us she needed to potty by saying something along the lines of "pottying on the ground."  Once we heard those words we were off to the potty so fast and we made it.  We've kept this method up this weekend.  Elli has informed us of her need to go to the bathroom by laying on the floor and saying "change my diaper" and by just saying "uh-oh."  Both times we were able to get her there before we had an accident.  I'm not getting my hopes up, this might be beginner's luck,  Still, we have decided to keep going with it and see what happens.  I did have to stop giving her 3 m&ms because she was going so often - she seems fine with one.  I think our next step might be to do panties at home and pull-ups when we are out.  We'll see...like I said, I am totally making this up on my own and I don't usually like to do that.

Well, that's enough in one post about using the bathroom...oh the joys of being a mom!

A Sentence

No picture today, but something exciting did happen at church. Elli knows lots of words some of her favorites being "more, please, plane, car, ball, hands, tights, shoes, pretty, mouth, eyes, ears, nose, diaper, trash, happy" and the list goes on. Elli knows some two word combinations such as "where mommy?" or "bye bye daddy" or "mommy drink" or "baby drink." However, today she broke new ground. After church Elli and Jacob were having a tea party at one of the tables in the nursery. There were three chairs. I walked in the doorway to tell them we had to go and Elli pointed at the empty chair and said emphatically, "sit down mommy." A perfect sentence...I was so proud!

Ok, enough bragging! Now if only we can get her to say, "sit down mommy please!"