Mission: Fatten Baby Jack

So we took jack to the doctor for his 4 month check up....ugh of course we think he is getting soooo big and so tall....well not according to the charts. he has fallen into the low tenth percentile for weight, when he was born he was int he 80 th....so he is slightly falling of the charts. he weighed in at 12lbs 14oz.....apparently not good enough. so we are on a mission....we have to prove that baby jack can get fat and put on weight or at 6 months they will begin testing him for issues related to poor weight gain....well thats not going to happen, if i have anything to do with it. we are now all on a schedule that revolves around jack....jack eats baby cereal 3 times a day and LOOOOVES it. he just cant get enough, he should have no issues with baby food. as well as little mix of nursing and bottles containing 24 calorie breastmilk(thats just super duper fatty breastmilk with a kick)well its going well, he is a trooper we are constantly stuffing that baby and he always looks so full and happy....hopefully it will pay off!

so on top of that we have made our 4th trip to the ER with our children. Cope fell on monday, he tripped on a truck that was near the wall and hit his head on the window. He busted it right open between the eyes....there was blood everywhere! i never seen such a thing, and he was crying...he didnt know why all the "paint" was coming out of his body! jeff took him to the ER, he never cried, never complained, got the 3 stitches....some stickers and they were on their way home. we go on monday to have them removed, hopefully that goes well...
(while we are there, i will get the nurse to throw...i mean place jack on the scale to see what progress we have made in 2 weeks, so think heavy thoughts for us)

and lastly we went strawberry picking with Eli's class, it was so much fun. i took jack and cope, i was a chaperon for the class....it was a really good time! got to ride a tractor, feed goats, picked berries!


this video does not even capture half of the laughing...but if you listen you can hear jack laughing at the boys, they are jumping on their beds, he thought it was hilarious and he will laugh so hard, i have never heard a baby laugh that hard before, i love it. so we tried to video it, but he is distracted by the camera-of course!this is a video of our growler. he growls at people all the time. he mainly does it to try and get attention, when he wants you to look at him. but people will walk by us at places and he will growl at them. and its funny because the turn and look....the baby just growl at me? oh yes he did, he growled and squealed at you and it worked because he got your attention! HA and as some of you may recall.....we have already had one growling baby (coplin) but jack is putting him to shame, he really gets into it! so this video is alright, its hard because he stopes doing stuff around the camera.

Roly Poly Jack Jack and Some other Fun!!!

jack holding his head up high!!!! and jack standing in the saucer!




every night when the big boys go to bed it is a must that jack lay in the bed with them! so we put them all in eli's bed one night and let them share the love!





we had a fantastic easter! we had lots of family over, we colored eggs, we had an easter egg hunt and a good lunch.....all the works!




the weather has warmed up and summer is well on its way! we have been spending alot of time outside on the deck with our water table and our sand table! the boys love to go out in their PJs inthe morning and get all dirty and have lots of fun! Jack loves the outside too! what baby doesnt!! (Yes he is still wearing mittens! he always scratches up his face, yes i cut his nails but they are still sharp and i am trying to get their pictures made....without scrathes if i can)





So about two weeks ago (that would make Jack or JD or J-Bob 3 1/2 months old) he started rolling over from back to tummy! he goes left he goes right, he is always rolling somewhere! where did the time go? already rolling? didnt i just spend two days in the hospital, meeting him for the first time, all wrinkled and red and now he is rolling over? so its the start of everything.... he has such a little personality, loves all the attention. he rolls around to follow people walking through the room and to see his brothers playing. he loves for us to hold him standing up....so what has come next, he sits in the excercise saucer....standing up! i just cant believe it! he has found his feet, which is always an amazing discovery for a baby. so now with the rolling has come the mini push up, holding his head up so high and pushing off the ground.....and what else. you will not believe this- he is getting up on his knees....yes little butt in the air and a tiny little scoot...he cant be trusted anywhere....only on the floor.when i say little scoot, its very small-but still he is trying so hard to be mobile already and i am not ready for that! here is a vidoe of the second time he rolled over, yes its a terrible video, its dark and the camera ends upside down...oooopsie.