Funny Faces

Jackson has been making some weird faces lately! He's a little unsure how he feels about having his picture taken in this one.

This one was after me taking a lot of pictures and he was just so over it. This is his "I won't take one more picture" look, I think. What an attitude he's getting

Growing up!

Here's Jackson growing up:
3 Days old (6 lbs 10 oz):

1 Month old:

2 Months old:

3 Months old (we moved this month so I couldn't get a bear pic):

4 Months old:

5 Months old:


He has definitely gone from being a scrawny little thing to a chunky monkey! I think he's much more cuddly now! :)

Here's some pictures I took while playing with different settings on my camera.
Jackson's eyes are still blue. I wonder if they'll stay like that. His Daddy has brown eyes and I have green eyes.



And here's another one. His Gigi brought him this bilingual Baby Einstein dragon. She spoils him with lots of learning toys. He's gonna be the smartest baby in the world! And just look at those lashes!!

Delicious Books

We try to read Jackson several books a day. We think "Dinosaur's Binket" (from cousin Rachel) is one of his favorites! Here's Daddy reading Jackson the book:


And here is what usually ends up happening:


He just can't help himself cause apparently books are delicious.

Jackson's girlfriends

Here are some of Jackson's girlfriends! He's very popular with the ladies! =)


His friend, Sharla...


and his friend, Grace.

Bathtime!

He's recently learned how much fun it is to kick and splash in the bath and he really is in a great mood when he's squeaky clean. Can I just say that typing that last sentence took 5 minutes? Jackson likes to slap my keyboard and to kick my arm while I type. Violent little guy.

Grandparents and Great-Grandparents

Jackson is VERY blessed to have two amazing sets of Grandparents who adore him as well as two wonderful sets of Great-Grandparents! He also has a Great-Great Grandma Word in California who he hasn't met yet.

Here's his Gigi and him at (our) Christmas dinner:

Here's his G-Pa and him on (our) Christmas morning:

Here's his Nana and him at our Christmas Eve celebration:

Here's his Papa J and him while we were opening Christmas presents on Christmas Eve:

Here's his Great Grandma and Grandpa B who came out from California to see him:

And here's his Great Granny and Papa holding him on his BIRTHday:

Christmas time

CHRISTMAS TIME!
Christmas was lovely! Alan, Jackson and I were very spoiled. We got gifts galore and had great times with our families.
We started Christmas at Ted and Barb's (Alan's Aunt and Uncle) for the annual Christmas Eve celebration. Jackson got to meet his new cousin, Tanyon Jackson, who was almost a month old. He was really grumpy that night (which he really never is). He was really thrilled to meet Tanyon.

Later that night we opened presents with Alan's family. Here we are at their house.

Jackson and his mommy

Jackson and his Daddy.
The next day we went to Alan's Granny and Poppa's for Christmas.

There's Jackson being snuggled by his Great Granny.

Here we are with my inlaws. They are a very nice family!

This is one Alan took of me. I snuck out to feed Jackson and an hour or so later Alan came in and found us asleep and he took this one. It was a lovely Christmas nap!

This is one of the great gimmicky things my camera does. It can highlight and accentuate any color I choose. Red, for example!
It was a lovely Christmas and I'm getting used to all of Alan's 3rd and 4th cousins and random aunts and great uncles that show up (this was our 5th Christmas together). It's like a big party!

Next we headed up to my parent's house in NoVa. We were having a late Christmas because Anne went on a cruise with her husband's family so we waited for her because we're nice. Plus Christmas wouldn't be Christmas if we weren't all there.

Here's our Christmas morning. Aunt Becky and Aunt Lizzy helped Jackson open his stocking. His favorite stocking stuffer seemed to be this duck (even though it doesn't seem to be that way in the picture below). It quacks when you squeeze it and he always looks at it with a puzzled look when it does.


Here's Alan and I:

I really like him. And love him.


This is Auntie Annie with her favorite nephew, Jackson:



Here's the family at our delicious Christmas dinner. The fam + Matt (Lizzy's boyfriend). I like ham so much better than Turkey. It's one of the many reasons that Christmas is better than Thanksgiving. Just a side note.

This is what Jackson did during dinner. He slept on the floor next to my Dad, the baby hog. This was a big step for Dad since he usually insists on holding Jackson in his lap during meals.
It was so nice being home. My Mom is an incredible hostess and I just love being with my family. We all get along SO well and there's just nothing like being together. That about sums Christmas up!

Jackson laughing at 4 months old. He laughs all the time! This is one happy baby.

First 5 Months continued

Just lots of Jackson pics:

almost one month

bath time


The scarf Autumn knitted for his little neck! :)

This boy is HAPPY!


such lashes

The first 5 months continued

My parents holding Jackson. I know, they don't look old enough to be grandparents! Dad is G-Pa (pronounced Gee-pa) and Mom is Gigi!

Jackson looking a little unsure of what he thinks of me!

Jackson and his handsome Daddy.

Nana Janney (I could find a picture of Papa J holding him! He's a reallly great grandpa, too! They'll be pics of him holding Jackson when he's older further down this blog!).

I loooove this baby.

And now the many aunts:

Auntie Anne

Auntie LouLee (and Auntie Anne)

Auntie Boo

Auntie Megan who doesn't like being called "Auntie".