"Sub me," says Jackson

Jackson was making way for a subway sandwich. His little mouth can only open so far. Poor kid. Sorry for the low-fi cell phone pics.

A new look

Hooray! I've been wanting to update our blog for ages, and finally today it has been done. My wonderful husband did it for me, and I really like the look of it. Hopefully you will all enjoy it as well. It's not quite complete, but it's late (for us) and we're going to bed. After just one more chocolate chip cookie. I can't help myself.

Jackson's bed

Well...after the climbing incident, we went and got Jackson a real bed. He loves the bed during the day time, but hates going to sleep in it. Big surprise. Usually, putting him to bed goes something like this:
A nice bath, a bottle and a story, brushing teeth, and saying prayers. This part usually goes fairly smoothly, minus the running around during prayers.
Then we give kisses and hugs.
Then we put Jackson in bed, throw a blanket over him and run from the room. Run? Yes. If we don't run, he makes it out before we do.
After running from the room, we shut the door quickly, then listen to Jackson pound on the door and cry for half an hour or so, before he finally falls asleep in front of the door. At nap time, we simply leave him there, he doesn't seem to mind too much. At bedtime, we just push him out of the way with the door, sneak into his room and put him into bed. Luckily, he generally stays asleep once we move him.

He is getting better. There have been a few nights that he's actually gone to sleep in the bed, and at least once he slept there during a nap. There is hope!
Here's a few photos of Jackson enjoying his bed in the morning...never mind the messy hair!

It's a boy!

I guess I should finally let you all know that we had our ultrasound and we are having another boy. How exciting! I'm a little bit disappointed because I wanted to do shopping for a baby girl, but that's really it. I think it will be great to have 2 boys that we can throw around and wrestle with. Now we just have to come up with a name that we both like. We'll take any suggestions that you have!
Although that was of course the most exciting part of the ultrasound, the rest of it was pretty cool too. I forget how amazing it is to see the baby moving around. He is pretty active, growing well, and has all his little bits and pieces. And he's right on time as well...my due date didn't change at all.
My biggest concern right now is that my sister, Heidi, is getting married on Sept. 12, which means my parents (especially mom) and a lot of other family members will be out of time for awhile right when I'm due to pop this baby out. Who's going to take care of me? I need my mom! I'm just hoping baby will come soon enough that Mom can help out, and still go to the wedding....we can hope, right?