Ho Ho Ho Home We Come

We are getting excited for Christmas. Jack is working spreading holiday cheer by singing loud for all to hear. He has a pretty busy schuedle the next couple of weeks.

Lots of Christmas to do's.

Celebrate Big D(ad)'s birthday

Get a Christmas Tree

Decorate the house

Shop for Christmas Presents

Address and mail our christmas cards

Wrap some christmas presents

Hang his stocking

Make some hot cocoa and christmas sugar cookies

Sing some Christmas caroles

Wear our Christmas outfits

Go to some Christmas parties

Pack our bags for Grandma's house :)

Lots to do....so little time

Four Month Check Up

Jack had his four month check up yesterday, he did great. Such a brave boy. He didn't cry for the first shot and he was done crying by the last shot. He did get a fever last night and has been a bit moany is the best way to describe it. He had a warm bath this afternoon and had a great time trying to reach for his rubber duckie and turtles. I think that distracted him from his legs hurting.

His stats were:

13 lbs 12 ozs, 26 inches

90th for length and 20th for weight

Taking after Uncle Dan for sure!

We had planned to do some birthday/christmas shopping today but so far that hasn't worked out. Since someone's dad's birthday is on Thrusday we had better get to work!

Fish Stories

Glenn went Ice Fishing on Sunday and caught a big one...I'm sure the story will keep growing but his 35 inch Northern Pike was pretty big. So big we had to drive into Baxter and get a picture or two of the fish and fisherman.

Sneak a Peak

We were going to hold off on showing our new family pictures off until our Christmas card...but they did turn out pretty nice. We had a friend offer to take some family pictures for us after Jack was born, it took us a while to have time to take them but it was well worth it. She did a great job. I love how his little tuff of hair is sicking up.

Jack had an exciting day at school today....so much so that he is probably passed out for the night already and it's only 6:30. I guess he didn't want to take a nap today because there is just too much to watch at daycare. He gets that from me I love people watching. He will probably sleep better tonight.

Four Months Old

Jack has reached another step towards that big First Birthday!! He is now four months old. We have watched him grow a ton in the last month. In the beginning of the month he was working on Reaching and Grabbing toys. He now plays with toys and has great coordination with his hands. He usually has to have a pacifer and a stuffed animal to fall asleep with. We aren't sure which one he likes better he loves his tiger, elephant puppy and cow. Today in church he was laughing out loud while he was playing with his Cow (the one he shop-lifted from Grandma Jennie). He now loves to jump in the Jumperoo. In the last few days he's figured out the jumping part while before he would just sit and watch the lights. He spends more time entertaining himself and unfortunately loves watching TV. The other night the Wild Hockey game was on TV and Jack was laughing and smiling...we all knew that was coming.

He still doesn't sleep though the night.......not even close. We are lucky if he sleeps for four hours in a row. It wasn't so bad a first but now that we are back to full swing with life there are less oportunities for naps (since someone doesn't nap long enough) but we are hoping someday he will sleep all night. For now we are just enjoying every moment of loving our little guy!

Busy Buddy

Since I've last wrote anything we've had a busy couple of weeks. We were able to Michigan and visit all of our family and friends who we miss so very MUCH! We've also had a very tough last week as Glenn came home with a flu bug on Wenesday, Jack got it on Friday and I got it on Sunday. But today we are all feeling better. Jack went to the doctor with his Dad to get his ears checked because he was still acting up and not wanting to eat. But the doctor thought he was just tired out and congested.

Tonight we will be going to bed early after a nice warm bath and hoping we don't have a repete of last night. After fighting with Jack for a few hours I ended up with a bruise on my collar bone from him thrashing his pacifier and head into it.....he had a rough night. He couldn't stay asleep or get comfortable..we ended up on the couch and running around late for work/school. But hopefully he will sleep tonight.

For a sick little kiddo

he sure has been a happy boy. Even when he was throwing up he would just smile and laugh...he must get that from his dad.

Jack O Lantern

Happy Halloween! Jack O' Lantern was a busy boy today. We got the house cleaned up so we can be ready for a fun weekend of Tricks and Treats. Tomorrow we have some Glamour Shots in the morning with Amy Foley. And we also have some Halloween fun with our friends at night. So tonight we got the pumpkin carved. Jack decided he wanted his pumpkin to match him, a pirate. He also helped his dad blow the leaves off of the lawn. And he's been playing hard all day. In a week he has really got the grabbing toys down. Finally he can play with all of his fun toys!!!

Three Months Old

Jack is now Three Months old. He is getting so long! He hasn't really fattened up much but he is growing longer and longer! He must take after his Uncle Dan and Uncle Nate. He is also learning and changing so much right now. Yesterday he grabbed onto his toy Lion for the first time (that I noticed at least) intenionally and than he began to suck on the Lions foot and fell asleep. He has been starting to laugh for the last three weeks and yesterday he belly laughed for us. It is so neat to see how he started out making one little sqeak three weeks ago and now laughs aloud right from his belly.

We are headed to the Eye Doctor and than earrands for the week. Tomorrw we are going up to Cloquet to help Bryan move into a group home, which hopefully he will love.

Have a wonderful weekend we love and miss you all! And we will see some of you pretty soon!

Training Spike

Jack is working on Training Spike. It's a hard job to train an already spoiled dog. We enjoyed this afternoon being outdoors in the wonderful fall weather. There won't be many more days like this.

Mommy and Me

It's hard to believe that I've been back to work for a month already. But I am happy to report that work is going great and Jack is doing better at school than we could have hoped for. His teachers are great and they truly love spoiling our little boy. Jack is learning and growing so much everyday. His newest trick is laughing. He's always been a smiley boy but now his smiles come with some happy squeaks too! He loves kicking his legs. So his bouncy seat is his favorite spot to be when he's awake. He also goes crazy squriming and kicking when he lays on his changing table. At the rate he is going he is going to be a track star with his strong legs. He also loves lights and music. (He is his daddy's boy) He now takes a nap and falls asleep on his own as long as a Baby Einstein CD is going....if I forget to set the CD player on repeat he wakes up as soon as the music is done. He is working on rolling over and jumping in his treefrog jumper.

Tonight we are going on an adventure to Uncle Jeremy's Shack....hopefully we don't get eaten alive by the mice.

Falling For Fall

Our fall colors are in their prime, we have beautiful views of bright oranges and yellows out every window. Glenn is closing down The Classic today and by the end of the month the resort will be closed as well. The crew at The Classic have a lot of work to do this fall and winter to get the course back into shape. There are about three hundred plus dead trees to cut down, they were killed by a beetle that bores into the trees and eats the membrane between the bark and the tree. It is sad to see all the trees have to be cut down. But we will be awaiting spring and looking forward to see what gets planted back.

Jack has had a wild weekend. On Friday night he decided to take after cousin Abby and have a party for a few hours in the early morning. After two hours and trying every toy and trick I could think of, his baby Einstein musical mirror (for using in the car) got him to sleep with its fancy disco lights. I guess he couldn't have his party with out music and lights.

Saturday night we got to go to a dinner with a missionary from Honduras. Glenn went on a trip two springs ago to an orphanage and the missionary was here in town for our church's missions dinner that was on Friday night. It was neat to sit down with him in a smaller setting and get to hear his vision for the future. He works with street kids who he rescues from drug addiction and often from child prostitution. He is also involved in a dump ministry, Honduras is so poor that many of its people go everyday to a huge dump to pick through the trash looking for things to recycle. These people are so poor they use paint thinner carried around in baby jars or pop bottles as a drug to numb their hunger pains. Glenn got to visit this dump while on his trip. He saw the people digging through the trash with vulutres circling over head, stray dogs fighting people for scraps of food and babies laying in boxes. I am excited to hear about the work Senor Pinto is doing in that area but saddened by the world we live in.

Jumping Jacks

Jack has been working out...he's got a lot of girls to impress in his class. He also has school pictures if you can believe that on Thursday. We had a pretty busy weekend and are already back to work for the week. Jack got out of school a bit early today to spend some time with his dad. Tonight Glenn is trying to brain wash him into liking the Vikes...

Itasca State Park

Here's a few pictures from the wedding we went to at Itasca State Park. We got a little lost but we had a wonderful sunny day and lots of fall colors to look at. Jack was the best dressed by far!

Here are some pictures from the last week..........I don't have time to keep up everyday anymore.

Two Months Old.....already!

I can't believe it, he's two months old! The time has sure gone fast. We have had a pretty busy last week and a half. We both managed to catch a cold our first week back to work and daycare. It started out with a sore throat so listening to Jack attempting to cry was pretty sad. We got sick last Friday and we are still draining out the rest of our coughs. We did however have another good week and we are back to a very busy schedule now. We have a bible study going on Wenesday nights and watch The Office with friends on Thrusday nights.
Yesterday he offically got his two month shots. He hardly whimpered. But he did get fussy later in the day so I gave him some tylenol. We have been learning alot about tylenol the last week. Glenn stayed home and watch Jack on Monday morning and all day on Tuesday. Jack needed some tylenol on Monday because he still had a slight fever from his cold. Glenn's comment about giving it to him was why don't we give him some at night so he sleeps better. I told him that Jack needed to learn to sleep without drugs. On Thrusday night we (the parents) needed some tylenol our fun night we had antipatied all summer the premerie of The Office turned into a screamfest. We went over to our friends who were babysitting Cooper (Jack's 6 month old buddy) and Cooper had just had his shots the day before. Cooper was not happy to be without his mom and his poor leg was hurting him. He had a big welt because the nurse slipped with the needle. We ended up having to watch The Office after it aired, good thing we taped it. Because Cooper got Jack screaming and we couldn't get either one to calm down. Ahhh the joys! Adding babies to our group of friends has been interesting and we have one more on the way in February.
Today we are headed to a wedding at Itasca State Park, also known as the Head waters of the Mississippi River. The leaves are beautiful so we should have some wonderful pictures and I am excited for our friends to get married and excited to go to a new state park!

First Week of "School"

Jack survived the first week of daycare. I am so thankful for this daycare center. With all the hoops I had to jump and tests I had to pass to get my license to clean and wait a year and half after college to get my first real job...which I happen to love. I am glad I am able to have a place for Jack to go that we feel really good about. And this week I had a patient tell me he had the best cleaning he's had in his life. And that was coming from a guy who hadn't been to the dentist in years and who doesn't brush his teeth, seriously. Which is good because he had some serious gum problems and I need him to like me so he'll come back. And hopefully someday learn to brush and floss. Maybe that was just God telling me it's ok to be back at work because his compliment was extactly the boost I needed.

And Jack has done great at daycare. He has some adjusting to do because he is more of a tummy sleeper and because of sids the daycare wants him to sleep on his back. So his first day was rough he came home and pasted out. He is working on sleeping on his back and they are allowing him to sleep in a bouncy seat which is a help too. Today when I picked him up Grandma Laura (his teacher) was holding him and he was smiling away at her. So for his first week I think we did pretty good.

But we are sure saying TGIT (thank goodness it's thrusday) We are going to enjoy a nice weekend and might even go to a slumber party Movie Night tomorrow night with our friends from chruch.

Ready or Not....Here I come!

Well dispite an electrically short start to our Sunday, Jack and I were able to make it to church today. We were also using this morning as a practice run for getting ready on our own. We did pretty good. We got up an hour and a half before we needed to leave. I got a shower and got ready after feeding Jack and he actually went back to sleep. That is key! The only short circut in the getting ready process was that when I went to get him up...the lights popped. (We are working on getting that fixed thanks to Uncle Ron) So dispite our best efforts we were still a few mintues late to church. But not bad considering we didnt' have lights for the second half of getting ready. Hopefully tomorrow goes well. I will have to sing "It's the most wonderful time of the year." And take his first day of school pictures!

Bonfires and Babies

Around here we look forward to fall. Things start to slow down, we have more time to spend with friends, and sometimes just to relax around a bonfire. There is something about the warmth, smoke and smell that is just relaxing and fun. It's almost like going camping but without all the hard work. Last night Glenn decided to teach Jack a man thing. How to burn things. And also how to chop down a tree.....which I should have video taped because it was funny to see a grown man acting like a ten year old. Give a boy an axe and he'll make a fire.

Jack also had a visit yesterday from his Great Grandma Joyce. So now he has met all his Grandparents.

School starts in five days so he also went and met his daycare ladies. We found out that he is going to continue to be spoiled. He is the youngest one at daycare and his classroom has three girls in it. He is going to have fun. Monday morning is back to work and school. I had a good laugh, because the daycare gave us a list of things Jack has to be able to do to move up to the next class room and one of the things was sit in a chair without falling off a reasonable number of times.

So for today we are enjoying a day off.