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.

Bunco Party!

Last night we took Jack over to his friend Cooper's house to play Bunco. We had a lot of fun and Jack did pretty well. Cooper was pretty nice to share some of his toys with Jack. But even with the cool glider chair Jack perfered to be held. He wasn't too sure about the dogs running all over. It's really fun having friends who have a boy only a few months older. If we stay here they will be on the same hockey teams for sure.

Another friend at church just brought her week old son today. He was a whopper at 9.7 lbs. Jack was 9.6 last friday. Jack is growing but not fast enough to fit into his warm clothes. And since it has decided to cool off this last week, not a day over 65, Jack is swimming in his 3 months warm clothes. We still think he looks cute.

He also is starting to really like his swing. Which is giving me some much needed time to get things done. I think this next week I might even haul out the scrapbooking supplies and work on getting a baby book started.

Golf Pros

Jack is at it agian. He keeps sneaking out on the golf course. The rules are pretty clear babies can't play golf. But that sneaky Jack found a new place to hide so he could get out and play golf with Great Grandpa Harley and Great Grandma Lorraine yesterday. He was just the right size to fit into the basket on the golf cart. Despite the cold fall weather, 48 degrees to start out with, we did have a great time. Jack slept through most of the holes but managed to wake up and give away some smiles before Grandpa and Grandma headed out on their road trip to Isle Royal and over to see Abby.

Today we were running around. Mom had to go to a staff meeting at work so Jack was obedient and sat quietly through the two hour meeting. Mom goes back to work in eleven days!

Than we went to the golf course again, to meet a few more of Dad's co-workers. And we had to go to Wal-mart and mail a letter. A pretty important letter to the County Treasurer's Office with a check in it. We lost the letter in Wal-mart...which did not make Mom very happy. We also ended up with both sets of car keys after stopping by Dad's work. So we had to call Wal-mart and tell them about the lost letter. We also had to stop by the golf course again to give Dad his key's back. But thankfully after all that running around (we left the house at 11:30 got home at 5:30) Wal-mart called us back and they found our letter and put it in the mail for us. So at least we don't have to go down to the County Offices to get a new form for Jack's birth certificate and to the bank to cancel the lost check. Someone was looking out for us because Mom is too tired to do all that running tomorrow. Because she has to get ready for more company.

While Mom and Hannah were here visiting we attempted some family photos.
I wished we would have taken more when Jack was smaller. It's hard to believe it but in a month he has gained 3 pounds, he weighed in at 9 pounds 6 ounces of screaming man power at his one month check up. And we do mean SCREAMING man power.
He is pretty spoiled and he's figured out that all he has to do to be held is SCREAM at the top of his lungs. Therefore he skips all the sissy whimmering when he wakes up and turns up the volume full blast so that mom will be there immediately. I'm trying to figure out how to break his system by making sure he is well rested and feed. But so far today we have still had some screaming. Only 15 days until I head back to work, maternity leave has gone really fast, but I am looking forward to getting into a scheudle. I hope that being back to work and on a scheudle Jack will settle down some. Otherwise daycare might kick him out.

Jack's Michigan Trip

Here's just a few of the pictures from our trip...I'll add somemore later on.

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Four Weeks