January & February Happenings.

I'm having such a hard time keeping up with blogging the last few weeks. I've decided to just blog about some more recent events in one post...... so here goes!

We were on crazy home prep mode for showing our house to sell. We stayed up many late nights, organizing, decluttering, painting and decorating. My body finally shut down and we ALL ended up getting a nasty cold. Thankfully all at separate times. I had it first and was literally out on the couch for the most part of two days. Todd was so sweet and took great care of Jax so I could just sleep and relax. I felt like a zombie!!! A few days later both of my guys were sick. Thankfully no fever for Jax. He handled it well. He's such a good baby!

His newest "trick" is only taking Two, 30 min naps!!! Ugggg. Needless to say I am not getting too much done. I've tried everything to try to get him to take a longer nap but he wont have it. I'm sure it is just a phase but it has lasted for two weeks now. Thankfully (knock on wood) he is still sleeping great at night. Since he is napping so little we have been putting him down for bed around 730 or 8.... which is normal for most kids. He was used to staying up a little bit later but our whole night would be consumed with his bedtime routine and it was getting to be a 2 hour process! I'm really trying to make sure Todd and I have some time to ourselves at night so an earlier bedtime is my goal for Jax. Thankfully his lack of nap time hasn't effected he's sweet disposition. He is never fussy unless he wants to eat. And when he wants to eat... He wants to EAT. He goes from 0-60 in 2.5 seconds. Haha. It's really the only time he gets super worked up about something. I mean he has his moments but that is his overall daily attitude. He is such a happy lil guy and is so sweet. I can tell he is going to be a sweet, loving lil man already. At his 6 month appointment he was 17.12 lbs. He's a tall, skinny lil man.  Not crawling yet. Just scooting and rolling EVERYWHERE. He is trying so hard to crawl but I think it's going to be a little while. He cracks me up when he's laying on his tummy flailing his arms and legs around like a stuck turtle. It's hilarious. He loves playing with daddy. He thinks Todd is hilarious and Todd can make him laugh the most along with some help from Marley the dog. He's definitely into mama though and has started reaching for me all the time now. It melts my heart. He loves to snuggle and lovingly touch the face of whoever is holding him.

Today we met up with Vickie and Nicole at Peets and had a great time chatting and drinking coffee. I love them! Nicole held Jax pretty much the whole time and he loved her! Vickie fed him his bottle and he was a happy camper. He tries to grab everything within arms reach now so we played a good game of move the coffee cups and cell phones as he tried to grab/chew on it all.

For Valentine's day I woke up to a a teddy bear and a bag of dehydrated strawberries. =D I was on Daniel fast so Todd was trying to be sweet and get my something healthy. My mom watched Jax that evening and we went to Pleasanton for dinner at Alberto's downtown. It is where we had our first date. =) After dinner we couldn't think of anywhere for dessert that sounded good so we drove around aimlessly and ended up at a ghetto bakers square type restaurant and ate pie. Haha. After not having sugar for 21 days my body was in shock!!!! It was good though.