Happy Birthday JackJack!

My little bub is growing up What our little guy has been up to:

• He loves music and claps bounces and has a great twisty move he does.
  
• Talks a lot! Says : ball, bah bah, da da, ma ma, “tch dow” (touch down), “cruble” (trouble), yeah, uh oh, bye bye, “bird – ah”, quack, quack, go go go
  
• Shakes his head no, waves hi and bye bye, and puts arms up for touch down
  
• Loves to eat and will eat about anything! Especially cheese, noodles, peaches etc
  
• Signs more and all done.
  
• Turbo crawls, stands, pushes toys around room, stands alone, walks while holding one hand
  
• Plays catch – throws ball and catches it! Loves balls
  
• Loves Trouble tries to chase and grab him
  
• Likes to “get you” - he does a high pitched battle cry and charges, then jumps on you
  
• Really loves playing with his cousins and already has wrestling matches with them. Such a boy!
  
• Still sleeps great! All night and 1-2 naps. Sometimes he will sleep until 10:30, mama is SO spoiled!
  
• 8 teeth – 4 on top and bottom
  
• Books it up the stairs, but doesn’t always know how to go down
  
• Gets into everything! Loves to pull things out of cupboards/drawers!

Monkey Birthday

So I have been such a nerd about Jackson’s birthday. I got super pumped and went a little over board. Hopefully one day he can look back at the photos and appreciate it. He would have been happy with a cupcake and a balloon. But I feel like it is kind of a celebration of our family having our first wonderful year with him – and that deserves a party right?

So we had a vintage sock monkey BBQ with our families and lots of little cousins. Monkeys and bananas were everywhere. Monkey birthday cake, cupcakes, piñata, frozen chocolate banana pops, banana splits etc. Jacks was a sock monkey for Halloween and I guess it kind of stuck with me! He reminds me of a monkey with his big round eyes!

It was a really nice day so we hung out in the back yard for cake, presents and the piñata. Jackson seemed to really love hanging out with everyone and was really happy almost the entire time. He did get mad and start to cry when the cake was just out of his reach before we sang to him. That kid is serious about his food!! Jacks got so many fun presents and got really spoiled - THANKS everyone! We are so grateful that we have our awesome families near by and really appreciate those that came!

Crying because his cake was out of reach

Taking his cake very seriously

Cute fam - Parker, Bobby & Alicia

Playing with new present

Puppy eyes Parker