So, what has Jack been up to? Well, he has a pretty efficient Army crawl that he uses to get pretty much anywhere. Whenever he spots his doggies, he can get across the living room to touch them in little time. Sparky has realized that the baby now moves. However, it takes Winston by surprise every time Jack yanks on his fur or ear. Winston actually let Jack bite his ear the other day with nothing more than a look to show that his feelings were hurt. Speaking of biting, Jack has five teeth now. There are four on the bottom and one snaggly tooth off to the side on the top. I think Jack's favorite doggy is Lucy. He grins from ear to ear whenever she is around. He laughs when she jumps onto the furniture, and there isn't anything funnier than Winston chasing Lucy.
Jack continues to be the sweetest baby. He loves to cuddle as much as he loves to play. He thinks his daddy is the greatest thing since sweet potatoes. Last night John was doing karate moves in the living room that had Jack in a fit a giggles. It made this mother's heart happy to see the two of them enjoying each other. Jack also giggles if someone fake sneezes, but you have to really exaggerate the sneeze. Can you just imagine our house with a karate chopping daddy and a fake sneezing mommy?
Feeding Jack is going so much better than it was a month ago. He only gags every once in awhile now, and it is usually when I introduce a new food or have the texture of his oatmeal wrong. So far Jack has eaten rice cereal, oatmeal cereal, sweet potatoes, carrots, butternut squash, acorn squash, bananas, and peaches. I have some pears that I will feed to him as soon as they are ripe, and I bought the strainer I need to fix peas. So, he'll have some new tastes to gag over in the coming days.
Jack now makes more noise. He has a pretty funny "growl" that makes us laugh. He is being raised by a pack of dogs, you know! Unfortunately, he's figured out how to whine. It's this little fake cry that he repeats over and over until I help him. I hope he wakes up one morning and has forgotten how to do that. When he wakes up, he yells and I swear to you that it sounds a lot like mom. He is repeating the sounds ya and da, so either daddy or doggy is sure to be his first word.
All in all, life is so happy in this Seaton house. We are falling more and more in love with our little man every day. We eagerly look forward to what the next month will bring.
