The Very Hungry Caterpillar!

Jack has a favorite book now. We have read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" a million times! He loves it! He will point to the pictures that you ask him to and will even help count the food by moving his finger over the items and trying to imitate the numbers! He does well with "two", "five", "ten" and "cheese"! It is SOOO cute!

He is hitting milestone after milestone and it is so fun to watch him try to figure things out!! I think that this is my favorite stage so far...minus the tantrums and stubborn moments!! :)

Ice cream, speckled eggs and a speckled boy?

It's been a while since I posted anything! Things have been busy here with Travis finishing up his thesis, me trying to clean up behind Jack and the spring cleaning that I am not accomplishing! So...where did I leave off last time?
Jack had his first ice cream sundae all to himself earlier this month. He enjoyed it for a while, but since he was not too interested in using a spoon, his fingers got old and he was done with 2/3 left to go! He did get really messy, which was the whole point!
The Easter Bunny actually came to our house this year! He left a trail of plastic eggs leading to Jack's basket. We didn't dye any eggs for the bunny to hide because Jack won't eat eggs (yet), we don't need the cholesterol and the smell would have killed me! Jack loved finding the eggs, but wasn't too interested in the basket...until he figured out that there were bubbles in there!
Later that day Travis' parents, sister and her husband came to dinner. It was fun! Luckily Jack was there for entertainment because I am a boring and quite terrible hostess!!
Jack also had is first sick doctor visit in 18 months! :( He ended up having an ear infection and possibly a slight case of RSV. The doc put him on an antibiotic, and we gave him a few breathing treatments. The Howells were kind enough to let us borrow their nebulizer so that we didn't have to rent one for $60 for 3 treatments!!
10 days later we went in for his 18 month checkup and he is in the 91st percentile for height and the 15th for weight! I would have never thought that I would have such a skinny kid!!! He conveniently woke up with a rash that morning and it turns out that he has a viral rash that will go away within 1-6 weeks!! It was so light when he woke up, but by the time we got to the doctor I thought he had leprosy and I was expecting body parts to start falling off! So, now he is my speckled boy! We need a new camera, so the picture doesn't give him any justice for the nasty rash that he has! He started nursery on Sunday, so I am praying that he didn't spread it to anyone else!
Aside from the rash, he is doing great! Baby Moesser is coming along too. He seems to be a little more aggressive than Jack was! I am definitely ready to not be pregnant!!

Big Boy Bed!!

Well, it is official! Jack is in a "big boy" bed now! And I do mean BIG bed! We decided to skip the toddler bed and jump right to the twin size bed. My grandma was nice enough to ask us if we needed a bed when she was looking to find a new home for a twin bed that she didn't use anymore. My great friend, Amy, also gave us a a safety rail for the bed (and a jump-a-roo that Baby Moesser #2 is going to enjoy). We are so blessed to have such wonderful people in our lives!

We were planning on setting up the bed after we painted Jack's room, but since that has been postponed until May when Travis is done with his thesis, we set it up anyway! I am definitely nesting and ready to get the entire house ready for the baby that is still 3 months away...although I am shooting for 2 weeks early! ;)

He has done so well! It has been 3 nights since we set it up and he has slept through the night every night! The first night it took me sitting in his room facing away from him and putting him back into bed about 25 times, but after that Travis and I switched and he was down within 15 minutes! Beautiful! Saturday night took about 25 minutes and Sunday a little longer becuase Travis was not home and I think that Jack was waiting to give Daddy kisses! Needless to say, it has been very easy...maybe too easy! I'm waiting for the honeymoon to be over!

We are very proud of our little guy!! I hope this next one is as easy!!