This will only hurt for a minute......

Yesterday was Jackson's two month check up with Dr. B. He's gained four pounds since he was born! at ten weeks old he weighs 10 lbs. 12 oz. and is 22 inches long. He is going to be vertically challenged just like his parents. His nurse, Christina, was a rock star giving him his shots. She laid them all out and once she started it was wham, bam, thank you ma'am and we were done. Jackson was not very happy about this. I tried to distract him with the pacifier, but it didn't work. As soon as I picked him up and held him for a few seconds he was fine and we were on our way. They told me he may be a little fussy or a little sleepy for awhile and I'm happy to report that we got "a little sleepy" booger.

Some of you have noticed this about Jackson. He snores. It's kind of funny that we don't have the screaming baby that distracts everyone at church on Sundays. No, we have the snoring baby that cracks up everyone on Sundays! When the doctor asked if it was just heavy breathing or legitimate snoring I told her we had expert witnesses who could confirm that it's legitimate snoring. Turns out he may have a little reflux which should be easy to treat!

We've had a lot of fun visiting with family over the past week. Papa Ray and Nana Jana were in town from Maui.

Aunt Sis came down from Charlotte and we went to the World of Coke Museum which was great fun. Jackson met the Coca-Cola Polar Bear, was kissed on by kissy puppies and experienced a 4-D movie.We ended the week with a visit to see Mimi and Pop and cousins Abby and Emma in Rome. Abby treated us to lunch at the country club (thanks to Abby for knowing Dad's membership number) and Emma offered some profound advice to Jackson: "Don't let him get under the toilet with his pacie in his mouth because it will fall in the toilet and he'll cry for like 6 hours. I know because it happened to me." Great wisdom from a 5 year old!

Smiles, Sleeps, Sticking out his tongue and............Shots

Jackson turned two months old today! Wow! He's a smiling fool and loves zerberts from daddy and mommy. He's discovering his tongue and likes to stick it out from time to time.

But the biggest milestone of the month came last night: he had a whole "sleep" (instead of counting trips in days and nights, my nieces count them in the number of sleeps they will have)!! Although we know infants have achieved this for centuries all over the world it was hard to imagine that Jackson, our child, would ever sleep through the night, but he really did it!

The other milestone for his first two months will come next week when he gets his first round of...............SHOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He Arose!

"And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith." I Corinthians 15:14. As believers in Christ this is absolutely the most important reason to celebrate the hope we have, that not only did Christ die for our sins, but arose on the third day.

As with most children, my twin sister and I always looked forward to our annual Easter Egg hunt when we got home from church on Easter Sunday. Mom and Dad would hide a single red rose that represented Jesus (because he "a-rose") that was the "golden egg". I don't remember exactly what prize we got for finding the red rose, but I'm sure it was very exciting!

Since Jackson is not old enough to hunt Easter eggs, his GG sent us 3 red roses and a little boutonneire for our little man's first Easter. Next year we'll have fun hunting for the "golden egg"!

Gas and Fast Cars

We're pretty sure that up until this point any inkling of a smile we caught from Jackson was probably related to gas and not because he was actually entertained by anything or anyone. That's beginning to change though. His little personality is starting to come out more and more. Today he discovered his mobile as he gleefully watched the race cars spin out of control above his head!