FINALLY, an update!

For those of you who don't see us very often, I'm sorry, I have not fallen off the face of the earth!  Life has just been a little hectic and I don't get much time to myself, and when I do, blogging is not on the list of priorities.  I just feel so behind and don't know where to begin to catch up, but here it goes.

Jackson is 6 months old now, yep, you heard right!   He's still a very happy baby, as long as he's fed and gets some sleep.  He has been rolling all over the place for almost two months already.

He loves to chew on just about anything, especially these sweet little biter biscuits.  He gets so mad when he chews it down to nothing and can't hold the little slimey thing in his fingers anymore.  He eats rice cereal 2-3 times a day now and likes just about every kind of food we've fed him so far.  

I took this picture when Nathan was actually playing with Jackson in the swing.  He was tickling his feet and Jackson was just so happy.  Jackson LOVES his big brother and just watches everything he does.  Nathan is finally starting to pay a little more attention to him which is very nice.  

Jackson started sitting up on his own around 5  1/2 months.  He loves to sit and play with toys on the floor.  With all the changes he's been going through in the last couple months, I decided it was time he start sleeping through the night too.  He's been crying it out for about a week now, and last night he slept about 10 hours and I only heard him once and not for very long!!  We're finally making progress I think.  He's still sleeping in the pack'n'play in our room, but I'm ready to move him in with Nathan as soon as he sleeps a little better on a consistent basis.

My Mom came to visit and brought my Grandma and it was wonderful!  She helped us can pears, tomatoes and applesauce and it was so much fun to have her and Granny all to myself!  We went shopping and took the boys to the Shark Reef (which Nathan LOVED).  We hope they make this trip again ASAP!!

Nathan started a little preschool program 6 weeks ago.  I, along with 5 other Moms, are taking turns teaching our 3 year-olds at our homes.  We have a great little curriculum and the kids are really enjoying it and each other.  There are 4 little boys and 2 girls and Nathan comes home every day with a couple projects that he has colored, pasted or painted and we proudly display all of them on our fridge!  I get to teach during the month of November, so that should be interesting.  I hope Nathan behaves as good for me and the other Moms say he does for them.

One of the main reasons I haven't sat down to blog in awhile is because I've been potty training Nathan for the past 5 months!!  Off and on, we have tried every trick and treat in the book.  Right around the same time he started school, we got serious again and starting rewarding him with dinosaurs when he went all day with no accidents.  Well, he started quite the collection of dinos and is now pretty much obsessed with anything Dinosaur.  Another incentive we used was saving up to go to the Natural History Museum to see the dinosaur exhibit there.  He did great and was treated to a day at the museum and he LOVED it.   Below is a picture of him building his own Natural History Museum with his blocks and dinosaurs.  He has a GREAT imagination!

Nathan has also been taking a little gymnastics class for the past 6 weeks.  It's so much fun to watch him learn to do stuff with his body.  He loves to run around and try anything they ask him to do.  He can do sommersaults, back bends, walk on the balance beam, hand stands against the wall, swing from the bars, roll, and his favorite thing is jumping on the trampoline.  We signed him up for another session, so we'll see how he can improve and keep up with all the little girls in his class!  

You gotta watch this video from his class.  It's a little long, but it's so funny to watch him try to figure out what he's supposed to do and which way he's supposed to roll.  Enjoy!