The past two months...

Well, the past two months have sort of been dragging on and on for me. I can't really say we've been doing a whole lot of anything but waiting.

Waiting to close on our house- we are buying a new house and now know that we are closing on April 6th. We are just now starting to pack and de-clutter and clean and prepare to move in on April 10th. We cannot be more excited. More pictures to come soon.

Waiting to find out if Jackson's ear infections would ever go away!

I have taken him to the DR 8 times, that's right, EIGHT times in the last two months. I just found out today that they are FINALLY better. He was on 4 different antibiotics and we found out he's allergic to pennicillin. The last attempt was 3 days of shots and that was not fun.

Jackson is now 11 months old and I cannot believe that he's almost a year old.

This year has been a harder adjustment than I thought, but we've almost made it and he's growing up to be such a sweet, fun, happy boy. He's now almost 19 pounds (still a tiny guy) and still 27 inches long. He eats like a horse, still not fond of feeding himself anything soft or mushy. Just crackers, puffs and fishies. He's cut his first two bottom teeth and the top two are just about to break through. Poor kid, he's been handling all this stuff pretty well.

(see the two little teeth on the bottom?)

Nathan has been enjoying his preschool class that we'll be so sad to be leaving in a month. I have been teaching the last two weeks and it's been such a fun thing for both of us to experience this year. It was so worth it for me to teach 6 weeks out of the 7 months that Nathan was able to be involved in this little group. It's really made his love for learning continue to grow. He now knows all of the letters of the alphabet, the sounds they make and he's starting to sound out short words. I swear he's going to be reading by the time he's 4 and we still have a year before Kindergarden. I try not to push him, just let him take the lead.

He's always wanting to draw pictures and send cards to his friends and family. He's so sweet and has such a fun-loving personality. He's really been a pretty nice big brother too, as Jackson just wants to be right in the middle of everything Nathan is doing. Nathan never hits or pushes him away; he's been pretty patient with his little drooling, snotty-nosed baby brother. I'm proud of him!