Brand new baby!

JT is doing AWESOME! He slept so good last night, only woke up once at about 12, had a fever but wasn't crying at all. I gave him some motrin and he ended up sleeping till 6:45 am!! His little body needed that rest and he is doing so good today. The Dr called to check on him and I told her how good he was doing and she was SHOCKED! That's right, even the Dr said that "he must have something else going for him because medically he shouldn't be doing this good this fast."

Thank you Lord for healing my little baby so quickly and showing everyone your goodness and mercy! I pray Jackson's situation is a testament to everyone else to just what God can do it if you just trust in Him!

Quick update

After a quick trip to the Dr, then to get some chest x-rays we found out this afternoon that JT has pneumonia! Thankfully it's not bad enough to be admitted to the hospital and he will be on antibiotics for the next 10 days. The Dr said that it would take a while before he starts to feel better, but because he has been bathed in prayer today by so many people, he is already made a HUGE recovery in just one day. This morning at the Dr's office he was lethargic and dazed, by 6 pm he was back to crawling all over the house and acting almost like himself, and he didn't start the antibiotics until 5:30 pm!! Coincidence? I think not!

Thank you to everyone who has called to check on him and to let us know that you are praying, God is so good and our little guy is recovering by leaps and bounds!

Please make it go away!

JT is sick, really sick. He was up 3 times last night wailing in pain, his body was HOT HOT HOT to the touch and he was running a temp around 102. The fever broke, I think, and at 7 this morning it was around 101. The only thing that seems to console him is a cold wet compress to his head. I'm sitting here waiting for the Dr to call back so we can take him in and I know he will be OK, but I just hurt for him. I'm not worried I just want it to go away so my little baby can start feeling better. 

On a lighter note yesterday was a BIG day! JT waived bye-bye for the first time to my friend Susan....sorry Chris :-)....he got his FIRST TOOTH and his eyes went swimming three times and he didn't scream once! He's also getting really good at kicking his legs to swim to a floaty. It just amazes me what they can learn and do at this age...8 months!

Please be praying for my baby, I know he'll get better but it just horrible to see him in pain, and I have faith that everything will be OK!!

Whaaaaa!

That's what happens when you make JT's "eyes go swimming!", he screams!

This week JT & I are doing a mommy-n-me swim class in the afternoons at my friends house. On Monday we got there late so we only got about 15 mins of swim time (the class is 30 mins long). I was able to get him submersed once and he didn't cry to bad, but he did let out a HUGE burp when we got out of the pool, which means he's sucking in the water. It's kind of a fun class. We start by putting them in the airplane position (arms out on their bellies, head up looking at you in the face) and tell him to kick-kick-kick, which he does with a HUGE smile. Then I got my mouth in the water and starting blowing to make the water bubble. This part confused him a little and he ended up drinking more water than making bubbles. After I got him comfortable with getting his face half way in the water we step up to the major par which is "eyes go swimming!" At first he was a little shocked, then he kind of gasped for air when he came up the second time but after that it was all down hill. At the end of the lesson today he was screaming and trying to crawl out of the pool when I would get close to the sides of the pool. I was kind of worried that I've scared him for life and that every time we get close to our pool he'll freak out, but Mikki said that he won't remember. I guess tomorrow we'll have to take it a little slower, maybe only dunk twice and leave it at that.

There are 2 other kids in his class....a 2 year old little girl and a 20 month little boy. The little girl won't even put her mouth in the water and the little boy is doing back flips off the side of the pool...well not really, but he is jumping in the water to his mom and it's only been 2 days. I guess I'm a little bitter cause my little guy just seems to excel at everything he does, plus his mommy is a little fish herself, so it just baffles me that he doesn't just love dunking under the water. What's up?! Oh well, we'll get there.

About the house: well we had an older lady stop by on her own yesterday wanting to take a look around, but I was headed out to our swim class so she only got to see the living room. Then today I got a call from the "centralized showing service" that there would be a showing today between 3 pm and 4 pm. I was gone but when I got back I could tell that people had been here. How? Well the picture on the end table was turned, the key in the back door lock was turned a different direction and the bathroom light in the master bath was also in a different position. Oh, I should work for CSI, NOTHING gets past me!! :-)

Hopefully someone will like our house soon!


So proud of that pony!
Hmm...can I get my whole fist in my mouth?

Ol Pork Chop Hill

Here's a picture of the front of the house that we "might" buy. I'm going to try and go out there to take more maybe this weekend.

Forgot the best part...

I forgot to post pics of the backyard, which is the best part of our house.....

I'm going to miss our backyard!
The tall Oleander on the right is in full bloom with pretty pink flowers
Totally captivated by Fox News. The tv is not usually on during the day, so when it is, he's all over it!
Apparently this is pay backs for Grandma Sandy. Daddy used to climb up in the cabinets all the time too
Caught this pouty face...so cute! Well it's cute when it's not accompanied by a scream

We are official

We are officially on the MLS books, have a lock box on the front door and I am now a prisoner to the cleanliness of my house once again. This is an area of struggle for me and I'm afraid of having to get in the habit of having a fantastically clean house. See I get excited about a clean house!!

In the past I have truly worshiped a clean house. Of course having a baby changes that and I don't want to be the kind of mommy that doesn't let her kids explore and have fun. I'll be praying that this doesn't stir up those old addictions and that I can still let Jackson have fun with out getting stressed out. I've learned to lighten up and I'm worried that old habits will come back to haunt me!!

So after a week of having strange men in and out of our 3rd bedroom and master bath, putting up new trim in those rooms and repainting the trim outside we are ready to sell. It's amazing that is has only been a week since we decided to move and how much we got done in that week.

Here's some pics of the house in case you know anyone looking to buy.







Master bedroom
sitting area in the master bedroom
master bedroom
master bedroom and sitting area
hall to master bath from master bedroom
newly painted master bath
newly painted 3rd bedroom. The cream part on the top used to be red, which I loved, but I was told it made the room look small
Jackson's room before we gave away the bed.

A little clarification, please!

Travis wanted to be sure that y'all knew that Jackson is only 8 months and 1 week old. 

In Chris Freeland's words..."boo-ya"

Does it count?

OK, I'm a little reluctant to type this, but I "think" it really happened, so here goes.....JT took his first steps this morning!!! The reason I'm a little leery is 1) Daddy missed yet another "first" and 2) I'm not sure what the first steps look like. 

Here's how it went down. I went up to my former hang out during the 40 hr work week, aka McKinney Church where I worked :-), to drop off some left over cupcakes we had from a birthday party and to make some copies. (Hey, I figured the cupcakes were payment for the copies, right!?) Anyway, JT's friend Chris (he used to be friends with Travis and I but since JT was born he and his wife Kari always brush right past us and go straight for JT. So we call them JT's friend's now :-) So Chris was playing with him while I made the copies and was just dying to see him walk...on his own of course. I really didn't think JT was ready for it, but Chris was determined to get to see the "first". So he held on to JT's little hands, JT started walking towards me and then Chris let go. JT took about 2 or 3 steps before he started stumbling forward into my arms. I was in shock, really! I think Chris could read it on my face because he kept saying..."he did it, I know you want to call it! He totally walked and I got to see it!" Technically I guess he did take his first steps, but since I have no idea what the first steps are suppose to look like, I just don't know. Plus I wanted Travis to see it!! 

When we left I called Travis to tell him, thinking that he would be bummed, but his reaction was the exact opposite and was even more excited that Chris got to see it too! So I guess we're going to call it.....JT took his first steps today and Chris Freeland got to see it!! (honestly, if Travis would've been bummed I wouldn't had admitted that he did it...hey, can't give Chris that edge, ya know?!)

All by myself!

JT stands all by his self now!! Granted it's only for about 5 to 10 seconds, but he does it! The first time was yesterday morning. I was sitting on the floor with my legs stretched out flat in front of me. JT crawled over, pulled himself into a bent-over-at-the-waist position, and was holding onto my shins for balance. This was no shock because he'll hang on to things while he's standing and bend over to pick up a toy then stand right back up. The shocker was when he just stood up from that position with out hanging onto anything and then just stood there with his little hands clasped together, looking at me like "what the heck am I doing, mommy?". I just stared at him in shock and then I realized he was standing so I got excited and said "oh, my gosh you're standing!!" and it startled him so he fell back on to his tush. The best part.....I GOT TO SEE IT!!

With all the new milestones happening back to back around here I've decided that it's feast or famine when it comes to him learning new things. Maybe he'll learn how to walk and ride a bike in the same week! Hey, you may scoff at that now, but you never know. As JT's Aunt Tammy would say..."he's advanced".

Here's a few cute pictures...

His sit-n-read chair, of course he refuses to sit on it for too long. He likes to stand in front of it dancing and talking to the chair
BUSTED!! Snapped this one as I was coming in the room after he got up from his nap! It's like the minute he wakes up he remembers he can pull himself up. I can hear him waking up and in less than 2 minutes later I'll go in there and he's standing up, bouncing on the mattress and just smiling the biggest smile.

Look at that red hair coming in!!
This one was just too adorable not to post. He stands next to the tub, impatiently I might add, while daddy gets his bath ready. LOVES taking a bath!

Dr Worsley, I missed you

Pretty much that is why we went to visit the Pediatrician today, JT missed playing with him. The little guy had mama fooled in to thinking he was sick and with good reasoning. The past 10 days he has had a raspy voice, then about Thursday he started to frequently put his left ear to his shoulder and then the last 2 nights he hasn't been sleeping well at all, and that includes naps during the day. So I figured he might have an ear infection...nope ears are perfect, nose clear, throat looks great (that isn't to say that it doesn't hurt, cause he does still have the rasp voice). Dr Worsley did mention though that this is the age that they start to mimic what you do and if I happen to hold the phone with my shoulder and ear when I'm chatting on it, that he just may be trying to mimic what I'm doing. I'm so flattered, he wants to be like mommy! The waking up lots at night could also be that now he is crawling, when he wakes up briefly at night, which we all do, he remembers that he can do a new trick and wants to practice. What a busy little boy!

What else did we learn last week? Well on the same day that we started to crawl we also learned another new trick.......pulling our self up on things. How I discovered his newest feat? I had put him to bed that night and he was fussing a little, like normal, when suddenly I heard a giggle come from his room. I walked back to peak in the door and seen a little set of blue eyes peering over the rail of the crib back at me, giggling! So of course now when I put him down to nap or to bed at night the 1st thing he does is flip over to his tummy, crawl to the top of the crib, reach up with his hands and finagle his way to a standing position. Luckily he's figured out how to sit back down so he doesn't get stranded in this position. Still, I'm thinking why does he have to learn all this at once. I wasn't even used to the crawling yet and he's try to be George of Jungle climbing all over his crib.

Well now that he is taking a nap I need to start to get something done. I have truly lost my freedom I think, can't get much done anymore when he's up.


Passed out in the crawling position. This was taken last Monday, a few days before he figured it out
You can see his little bottom sticking up in the air...so cute