Jack a Roo,
Late afternoon around our house means play time! Even on your changing table you’re ready to play! {Don’t worry grandparents, Mark was right next to him, I promise!} You’ve become quite a squirmy little guy up there, so we’re learning to be really quick with diaper changes. 
Pardon the poor quality, but look at what our little boy is doing! Really?! He likes to push up with his legs, pull them under, and then push up with his arms. He’s moving forward a bit, but he doesn’t have the crawling motion down. It looks like any time now though!
Mark, Jack, and I headed to Fort Mill today to meet little Miss Lucy Rabb and to visit with the rest of the family. Grace and Sarah are already super big sisters, and Lauren and Bryan are doing beautifully as the proud parents of three beautiful girls!
We like to think that we have an arranged marriage already in place, so please meet Jack’s future wife! Lucy Loo and Jack a Roo-cute, huh! :)
I’m still going through my photography DVD lessons, and I wanted to try a silhouette and a sunburst {sunflare?}. I’m so glad I have such a willing little model!
And what’s a Saturday without play time with daddy! My boys are so silly!
We’ve been reading to Jack for a while, but he’s really started to enjoy the books lately. It’s so fun to watch him because it really looks like he’s reading!
You are so funny, baby Jack!! Thanks for always making us laugh!
We sing that song to Jack all the time, and oh, how true, how true!! We wear a constant smile on our faces because of the pure joy this little guy brings us! He seems to grow and change each day, and we don’t want to forget a minute of it! I love all the fun faces and sounds he’s making and his super soft, fair baby skin.
We went to see Dr. Trey today, and I am pleased to report another clean bill of health! We were able to answer ‘yes’ to all the milestone questions, and everything checked out perfectly!
I’ve been taking a picture of him on the scale at each visit-I guess we’ll have to sit him up next time! Look at my long boy-this cracks me up!
Weight: 16 pounds, 14 ounces-50th percentile
Height: 29 inches-off the charts!
Head Circumference: 17 inches-50th percentile
I’ve been really trying to learn as much as I can about photography, and in my internet searches, I found I ♥ Faces-GREAT website! They frequently host photo challenges, so I decided to enter this week! The theme was Nostalgia.
I could just daydream about his sweet little baby hands and toes thinking about how little they were, how much they've already grown, and what this is still to come! I hope we can show him that those hands and feet will take him anywhere he wants to go!!
Baby Lucy arrived this morning at 7:47 weighing 7 pounds, and everyone is doing great! Congratulations Lauren and Bryan and new big sisters Grace and Sarah! 
Welcome to the world, Lucy Loo! We cant wait to meet you!
Love,
Mark, Michelle, and Jack
This is how I found Jack this morning-I love that crazy baby!!
(taken from my phone-ignore the quality and focus on the cute baby!)
26 weeks, 2 days
Jack and I made a trip to Fort Mill today to meet baby Christian-what a treat! He is so sweet and cuddly, and if Laurie wasn’t looking, I may just have taken him home!
Half a year old already!?!? Unbelievable but true! Everything you’re doing now is my favorite, but I say that all the time! The truth is, being your mommy is my favorite! You are still the happiest and sweetest boy I know, and I’m so thankful that you’re mine!
This past month you’ve really mastered sitting up. You can’t yet get to sitting by yourself, but you’re doing a great job at sitting up straight and staying that way for a good while.
You talk to us quite a bit, and we love it! You’re also very generous with your laughs, and that is quite possibly the sweetest sound I’ve ever heard!
You've started eating solid foods on a regular basis. So far you’ve had sweet potatoes, bananas, pears, and carrots, and you liked them all! You still nurse five times a day, but I think with the addition of food we’ll stretch your feedings to every four hours or so, so you’ll drop a feeding.
The minute you can get your hand on something, anything, it goes straight to your mouth, but we don’t see any teeth just yet. You also like to pat. My favorite is when you’re nursing and you pat my chest and play with my hands. That is such a special time for us!
You still sleep great through the night, and the swaddle is all but gone! We did the one arm thing for a bit, but right now we loosely wrap you while you’re falling asleep, and before we know it, the blanket is completely off. You love to sleep on your side, and we often find you that way or on your tummy. No more sleeping on your back for you!
Love,
Mommy and Daddy
Jack and I went to his first play group today, and we had so much fun! It was great to be with other mommies of babies Jack’s age and for them to ‘play’ with each other!
We met Marni and Elizabeth (6 months-she and Jack share a birthday!!), and got the spend time with Brittany and Reese (5 months), Mary Lane and Emmaline (7 months), and Clark and Katherine (10 weeks). We were missing a few friends with boys, but for this week, Jack enjoyed being the only boy with all the pretty girls!
I’ve been wanting to take some pictures of Jack outside but wanted to wait until he could sit up. He has that figured out, so we headed outside after dinner to snap away, and it was a quick few pictures because he wasn’t too sure about the grass!
Daddy to the rescue!!
