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Happy Halloween!!!

Today Jackson is 12 weeks old and it's Halloween! We didn't do anything spectacular, one of our friends (who is also our sitter) just bought a house in a great neighborhood so we crashed her driveway and handed out candy. Jackson did great! He was dressed as a Horned Frog which worked out great because it was a bit chilly and he was super warm (thanks Uncle Brian and Aunt Katie)!!! Here are a few pictures from the day

Good morning!

My boys!

Dressed and ready to go

Flamingo and Frog

Harman family Halloween 2012

All that handing out candy wore me out!

We met Big Tex!

Big Tex and Jax

Happy during tummy time!

Laughing

Look at those cheeks!

I know it's been a while since we posted, but I hope you enjoyed the pictures! We've had a busy month of firsts.

Trip to Austin

So Jax did pretty good for the most part in the four hour trip to Austin. We had to stop in Hillsboro and eat dinner for both us and him. The fun part was when I changed him, fed him and he promptly filled his diaper with the stickiest poo ever! It was super windy outside and cold. So I didn't want to take him out of the car again (we had gone in quickly to get food and back in the car...I'm more comfortable feeding him in the car)....anyways...so I made a spot on our leather seats (he slid around a lot) and changed his butt while J was getting gas only to discover the gas station ran out of gas. Seriously! Who runs out of gas along I-35! So after spending almost an hour in Hillsboro, hunting down gas and changing baby, we head out again.

Oh on a side note...I now judge restaurants by their quality of restrooms. Is it clean and is the changing table easy to acces and not stuck up a stall that is too tiny to maneuver in when the table is open....boo Schlotzsky's.

So we head down the road and little man falls asleep. This should have been my cue to fall asleep as well, but I've never been good at falling asleep when he sleeps. So I eat, send emails, talk to J and start to get tired around the time Jax wakes up and starts screaming. No sleep for me! So I talk to him and try everything, then realize he has a full diaper so I tell J we need to stop. Well we are on the part of the road where we are not near a city therefor no where to stop....so we try the roadside rest stop.

Now growing up, we used to stop at them all the time but I remember steel toilets, gross floors, and nastiness. But wipe have to pee and Jax needs changing, so we go for it. Well low and behold Texas tax dollars far outweigh Schlotzsky's!! There was a family bathroom where we could all go in, it was clean, warm, and over all a positive experience! YAY Texas!

We finally get to my parents house and my parents gladly dote on Jackson while we decompress from a drive full of traffic and a fussy baby. Oh and in case you were wondering...I have the child who doesn't like to sleep in the car. Instead, he watches the world pass by and then gets so tired he screams. 

7 Weeks Old!!

It has been 7 weeks since this amazing little boy entered into our lives! I have had so much fun spending time with him and learning his likes and dislikes. On Monday next week, I go back to work :( and will leave my little man so I decided that this week I'm going to snuggle with him and let him sleep on my chest and hold him as much as I want. I've been trying to let him sleep in his crib for naps and such so that he gets used to it, but I decided that this week I'm throwing that out the window so that I can get my last snuggles in before 150 kids start screaming my name. Until then, here is a list of Jackson's likes and dislikes so far:

Likes:

• Playmat - he will stay on the playmat for hours on end
• Swing - we've started to put him in his swing and let him just hang out there while we eat dinner and do things around the house. He loves to look up and see himself in the mirror over his head.
• Baths - he really enjoys his bath time...well as long as we keep him warm while he is in the bath.

Dislikes:

• Nose sucker - he hates getting his nose sucked but it is a must since I think he unfortunately has his Mommy and Daddy's allergies :(
• Carseat - he still hates his carseat unless he is fully asleep. He likes to stretch and move and the carseat restricts that movement. It will be an interesting trip to Austin at the end of October.

Overall, Jackson is a great baby! He is starting to smile at us and become more of a social baby. It is not every time, but sometimes he will look at us and smile really big. It just melts my heart when he does that! He also holds my hand when I feed him, his little hand will search for my fingers and then grasp on and just hold until it's time to burp or finish. Last night he slept for 4 hours straight, although I'm still waiting for the day when he will do 5-6 hours! I think if we up his formula that will help, but I'm kind of waiting until our 2 month check-up with the pedi to see how much formula she says he should be getting.

As we go about the day, I'll take pictures and post them later! 

Gigi and TCU

I guess we should back up a bit more....Friday was my Mom's birthday and my Dad came into town. Since I have known my father, I have seen him hold only a SMALL handful of babies. Don't get me wrong he is a fun guy who plays with kids...he loves playing with Zoey and Hayden...but when it comes to Jackson he is completely smitten! He called me on Thursday and asked where his pictures were, it had been 4 days since he had received a picture and he thought I was holding the pictures hostage. So being the good daughter that I am, I sent him one picture and told him he would get more when he got up here to visit on Friday :-D. Apparently, he is so smitten with Jax that every Wednesday at church choir practice (and Sunday morning too) he walks into the choir room and shows off the newest pictures of Jackson to anybody who is standing still long enough to look bored. I love hearing these stories, and on Friday I got to see my Dad with Jackson. He is just to cute for words...here are a few pics of the two of them.

 

Jackson went to his first ever TCU game! We got there and went to Uncle Brian's fraternity brother's tailgate. He was the HIT of the tailgate. I took him out of the Moby and Aunt Katie showed him off to everybody. Uncle Brian's old roommate Brett, was immediately smitten with Jackson and so was Chandler (Uncle Brian's best friend). They loved looking at his little toes and his bald head! Brett decided that they had the same haircut (Brett is going bald...)

Aunt Katie and Uncle Brian with Jax before the game

 We did go into the game, but only stayed inside for the first quarter. It was a little warm. I was surprised the noise did not bother Jackson, he slept most of the time. The only time he flinched with the noise was when we made a touchdown, a golf cart ambulance honking it's horn, and the Horned Frog horn went off all at the same time. I did go buy a little cap for him, since the sun was beating down on his little head and we were using Daddy's hat...but Daddy was getting sun burnt. Mom fail #322 I forgot sunscreen for him (thanks Aunt Katie for having some) and a hat for him (thanks TCU for having infant hats for sale at the game). After the 1st quarter, we went to a friends tailgate because she has AC in her trailer and we fed Jax. We only stayed until half time, is was just too bloody hot, and then we went to see Gigi (Jeremy's Grandma Harman)

The Harmans at the stadium - Jax is hiding in the Moby

Gigi has been in the hospital since Jax was born, so it was nice to finally go see her. Jackson is the first Harman boy born and so Grandma was very excited! She could only hold him for a little bit as she was still getting her strength back, but she loved just looking a him playing on the floor.

She was too cute, she called her two neighbors and told them they had to come see her new Great Grandson. Ron and Pam (from England) came and were just talking to him and doting on him. I could listen to them talk for forever! Then Connie came over and brought Jackson a present! She had crocheted a beautiful blanket for him per Grandma's request. Connie is a hoot, she is from New York and tells it like it is! I was cracking up at her frankness about life.

Here are a few other pictures from the past couple weeks....

Holding his own bottle!

Loves bathtime

6 Weeks old

Jackson is 6 weeks old (yesterday) and I can't believe how fast it is going, yet it seems like life has crept on. I go back to work in a little over a week and I'm not sure I'm ready to go yet...I kind of wish we could afford for me to stay at home with our Little Man. He is getting so strong and holding his head up and pushing back with his arms. He is becoming more "talkative" and smiling...although I haven't decided if they are social smiles or gas smiles whatever they are I'm just glad he smiles. On his 6 week birthday Jackson met Uncle Steve and Aunt Debbie, Nana came to town, and we spent lots of time playing on the play mat. He is loving his play mat, his swing, and his rocker. He likes to look around and take the world in, especially when there is light (natural or artificial). We went for a walk on Tuesday and he was awake for the very first time on a walk and loved just looking around at everything. He does hate the sun getting in his eyes, he screams until you move something to block the sun. He still isn't the best sleeper at night, but he will get better in time. Right now we can get almost 3.5 hours out of him but not much more. Man, 5 hours of consecutive sleep would be nice....but in time we will get it. We have a great system down for feeding him at night, Jeremy takes the late feedings (he's a night owl) and I take the early morning feedings (I'm a morning person). On Monday, Jackson slept in his crib for the first time all night long. I did very good too! I actually slept in our bed (not his floor or the room across the hall from his) and slept most of the night without worrying. I do have to say though that the video monitor is a HUGE blessing! In fact, last night we were lying in bed and Jax was making noises and I wanted to know what he was doing so I looked at the monitor and just watched it for what seemed like forever...I rolled over and told Jeremy I was thankful for the monitor otherwise I'd be in his room watching him. Schanpps is still doing well with Jackson, he sniffs him every once in a while and is growing increasingly more protective of Jax. His bark is starting to wake Jackson up during naps, but only if S barks non stop (usually if someone comes for a visit or someone rings the doorbell). Well I don't have any recent pictures because I haven't hooked my phone up to the laptop, but I will soon and then I'll do nothing but a picture post. Keep watching for how Jackson grows and changes....