Favorite Photo Friday

I thought I'd share some of my favorite Instagram photos from this week. Some were taken with my DSLR and some with my cell phone camera. 

Jackson's chubby little Flinstone feet. :-)

This was one of my photo a day pictures for this month. We had to take a picture of the "outside" and I got this pretty picture with the sun rays shining in on this building downtown St. Louis. I just really liked the colors and the rays of sunshine.

Jackson splashing in the bathtub.

Jackson, waiting for Daddy to come back home.

Bathtime again! He loves bathtime.

Jackson with his Mickey Mouse. I think he looks so much like his Daddy in this picture. :-)

I hope you all have a great weekend! TGIF!

Participating in these link-ups:

Photo Friday and Favorite Photo Friday.

Embrace the Camera

Linking up with Emily at The Anderson Crew

Embrace the Camera is where you'll take a picture of YOU with your kids, spouse, friends, etc. The point of embrace the camera is to get in front of the camera and to document a bit of yourself.

Here are a few more pictures of Jackson and I from our trip to the Splash Pad on Monday. He was not happy to be stopping for pictures when he really wanted to be down playing. He didn't cry, but he didn't want to look at the camera either. Ha. There were so many other, way more interesting things that he wanted to be looking at. So, though he's not smiling in any of these pictures, we did have a great time that day. ☺

Wednesday Loves and Pins

Its been a few weeks since I've joined in on WILW and OHPW, so I thought I'd join in today.

♥ I'm loving that Jackson is doing so well in our attempts at getting him to sleep through the night. Last night he woke up at around 12:30, but I was able to rock him right back to sleep without a bottle. Then he woke up at around 5:15 and I did give him a bottle at that time because it had been 8 hours. (Our goal is to get him to sleep 8 hours without a bottle.) He didn't even eat the whole bottle before he was right back to sleep. I'm hoping he will stop waking up, before 8 hours, sometime soon. I also love how he sleeps with his little butt up in the air. ♥

♥ I'm loving this picture I took of Jackson the other night, and the cool edits I used on PicMonkey.

♥ I'm loving this Homedics Sound Spa that I got for Jackson over the weekend. I really think its helping him sleep better and longer. It plays 6 different soothing sounds and has a little picture projector with three different themed disks. It also has a timer on it.

♥ I'm loving this new song by Switchfoot.

♥ And, I'm loving this sweet boy and his daddy. ☺

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For this weeks Oh How Pinteresting Wednesday, I'm going to post some picture ideas for Jackson's 9 month pictures that I plan on taking this Friday evening.

Of course there are tons of cute ideas on Pinterest. ☺

And if Jake will comply, maybe we can get a quick family picture like this. ☺

A Trip to the Splash Pad

Yesterday, my sister invited Jackson and I to go to a splash pad over by her house. So since I was off work yesterday, I picked up my mom and we headed over to my sister's house for lunch and to enjoy the splash pad. We had a great time and the kids had a lot of fun!! Here are some pictures from our day.

Jackson and I at the Splash Pad.

Jackson and Mason playing in the water.

Jackson had so much fun, he crawled and walked all around, just like the big kids.

My nephew Landon, playing in the sprinklers with the 2 little boys my sister watches.

Jackson wants to be big so bad. He just watched the bigger kids run around and wanted to run so bad. 

Once Jackson finally warmed up to getting the water in his face, he kinda liked it. ☺

My nephew Landon.

He had so much fun!

Landon and the 2 boys my sister watches, on the teeter totter.

Jackson walking around the jungle gym.

Jackson watching the bigger kids play on the jungle gym.

We had a great time at the splash pad. We will have to go back soon. ☺

Jackson's 40 Week Pictures!

Jackson is 40 weeks old now! I can't believe we are at 40 weeks already! 

He had his 9 month check-up on Saturday and weighed 22 lbs. 13 ozs. He measured 29 3/4 inches long. He is in the 90th percentile for both weight and height. Its safe to say he's a BIG boy! His pediatrician joked by saying the St. Louis Rams should be calling us any day now, Ha! His appointment went well. He is very healthy and doing great. The Dr. couldn't believe he was walking already! Thankfully he didn't have to get any shots this time around. He goes for his next check-up at 12 months.

He's walking really well now days. He can even hold things in his hands and walk around without falling and he can get back up after falling down without having to crawl over to something to pull himself up! He's so determined! 

He's not really doing anything new since last week. He's still mostly saying Mama, Dada and Baba, but he will also say Num Num now.

We tried getting him to sleep 8 hrs. through the night without a bottle the last 2 nights. (His pediatrician said he should be sleeping 8 hours now without a bottle) So far, so good. The first night I gave him an 8 oz. bottle at around 9:30 and he fell asleep with that. He slept til around 2 and I got up to try and just rock him back to sleep, but he was not having any part of that. He cried for about 15 minutes before I put him back in his crib to cry it out. He only cried for about 10 more minutes and slept the rest of the night until close to 10 the next morning!!! The next night, (last night) he fell asleep at around 9, while taking his bottle. He woke up at around 2 again and he let me rock him right back to sleep with no crying. ☺ Then he woke up at around 5 (8 hours after eating) so I went ahead and gave him a bottle and he went right back to sleep and was still asleep when I left for work this morning at 7:15. My mom said he actually ended up sleeping until 9:20 this morning.So I think he's doing really well and hope to cut that 2 a.m. wake-up, out of his routine soon.

He's still wearing mostly 18 month clothes now, although I bought him a few pairs of 2T pajamas from Target, so he'd have a little room to grow, and they are a little big, but not too bad. Here he is wearing a pair.

We are having so much fun with him and I just can't squeeze him and kiss him enough! He's probably going to get sick of all the hugs and kisses, but I don't care. ;-)