Jack Attack

Time has gone by quickly! Aaron and I are in Atlanta for a summer job. It is nice to be away from Provo for a while, but we are working like crazy. Aaron works from about ten in the morning till midnight or later, and I work about five to six hours a day. My job is nice cause I can take jack to work with me, which is a blessing and also a curse. It is not very easy trying to entertain a baby while answering phone calls. Jack is almost seven months old and growing by leaps and bounds.

Jack loves watching and helping daddy play video games. And dad loves the help! Most of the time jack pulls the controller out of Aaron's hands, in his attempts to help. As you can see in the picture when the TV is on Jack is gone! He loves just staring at the TV!


Even though he is almost seven months old he refuses to be on his tummy. Any time his cute little belly so much as touches the floor he explodes! Our doctor said that I need to put him on his stomach for ten minutes at a time to which Jack has this to say:

He is slowly getting better, but he is very stubborn! Along with being stubborn Jack loves to scream! We often have screaming contests, to which he generally wins! I have to admit when he screams he sometimes sounds like a little girl. Jack is such a happy baby! I wake up to him talking to himself, and when he sees me he has a huge smile on his face! I would not trade begin a mom for the world.



Aaron and I are looking forward to relaxing after this summer job. We have been able to go to one braves game which was fun but extremely hot. We are both trying to work on our tan, but with little success. Jack comes by it honestly!

Eating Real Food

A couple of weeks ago we got the ok for Jack to start eating food. I usually feed him rice cereal, but we decided it was time for him to have some veggies. I told Aaron he should feed Jack and he was excited. Well as you can tell not much made it into Jacks mouth! At one point Jack leaned to one side of his chair, scaring dad who immediately flung the bottle of carrots all over the carpet. It will take a little while for us to get the hang of spoon feeding. Hopefully next time the carrots won't end up in is nose and on his forehead.

Our Yoda

Ever since Jack was born Aaron's family said that he looked like Yoda. Over my families spring break I went home and visited. My little brother, Jordan, loves building things out of legos. He created a lego Yoda, so we decided to compare. As you can tell Jack was not so sure about this so called look a like.

Hanging with dad!

Jack has a ways to go!

We have decided that dressing up Jack is a lot of fun, but sometimes we get a little carried away.

The Many faces of Jack

Screaming Jack

So the nickname. A couple of weeks after Jack was born our Bishop asked how he was doing, one of our friends said that he was kinda screamy and it stuck. After that comment our bishop referred to Jack as screaming Jack the rest of church that day. That Monday a member of the ward came by and asked how our baby was doing and asked what his name was. I replied Jack and he said oh screaming Jack. I had just had Jack so I was not at church and did not hear the comment. I was confused and a little annoyed. No one had even seen him and he had a nickname. I asked a couple of our friends if they knew anything about it, and then the story unfolded. It was pretty funny after I knew how it came about.



Well I think his nickname jinxed us. Jack had colic. For about 8 weeks he screamed and screamed. One night Lorel wanted to use our bouncer to see if Ella liked it. She brought her to our apartment and tried to make her cry, while we were trying to make Jack stop crying. My mom kept reassuring us that not all babies cry that much, but it was hard to believe. After seeing Jack cry so much one of my friends said that she did not want to have a second baby, because she was scared her baby would cry that much!

Boy were we happy when he decided that he had enough of this screaming business. Jack is now a very happy boy!
He is almost three months and is very independent. He is very content with not being held, which makes me sad sometimes. Sometimes he will be fussy and I will put him down and he smiles at me like haha, that is what I wanted! We love him so much! We can't imagine life without him and we are so very blessed!