loves being outside

Jackson loves being outside. It's too bad our winters get so cold. I'll take him out some, but there is no way he can go out the same amount that we were during the summer.

Cousins

Pat & Courtney and kids came to visit from California. It's fun to see them together again.

doing lots

Jackson is trying new stuff all the time now. I thought it would take him awhile to do, but he's already pulling himself to standing at the couch. And he has crawled on his hands and knees a few times too! They have been very short distances, like three movements and that's it. Usually it's after a toy (sometimes being dangled by me, but some on his own). If it's any farther, he just goes to his army crawl.

Clapping

Jackson has been practicing clapping!

Here is another one of him clapping, I just didn't get all of it.

I put this house toy in between the living room and dining room to try blocking Jackson from getting out of the living room. He loves going into the dining room. I think he likes to look out the sliding door window and play with Kitty's food container. But it only blocked him for a couple minutes and he figured out how to open the door and then he was off into the dining room. Before, the house was in the dining room and he never really played with the door, so I didn't think he would get it that fast.

Here are some cute expressions of seeing me on the other side.

Happy Halloween from 2 sickies and a monster

Happy Halloween! Good thing Jackson doesn't know what he's missing, because Dan and I aren't feeling well today so we aren't leaving the house and probably won't be giving out candy tonight. So sad though. He's doing great though!

into the candy

Jackson got into the candy! ...just kidding, not really. But he did like playing with the candy!

Jackson is waving!

Ok, just to brag and document... Jackson waved tonight. We were at our friends house (Amy, Seth & Wyatt), saying and waving goodbye and Jackson waved! A bunch too, very obvious that he was waving (copying Amy) and that it wasn't just a random movement. When we got home, Jackson and I were walking through the house and I stopped at the mirror. I waved and said "hi" and he waved back too! So cute! . . .7 months and 3 days, marks the day he did his first sign.

I've been working on some signs for awhile now. We've done the sign for milk probably since his first month. And I've been doing signs for eating, drinking, water, banana, apple, cracker, kitty, dog, and outside somewhat regularly. But now I'm really going to be doing them more! And adding more regular ones. I would have thought kitty would have been his first sign since he's so into kitty, but I guess waving his easier to do so that's probably why. We really hadn't worked on waving much, some, but not much. Obviously enough though for him to get it.