Happy 1/2 Birthday to You, Jack!

What a wonderful month this has been with our little Jack! Jack has changed so much lately and is becoming such a little person already! I am crazy about this age and growing more and more in love with my precious baby boy every day.

Just this week, Jack has started sitting up so well. He'll start to tip over and catch himself now. I love the sitting up stage. He seems really happy being able to do that.

He finally rolled over two weeks ago! Crazy how close these two milestones were to eachother! He still doesn't like to roll over, though. He does not like to be on his belly. He's getting very close to rolling from back to front now.

Jack cut another tooth last week. His precious smile just got even cuter!

He is incredibly smiley and happy. He will smile at everyone and just study them.

He is a huge mama's boy. He absolutely melts my heart every day just by the way he gazes at me lovingly. He lights up most for me, and when he first sees me when I walk over to him, he looks at me as if he's saying, "Ahh...THERE you are!"

He has flirty eyebrows and moves one up and down when someone's really smiling and talking to him.

He's starting to get his voice and is just starting to use different sound combos. He has a deep voice that sounds similar to James'.

He is scooting more and more. He's trying so hard to get around by himself! I am not ready for the crawling stage, but I know it's just around the corner!

He is really taking to food now. He loves to sit in his highchair and eats rice cereal twice a day (which is making him chunk up even more). We tried bananas yesterday in a mesh bag, and he loved it! We are going to try avacados at the end of the week. I love introducing new foods to him! I'm going to make my own baby food this time, since several of my friends have inspired me to do so! Plus, I spent $1.17 on two servings of applesauce, and I'm not going to do that again.

He is noisy, noisy! He screams the highest pitch scream I've ever heard every day for a while. They're happy screams, but they are disrupting in public places and have made me have to take him out of restaurants.

I love his sweet expressions, the way he puts his arms around my neck and gets really still when I pick him up, the way he puts his hands on my face, the look in his eyes when he's so intrigued by what I'm saying/doing, kissing his sweet mouth over and over and over, his precious, fat hands and feet, his ENORMOUS thighs (I gotta get a picture), his cheeks when he smiles, his smell, his crazy/fuzzy hair, his sparkly eyes, they way he jumps with excitement when I surprise him around the corner or over the bed, his morning sweetness, the way he wakes up in a good mood and smiles huge smiles when I come in to get him out of bed, how he laughs when he's tickled, the way he talks to and lights up for his brother, how he talks to other babies, etc, etc, etc!

I did the baby personality quiz from Baby Whisperer, and he is 1/2 angel baby, 1/2 spirited baby. That's exactly what I thought he was. He is going to be very very sweet, I can already tell. But, he's also active, loud, and a little demanding. (What is up with me having 2 demanding boys??) I am in love with his personality and can't wait to see it develop and unfold over the years!

Wanting some of the attention...