So close

I read babycenter.com and they keep saying " By now, you should be hearing those wonderful belly laughs from your child."
HUH?
Jack has not given us a belly laugh or even close to one. If he does want to laugh, the only sound that comes out is "Ergh, Erhg. This big grunting noise that comes out of him. Which is kind of cute cause that at least tells us that he is enjoying our company. Brian almost got him to laugh on Sunday. And it wansn't a grunt but more of a hehe. For a quick second it came and then went.

Jack is very ticklish. Neck, under the arms, on his legs and he likes it when you put his feet on your face. He is a big fan of that.

Car rides are no longer safe

And what I mean by that is that we cannot always rely on a car ride to make Jack sleep now. He is older and when he is cranky, sleepy, or hungry no car ride will make him forget it. Especially if he is hungry. He will cry and sometimes scream until that bottle is in his mouth. Which I don't like because then when can I burp him? An hour later when we get to our destination? It has also come to a point that when we go somewhere, I am riding in the back with Jack and Brian is in the front by himself. The backseat is a barrier and I feel that we cannot have a regular conversation as we would if I were in the front seat.

Summer is coming soon and that means road trips to St. Paul. I am getting a little bit nervous about that cause if we have to stop every two hours for Jack then our usual seven hour drive may turn into a 12 hour drive. I think it may be time to fly to St. Paul.

How do the gramdmas do it?

Jack spent the day with Brian's mom yesterday. For some reason, Jack likes to give the grandmas a break because he will take 3 hour naps at my moms. He took a three hour nap with Grandma Terrie yesterday. What is this? If we put him down , he will sleep for maybe 40 min before he wakes up and starts crying. I have no idea what it is. Our room is not noisy, not too bright with the sun. I would like to think that he misses his parents so much that he does not want to sleep.

Other Jack news, we have discovered the swaddle once again. Brian was the king of swaddlers and he would wrap him so tight that Jack could not break out. Once Jack turned one month, he would break out of the swaddle and we thought that was the end of it. It wasn't until my mom started taking care of him that when she puts him to bed, she wraps him up tightly and therefore he falls asleep. Grandma Terrie did the same thing last night to put him to sleep.
So i guess that I am going to have to learn on how to swaddle again since I never had it right the first time.

VOTE FOR JACK!!!!

And so the pimping begins. I entered Jack in the Great American Photo contest. Brian and I always said that we wanted to have our child become a baby model. And with that face, who can resist? I just hope that Jack doesn't become the Macaluey Culkin. Where he gets so famous that he gets imancipated from us and will shun us away for life.

Anyways here is the link. Vote for Jack!!! Winner gets $2500.

https://www.greatamericanphotocontest.com/voter1/index_c.aspx?referid=EmailFriends&p=494145&x=.jpg

The zoo, the BBQ and the fire alarm

Jack had his first trip to the zoo on Saturday. My dream was to hold him in front of the monkees and he would get excited and try to reach out to them. Well by the time we got to the gorilla house, Jack was asleep and took his wonderful 5 minute nap. He did check out the small mammal house and I am guessing that he liked it cause it was so dark in there.

We then had dinner at my sisters and Jack was doing his usual fussiness before he went to sleep. The ceiling at my sisters is at least 10 feet tall which also means that the smoke alarm is way up there. Any little detection of smoke and the alarm goes off with of course the most obnoxious sound. My dad and I were trying to fan the smoke away and all the while I secretly hoped that Jack would not wake up. He did three times and at the third time, went out for good.

We went to my father in law's for a BBQ on Sunday. Jack being a winter baby was not used to the sun. In fact he complained a bit. I kept telling him that this is what real weather should be. That weather that we have seen before, the cold, the snow the rain and ice, was not how it should be. He must have listened cause he was very quiet while I explained to him what weather is.

Three months

The little lady in the photo is Jack's girl, Olivia.

Your bedtime is at 8 mister!!!

Jack had a strange day at my mom's last night. I got to her place around 6 and he was Mister Sleepy. All it took was a little rock in the arms with me to get him to sleep. And he did.. for 10 minutes. Then he woke up. Then went to sleep. Then woke up, then tried to go to sleep. At this point he was pulling the I'm so sleepy and cranky routine. I went to the bathroom and minutes later I came out and I hear "Puppy , kitty meow meow bark," in the style of the song ABC. I see Jack, wide awake, sitting in the bouncy chair. His arms and legs kicked as he listened to the song and saw the lights flash around.
Great. It's 7:45 pm and he should be at passed out point. And he isn't.
He was awake for another hour til Brian came to pick us up. It wasn't til our ride home that Jack fell asleep.
My concern tonight is that I hope Jack goes into his regular 8pm bedtime routine. Because we have worked really hard to get him to go to bed at that time. really hard.