4 Months (and a catch up from 3 months...)

Dearest Jack (aka "Bubbas")-

my favorites

These are my favorite two videos of Jack...

yeah for me!

I FINALLY got the technology in order for me to download my little video clips onto YouTube which means all you people can now see my horrible filming skills and lack of editing programs.

'Tis Thanksgiving eve... or the pre-dawn hours of the actual day...

oh my heavens - I'm a horrible blogger!  Not only did I totally skip out on my kids 3mo update (lets face it kids: it's not gonna happen as a single post...

wait, what? I blinked and time flew...

this last month went by FAST!  Too fast!  So fast, that Jack entering in his 3rd month of life has caught me off guard and I don't have any pics or a posting ready... booooo on me for being a bad blogger.

you can't say I didn't warn you....

smart marketing...

This has catchy tune has been going through my head like crazy!  In fact, it is so catchy that I had to use my SoundHound app on my phone to get the full version.  I find myself singing along with the commercial whenever it comes on now... (and while driving, cooking up a frozen burrito, dancing with Jack, showering, changing a dirty diaper... pretty much all the time) and the part with the sheep cracks me up....

weird!

So I've recently met my across-the-street neighbor at our ward's monthly relief society meeting. 

2 months (technically, 68 days)

Dear Jack,

Oh my sweet, SWEET little rabbit - what a little awesome kid you are becoming!  Every morning is a gamble on how you're going to wake up - either with shrieks of hunger or cute, tiny coos of joy - but by the time your tum tum has got some milk in it, you are a crack up!  All you want to do is jibber-jabber with your moms.

Poor Jack...

So I had a plan for today to take pictures and get info ready to share on the comings and goings of Mr. Jack.  And as most well planned intentions, it just didn't happen. 

Jack had his 2mo well baby check up as well as immunizations today, the appointment went really well until we got to the shots... that was when it went downhill.  Poor kid never saw it coming, and he wasn't the same for the rest of the day.  All he wanted to do was to be with mommy, nursing and sleeping.  He wouldn't let me put him down without wailing that sad, sad hurtful cry that almost made me cry.  It's the first time he has ever been like that, and I missed my smiley happy little boy!  Hopefully when he wakes up tomorrow, he'll be back to normal and I'll be able to get those 2mo pictures up with his big smile and hopefully a video - cross your fingers!

woo hoo for family pics!

Today, the whole Parkinson clan got together for family pics... we haven't had pics done since '07 and the family make-up has changed just a wee bit since then :)  Our photographer was AMAZING!  We had so much fun, too bad it felt like it was 102 degrees out...

The most awesome thing?  She already had a few of our pics up tonight!  Go to her website to check them out!

 

Thanks Heidi!  You did awesome!!!

I should have expected this to happen...

Today while quietly feeding Jack in the wee hours of the morning, I was reveling in the quiet time I had with my Mr. Man.  His cherubic face was serene while we looked at each other, and his gentle sighs as his little tummy filled up were such bliss for this new mom.  As feeding time goes on, he slows down and stops eating (this is normal for a child of my husband - my husband whose eating pace is out matched by a sloth.).  I gently rub his back hoping he won't take too long when the wee babe lets out a ginormous fart - one that would challenge any adult.  He unlatches and grins one of the biggest grins I've seen on him so far as I react with a loud "woo!" and gives me the best belly laugh for a good few minutes to express how proud of his accomplishment he is.  I have no one to blame but myself for having that bean burrito for dinner last night...

stumped...

I feel like I need to post something... ANYTHING really... but what to post?  Yes, we all know how adorable our little Jack Rabbit is... but if ALL of my posts are about him, I'm afraid that those of you who are not of blood relation will stray from my puny, little blog.  And really, I DO have other things going on besides being a mom (even though everyday feels all consuming of motherhood) and I would like to share those things... but then again there is the fear of boring the heck out of those reading this, but really is it MY job to entertain you all??? LOL...

So, please forgive if this blog is a total snore for you, but it is what it is... any suggestions would be much appreciated as well ;)

For those of you needing a Jack fix, here you go!

One Month later....

ONE MONTH

 It's been one whole month since lil' Jack has come into our world

How it all went down....

After being overdue for a week in the hottest part of the year here, walking what felt like a million miles to get things rolling (especially since my mom had flown out for the big occasion a week prior and had yet to see a new grandson), my doctor approved to induce and get Mr. Man out and about. 

wow I'm really lame!

So, I have been REALLY slacking on this posting thing... I guess I was far too tired and miserable in the later part of my pregnancy to want to post anything.  Now that the baby cooking part is over, and things have become somewhat normal again I plan on posting (lets see how long THIS lasts!) and updating family and friends on the cuteness of Jack.  Good luck to me!

Sad, then happy, then bored, then sad again... ugh it's exhausting!

WHOA! Wait a minute...

So, i started this blog on the day that I had my very first official appointment with the doctor.  And then... yeah. I didn't finish it.  So sorry to those who were anticipating an actual post on that day.  I'm terrible at this already :) 

So the appointment was quite a surprise - I was expecting to get to see the heart beat, get measured, and see the little peanut that it is...expecting it to look more like a bean with a heartbeat really than anything else.  Well, as I sat there on the table with my good Jen Hale in the room as moral support (due to the fact that Brandon was out on the road), up pops the image of a BABY.  I could not stop laughing... and laughing more.  It had two arms, two legs, a body, a head, the umbilical cord... and it's a BABY! (I'm still laughing...)  I'm guesstimated at about 12 weeks, due roughly on July 29th... I think I might be further along than that, but only time will tell.

Brandon got home that evening and luckily for us, the Dr. office gave us a DVD of the ultrasound so he got to see exactly what I got to see... and he laughed as well (not as much as I did, though).  The thought of being preggers was weird enough, now I need to get used to having a baby in there!  And here is the first photo op for our kid:

It's a picture of a picture, lame I know... but it's what I got :)  So only a little bit longer until we can find out what we're having... I'm so excited to find out!  So many cute things out there to buy for both boys and girls...I just need to know- so I can start BUYING!!!  (I should wait anyways for the shower, right??? I've no idea what protocol is on this sort of thing...)

So, being sick has lightened slightly, but now cooking food is really difficult.  Not the smells (you would think the smells), but what the food looks like while cooking is what gets me.  The microwave and take-out menus have become my best friends :)  Hopefully that will end soon as well...

and so it begins...

I have finally broken down, and decided to BLOG. It's true, I have caved to the peer pressure - I am the only one who doesn't have one... well, not anymore :) I haven't done this before, because I really had nothing to blog about - our life is boring. Correction: our life WAS boring! I thought it fitting to document our adventures for family and friends who live both near and far since we are now going to be a threesome in the very near future.

Yep, we are preggers and so very excited about it! I don't know how good I will be at updating this kind of thing (seeing that my journal entries have more than a year between them) but I will do my very best - there are people that I want to experience this with me & they are the furthest away!

I have already started my random crying at sappy commercials (or really anything), thrown up more than I would like to, wished my mommy was here to tell me I'm normal and it will all be o.k., and really wish a lot of days that my husband would be here everyday and actually love the crazy, emotional ups and downs I can't seem to control (every pregnant woman's dream, right?).

I'm not exactly sure how far along we are - due date is approximately in August. I have my first appointment on Jan 13th, so I'll get all that rough estimate time frame a little narrower and hopefully won't have 9 whole months to go...

Until next time.... I need to come up with a catchier ending....