Wow. I haven't posted in a long time. These days little Jack has no desire to allow his mom to check her email, let alone write a blog. He gets a little jealous of the computer, I think. At the moment, he's passed out for a particularly long afternoon nap.
The little bugger can walk now! He took his first little steps right around Thanksgiving. And he's practicing up a storm now. He's very proud of this new ability. He does, however find crawling to be the fastest mode of transportation. Especially when it comes to very important tasks, such as chasing the cat and pulling her tail. Once he catches her, he uses his walking skills to step on her face. She just loves that. Luckily, Holly is very tolerant of Jack's antics.
We had a doctor's appointment a few weeks ago. He's tall and skinny for his age. Not underweight, though. Just shaped like his parents. We had to take him to the dentist, too. His front teeth are growing in with part of the enamel missing. I feel guilty for passing him my weak tooth gene. He's only had these teeth for a few months, and they were defective from day one. He really took the bad teeth gene to a whole new level. I at least waited a few years before mine started falling apart. Hopefully, he will have inherited his father's 20/20 vision. Mommy is blind as a bat. My eye doctor actually made fun of me for it. My EYE DOCTOR! Sheesh.
Jack is a bit better with eating and sleeping now. Currently he will eat absolutely anything as long as it is smothered in tomato sauce or ketchup. Definitely his father's child.
As for the sleeping...it's a long story. To sum it up, we happened to have a psychic in the house and she mentioned that our ghosts were waking the baby up. She asked the ghosts to leave the house, and oddly, we haven't had a problem since them. Despite my skepticism, I'm very relieved to get a good night sleep almost every night. Baby books ought to mention the paranormal in the sleeping problem chapters.
