MIA

I have to admit, anytime anyone has said in the last several weeks, "It's on my blog," or, "I posted the pictures on my blog," or something similar, I almost have to think to myself, "What's that?" I have been so out of touch with the blogging world that I have only facebook to thank for keeping up with everyone's lives. And, let's face it: facebook gets old.

There are a few reasons why I haven't touched a keyboard longer than a few seconds to type a password into said facebook website. Number one of which is that the hard drive in our computer took its last breath back in April - and everything - EVERYTHING is gone. Pictures from the past three and a half years, videos, music, programs, you name it - all because we didn't back it up when we said we were going to, about a year ago. Oops. Talk about depressing. I grieved for a while, then realized we do have pictures on facebook (who I have to thank again, for that), and I found most of the pictures on my iPod touch (thank you, apple). But - the pics I took daily of Jack in the hospital, the weekly pictures I have been taking since day one... gone. Moral of the story? Back your computer up. No matter what. SO not worth the pain.

Other than praying that our old hard drive can still be revived by some data recovery software, we have been keeping busy. Here are a few things that have happened over the last few months.

Chris has been working graveyards at his job. Not fun... for any of us. It wouldn't be so bad if they were consistent with it - he doesn't ever know when he's going to work them, and therefore pulls doubles sometimes. Again... not fun.

Jack has been doing stellar. He was 10.5 lbs at the beginning of May, so he's more than likely almost 12 now. He will be five months on the June 28th, and is so much fun. He has some new tricks, including rolling over from his stomach to back, and standing on dad's hand in the air. The kid is tough. He also likes climbing up my front when I try to burp him (mostly because he's angry for being done eating. I'm not sure he'll ever get over that stage). He sleeps in his own room now, which was a little tough for me but is so nice. Crazy how time flies.

I myself have started selling nursing and car seat covers, as well as a handful of other things. I'm in the process of starting my etsy shop, and I'm selling things at shows. It keeps me busy and I am enjoying myself. That's what life's all about, right?

Here are a few things I've documented over these few weeks.

Jack's first official major blowout. It was loads of fun. :)

Our first experience with rice cereal...Pretty sure he didn't eat any of it.

First mustache... smashingly handsome little man, isn't he?

Jack has had an umbilical hernia since his umbilical cord came off. It's quite common, actually, and nothing to be worried about. I know it doesn't look like it (because I haven't posted anything to compare it to), but it's quite smaller than it used to be. Yay!
First time in a Bumbo chair. He liked it.
The day before coming home from the hospital, the doctors did an echo on Jack - an ultrasound, basically, of the heart. They found a couple of holes in some different places, but assured us they would close up and that it was nothing to worry about. This is him at his follow-up appointment three months later. He was a curious little guy for the ultrasound tech, and was so good.
After the echo they wanted him to get an EKG to check for any heart murmurs.
This kid was a champ... thanks to the sweet sugar water his binkie was dipped into. :)
Truth be told, he wasn't happy about any of it.
And to top it all off, he had to get his blood drawn. At least he got a cool arm band out of it.
We've had a fun few months. Hope you've had the same!