Here are some of our latest pictures of our little guy. He loves to make funny faces and then see himself on the computer screen. He’s 18 months now and at his appointment yesterday he was in the top 95% for height and head size and 75% for weight. He’s so great.
Anyway, last night we had our block party – it went pretty well, except the road blocks we got from the city that we put up didn’t work very well. Several people just decided they were entitled to bypass them even though they didn’t live on the street – and a few people came speeding down the street! So, we decided to move the road blocks over to make it a bit harder for people to get by but, near the end of the party, a police officer pulled up and said they had a complaint about us blocking the road off. He said I needed a permit, but when he found out it was a street “get to know your neighbors” block party and that we had several little kids he said he would leave the road blocks up and told me he was totally in favor of what we were doing! Kinda funny – last year we invited a police officer to our block party, and blocked off the road, and I never heard from the city or from the police officer that I needed a permit! Oh well, we were happy it turned out fine and we’ll get the permit for next year (if we’re here)!

Sarah had her doctor’s appointment today and she asked the doctor if we might be able to schedule the c-section on February 29th since next year is a leap year. We’re still not sure if we want to cause that kind of confusion for our child but it could be fun for them. Maybe every fourth birthday would be a special birthday. It makes sense. 8, 12, 16 are important birthdays.

Sarah was actually born on Feb 28th of a leap year. Missed it by a day!

Well, this week Jackson woke up Tuesday in the middle of the night with a really high fever. He was burning up – we gave him some medicine, but he wouldn’t go back to sleep and he still had all of his energy – he was running around like crazy and constantly trying to get us off the couch to play with him. I decided to take him to the doctor in the morning and we found out that he had hand, foot and mouth. He didn’t have any of the rash, but he had a sore throat that looked like strep. Anyway, we hardly took naps that day and that night he decided he didn’t want to sleep either. I was so tired, but he just wanted his mommy! Finally about 3:00 AM he was climbing on to the couch and fell asleep half way up. I didn’t dare move him, because I was sure he would wake up, so I just put my hand on his back to keep him from falling off and he slept until 8:00! Hooray! The next night he slept pretty well, and its just been up from there. What a relief – I didn’t know if I could do another night without sleep! Anyway, he is back to his normal self now and I am so happy to have my healthy little guy!
We were glad he was healthy again because some of his cousins were coming to visit from AZ this weekend and we wanted to hang out with them. We’ve had such a blast with them and we are going to miss having so many cousins to keep us company!