Old McDonald Had A Farm

We are waving goodbye to week 25 and month 5!

This week we ate sweet potatoes... and they were a bit hit!!


We are also working on drinking water out of a cup/sippy cup. Jackson does better drinking straight out of the cup (with supervision of course) and is slowly getting the hang of the sippy cup. Right now he just gnaws on it.

Speaking of gnawing... no teeth yet. But close, I think! I can feel teeth bumps and the drooling is only getting worse...if that's possible.

We spent a day at Julian's house playing. And as always, Julian's toys are a lot more fun to play with than our own. Jackson LOVED Julian's Exersaucer....


...so we got one of our own the next day!

He can keep himself occupied in there for a good half hour. It has a lot of farm animal toys and a spinny seat and it even bounces! We think there should be a grown up version of this!

And Jackson's girlfriend/babysitter Mel gave him an Elmo chair. When you move in it is giggles and vibrates. David HATES it, but Jackson loves to rock in it and make it giggle.


I am sure Jackson said "Mama" tonight. It was either that or "Yum Yum" because we were eating rice cereal. And I couldn't get him to say it again... so maybe it was just a fluke. But I'll pretend like it was "Mama"...

Jackson recognizes his own name and will turn and look at you if you call for him. He also recognizes the words daddy and mommy and will look at us when we refer to the other. Randomly today, we noticed that he recognized David's ringtone! His ringtone on my phone is the guitar riff from Steely Dan's Kid Charlemagne. David called my phone so a friend of ours could hear the ringtone and Jackson looked at the phone and then David! Smart little guy!

We went today with the Keats' family to our favorite beach. It was cold and cloudy so we put a hat on Jackson but didn't bother with sunscreen. Stupid parents! Jackson now has his first sunburn... on his right arm and cheek. It was so stingy for him in the bath tonight. He cried a lot. We felt so bad. But I smothered him in aloe vera all afternoon and evening so hopefully it will be better in the morning. We learned our lesson...won't be going out of the house anymore without suncreen!

I didn't take lots of video this week so here is one from last week. Jackson LOVES to play the piano!


Next week I start back teaching and Jackson starts back to GymbaROO. AND Jackson is starting swim lessons on Tuesday! We also have his 6 month checkup. Busy week! If I can find some organic peas, we will start eating mushy peas (sorry Mom) and hopefully some nice banana towards the end of the week. Have a good one!!