We have a crawler

I had to post this because we are so excited Jackson finally crawled Monday! And it's the cutest crawl too. His one knee is dragging as the other foot it walking along. I don't care how he does it he's just finally doing it. I was afraid he was going to walk before he crawled. And of course he is getting into everything he has had his eye on for awhile. I will have to post pictures and video of it. It's way cute.

Had to try this too!

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The Hardest Thing

So most of you all know that our dogs are our children too. We have 3 of them Lady(our first born as we call her) Abby, and Molly. Matt had gotten Lady for me when we first started dating. She was the best dog ever. I don't even think she knew she was dog. She never left our side. She loved playing basketball out back. She had her own personality. And I admit it she was treated better than the other two. A year ago last Feb. the day after Matt's dad past away we found a knot underneath her belly, We took her to the vet for an ultrasound and surgery to see what it was. It was a tumor the size of a two softballs. The vet said this kind of tumor in dogs only lived 42 weeks after being removed. Lady's couldn't be removed. It was already so big and she wasn't even showing signs of being sick. We just try to give her the best quality of life. Days went by and she was doing great still going outside playing and doing her own thing. Months went by and still fine. I was just praying that she would make it until Jackson was born. I didn't think I could take another big loss. I should say that if it wasn't for Matt's dad who worked with the people we got Lady from we would have never got her. She was doing great but the tumor just kept getting bigger. The past winter she got so skinny and her belly was so big. She looked like and starving pregnant dog. After I started staying at home and spending more time at my parents I started taking her with me everyday. It got to the point to where she couldn't get into the car everyday so I started leaving her there. She didn't mind though she loved it at mom and dad's she got spoiled even more there than at our house. It was there grandchild. She used to get so excited when we asked her about going to gma's and gpa's, she didn't know if we were going to Matt's parents so she could get a box of cookies (yes cookies) or my parents to get a cooked meal!! Yes I know it sounds stupid but she really was like a child. Me and Matt had her for 7 years. She lived what I think was a great life. We had to put her to sleep Friday. She out lived what the studies said and what was the life expectancy of a dog that had it removed. She wasn't able to get up and move anymore and she seemed unhappy. It was getting really tough seeing and caring for her. It was the hardest and most painful thing we ever had to do. I told Matt it was harder than labor. We miss her so much already. We love you Lady and we will never be able to find another dog like you!

10 Months

I don't believe how fast this year has gone by. It's just like you were born and we blinked and now your 2 months shy from being 1. You are getting so big. You are so much fun to be around. You have learned a lot within the past few months. You words are moma dada, dog, doggie, bye-bye, dirty. You are catching on with Where's your belly. You have touched it a few times now since this past week. You tilt your head when someone is talking to you like Abby (our dog) does it is so cute. You wave bye-bye and come here. You love going to the park with your cousin Caleb and play on the swing and in the hollow tunnels so you bang on the inside. You like the slide too but not as much.

Friday was your first time mowing the grass with your Papa. You were not happy with me when we had to go.

You love all kinds of animals. You really liked feeding all the animals on you great grandpa's farm. Nothing really seems to bother you. Even when all the cows moo when we bent down to feed them.

These have been the good times when you really interact with everything that is going on. Mommy's so excited to be spending all this time with you now, it's really a blessing on how everything works out. We love you so much

xoxo Mommy and Daddy

Still Here

Yes I know we haven't blog. But I have been so busy lately. The past 3 weeks have been crazy for us. I had my cousin bachlorette party one weekend the next her bridal shower and then last weekend thunder. It seemed that we only had one week to plan for each event. We were so jammed pack. But enough with the excuses. Jackson is doing great we discovered today that he is getting his molars in right now. It's been rough the past few days tring to figure out what was going on, he wasn't eating or sleeping much, some days he would have a minor fever and had little red bumps around his mouth. All these were signs of teething but he never did this with the first 4. He doing much better after we figured out what it was. It's rough trying figure this stuff out. Jackson is still not crawling but is really trying to walk. I really don't know when he is going to do either. At his 9 month check up he weighed 21 lbs and 28 1/2 inches long. He's a big boy. He has learned 2 more words dog & doggie and dirty. He doesn't say dirty to often though. He loves animals last week we took him to my grandpa's farm to see the pigs and cow. And he loved every minute of it. He would actually grab the hay and feed it to the cows. Well I just thought I would update you all on whats been going on.

First Easter

Let me start off by saying Holidays are so much more fun when you have children!! Jackson got so much for Easter it was like Christmas again. We woke up and went to church. He looked so cute in his little suit. Then we went home and let him open what the Easter Bunny brought him he loved everything. We got him his first soft baseball bat and ball, candy bunny, an animal for his animal train, and chicken that does the chicken dance, bath toys, and a shirt that says Perfect Gentleman in training.

Then we went out to my aunt and uncle's. Where he didn't do much but eat and play in a empty diaper box, (spend all that money and play in something we had). Then out to my parents where he got stuffed peeps and metal bucket with plastic eggs and candy!!! Thanks mom and dad. But I think mommy and daddy will eat that.

Ahh Yeah that's his!

Then off to Grandma Carrie's. For her mac and cheese and ham. yum!! By the end of the day he was so tired and fussy he slept from 9:00pm till 9:45am. Thank you!! Jackson has still not crawled but today he did take 2 steps while holding my hands he used to just stand there. Everyday he stand by himself longer and longer. He is holding onto furniture. Jackson is doing really great, he is eating all table foods not much of the baby food anymore. I can't wait to see how much his weight is now, he goes to the doctor next week. Length wise he goes from the top of my head to my waist. Crazy. I'll try to keep you updated!!

These was his Easter and 9mths pictures we had taken.

I Know I Know

I know that I haven't blog lately. We have been really really busy. We meaning I decided I didn't like the look of our kitchen floor so we went to Home Depot and bought some new flooring. Matt and Dad worked non-stop all week to get it done because I was hosting my cousin's bachlorette party Friday which we reschuled because of the snow. Boo! But it looks a thousand times better. The old floor was white but it started turning colors, plus with 3 dogs white isn't a good color. We did get everyone together to go sledding, and how much fun was that. We went Friday night and Sat. afternoon it was so much fun. In totally about 14 people went. We had so much fun. Jackson is getting so big. He's still not crawling but everytime he stands up he tries to adventure out to walking. Jackson is doing this really cute thing when I go to tickle him he reaches back and tries to tickle me. I really need to get video of it. He is going tommorrow to get his Easter pictures done. So I will get those posted.

This is me trying to catch a ride with Matt on the way up. It was hard climbing that flood wall.

I am about to hit a ramp the guys built I went down it 4 times. The first 3 I clipped the edge. 4th time I went airborne and flipped backwards on my right side. Yes, I'm sore!!