First Easter

Easter is one of my favorite holidays. As a little girl I looked forward to putting on my new Easter dress and hunting for eggs out on the church lawn. It's such an important celebration and one that I look forward to teaching Jackson about as he grows older.

Lisa and Shawn came down from Tulsa and had a fun long weekend...

Jackson with the Easter bunny

Our first trip to the Dallas Zoo

Our Easter eggs ... didn't turn out so well

We had lunch over at my parents

Pops and Jackson

Nonnie, Pops, Devon and Carlo

Grams and Jackson

Me and Cheryl with our boys

Love this little boy!

Pops and Caed-man having a good time :)

I'm so blessed!

New Orleans

We took a trip to New Orleans last weekend. Chris and I had never been and it had been 20+ years since my parents were there so it was a fun experience for us all. Chris, Jackson and I flew down Wednesday night and met my parents there. We stayed in the French Quarter which was convenient but also very loud. Didn't get much rest as this city apparently never sleeps.

Jackson Square

Beautiful Homes in French Quarter

Above Ground Cemetaries

Katrina Memorial

Blue columns represent water level

Red home and chairs represent what was lost

New Homes in 9th Ward that Brad Pitt has developed

Note the interesting architecture

Jackson in his Rubber Ducky Beads :)

Dinner at Brennan's

Mom and I took at tour of a plantation out on the Mississippi River

Our Tour Guide

Some of these trees are over 600 years old

Family Pictures

We had pictures taken a couple weeks ago with The Simmons' family. I quickly realized this task wasn't going to be as easy as I had imagined. My idea was to get Caeden and Jackson's picture taken for my mom for her birthday and luckily we were able to capture a couple cute shots. I didn't get very many electronic images but below are a few.

March 2012

Rolling Over

We caught Jackson rolling over on tape last weekend - it was the second time he had rolled over. He has no idea what he's doing or how to do it again but none the less, he's rolled over! He dislikes tummy time very much so I know once he figures out what he's doing, he'll spend very little time on his tummy.

I had to run to Target this morning before church and Chris sent me a text saying he had rolled over from his tummy to his back. Naturally I missed it!

Please disregard our "baby talk" on the video :)

Five Months Old

Little man is five months old! We now have two teeth (came in early at 15 weeks) and we've even rolled over a few times!

Five months old

18 pounds 6 ounces

A Week of Firsts

We started solids last week and Jackson has taken to it very well! This is one of those milestones you look forward to as a new mom and it's been quite fun. We waited until Jackson was 4.5 months because Pops was in Mexico working and I wanted him to be here when we started.

We started out with rice cereal but introduced yellow squash yesterday.

Yesterday also marked a first ... Jackson rolled over! I put him down for some tummy time and within seconds he had rolled over. Chris and I looked at each other in disbelief. We quickly put him back on his tummy and he immediately rolled over again ... this time to the left. Chris grabbed the video camera hoping we could capture it but naturally we couldn't get him to do it again.

The past few weeks have been so much fun and I assume it only gets better!

Finger Painting

Jackson and I attempted to make Pops a birthday card last week - finger painting with a four month old is somewhat challenging! Things got messy but we had fun!

We started out with our hands - attempting to make two handprints since Pops was turning 55

As you can see, getting him to lay his hands flat wasn't happening

Much easier to control the feet!

Happy Birthday Pops!