Sleepy-ville

Jackson is such a happy and social baby sometimes he hates to take a nap or go to sleep, afraid he might miss something! As a baby, I am told I was the same way! In fact in many ways that is still true.....we don't want to miss a thing!! My mom made up a song to sing to Jackson when he was a few weeks old about a place called "Sleepy-ville". She assures him that all of his toys and friends will be in sleepy-ville, too. Silly, yes but so effective. He loves it..... we still sing it to him today! Though between my mom, Nic and I the lyrics are all a little different, lol! Here are some pictures from Sleepy-ville! Nighty-night Jackson :-) Also I posted two other new blogs about the zoo and baby food.....check them out!

Baby Food

On Thursday, Jackson was given the green light to start solid foods. Our doctor took a more conservative view on solid food making us wait until 7 months. We were so excited to let Jackson have a "taste" of the good life. Nic and I both share the same viewpoint about baby food. We want Jackson to be feed organic unprocessed food as much a possible and we want to make the majority of the food he eats. We headed off to our FAVORITE store Williams Sonoma and bought Jackson his first present from us. A Beaba Babycook, this machine is AWESOME. Though a little pricey at $150.00 although a jar of store bought baby food is $.75, hopefully this machine will pay for itself down the road. Not to mention it gives us the control of knowing what we are feeding Jackson. It allows you to steam, and puree baby food in one little machine. Plus you can defrost the frozen solids in it too. We were so excited to make Jackson his first meal of organic sweet potatoes. Needless to say it was a complete success! Jackson loved it and was able to keep his bib and white onesie spotless......no spills, no spitting he just wanted to eat! We are going to move pretty slow in introducing new foods. Our doctor advised us that it is important to teach him how to eat not so much variety.....so we plan on introducing avocado's and banana's in the next few months......So far 3 great meals and no signs of an allergy, YAY!! Bon Appetite!

Folsom Zoo

On Saturday morning we decided to take Jackson on his first visit to the zoo. We left early to avoid the heat. Jackson had a great time looking at the animals and also people watching, too. I think he got that from me, lol! He liked the bears who were swimming and playing with each other. He also enjoyed watching the mountain lion who was pacing in his cage. The Folsom zoo also has a little train that you can ride around the park. Unfortunately Jackson feel asleep before we had a chance to ride the train. However, I have a feeling we will be back real soon!!

July 4th 2009

Jackson's first 4th of July was a lot of fun.....though I think we crammed a little to much into one day! We started out early with the Rancho Murieta pancake breakfast. We walked back to our house and had a short time before the annual parade down the parkway. It is kind of cheesy....there are the baseball and softball teams in the parade, along with our fire fighters and other community members. Perhaps the most fun is to see golf carts head down the parkway. This year there was over 100 carts. People decorate them and throw candy at the crowd. Our favorites were the Disney movie "Up" themed cart, and the "bathtub" cart. After the parade my grandparents, my mom and sister and my aunt & uncle went home to relax for a bit. Thankfully we were able to have some "downtime"....I'm not sure if I could handle family from 7:30am -10pm!





Nic, Jackson and I headed into Sacramento to attend a BBQ. Luckily it gave Jackson a chance to nap....since our day was not over! We then went back to my Aunt & Uncle's for another BBQ and swimming! Jackson had a GREAT time swimming with his cousins....especially Josh who was teaching him how to pass the basketball in the pool.


We then had to hurry home to get our house ready for the 2nd half of the night.....Dessert and Fireworks! Nic was thrilled to have the Foosball table get a lot of use....I'm not much of a player! The fireworks were spectacular! You could see them perfectly from our house....Although the day was extra busy, we had a great time celebrating the Fourth of July!