Monday, April 30, 2012

Spring is here and Beckett 4 months!!

 Spring is definately here and that means one of my all time favorite things....planting our garden! Last year Jackson absolutely loved going down to the garden every morning to see how much our plants had grown and to pick any fruit that was ripe. By his enthusiasm during planting the garden, I think he is going to enjoy it just as much! This year we added another box so that we could have an entire box dedicated to just tomatoes. In our original box, we have green beans, cucumbers, green peppers, watermelon, cantelope, rosemary, basil, and parsley. I am most excited about the green beans this year and hope we get a lot! This is our original box, thanks to Uncle Joe!!
 Here is Jackson with the new box. Joe, you will be happy to know that Greg followed your specifications!!
 My sweet Beckett. I cannot believe we have been blessed with this little boy for the last 4 months. He continues to be the sweetest, most content little boy. He has now been sleeping through the night 7:00 to 7:00 for the past 1 1/2 months. He is really starting to use his hands and is trying to put everything in his mouth! At his 4 month visit, he came in at 24 inches long! In 4 short months, he has grown almost 8 inches!! We are still on the regular newborn chart, but just barely around the 5th percentile for weight, but we moved up to the 15th percentile in length and the 25th in head circumference!! Slowly but surely we are making progress! Developmentally, he has caught up completely, so we were given the okay to try some oatmeal. We tried it once and he seemed to enjoy it, so we will keep going! We have made it through the first 2 set of bad vaccines and Beckett breezed right through them. He continues to be our little iron man miracle baby!!
 It was so cute to see Jackson helping daddy till the ground for he garden. You can see he used his foot to push the shovel into the dirt.
My strong boy then lifted the dirt up.
Finally, dropped it! He is such a big helper and continues to want to do everything by himself!! He is also 99% potty trained. It was a tough road but we knew he could do it!!
 Zoo crew! We went to the zoo to enjoy this beautiful spring weather and the kids had an absolute blast running around looking at all the animals!
 It's not easy to try to get a photo of all the kids, but we tried!
 My sweet friend Angie with my little man.
 Bumbo time! Beckett definately wants to be sitting up observing all the action around him!
 Still trying to suck that thumb!!
My little miracle! We all love him so much and cannot describe what a blessing he has been to our family! Jackson loves to make him laugh and is always talking about all the things he and Beckett are going to do when he is older! I so love to see their friendship already forming! I have such an amazing bond with my sisters and hope that they will have a similar relationship!!

2 comments:

noni and granddaddy said...

noni and granddaddy are so proud of Jackson and Beckett. Tell Jackson Granddaddy can't wait to eat some of those tomatoes! So looking forward to seeing all of you. Enjoy your time with your sisters and do lots of bonding! I am actually typing on our new computer.

Sarah said...

Love this post! My little men are growing up too quickly!!! 4 months! No way is iron man 4 months already! You're a liar! Yay Jackson for being such a big boy! Can't wait to spend the week with you guys!!! Soooooo excited!