What we have been up to...

This update is long overdue! Now that Jack is walking all the time, I have been spending most of my time chasing him!  It is so much fun!  We had a great Thanksgiving in Tulsa and spent lots of time with family.  Jack loved chasing Grammy and Grandpa's dogs (Jon's parents' dogs) and playing with his 3 cousins- Gabby, Addie, and baby Kendall!  They loved Jack as well!

Jack had his first ear infection diagnosed shortly before Thanksgiving.  He was a trooper because we just thought he had a cold.  Well, he recovered from that only to be diagnosed with whooping cough.  He had them at the same time, but the ear infection masked the whooping cough (it starts out like a cold and then after recovering from the cold, there is a persistent cough).  His cough never got that bad, never had a whooping sound and he ate and slept just fine.  There were just a couple of nights where the coughing woke him up, but he put himself back to sleep.  He really was acting like nothing was wrong, so we were completely surprised by the diagnosis.  So, whooping cough really is going around.  Fortunately, only 1 friend (Claire) of Jack's was diagnosed with whooping cough and she barely had it (there is a whole science as to how the test is considered positive and her test was barely positive).  While I feel awful that Jack gave her whooping cough, I am relieved that he only passed it to one other person.  He is all better now and we are hoping to have no more illnesses for a long while :)

So, here are recent pics!  We are going to see Santa this weekend, so we will see if likes Santa, or is the crying kid who is afraid of Santa.  I was the latter :)

Gotta love the socks and shorts combo going on here!  He doesn't have sandals, because silly me didn't think to get those for November weather :)

Jack playing with his cousin Gabby- she was singing to him!  

Jack and Mommy on Thanksgiving

Jack got to open some belated birthday presents and of course, started stacking the boxes :)

LOVE this one!

Jon, Jack and Cousin Addie (3)- who says the most hilarious things!

In the midst of illness and traveling, I did not Christmas cards put together.  Hopefully next year I can be more on top it!  By the way, Jack was an AWESOME car traveler.  We only stopped twice on the 8.5 hour trip there (8.5 hours is with the stops) and 3 times on the way back.  He didn't sleep that much either, but was perfectly content just looking out the window.  So, we are hoping that Christmas driving goes just as well!  We were even okay with the idea of turning him around (he is still rear-facing since they are recommending it until age 2.  Don't know if we will wait that long though...), but it wasn't necessary!  Happy belated Thanksgiving!  I will post more pics after our trip to visit Santa!