Once again, it has been some time since I have written. Jackson keeps my days pretty full! He is always learning something everyday. Today, he surprised me by grabbing the straw in my cup and sipping soda just as if he had always done it! Just like that, the kid drinks from a straw!! His vocabulary is growing. He says Dada all the time, with the occaisional mama and now the ever frequent baba...which is funny seeing that he is not bottle fed. He loves to pretend cough and have you cough back, and every morning it sounds like he is practicing his german with the strange sounds he is perfecting. He took his first nose dive in the tub last week, and still seems to love water, but his hatred for socks and shoes lives on! He eats like a champ. There is nothing that he has tried that he has not liked. He eats nearly every baby food there is...loves veggies and meats. He will swallow toast whole if you let him, and today he ate part of a bannana with his two teeth. Just about anything I eat, he eats as well. The dill pickle was the funniest. I only let him lick it, and the face that soon followed was one to never forget! I thought he hated it, but then he tried to sneak in lots more licks.....however, I thought that it might be a bit much for baby Jack. He does pretty well with self feeding too. His little fingers get better daily at grabbing things and putting them in his mouth.
I have had some highs and lows these past few weeks. I have officially lost 48 pounds!!! I am just a shade below my pre baby weight, and still trying to loose. It is so nice wearing old clothes again! I had a pair of jeans on yesterday that I had not worn since I was horseback riding in mexico pre baby!! That is such a good feeling. I am hoping to loose about 20 more pounds. According to my height at the good ole doctor's office, I need to be a about 20 pounds smaller. I have never really been that small in my adult life...and I will not be terribly distraught if I do not make it, but the doctor seemed to think it was admirable goal...so why not??
On the flip side, my eye has given me quite the scare. I have been having some issues with my eyes being extremely dry. Apparantly this is very common for mothers that nurse, but I did not know this. I was wearing my contacts as normal...actually, a new pair and I woke up one morning with one eye quite irritated. Well, I did what I would always do, and tried to take my contact out and give my eyes a break, and clean everything really well. Well, I guess my eye was way too dry to take the contact out, and when I did, I removed a portion of my cornea along with my contact. So it hurt very badly, but I just put some drops in and tried to let things clear up. A couple of days later it wasn't getting any better. All of the sudden I started having extremely cloudy vision in that eye. It got really bad really fast. So, I went to the doctor and found out what I had done. My eye had become extremely infected, and the doctor didn't tell me until today that he thought I was going to loose my vision in that eye. Praise the Lord that I have not, and that it is slowly healing. I have been going once a week to keep an eye ( ha ha) on the progress. It is still in the slow healing stages, but at least it is healing. I am ever so grateful to God that He is healing my eye and restoring my vision. I try not to take things in general for granted, but having this scare has really allowed me to see that so much in life is so fragile and fleeting, and in a moments time things can completely change. I have always complained that I have bad eyes...because I have pretty crummy vision. But, I am so thankful to have vision in general that can be worked with!! Any vision is so much better than none!!!! Thank the Lord for glasses and eye doctors!!
So, that is what our days have been full of lately here at home. Thanks to everybody that comments. We love hearing what you have to say and keeping in touch. Kevin stole all the pictures to post, so I will have to post without pics this time....
This past Saturday my dad and I ventured to Lake Wateree. Wateree is one of a few lakes in this area that actually has enough water to put a boat in. Although I got outfished, I had a good time just being on the water and watching the sun rise. Dad always has like 4 poles in the water keeping an eye on all four just enough to haul in the big ones . While I enjoyed watching the ducks the most, and the occassional geese, I caught no fish. It bewilders me to understand how the back of the boat catches 8 fish and the front of the boat catches none. I like to blame it on the trolling motor and such, but the truth is I'm not a very good fisherman unless it is a well stocked pond waiting on some dinner. I had a really good time and always count it a joy when I get to spend time with pops. The fish shown here are crappie...hence the title. They were very good. Leah and I enjoyed them for supper tonight!!
