Since you received the timeline in the last post, I'll just jump straight into Jackson's info. Jackson spent most of the Christmas break cruising around all the different houses. He started pulling up in November and has been on his way to walking ever since. He's even standing by himself these days. This afternoon he tried to take a step on his own. He collapsed before he actually made the step but there was no crying.
We did learn that Jackson is not a good visitor. He travels in the car fine but he doesn't like being in new and different places. He spent the majority of our trip to AR in an agitated state which manifested itself by his not wanting me to be out of his line of sight at all. If I left the room, he cried - loudly. In addition, due to 2 days in the car and lots of CR-V induced napping, he woke up in the middle of the night for anywhere from 1-3 hours at a time. Before we left home (and before the monster-cold that attacked him and me) he was sleeping through the night really well. The entire trip (including the nights in the hotel) Jackson spent lots of dark hours up and about. Andy took the brunt of it since I was sick as well but once I rallied, we rotated in 1.5 hour shifts. It took him almost the entire first week back in FL to readjust. But, being back in his house, his room, and his routine really helped a lot. When we returned home, we started putting hom down for bed without rocking him. He seemed to be ready for it. The first night he cried for a bout 20 minutes and after that he took to it like a cat to a down quilt. The entire past week, we've put him to bed and he's gotten to sleep himself. But, enough about baby sleep habits.
Jackson also got lots of noisy toys for Christmas. There is a baseball game that I think Andy will burn in effigy on the lawn one day soon. Jackson really likes electronic toys. Anything with blinking lights, sounds or music (all three if possible!) are real winners. He also seems to have an internal homing device connected to the TV remote. If it's in eye-sight, he's going after it. Although these days his favorite game is to completely unpack one of the cabinets under the stove. He also likes to take all of my books off the bottom shelf of the bookcase and unpack the bottom drawers of DVDs in the entertainment center. Basically - he's a boy. And he likes anything he can bang and use to make really loud noises.
He says a few words: he's said Dada and kitty for a while now. He finally said Mama and Sissy this week. He loves to wrestle with me and Emma on the floor and he's pretty fast when he chases her. Just wait till he can walk! He also tries to say Max but it sounds more like "asx". He's a lot like Emma - he loves to sing and he is OBSESSED with the bathtub. We've had to keep the doors to both bathrooms closed so he doesn't take a header over the side. And any time he can take a splash-a-roo in the potty is great fun. He points and "yells" at the cats and loves to chase their tails. Zoey is frightened; Max endures it with annoyed patience.
We are enjoying him completely and I can't believe he'll be a year old in 22 days. As Grandma Mauk always says: they change so much in one year. It truly is amazing.
Emma caveat: 2 things she did Friday that were hilarious. In the midst of abovementioned DVD unpacking, the Star Wars movies ended up on the floor. She brought one to me and said, "Look Mama, they have 2 light sabers and they're both blue." I agreed and then asked her where she learned the word "light saber". She responded, with hands on hips, "I don't know, Mama, I just growed up and knowed it." Right, how silly of me. And later, at bedtime I got her pjs out of her drawer and the shirt was inside-out. I asked, "Which silly person put this shirt up inside-out?" She looked thoughtful for a moment and then...raised her hand. Well, at least she's learning the ins and outs of school procedures.
Andy and Reagan updates coming soon.
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