From rice cereal to green beans, prunes, apples, pears, etc - so far he likes it all, even my homemade spinach. :) Jack is sitting up on his own now and has a blast playing with toys in his toy basket on the floor. We have a nanny, Ashley and Jack LOVES her. They to go to aquarium and the park and love to take walks. Jack's baptism is next weekend and we cant wait as Mimz, Pop, Uncle Jim, Gigi, Elvis, Auntie Kristin, Uncle James, Drew and Wyatt are all coming to celebrate. Its hard to believe its already been 4 months!

Jack has learned lots of new tricks including rolling from tummy to back, sitting in a tripod, eating his feet, and repeating some simple sounds. He is growing really fast and is very into music right now. We started a music class every Wednesday and Jack has a blast. He loves to watch the other children and loves looking in the mirror during class. He loves to grab his feet and sucks on them quite often. One of his favorite evening activities is listening to Steve play the guitar. He started rice cereal Wednesday, March 19th and I am sure wondered what in the heck Steve and I were up to. Things are great and we can hardly believe how time flies!

This month has flown by and this fam has been busy. For Steve's 30th Birthday Jack and I took him to St. Thomas and it was a blast - lots of relaxing and some gorgeous weather. Jack enjoyed naps by the pool and ocean and walks around the resort. On our flight to St Thomas, Jack slept 3 of the 3.5 hours and when we landed our section clapped for Jack as he was such an angel (I immediately ensured those people werent returning with us as I knew that would never be repeated). Jack continues to talk a lot especially if Steve or I talk back. He rolled from tummy to back a few times while Mimz and Pop were visiting and he has officially found his thumb and throughly enjoys sucking it. He has recently found his feet as well and loves to pull them into the air then flop them down to the ground. He still giggles quite a bit especially when he first wakes up from naps as he is the happiest baby ever after a good snooze. Hope all is well with friends and family.

Megan

Jack is one month old and is doing great! As new parents, Jack is breaking us in quick. We have already experienced an eye infection and a cold. After some medicine for the eye and LOTS of showers with Dad for the cold, Jack is on the mend. He is headed on his first vacation to Raleigh for xmas shopping (not everyone wants a "Beaufort" sweatshirt for xmas it seems) then to Kiawah to celebrate Christmas with Gigi, Elvis, Kris, James, Drew and Wyatt. After the new year we are planning to head to VB to see Mimz, Pop, Uncle Jim and Uncle Drew so the next couple months should be exciting. Have a safe and enjoyable holiday!!!

Love,

Meg

Our first week was absolutely perfect! Jack met his Grandma Linda and Pops on the morning of his birthday (grandma Linda could not  bear to wait til morning to see her first grandchild so she and Don left VB around 4am :) ). We were thrilled to see their faces at the hospital and happy to see some delicious lunch to boot. Gigi and Elvis arrived from South Carolina on the evening of Jack's birthday and were a huge help while Steve and I were in the hospital figuring this parenting thing out. The Dawsons flew in from Houston on Friday and Jack was really happy to meet his aunt and uncle and his cousins, Drew and Wyatt. Drew and Wyatt enjoyed riding on my hospital bed and luckily Saturday morning they were able to hold Jack and see him up close before leaving to head back to Houston. Uncle Jim and Uncle Drew arrived for Thanksgiving on Wednesday and Steve and I were lucky to talk his uncles out of taping his right hand behind his back. Jim is still trying to teach him to say GO WAHOOS and Drew is sure he did hook 'em horns last night. The past 7 days have been awesome and we are looking forward days to come...

Happy Thanksgiving!

Megan and Steve

Well after about 3 hours of what we thought were "false labor fake-outs", we arrived at the Brady Birthing Center at Carteret General.  We checked in around 9, and little Jack was born at 3:05 AM on 11/15.  I will update you on the gory detail later, but as you can guess, Megan rocked it out!  She put up with more "discomfort" than I think I could bare.  Little Tunny was 8lbs 3oz and 21.5".  Welcome to the world little buddy!

Steve