I am so lucky and blessed to have such a wonderful husband! Yesterday he surprised me with a laptop for my birthday :) I am so excited!!! I have wanted one for so long and this is just perfect! He is just such a wonderful man and amazing father. I just love him and I wanted to share that! LOL

I took some smiling pictures today! I also took video of him rolling over. He has done this a few times now, as long as he starts out in the right position he can get enough leverage to make himself roll over. He is getting so big so fast!





He took a 4-hour nap today, after which he was just happy and smiling, we played for about two hours. It was so much fun! I imagine that he is going to be laughing soon. He has recently discovered his tongue, it is the cutest thing! He sticks it out all the time, moves it all around... he was doing it in the video above. It really only started a couple of days ago. Just another sign that he's growing up. He tries to talk to me all day. Just the sweetest little man. I am so blessed to have such a happy baby. BJ and I have always said we want 4 kids, but today I thought (only for a moment) that maybe I'd just stick with one because I'm so afraid that my next baby will be a screamer! Jayden just has a sweet temperament and I love it. I have been teasing that God made Jayden so sweet so I'd have more children! However, I'm totally opposed to only having one child so I know that BJ and I will end up with at least two.

Anyway, since he is smiling so much now I think it is finally time for some professional photos. My step-brother-in-law's sister Jami (good lord that is complicated lol) did an incredible photo shoot of her daughter Anna right after she was born and I would have loved to have been able to do something like that, but I think the kind of black and white, naked baby pictures she had done are better with girls than boys. The pics Jami had taken of Anna were right out of an Anne Geddes book! When we have Aubrey (yes we have our girls name picked out already! We had both our first son and daughter's names picked out before we even got engaged!) I think I will do something like that for her. Jayden is just going to have to settle for a trip to JC Penney's or what mom can do from home lol.

On Friday I had another doctor's appointment, this time with an allergist, during which my fabulous mother-in-law agreed to watch my baby! So I took Jayden to her around 1pm so I could make it to my appointment, which went well. I have "chronic idiopathic urticaria" a fancy way of saying "you chronically get hives all over and we have no idea why." Because of this, he wouldn't do a scratch test on me so we can do immuno-therapy (allergy shots). I'm getting some blood work done to rule out a few things as the cause of the hives, and I am just supposed to keep doing what I've been doing to keep the hives under control. Lots of fun :) Actually, its not a problem. I just have to remember to take a whole bunch of allergy meds on a daily basis and carry around an epi-pen. The doctor thought that the hormonal changes during my pregnancy have just increased my allergies and that is the most likely cause of the chronic hives. Good old pregnancy, changes everything!

Cassy, my mother-in-law, invited us over for dinner Friday night since she was watching Jayden that afternoon anyway. It was a fabulous time. We got a bunch of cute pictures.



It is so amazing to me how much he grows and changes on a daily basis! He was almost 11lbs and 23-1/2 inches long! That is 3 inches since birth! He's just long and skinny! We finally have his sleeping through the night in his pack and play. We've even started working on a regular nap-time schedule! I've been putting him in his pack and play and even if he isn't tired I just bundle him up and leave him in there until he falls asleep.

He is just so much fun right now. He is such a happy, playful, observant little man. He just melts my heart every day.