Daddy is silly

A recent session of "Piggy Nose!"

Birthdays and Pictures!

We have lots of October birthdays to celebrate. Grandma Jones was yesterday...the 13th.

Aunt Jessica is the 15th and Papa Giles is the 20th!

I don't know how it's happened, but I still don't have a picture of the baby with Aunt Jessica (shoot!).

Happy Birthday, everyone!

Pictures with Papa...

We said goodbye to Papa Jones last Friday. Just in body...he lives on in our memories and in our hearts. We will surely miss his presence here on earth. Here are some pictures from Saturday, Oct. 2. It was a long week, but good to be among our family and even extended family.

{remember, you can double-click on pics to see them larger}

We love you, Papa Jones

We had an amazing Saturday. The Lord saw fit to bring all four grandparents together for the first time. As it happened, it would also be the only time. We said goodbye to Papa Jones just this morning. ON Saturday, he was in good spirits and we enjoyed the beautiful fall weather at Glencairn Garden for a few hours. I will always treasure the pictures we got and this video. (they didn't know I was taping until I started talking...) He's on the far right.
I'm so thankful for the time we had to be with him, and that he was able to share in Shepard's life if only for a few months.



Mr. and Mrs. Jones would have celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on November 18. I thank them for the heritage of commitment that they passed on to Jerod. Mr. Jones passed on a love of nature, music, antiques and a tenacious work ethic to my own sweet husband. I am forever endebted to him for the man that I married.

We love you, Papa Jones. And Lord, be with Rosalie and the boys and family in this time.

My baby has a muffin top...and I helped!

Thank God, he's getting more and more rolls and stuff. Here's a good view of the muffin top.

We're loving the weekends around here

Having Shepard in child care through the week is tough...I'm not going to lie. So, when we get the chance to cuddle, play, sing and generally hang out all day, we are LOVING it. And we have to squeeze in some laundry and stuff too. Weekends are like a little oasis in the hot desert and oh-so-precious. And of course, I have to whip out the video camera. This one is like five minutes long...and I never seem to have any plan of what we might talk about. Good thing it's just fun to look at a baby! Enjoy this week's installment of "Hangin' with Shepard." (12 weeks)

Emerson was right

“There was never a child so lovely

but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.”

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

{pic is from when Shepard was about two weeks old}

We have hit a milestone! Shepard has slept through the night two nights in a row. Before you go telling me all about how they may do that once and never do it again--whatever! That's fine. At least he's done it twice, and now I know he CAN.  :)

I usually sleep with the monitor pretty close to my head because I am a heavy sleeper. I woke up at 2:15 am Monday night wondering why I hadn't heard him, checked the volume, and thought, "he'll probably wake up in about an hour, so I'll just check on him then." I heard him finally at 5:30 am!

Then, last night he ate and went down for the final time around 10:30 (after having been asleep since about 6:30 already), and slept in until about 6:15 am! I never heard a peep. The funniest thing was he somehow shimmied all the way down his snuggler (used to elevate his head) and turned completely around and was facing the other end of the crib when he woke up! I have no idea how he did that. I guess just scooting. He's not rolling yet...not all the way over. It looked like someone had picked him up and flipped him around.

In any case, I was pretty darn excited to have gotten more than 3 hours sleep all together at the same time. Now, if I could just get in bed earlier, we'd all be well-rested.