drink bottles?
take naps?
cry when they wake up from their naps?
get their picture taken with their daddies?
cry when they can't crawl very well?
ride in a stroller?
go trick-or-treating?
take pictures with mommies?
read Halloween books?
eat their tails?
Jackson, 8 months, 2010
Uncle Aaron, 27 months, 1970
Daddy, 15 months, 1972
Auntie Andra, 16 months, 1975
He hasn't stood without support yet, but he's starting to master walking across the living room behind his truck. This was a good $5 investment at the baby sale. It even "picks up" toys as it goes and spits it into the truck bed. Today he picked up his own rattle!
Today was the Halloween parade at Jackson's school. Jackson was "Baby Jack Jack" from the movie The Incredibles. At 10 am, all the parents lined up outside of the school and out the kids came, led by Baby Jack Jack, Tigger and a mermaid wheeled out in a crib for a trip around the building. Then we took him to AAA for impromptu trick-or-treating. Tomorrow is Halloween at Towers Watson in Philadelphia!
Thanks go Grandma Honey for making his costume! 
Thanks to Grandma Honey for the new coat and hat! Now we don't have to steal other little boy's Badger gear.
Length: 28.5 inches. I don't think I'm shrinking. I just think the nurse did a terrible job of measuring me at 6 months.
Visitors: Auntie Andra came last weekend for a little pumpkin action.
Sleeping patterns: Bed time has been moved up to around 8:30 pm on most nights and I will sleep until around 7 am. I sleep through almost every night, with some exceptions like last week when we had to have play time at 1:30 am.
My Likes: I like to do a lot of gross things right now - Drinking the water in the tub when I'm taking a bath, putting mommy and daddy's shoes in my mouth and chewing on the corner of the diaper box (proof in the picture above). Mommy also took me to Gymboree for the first time today and I had lots of fun playing on all the toys and having bubbles blown at me. Although I don't use the paci very much anymore, I do love to suck my thumb with something in my other hand (mommy's shirt, a blanket, a piece of paper). My favorite toy is probably the real remote control (minus batteries) that mommy & daddy gave me when they got tired of me changing the channels. I have also been tipping my head to the side recently, like I've got to get a different angle to figure something out.
My Dislikes: When mommy takes the magazine paper out of my hand that I'm trying to eat. When dinner time is over, I get fussy for a bit.
Other milestones: I've been eating some "adult" food like cheese and Ritz crackers. I also ate some avocado at a sushi restaurant, which I hated the first time mommy tried to feed it to me. I like sharing bananas with mommy too - she eats a bite, and then I get a bite. I'm pretty good at listening too - I know what "no" means, and I usually crawl to mommy or daddy when they ask me to. I haven't started walking yet, but I did "creep" from one thing to the other and if I'm holding mommy's hands I take these big, goofy steps like I'm in a marching band.
Trips: No big trips on planes this month. My next plane ride will be to Milwaukee for Christmas.
Looking forward to in the next month: Grandma Honey coming next weekend, Jenna the weekend after that and then Halloween. I have two costumes all ready to go! My swim classes start at the Y at the end of the month. Will mommy dunk me under?
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