Poor baby!!

She is so frustrated that she can't move forward!! She is quite good now at going backwards, but what fun is that when you are trying to get at a toy in front of you!

Can you figure out what is missing? ; )

Cute, eh!?

She's moving!!

She's moving backwards!!! She is very determined!

Also, today she had food for the first time. I could not believe how well she did with it. She ate it all and did not spit much out. Of course, later on I gave her some more so I could show Lee...she wanted nothing to do with it!

And here is a picture of Zoe in the very first diaper my mom made when she was here for the weekend. They are in the dryer now and we are going to take it for a test run tomorrow.

Jackson is a homeowner!

Yay! We managed to close on the house, after overcoming several hurdles. My mom is in town this weekend so we are all going to go see the house tomorrow. It will be Jackson's first time to see it, so I am excited.

In other news, my mom is making some cloth diapers for Zoe while she is here. I will post some pictures after we get some done. They are going to be totally cute!

House update

Well...we are scheduled to close on March 12 if you can believe it...yes, that is 2 days away. The only potential thing that could postpone it is that the seller still has most if not all of her stuff still in the house. If it is not gone by the time of the walkthrough, we will not be closing. The problem is that she has no money (which is why it is a short sale) so she can't hire movers. There is a LOT of stuff there. When we close, we are closed...we are not interested in prolonging things or renting back after closing. Their side wanted to close on the 12th BTW, I think to avoid paying more in taxes.

Baby kisses

Zoe gives the funnest kisses! She will grab you by the face and push her lips into your lips or cheek. She does it with great force though and it gets a little scary sometimes, but I still love it! I never knew a 5-month-old could give kisses but I have no doubt that is what she is doing.

Jackson's EEG went fine. We took of his electrodes yesterday afternoon and I dropped off the unit back at the office this morning. They said we should hear back from our doctor in 2-3 weeks. It is a lot of info since it is over a 72 hour period so it takes a long time to read it.

Jackson is having a 72 hour ambulatory EEG right now. Unlike the previous EEGs that he has had, this one is being done at home...much better than sitting around in a hospital room for a couple days.

So we went and got him all set up this afternoon. The tech puts leads on his head with special glue, wraps his head up in gauze, and connects him to a little recording device. If you want to know more about the procedure, you can go to this page. They even have a little video about it.

Jackson did so well when the tech was putting the electrodes on. The glue they use to stick them on is very smelly and Jackson is pretty sensitive to strong smells. He had his ipod with him though so I think that helped to distract him. He made some yucky faces but did not even look seriously bothered by it.

The funny thing is that I waited for him to come home from school on the bus and then drove him to the place in Niles to get it set up. It turns out that the place is about a 60 second drive from his school, which is right on the border of Chicago/Niles. I had no idea that it was so close because I really do not know the suburbs well at all. I would have just picked him up from school if I had known.

Yesterday's cuteness

A couple pics and a quick video for you...unfortunately I could not get them to smile at the same time.

Jackson finally lost a top front tooth, it is the 4th tooth he has lost. He looks so cute with the gap there. Yes, the tooth fairy came...

And Zoe blew raspberries all day yesterday!

Jackson was smiling because he likes the song that was playing...Justin Roberts is definitely his fav right now.

Sorry the video is so dark. My little camera does not take good video in low light. It really wasn't that dark in the room.