Dinner to celebrate Grandma and Grandpa Schaefer's 35th Wedding Anniversary

On November 12th, 2011- Grandma and Grandpa Schaefer celebrated 35 years of marriage. We had dinner to celebrate with them a week later. Here are a few pics

Grandma broke her arm.. look to the far left of her cast- Jack signed his name:) 

trying cereal for the first time

what is this thing you're sticking in my mouth?!

  

hmm.. its pretty good.. maybe i'll have some more!

Celebrating the sale of Grandma and Grandpa Krus' business

After 39 years, Grandma and Grandpa Krus decided it was the right time to sell their business. In a very short time, they found the right buyers and are transitioning to the new owners. Grandma Cel worked hard every day to make beautiful works of art through flowers and ran a successful Hallmark and gift shop in the front of the flower shop. Grandpa Dan helped out with the business side of the shop. Its been a lot of work and brought a lot of great memories to everyone who has been a part of it but they decided it was time to have more free time with their kids and grandkids (lucky us). Grandma Cel spends Tuesdays with Jack each week and he loves his days with her. 

We had them over for dinner, as well as Uncle Scott and Aunt Danielle and cousin Hayden to celebrate the sale!

smiling with grandma cel

hanging out with grandapa

jack and his cousin hayden

playtime

dinner to celebrate!

4 months old!

4 months old.. wow. so much has changed since Jack arrived 4 months ago. He's becoming so much more aware. He's reaching and grabbing toys with both hands, he recognizes faces, smiles and laughs at so many things. Jack is a very happy baby. He had been sleeping through the night but caught a respiratory virus that lasted 2 1/2 weeks and during the middle of that developed an ear infection. His cough kept him up most of the night.. and now has thrown him completely off his good sleep schedule. Jack now thinks its fun to wake up every 3-4 hours in the middle of the night... we took a step backwards on the sleep issue.. and I don't know how to get him back to being such a good sleeper. I'm not a fan of the cry it out method and so Courtney and I are trying to figure out a different plan.  Its not hard waking up when you have such a cute little boy waiting for you in his bed:) 

love the little cow outfit

Jack loves to be naked.. and he found his hands and feet - so one or the other is always in his mouth

such a happy little guy

grandpa bill and jack (not the  best pic of jack) but had to get a pic

of him and grandpa in this outfit since grandpa is the general manager of a dairy!

we take morning pics when we're getting ready for the day and text them to courtney

who's already at work

jack and courtney hanging out

learning to sit up

such a poser

meeting his cousin kinleigh from cincinnati

sleeping in mom and dad's bed while mom gets ready for work

practicing sitting again

he's almost got it!

lunch with grandma, cousin livi and aunt carol for suzanne's birthday.

(livi and jack also go to the same babysitter and are best friends)

hanging out with livia

Jack's 3 month pics

Our friend and talented photographer Stephanie continues to take beautiful pictures of Jack for us. She took a few 3 month pics of him back in October that I had to share. He changes so quickly and has already changed so much since these pictures.. I'm behind on posts but am trying to catch up!!

Jack's 1st Halloween

Jack's 1st halloween - we dressed him up as a monkey. He was a good sport despite being put in and out of his costume as we took him to a few relatives houses to trick or treat. We took him to Grandma and Grandpa Krus' flower shop to trick or treat early on Sunday. On Halloween, we visited cousins Rhett, Mack and Livia. Then we went to Grandma and Grandpa Schaefer's house to have dinner and help with trick or treaters. Our last stop of the evening was at Great Grandma and Great Grandpa Sullivans house- and we got to visit with cousins Brooklyn and Bobbie. 

cutest little monkey

he is getting so strong and likes to "stand" with help:) 

had to show off the cute little tail.. and banana

trick or treating at the flower shop

livia and jack

rhett, livi, jack and mack

jack and aunt kk

jack with grandma and grandpa schaefer (he is hiding under the monkey face:))

jack with great grandpa and grandma sullivan

(grandma's black eye wasn't a costume.. she fell and broke her arm and hit her eye last week..

and has a cast for a few weeks- we can't wait for her to be healed and back to normal)

bobbie (vampire), brooklyn (elle woods -legally blonde), jack and kelly

i know this picture is blurry.. but had to share- jack rolled over for the first time

while we were out at the flower shop. courtney was changing his diaper, and as he was

going to grab a wipe, jack rolled over. 

we didn't get a picture of it.. but when we put jack back on the mat- there

was a wet spot on the carpet:) he liked being naked and just felt like he

could pee anywhere i guess:)