Fun After One...

We've been having a lot of fun with Jackson, and he's developing quite the little personality. Here are some shots from the past month, along with 2 videos that simply crack us up! We caught Jackson in a moment of sweet adoration of his Opa, and peaceful playtime with bodhi. This is followed by a video of him extremely proud of himself that he can manipulate his music table to play his favorite song (must watch with the sound to see his expression when Kevin calls him out), and finally - a video that we're sure to pull out at his rehearsal dinner or when he becomes a rock star: Jackson headbanging at 1 year. We think he's tossing his hair back and forth, and he and Kevin get into a McDreamy and Baby McDreamy toss-off!

Jackson is crawling!

As you surely have surmised from earlier posts, Jackson is a big boy. So he has not done too much in the crawling department, and we suspect he might also have low muscle tone, which means he just wasn't strong enough to haul around those tree trunk thighs. He was doing commando crawling over the past few weeks, but not able to get that tummy off the floor. All of that changed the afternoon of September 2nd. Here's the the play-by-play, inspired by Kevin as he completes his fantasy football draft next to me while I type:

2 pm - Jennie gets call from nanny that Jackson just crawled 4 steps
2:15 pm - Jennie arrives home to see for herself, doubtful
2:17 pm - Jennie and Gigi are cheering a bewildered Jackson for crawling about 10 feet, who doesn't get what all the fuss is about. Gigi is praising God. Jennie is doing her own endzone dance, which involves a lot of kissing Jackson, who is performing a combination of hugging and squirming to get away and crawl some more.
5:30 pm - Kevin arrives home and witnesses the kid crawl all the way across the room - touchdown!

By popular demand, here's the instant replay. You can see the interference from Bodhi in the beginning, who clearly wanted a piece of the action and some credit for being a good cheerleader, or at least for helping inspire our little MVP.

Score: Jackson: 1, Parents' free time hereafter: 0. But we'll take it!