Jack Boy

Most of you have met our Doberman, Jack. We call him Jack Boy. He looooves to sit anywhere near anyone. Allen and I have always found this rather annoying since he is SO LARGE! I guess Allen and I knew this was funny, but I never realized how funny until I showed these pictures to a few girlfriends at work. Jack has done this for almost a year now and I just now took pictures of it. The gals at work thought it was the funniest (and strangest) thing ever.

But when I say Jack likes to sit near you, I mean near. He has developed a way of sitting on the couch that gets him as close to you as possible. He sits like we sit. Bottom on the seat, feet on the floor. Now he does it even when we aren't sitting on the couch.

Besides calling him Jack Boy, his other nick name around the house is "Big Dumb Dummy". Every year that nick name becomes more and more fitting.

So here you go, Jack, sitting on the couch, just hangin' out......

9 MONTHS OLD!

Alex turned 9 months old yesterday. I just can't believe it. I was updating his baby book and thought I would post some of my favorite photos to the site.

I can stand up now and I am never laying down when Mommy comes to get me out of the crib
Hey Mommy!

Every time I look at this it makes me laugh. he is so unaware that his face is smashed, Coincidentally, I had a doberman that used to do this at the back door. Alex loves his playpen.

My new friend Riley. (Smiley Riley) Riley was born in the same hospital as Alex just 1 1/2 days prior. Her Momma was in my birthing class.

It impossible to catch a candid photo of Riley's face! Riley sees that light comes on and turns to pose.

Another bath tub photo because damnit, they are cute.

My brother is going to kill me......

With Alex growing and changing every day, and with Laura pregnant, baby talk and baby "Stuff" is becoming a very big and exciting part of my parents and I's lives. Alex is only 9 months old(today actually) and not only is he crawling, but he is already pulling himself up on things and will stand up for decently long periods of time. This got my Dad to thinking.....when did Kate and Alex first walk? SO! Out come the baby books. This, we all know, is a very dangerous game. AND SINCE Alex Macnab was the only one not present at this time, he was in the most danger, as proved by this post.

The funny thing is, what I am about to do, my brother could do back to me with 10x more imagination and electronic manipulation than I could ever attempt, BUT, I mean, I am here with all the ammunition I might need, and he is there in London, with a very limited amount of what might not even be .22 caliber bullets so, I take the risk. AND, I can laugh at myself so I am not worried. (thank goodness being able to laugh at oneself is a shared Macnab trait. I wipe my brow.)

So after going through Alex's baby book, these were the two that just kept me in stitches. He just looks so...........proud. So Alex, in honor of your upcoming baby shower (and because I'm your sister and I can do these things) I post the pictures below. I hope they give you a giggle as well.

I love you. I miss you. I can't wait until you are here (with clothes on).

Bathtubs and Bars - another random posting

For those of you who read this just to keep up with Alex, sorry, I am going to torture you with Allen's birthday photos first. We'll get to the bathtub stuff later. (Thankfully, those photos have nothing to do with Allen!)

We went out on Saturday night to celebrate Allen's 29th birthday. We ate dinner on the patio at Ozona on upper Greenville, and then headed to Stan's Blue Note to hang out. Below are just a random sampling of photos from the night.

Katy and I watching all the weird girls come up and try to take the shuffle board away from us. (Honestly. It's not jealousy. These gals were strange!)

Just thought this photo was funny. What is going on here? What are we talking about?

Amanda accidentally ordered a drink she didn't know anything about, which turned out to be a cherry bomb. She was a little apprehensive to say the least.

John was there to help out. Otherwise known as making sure she did not only drink half of that thing.

Ok, now for an update on The Monster. Alex is sneaking up on 9 months old and doing very well. He is crawling EVERYWHERE! There was a week of the army crawl, two weeks of good crawling, and we are now already in the crawling really well and pulling up on things phase. I also like to call this the "oh shit!" phase, since that comes out of my mouth every time I look over and Alex has pulled himself up on something to get grab at an object he should not have with his go-go-gadget arms.

This shirt was made by my friend Kristie. Too cute and very fitting.

The obligatory bathtub picture. This, and many others, will be filed away so I can wait for the perfect opportunity in his teen years to use this against him. No really. What parent doesn't do that? I thought we were supposed to.

Thanks for checking in. Talk to you soon!