St. Patrick's Day Parade

We decided on Friday to head out to the St. Patrick's Day parade in downtown Jackson on Saturday. Jay knew that his friend, Jamie was out of town, so we called Merideth to see if she wanted to go with us. She did! The good news for us? She had TWO places we could go with a bathroom!!! This is a huge deal in the parade world. We drive over to Madison in the morning to pick her up and head downtown before the traffic gets bad. We land a place to park and she leads us to party local. OH MY - what a surprise. The lady lived in an old warehouse that had been re done and he balcony overlooked the parade route. Are you kidding me??? This was the fat hook up! Again, pics taken with my phone.



Our friend Drake with James




All smiles ready for the parade!

James is 9 Months Old

Dear James,

You are 9 months old! Man, how time has flown. You are 3/4 of a year old! What are you up to these days! You are crawling! How cool is that? Right now, you crawl with one leg out to the side, and you are a little timid, but soon you will be crawling all over the place, I just know it.

You had a great check up at the doctor. You have fallen to the 5% for weight, but the doctor didn't seem too concerned. We got the clearance to start you on whole milk. We plan to do that soon! You are a pretty good eater. You have a 3rd food and cereal in the morning, a fruit and a veggie for lunch and then you wrap up with a 3rd stage veggie with cereal for dinner.

You are taking swim lesson and you are making progress. Taking you to lessons on Thursday is the highlight of my week! You will sit on the side of the pool and when I count to 3, you fall forward into the pool. You go underwater like a pro. You slide like a big boy!

We love playing with you and watching you grow. We know the next thing is the walking and then life will NEVER be the same.

Here are some photos of what you have been to over the month. (DISCLAIMER: most of these are taking with my I Phone because my camera is in the shop.)

It snowed!



Nana and Pop-Pop came to visit and we went to Vicksburg!




You started eating puffs!




You went to the park and swung for the first time!



Since my camera was broken, this is the best I got as far as his first crawl.