Nana and Grandpa visit from Nebraska

This past weekend Erik's parents came to visit from Lincoln, Nebraska. It was such a fun time filled with lots of food and extra attention for Jack which of course he loves. He pulled out all his tricks for Nana and Grandpa...one of the funniest things he did was tell them he's two. We would say "Jack how old are you?" to which he would reply "TWO"!!!! No son, you're ONE. I don't know why he thinks he's two...crazy kid...

Another funny thing he's been doing is memorizing where places/things are when we are in the car. For example, Erik takes him to get donuts ("nanos") every Saturday morning and so when we are driving down the road and he sees this particular donut shop he yells "NANOS"....Grandpa and Nana thought this was great!

One new word that we are very excited about is "Jesus"!!!! We read him a book called "Stories Jesus Told" and last week he finally caught on and everytime he sees this book he says "JESUS"! Makes my heart melt everytime I hear him say Jesus in his cute little voice. Here are a few pics from our weekend.

playing with his new climber/slide with aunt Krystal
Jack thinks his stacking blocks are for swinging a bat at them (notice the left handed grip)

showing Nana and Grandpa how he brushes his teeth

so excited to have an audience during his bubble bath

Playing basketball ("backball") with Grandpa

What we've been up to...2 new posts after this one!

We've had a pretty busy last couple of weeks! Here are few pictures of what we've been up to.

Jack likes taking pictures with dad! He never smiles like that with me:(
We went to a fun superbowl party and this is where we found Jack and Sydney. I opted not to post the picture of what followed this one:)

Erik and Craig after a fun birthday party at Sullivan's

At Tillman's Roadhouse for David, Julie, and Ryan's birthday dinner

Us with the birthday boy

Caught, left-handed!

Jack is such a sponge right now. He repeats everything and is eager to learn about the world around him. He loves to talk and learn knew words and tries to say just about everything. He has 14 teeth with 2 coming in right now so his gummy smile is long gone. He tells me when he wants a snack, juice, apple, grape, milk, water, banana, cracker, cookie, etc. which is helpful. He will also tell me when he goes #2 and brings me an "elmo" which is his word for diaper since all his diapers have elmo on them. He sees pictures of himself and says "I JACK" in the most excited voice possible!!!! Today at the park he walked up to a little girl we've never seen before and said "I JACK"...I'm so excited for him to have a brother to talk to so he doesn't have to talk to complete strangers anymore because they usually don't talk back. He's also testing us by saying "no" a lot more so with that comes another level of discipline.

Here is a little picture update!

Got the keys, mom. Can I drive???

Jack eating his oatmeal and blueberries with a spoon...he uses his left hand 99.9% of the time! What did we expect considering his right arm was in a cast for a month! Definitely a left handed little man!

Enjoying a warm January evening on the patio at Gloria's

We met Lindsey and Bryon in Southlake for lunch and shopping a couple of weekends ago. Jack liked the shopping about as much as his daddy did....can you tell by his face?

We have a winner...

29 week bump

(sorry for the lighting we are obviously not photographers!)

After much debate Erik and I finally decided on a name...Erik ended up picking his first name and we both decided on a middle name. This past week we got take a look at Jacob Andrew Olson in a 3d/4d sonogram and his little face is so cute and "squishy" looking:) That makes me really excited for squeezing his little cheeks! Everything measured great and in fact he was measuring a few days ahead which is MUCH bigger than Jack ever measured. The sonographer estimated his weight to be 3 lbs now. Everything was good except my iron count which was at an all time low so I'm doubling up on my iron supplement....I'm taking a pill at every meal now which isn't fun but anything to keep baby Jacob healthy.

Cookie Monster and the Great Norm Hitzges

Saturday morning Jack made us aware of something we had no idea he could do. He walked into our room with one of those 100 calorie packs of cheez its, handed them to me, and said "cookies"!!!!! How did you get those young man? He walked us into the kitchen and showed us how he nonchalantly reached up and opened the pantry door all by himself...babyproofing just got a little more complicated now that I can't just shut the door and know he'll stay out! Hopefully he doesn't get interested in opening bathroom doors to play in the toilet!

Jack likes to push his own stroller these days. He's going to be such a good big brother.

This picture was taken before Christmas but I haven't had a chance to post it. Most of you know we are a P1 family (we listen to sports radio 1310 The Ticket) and Jack has gotten his picture with most of the guys from the different radio shows EXCEPT the great Norm Hitgzes. Well, we finally tracked him down when he was broadcasting from a local Whataburger and Norm let Jack sit with him for a little bit during commercial break. In fact, Jack was sitting right next to him as he was doing a live commercial for StarPower and Bob's Steak and Chop! Jack loved it! Thanks, Norm!!!

"Yellow"

Jack is quite the talker and he's very eager to learn how to say everything. We've been pointing out colors lately and his favorite is YELLOW. At his 15 month appointment Dr. G came in with a yellow paper on his clipboard and Jack immediately yelled "YELLOW" so he earned an A+ in his development for the day:) His weight has pretty much tapered off at the 10th % and his height is still steadily growing at the 80th % (32 inches). Since his favorite foods are lettuce, blueberries, and broccoli (no joke) I was excited that he weighed in at a whopping 21.5 lbs! Dr. G said he'll just be the tall, skinny kid to which I replied "have you seen his dad"?? I think the fattest thing on Erik's body are his knee caps!!! We wouldn't be opposed to baby boy #2 being our little chunker with plenty of stuff to squeeeeeze!

As promised...major growth at 26 wks!

Baby boy #2 definitely is making his presence known to the outside world now! The only problem is we STILL do not have a name...I've debated if I should ask for "help" on the blog and we're getting so desperate I think I'm going to throw a few things out there.
First off, we love the name John Parker. BUT (and there are so many 'buts') can you have a Jack and a John even if we call him John Parker? We are also thinking of Jonathan Parker and calling him Jon Parker but then there are lots of spelling issues/other issues like confusing our poor son as to what his name is and what people should call him. Or we could avoid that whole thing all together and name him Jace Andrew BUT would he have to explain that his name isn't 'Chase' his entire life? We have pretty traditional/conservative taste so anyone want to suggest some good names that start with a "J"?