A few pictures from what we've been up to lately:

Last night (for now) with Uncle John!

Napping with The Cat

Napping with Mommy

Scooting around on his belly!

Playing in the bathtub

Humoring Mommy

Being a good sport for the camera

At a recreation of Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House in the Big Woods" in Pepin, WI

I would not have made a good pioneer woman- look how tiny that cabin is!

Started fruits/veggies last week. This was the reaction to peaches :)

These two shots (above and below) are from peas! Hilarious! He also had butternut squash between these which he LOVED! He would stare at me with his mouth open until I filled the spoon up and then grab my hand and shove the spoon in his mouth :)

Minnesota Zoo and Pizza Grilling

One of my closest friends, John, came to visit this last week. He had not met Jackson yet and so we were very excited to have him come. We are even more excited that he is moving back to the US from London so that maybe we can see him more often!




We took a trip to the Minnesota Zoo on this last Sunday. I'll be honest, I would not recommend this zoo. Their big attraction is their Russian themed exhibits which revolve around grizzly bears, Siberian tigers and caribou. I'm more of an African animal kinda girl and so I was highly disappointed that there were no elephants, giraffes, zebras or chimps. It was also very hot, which may have contributed to my frustration ;) We did have a good time despite this thought as there was a very nice tropical exhibit that was indoor. Here are some pictures from our trip.







Jackson was REALLY into the tropical fish. We must have stood there for 20 minutes while he watched them. They WERE the coolest part.




John and Jackson post-zoo. 5 minutes after this I realized he had blown out of his diaper. Apparently he has something against blue/green plaid with sea animals on the front (see previous post).



We also grilled pizza, which I have been excited to try out all summer. We used the crust recipe from Tyler Florence ( ) and rather than use a pizza paddle, used aluminum foil to flip the crusts onto the grill. From there, it was really easy. We topped with our individual pizzas with our choice of toppings (tomato or pesto sauce, Italian sausage, pepperoni, zucchini, green pepper, red onion, tomatoes, basil, mozzarella, goat cheese)...so much fun and delicious!









In other news...we continue to love rice cereal!

Happy Fourth of July AND 5 Months!!

We celebrated the fourth of July early this year because I have to work a night shift (6 pm - 3 am) on the night of the Fourth :(

We grilled out burgers and ate potato salad, deviled eggs and corn casserole (only once I was making those things did I realize they are all the same color- oops) Jackson also got to join in dinner with us- he had rice cereal for the first time and really seemed to like it :)

Bath time after rice cereal....

The Fourth was also J's 5 month birthday so I got some cute shots of him out in the yard.
5 month stats: 18 lbs, 27 inches long

He promptly had a blowout while in the Bumbo after the above shot. This is the 3rd time he has had a blowout in this outfit and he has only worn it 4 times! Note poop stain in below shot :/

We also had pooltime this weekend...not very successfully at first as the water was way too cold (as you can see, in my pictures he never actually is IN the water)! But today (no pictures since I was by myself) the water got warmed up and he sat and splashed.

Como Zoo

Jackson had his first trip to the zoo today. We went up to St. Paul and went to the Como Zoo. I had heard great reviews about it and it's free so we thought we would try it out first. I LOVE zoos!


We went to Punch Pizza first which was delicious!



Then we headed over to the zoo and after at least 30 minutes of circling we were able to find parking. By the end of our walk to the zoo, this is how J looked:


And when I uncovered his face....


This guy was watching everybody that was watching him with what looked like a smile on his face



Como Zoo also has a conservatory which was gorgeous!





The Japanese Garden was beautiful!


J woke up halfway through our walk through the garden




On our walk back to our parking space, we stopped for ice cream and cold drinks at a cute little cafe called Java Train. Daddy enjoyed tickling J's toes and J attempted to eat his Daddy's fingers