Shaving?

Mark has been growing a beard for a few weeks, and while it's better than the first year he attempted, it's not exactly lush. There are a couple of bare-ish spots. This morning while lying in bed, Kaden looked at Mark's face and asked, "why did you shave that little spot?" Now Mark is thinking it might really be time to shave it...

Let it snow!

Just back from a little night time trek. Jameson tried out his backpacker carrier. With his snowsuit on he was certainly big enough for it! He didn't seem to mind it, despite the snow coming down in his face. He even fell asleep!

Eating it up

Jameson has been lunging at our food with open pith wide open for a couple of weeks. I figured this meant we should probably let him try some cereal yesterday. Big Hit! Really big. He was flapping his arms with approaching bite!

Almost Christmas

Typically the kids would be excited but this year they don't want it to come because that mean Alex the elf on the shelf will go back to the north pole. Mackinna wrote him a letter telling him how much she'll miss him.

Visit with Santa

Santa was at Dairy Queen yesterday so we walked down to visit and eat a couple of kiddy cones.

Rollin, Rollin, Rollin'

5 months!

Jameson is 5 months old today! It was a big week here. He learned how to roll from his back to his belly and how to blow raspberries! Now that he rolls it is slightly harder to take his monthly photo- well if I want to see the sticker any way...

Alex the Elf

The kids just finished reading all about their elf. They named him Alex.

The elf on the shelf (or chandelier)

Mackinna really wanted an elf on the shelf but after looking at a couple of stores she was disappointed to find them sold out. So she wrote and asked Santa if he could send one here. (Kaden wasn't so sure he wanted one because he might get caught being bad!) Santa must have received the letter because this morning we woke up to find an elf with a book. He even brought them cookies which the kids guessed were made by Mrs. Claus!

Kaden wrote to Santa too so we are thinking his letter was also received so we are awaiting a response to the question, "do you have 8 wood stoves?"

Photo Book

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Cradle cap

Poor Jameson is battling some pretty decent cradle cap. We've been trying different things with mixed results so some days it looks better than others. Today it does not look very good and when Kaden noticed he said, "the flakey scales on Jameson's head make him look like yoda."

4 months

Jameson had his 4 month check up this week and is doing great. He had 4 vaccines- 3 shots and 1 oral. The shots made him pretty mad! His face turned as red as his hat!

Here are his 4 month stats.
Height: 26.5" (91%)
Weight: 17 lbs 2 oz (77%)
Head: 17.24" (94%)

So his weight and height seem to have slowed a little since his 2 month check up. To be honest, I'm surprised he even gains weight given how much he spits up! He is wearing 6-9 month clothes and is getting pretty great at reaching for things with his little hands and shoving them straight in his mouth!
Here are a couple of his 4 month photos.