Our Musicalhouse: Spring Break & Jack Update

Monday, March 14, 2011

Spring Break & Jack Update

Spring break is off to a nice start! We left right after work on Friday & headed south to meet some dear friends for dinner. After that we proceeded to John's brother's house to hang out with (almost) the whole family & celebrate Billy & Grandma M's birthdays. On Saturday we headed out for the state capital to let our legislators know (again) how we feel about the HUGE budget cuts planned for public education. I've never been to a rally or anything like this before & I've gotta admit it was pretty cool. I think teachers often get so bogged down & isolated in the classroom, we forget there's a bigger world out there & that we're allowed to speak up when we don't like what's going on. As we were leaving I told John that it's really cool to see that many people who are all fighting for the same thing - that we're not alone in wanting things to change. By the way, if you want to learn more about this topic, you can check out savetexasschools.org then if you want to contact your representatives (or find out who they are), you can follow the links on that website, or click here.

I will now step off my soapbox & talk about my cute baby boy. ;o) Jack is doing awesome. Here are the latest developments:

He pretty much rolls over to his tummy every time we put him down now.
He spends a lot of time testing the range of his vocal skills. This includes a lot of screeching sounds which he seems rather proud of. Newest nickname: my little pterodactyl
We're working on solid foods & he seems to have gotten the hang of it pretty quickly. Now he will lean forward and open his mouth like a little bird when he wants another bite. so cute.
In addition to milk, he now eats rice cereal 2xs a day, apples, and the latest: squash.
His six month appointment was last week & here are the latest stats: weight: 17 lbs. (between 25 & 50th percentile) and height: 27 & a half in. (between 75 & 90th percentile)

Other than that, I spent today working on the yard & hanging out with my boys.

1 comment:

Megan said...: Sounds like a perfect spring break! Wish I had been able to go to the rally.; March 18, 2011 at 4:36 AM

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Verses from Philippians

1:21: For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
2:1-11: If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
2:14-15: Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe.
3:7-8: But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ.
3:12-14:Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.