No update. Just a fresh start.

So, rather than try to update you on the last eight months of my life, I have simply chosen to start fresh. My last post mentioned that I was six months pregnant. Well, that six month fetus is now a four month old baby! He is ridiculously cute. Ike has been out of town this week. This week has been an interesting one. I locked myself out of the apartment and after trying for a half hour to get a hold of the manager I resorted to popping the screen out of our living room window and jimmying it open. I was able to climb through and unlock the living room door. Thank goodness Jackson was with me when I locked myself out. I think I would have been totally panicking if he was in the house and I was locked out. I think I stayed pretty calm during the whole thing though so I feel good. I finished up my summer term and now Ike and I officially only have one semester of classes left!!! Ike has student teaching after this fall but then we both graduate in April. It is crazy when I think about how much my life has changed in the past four years. It is crazy how much it has changed just in the past two years! Sometimes I look at my sleeping baby and I have to pinch myself because this life almost doesn't feel real to me. Was I really pregnant for nine months? Did I really give birth to this baby? Its just crazy. Jackson is now 16lbs and is finally finally sleeping from 7:30pm to 7:00am. He has always been a great sleeper but for the past three months he was waking up at 4am for a feeding. Finally I decided to see what would happen if I just gave him his pacifier instead of feeding him. Well shock upon shock, he just went back to bed and the next morning he slept straight until 6:30. Ever since then he has woken up right around 7!!! Jackson is such a textbook baby. I remember wondering when he would smile for the first time and I read that babies usually start smiling around six weeks or later. On the day he was six weeks he started smiling at me. I just love him so much. Ike gets home tomorrow and I can't be more excited. We have never been apart more than 24 hours and then he was gone this whole week and will be gone all next week!!! It was hard! Anyway, life is more than good and I feel so blessed!

Finally an update!

Since the last post lots has happened in the Carr house. Ike and I had a very successful but also at times scary drive from Utah to Ohio then New Hampshire then back again for Christmas. It was really fun except for the times the weather was so bad we couldn't see two feet in front of the car. School has started again and I am now officially in my Third Trimester!!! For everyone who doesn't know, we are having a boy and his name will be Jackson. We are more excited than we can even express. I have a feeling this semester is going to go by really fast and soon it will be over and Ike and I will have a new baby in our arms.

We love you all!
April