Summer Fun!

I took Jett swimming with my sisters kids a couple weeks ago and Jett LOVES the water, and the girls of course loved him

We went on our first camping trip of the year last weekend and Jett was a lot of fun, he pretty much just wanted to dig around in the dirt and eat rocks

A mouthful of dirt....yummy

 Apparently playing under the table in the trailer is hilarious, he would crack up every time he got under it

 Only a true Rockwell falls asleep with his gun

My family did a golf tournament for both Father's Day and for my dad's birthday, and this future golfer had a good time playing around on the putting green with daddy

Let's hear it for the boys!

Okay girls are you ready for this?  What we have here are three off-duty police officers who decided to spend the afternoon at the dinosaur museum with their kids....THAT'S SO HOT!!!  And the one in the middle, he's all mine! :)

Happy Birthday Jett!

Our sweet Jett,

Happy first birthday!  You have been such a wonderful addition to our lives, and we love you more than we can ever tell you!  You have so much life and energy, chasing you around is the best part of our day.  We’ve never seen a kid that can crawl as fast as you, and now that you’re beginning to walk we know that we are in trouble! 

You have such a great laugh, we tickle and tease you all the time just to hear that laugh and see your big smile.  And now you have started to jabber at us when you’re playing with your toys, the only word we really understand is Dadda, but you look right at us when you talk like whatever you’re saying is really important and somehow we don’t doubt that it is.  It has been so fun to watch you learn and grow, every new thing you do is exciting to see.

Since you are our first child we’ve had to learn as we go, so there have been mistakes made along the way, like the time we turned you orange from feeding you too many yellow vegetables and not enough green ones, sorry about that.  And right now you have five little stitches in your left eyebrow from falling into the coffee table last week while learning to walk, I’m sure they will be the first of many. 

We decided to wait several years before becoming parents, but if we had known what we were missing out on we wouldn’t have been able to wait a minute for you.  This past year has been both the most difficult and the most rewarding year that we’ve experienced, and we wouldn’t change a thing.  We just love you so much, and are so grateful to you for making us into a family. 

Lots of love and kisses,

Dad and Mom

OUCH!

Jett had his first stitches on Tuesday!  He's just starting to walk, and the poor little guy stumbled into the coffee table, so I ran him over to our doctor and they put five stitches in his left eyebrow.  He handled it like a champ!  

Whew!  Big day, all tuckered out

6 years old

We got our Roxie Belle six years ago today!   We made her some special dog treats to make up for last years cruddy birthday when she had to have surgery on her knee :(  She's a sweet little thing and although she has gotten a little ornery in her old age she is still great with Jett, and we have a lot of love for our little puppy!

11 months

We survived the first ear infection!  It started on New Years Eve and it was rough, Jett screamed off and on until 5 am.  Once we were able to get him in to see the doctor and got him started on the antibiotics life returned to normal again.  Jett slept better when he was next to one of us so we had a little sleep-over in his room one night, it was kinda fun. 

Roxie is Jett's BFF.  He already feeds her from the table, it didn't take him long to figure out how to make his broccoli disappear.

He says Da-Da like crazy, but can't for the life of me get him to say Ma-Ma!  Can't blame the kid too much though cuz he does have a pretty great Da-Da.

How great is that smile?

Jett's smile is the best part of my day!  He's such a little monkey, and watching his sense of humor and personality develop has been so much fun!   

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I'm growing!

Jett is getting so big and so cute!  We have two stairs in our house and he climbed up them for the first time last week!  He will also pull himself up with anything he can get his hands on, so we had to lower his crib mattress to keep him from falling out of his crib.  Yikes!

 All ready to go to church!

 I'm getting so big!

 His pumpkin says his name if you can't tell :)

Logan's last football game of the season, and yes they won!

 We had family pictures taken last month and celebrated 

Grandma Rockwell's 90th birthday

Just like my dad

Yesterday was Jett's first football game!  We introduced him to the Steelers, and that look of shock on his face is likely due to the fact that he had to watch them get stomped on by the Ravens.  Final score 7 - 35 :( 

Lots of firsts...

Jett's first camping trip

First four-wheeler ride

First picnic (he sorta slept through it)

First hike (mostly slept through this one too)

First time eating rice cereal

Jett is also rolling from his back to his stomach, laughs, babbles to himself, and loves to play with his toes.  

We blessed our boy!

We blessed Jett on June 5th which was also mine and Holden's 8th anniversary, so it was a pretty special day for us.  Everything went really well, he looked so adorable in his little blessing outfit!  Holden gave a very beautiful blessing and Jett was awake but amazingly enough didn't make a peep.

Afterwards we went to the park where Jett spit up on about 5 different friends and family members 

(like really spit up... a lot) but that's okay because it was his day, so he could get away with pretty much whatever he wanted.