Jacks first Easter

Baby Jack had his first Easter with an egg hunt and a basket. We had a busy day visiting all of the family, but he hung in there with a 25 minute nap lasting him the whole day. We hadn't seen everyone in awhile and we had a lot to show off. Not only is Jack jibber jabbering more and more each day, taking steps on his own occasionally, he has two more teeth on top coming in. Because one tooth isn't enough to handle at once we are lucky to get TWO! He has been taking it pretty well, a little clingy and not too hungry these past couple of days.
We have been busy little travelers too. We started off our Spring Break going to Palm Springs with Aunt Meredith and Tia Cristina for the weekend. We had a lot of fun laying out at the pool, doing a little swimming, making friends with Dolce (a little white, fluffy dog), and shopping at the outlets of course. We were home for less then 24hrs. unpacked, packed again and were off to Santa Barbara for 3 days. Jack met his cousin Matthew and his mommy and daddy Jamie and Jason. We went to the zoo and played with Matthews choo-choos. Jack really liked to play with the trains, especially pulling them off of the track after we had worked so hard to get all the cars together. We had a lot of fun visiting them!
Now we are home and getting back to our normal schedule. Jack is happy to be out of the car for hours at a time and roaming all over the house. His little language has changed in the last week. He's saying things that sound like teeckleteeckle and goudagouda. He's trying his hardest to talk to us, maybe we should start baby sign with him. He is such a love and loves to give hugs, especially to his mommy. Any day now we will be walking. He gets brave and takes a step or two here and there.
For some reason I got this crazy hair and decided that we had created a really bad habit. I've known for awhile that we had started a bad thing, but loved every minute of it. At night when it was time for Jack to go to bed we would lay in our bed, all three of us, sometimes four with Kona of course. Jack would have his bottle and we would lay there until he fell asleep. In the beginning it was easy, he would fall asleep immediately. As he learned to crawl and roll over he would be almost asleep and then start rolling all over the bed. It started to take longer and longer and I would even fall asleep with him and then big Jack would have to put him in his crib. I decided this was going to end and we were going to try the "crying it out" method. It sounds awful and it is awful to be living in a house when this is going on. So Thursday night, I gave him his bottle, he was tired which is perfect, put him in his bed, walked out and let him cry and cry. After five minutes I went in tucked him in, laid him back down, told him good night and I loved him. The crying continued for 35 minutes that night. The whole time Jack and I are sitting on the couch watching him in the monitor as I tell him it will be okay he will go to sleep. The whole time I was hoping the baby experts were right and that he would fall asleep. Friday night was better, Saturday night wasn't so good and tonight took ten minutes. Hopefully it will be better each night, that's what the experts say, whoever these "experts" are anyways. I'll keep you updated on the sleep thing.
So now that I have written a novel here is a pick of Jack today! Isn't he so cute and so big!