Jack the Baby Model

This week in the Hedrick household has been pretty mellow.  Jack discovered his feet.  It is quite cute because he likes to put them in his mouth.  We had a photographer come to the house to take pictures of Jack.  She did some family shots too.  Jack was a wonderful little model.  He was very well behaved and Annie the photographer loved him, I am sure she says that about all the babies she is taking pictures of.  I will get some of those pictures up when we get them.  Jay was in major cooperation mode on picture day.  For those of you who know Jay, you know that he 1) hates having his picture taken more than anything and 2) he is pretty modest when it comes to his clothing, he doesn't just take his shirt off in front of anyone.  I told Jay it was very important to me to have a picture him and Jack together with Jack only in his diaper and Jay with no shirt on.  He told me no and I kept pushing (just teasing of course).  The photographer got in on it too.  She said we could make it a very tasteful picture by putting the lambskin down in front of the fireplace and Jay and Jack could lay on that for the pictures.  It was funny watching him squirm until we dropped it. 

Jay got some good news on the job front.  It sounds like there is a good chance he won't be traveling for work for a while.  Typically when his season starts he travels away from Missoula for 16 days a month.  I miss him a lot when he is gone for that long, so this is great news.  Last weekend he stayed the night at a friend's cabin on a creek outside of town, so I got a tiny taste of what being a single mom is like and it wasn't so fun.  This got me thinking about him traveling for 16 days a month and I was really not excited about that.  Also, Jack loves Jay so much and I think it would be hard for both of them to be away from each other for that long.  So again, Jay working in Missoula is great news. 

We send our love to everyone!
Emily

I think he looks like a psychiatric ward patient in this picture :)