Little Kong: from soup to nuts!

So Halloween has come and gone and we are on to thinking about Christmas!! Yep its that time of year, really I'm just excited to decorate the new house.........and introduce Jack to all things Christmas! I can't wait to do all of the things my parents did with me as a kid, visit Santa and sit on his lap, make a stocking for Jack, start his collection of Christmas tree ornaments- I know this one may sound a bit weird but I have an aunt who has bought me an ornament every year since I was born and when I moved out and got my own tree I already had a ton of ornaments to decorate my tree with. So I am thankful for that plus its pretty neat to look at them all and see the years printed on each one.

I have to say its pretty funny as I'm looking around the room right now.......I'm writing my blog while Jack lays next to me eating his hands and trying to roll over, Knuckles (one of the dogs) is barking at the crackling fire, and Johnny is trying to muster up the energy to go to the gym.

Last week or maybe a week and a half ago it was morning and Johnny starting yelling from downstairs as if something was wrong. I came down with Jack to see what the commotion was only to find out that it had SNOWED during the night and was sticking to the cars and ground!!! Yep it happened, the first official snow. I keep hearing that we're in for a pretty bad winter this year, which doesn't make me happy mainly because people don't like to go out for lunch when its so blizzard-like outside. Last winter was so mild so I feel like we're due for a rough one :)
Speaking of business, we've got a little competition, although we knew it was coming, you're never really ready I guess. Another restaurant, not quite as quaint as Scripts, has opened up just around the corner. I've done enough stressing and trying to predict the future for everyone and just need to accept that it is what it is and business has been just fine so far...........soooooo.......happy thoughts and positive thoughts it is :)

In Jack news - he is trying to roll over, has become MUCH more vocal, has been caught sucking his thumb.....which I IMMEDIATELY take out of his mouth, and his sleeping patterns are seriously all over the place! He will be 4 months in 2 days and for the past 3 weeks his sleeping has been completely messed up. I'd like to be able to blame it on the time change but it started before that. He went from sleeping a good 5-6 hours every night, sometimes even 7 or 8 hours to getting up every 2-3 hours every night!! This makes for a VERY tired mama and some pretty sluggish days. I'm hoping things have turned around though because the past 2 nights he's slept for 7 and 6 hour stretches....my fingers are crossed!!!
He's also started to giggle which cracks me up and makes me want to act ridiculous and silly all day long just so I can hear those little baby giggles!! It's so much fun to watch him develop his own personality, I think he's going to be one little character.....especially if he's anything like his daddy!