Happy birthday JACK!!!

 Jack Leonard Jedd, the baby whose pregnancy inspired my Listen to Your Mother act, whose birth let me know I could do it unmedicated and live to tell the tale, whose colicky babyhood did not deter us from having 3 more kids because he was so darn sweet right form the jump-- Jack the lifeguard and speech whiz and soon-to-be Bradley Brave-- Jack the excellent and responsible big brother, the kid who takes Annabelle out every night even though he doesn't really like her very much and drives his siblings wherever they have to go and pays for his own gas, even-- Jack with the same loyal friend group for a decade, with political aspirations and law school on the distant horizon and plans to be an AP history teacher first-- that Jack is eighteen years old today!