Large and in charge!!

I have been getting requests to see the big ole' belly so here it is!  I am huge!

My boy and me! 

For today's wardrobe choice we chose.....

A lovely knitted winter cap (in Syracuse colors no less), a super silly face, and.........

a vacuum to accessorize with!   He kind of reminds me of a smurf! 
What a good little helper!  
Shortly after taking these pictures he accidently turned the vacuum on and scared himself half to death! It was funny! 

Very Stylish!

I have been sorting thru all of Jackson's old clothes and stuff to make room for all of the baby's stuff and while I was doing this I watched Jackson come out of his room with his old snow boots on and this silly hat!!  And to top it off he found his golf clubs that had been confiscated due to the fact that he seemed to hit everything BUT the golf ball!  
For those of you who are wondering why my child is never dressed,  it is because it is 115 degrees outside and too hot to wear clothes! At least for Jackson anyway!  Well, it's too hot for me too, but I deal with it and keep my clothes on!  
My silly little golfer!!  

For those of you who wish to leave your condolences...

feel free to do it here!  I watched it happen to my team (The Suns) and poor Matt had to watch it happen to his team tonight.  The Lakers got smashed and were unable to claim that victory trophy!  Oh poor French family....I feel your pain!  So, for all you Laker fans........too bad!  So sad!

 

Elmo's in trouble!

Jackson came into my room this morning, while I was getting ready, and informed me that Elmo had stepped on his muffin!  Just to make sure I had heard right I said "Who stepped on your muffin?" And he repeated, "Elmo!"  (His voice was very upset!!)  
So I went out with Jack to survey the damage and I said, "Jackson, what should we do to Elmo for stepping on your muffin?"  I was thinking a timeout or maybe a loss of playtime, something along those lines :) He said, "Mommy, he stepped on my muffin and SMASHED it!"  (In his growl voice) and I asked again what we should do to Elmo and my sweet boy said, "Be nice to him!"  So, we let Elmo off the hook this time!   That silly Elmo, always making my life more difficult, now I have to vacuum!!     p.s I know it's hard to tell where Jackson's skin ends and his diaper begins, but he is not naked!! He is in a diaper!! 

Just Breathe!!

I am that mom who says, "My kid will NEVER do that" whatever "that" may be.  Well, he done it, and he done it good!!!
Yeah, a WHOLE tube of Desitin! 
Now, Desitin is a liquid repellant, which means, it doesn't just wipe off with water!!  I had to scrub the poor kid in the bathtub after I ruined one of my good towels wiping off the excess.  
What a little stinker!!  Normally, Jackson can't stand to have his hands dirty, but of course when he is playing with a whole tube of Desitin he can't get enough!  

Ways to entertain oneself!

I have been so tired since our recent trip to San Diego that I don't have the energy to entertain Jackson, I feel like all I do is clean and then crash of exhaustion on the couch (I know, Waaah! Waaah! Waaah!)  
So, the kid has found an interesting way to entertain himself.  I found him in the bathtub (no water mind you) rolling golf balls up and down the slope of the tub!  
Well, at least he is well contained and can't get into too much trouble!  

Scar Face

Last night Jackson and Matt went for a swim in the "cool" as Jackson would say it, pool as normal people would say it.  (The kid REFUSES to say p-o-o-l, he says puppy, pink, purple whatever, but when he says pool he always calls it a cool...it drives Matt crazy! )  Anyway, he jumped out of the pool and ran across to the spa and Matt said it looked like slow motion when he tripped and his face scraped along the concrete!  It looks worse in person than it does in these photos!  
We were talking to my dad on the web cam last night and he looked at Jackson's face and said, "Wow, Jack what happened to your face? Did your mom hit you?"  Real funny dad!  Jackson's response was "Mom hit me!"  Thanks a lot, now when people ask him what happened to his face, as people always do when they see your child has a huge scrape, Jackson will be telling people that I hit him!!  Just for the record:  I did not abuse my child!! He fell, he really did!

To finish off our day at Sea World....

We started our day at Sea World around 11 a.m.  We rented a stroller for Jackson just in case, and we ended our day around 6ish....Jackson walked the WHOLE time......he maybe sat in his stroller for 2 minutes.  He not only walked, he ran, skipped, jumped, and did some weird funky dance the WHOLE TIME!  
Towards the end of the day Matt took him to the play area where they climbed this rope contraption.  Matt wasn't sure, at first, if Jack would be able to do it, but he was wrong.  Jackson scaled that thing like he was a spider and it was his web! It was crazy!  He loved it.  
The Great Shamu!  Uncle Jeff and Aunt Brooklyn won this wonderfully large Shamu by shooting hoops.  Jackson thought it was great.  Everyone who passed us looked at it in awe because it was HUGE!!  Jackson would look at everyone and say "This is my whale!"  He was so proud of his Shamu.  

They (meaning Bob and Carol) tried to pawn the large beast off on us, but we refused saying that it would NOT fit in our house anywhere!  So, we left it for Brook and Jeff to decorate their house with when they get married!!  

Our sea world adventure continues...

We spent Memorial Weekend in Cali...making a stop in L.A to pick up Matt's family and then driving to San Diego to visit Sea World.  Jackson was excited to see the sharks!  
This is going thru the "shark tunnel".  You ride a moving sidewalk and you are surrounded by a huge aquarium where the fish and sharks swim all around you!  Jackson was amazed!  

Feeding the sea lions.  We were warned that the seagulls will attack when you throw the fish into the sea lion enclosure to feed them.  Well, Matt found that out first hand.  A sea gull came right at him full force, but he fought it off and was able to throw the fish to the sea lion.  Jackson got to try it too.   
This was hanging over the dolphin pool.  I don't think that a dolphin actually came close enough for Jackson to touch it, but he loved to watch them swim.  He watched with Matt for awhile and then Grampa took over and him and Jackson found a little bench, sat themselves down, watched the dolphins, and chatted over the weather!!  I wish I could have gotten that one on camera!  

A whole new world!

Jackson's eyes were opened up to a whole new world this last weekend.  We decided to drive out to L.A to stay with Matt's family, and then drive to San Diego to visit Sea World!  It was such a fun trip. Jackson LOVED Sea World.  This top pic is him looking at the penguins.  
Sitting with Grampa Bob enjoying the Shamu show.  He thought that was pretty cool.  
Entertaining himself at lunch.  Of course, Jackson chooses not to eat a lot of the time so while we finished our lunches, Jackson put the wet naps on his head. 
Now, one might think that star fish would be quite boring to look at because they don't jump out of the water or swim around...they just sit.  But I think these were Jackson's favorite.  He wasn't afraid to touch them and we spent a good deal of time here.  
Another exciting star fish. 

He's two and already he's.......

Playing us against each other!  Hmm!  As of late Jackson has really hated getting his diaper changed, maybe it's time to start potty training.  This morning I asked him if he needed his diaper changed and he said, "No mommy, daddy already changed it this morning."I decided to call Matt because I did not remember him changing Jack before he left for work.  So, when I got a hold of him he said, "No, I didn't change him." Then I told him what Jackson had told me and Matt started laughing and said, "I asked him if he needed to be changed and he said that you had already changed him this morning."  What a little stinker!  That boy scares me, he is too smart for his own good!  :)  

All in all a fun week with the cousins

To finish off our week with the cousins we had a low key day on Sunday, Matt, Jack and I went to church and Heather and Tiff and the kids prepared to leave the next day.  We made a yummy dinner of regular and greek tacos and then headed out to walk around the duck pond for one last HURRAH before we said good bye to my sisters and their kids.  

Jackson was so sad to say good bye to his buddies and still asks for them every once in a while!  We wish we lived closer to them all, but we are grateful we get to see them as often as we do.  

True Man

I was sitting in my room on the floor putting on my make-up when Jackson walked past me and into my bathroom carrying his toilet. And this is what I found when I finished and walked into the bathroom.  
Hmm..I honestly do not know where he got this idea from, but I thought it was pretty funny!  

To finish off day three...

We took the kids to a place called Amazing Jakes after the zoo.  We had never been there, but we thought it was just like Chucky Cheese. Well, it was like Chucky Cheese, just times 10! This place was well.....amazing!  It had rides for the kids (trains, carousel, bumper cars, race cars, tea cups, not to mention laser tag, bowling and games galore!) We ended up spending three hours there!  It was crazy! 
Oh sure, make the fat pregnant woman squeeze into that seat to ride with the boys! Thanks guys! 
The boys loved this train, they giggled the whole time! What cute little guys.

Isaiah got to ride this big ride that took them all the way up to the ceiling and then let them drop.  He is the third one from the left, he rode this ride a couple of times.  All in all it was a good but exhausting day.  

Day Three! THE ZOO!

Our little group at the zoo!  We had to run thru the splash pad to cool off in the end because it was so hot!!  
Sweet little Gabee!  He is such a good baby, and it makes you melt to look into his big brown eyes!  He is so cute! 

The Zoo

On our way to the Phoenix Zoo!  
Lookin at the baby oragutan.
Isaiah was the ONLY one to get to ride the camel! Poor kid always has to do (or not do) things according to what the two year olds can do and this time he got a very special ride on the camel!  
Lets just say for Matt's sake that this ride was not as comfortable as it looked!  I guess he was right on the hump and his hips hurt him for the rest of the day! But well worth it to see the smile on Isaiah's face. 
Sweet little Brookie!!  A lady at the zoo commented on how pretty she is and that she looks like a flower! We proceeded to tell her that she is a flower among a big bunch of brutish boys!!  She's our little princess!