Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Just Jack

I am so blessed to be a stay-at-home mom.  I absolutely LOVE it!  One of my favorite things about staying home with Jackson is that I can take pictures of him everyday.  I did the same thing when Sarah was his age, and I just adore looking back at those snapshots of her!
 
One morning when I went in to wake him up, this is what I saw.  He took his shirt off and attempted to put it back on again.  He was actually quite proud of himself!  Don't get me started on his bedhead!
 
Jackson loves riding on Sissy's stick unicorn!  Luckily, he now has his own boy stick pony!

Love!

Some of Jackson's favorite toys are his Thomas the trains, and he loves making them go under furniture and watching them come out on the other side!

Jack adores reading books!  He will sit in my lap and let me read a dozen books to him at one time.  And when he sits down by himself to look at a book, it just warms my heart.

Some of the books we've read a million times--like this Curious George book--he has memorized.  I love when he recites the books to me!
 

Jackson loves brushing his little teeth, and as with everything he does, I just think it's so cute!
 
He likes waiting outside of the bathroom when people are using it--especially when they're using the little hallway bathroom.  When just he and I are at home together, he'll usually follow me into the actual bathroom, and he always tells me "good job!"  Ha!

 He is the cutest!
 
He loves playing with trains, and I love when he takes my hand and says, "Pwease wanna build trains wif Mama!"  I can't say no to that!  This is actually from Sarah's first day of school--I knew that building a huge train track would keep his mind off the fact that Sissy was gone!


Practicing his golf swing in the foyer. 
 
A juice box in the bath tub...he's livin' the good life!

This is a picture of an outfit that he picked out all by himself!  It's fun to watch him become more independent and opinionated (for the most part!).  Don't worry, we didn't leave the house while he was wearing this!
 
Just like Daddy, he loves the Aggies!

One morning after we dropped Sarah off at school, Jackson made breakfast for the two of us--a hot dog, chicken, and corn on the cob, complete with bbq sauce and ketchup!  I love these sweet little moments.  And I love his blue eyes!

One evening, he put the tongs from his grill on his ears, and said, "Wook!  I a doctor!"  We laughed so hard!  He actually has a play stethoscope, but I just love his little imagination!

Although it's blurry, I love this picture!!


Playing with a tractor and wearing an awesome Aggie shirt from Aunt Rachel and Uncle Gus!
 
A few weeks ago, it rained for several days in row, so I put lentils and his tractors in a big bucket.  He loved it and kept saying, "Whoa!  Cool!"
 
I walked into the den one day and found this!  Being the excellent Mom that I am, I grabbed the camera before telling him to get down!
 
One of his new favorite things to do is hop into the fridge when he's putting something in there.  He picked out his clothes on this day too!!

Now that it's cold, Bryan wears his slippers in the evening.  Before we go to bed, he leaves them out in our room where he knows Jack will find them.  And each morning, Jackson gets so excited to put Daddy's big slippers on!
 
 
Last week, he and I baked a cake together.  As I had my back turned getting more eggs out of the fridge, he cracked his first egg all by himself!  Instead of getting upset, I just got the camera!

Jackson's getting so big and independent--it makes me happy and sad all at the same time!  Yesterday before leaving for school, he put his shoes on all by himself! 
 
He was so proud of himself!  And I was proud of him too!  (I love his little tongue sticking out in concentration!)
 


Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Awards

Last Wednesday, Jackson and I went to an awards assembly at Sarah's school.  She received an award for perfect attendance and being on the "A" honor roll!  When Sarah was called up for her first award, Jack yelled out, "Sissy Bear!"  It was so cute!  As always, we are so proud of her!

Friday, November 1, 2013

Flu Shots

This morning, I took the kids to get their annual flu shots at their new pediatrician's office.  Sarah dreads getting shots.  She's worse than Jackson about it...and he's 3!  So this year, she was able to get the flu mist.  She asked everyone from the secretary where we signed in to the doctor to verify that she could get the nasal mist instead of an actual shot!  Other than Jackson turning off the lights in the waiting room and crying when they tried to weigh him and measure his height, he did great!  Ha!  He's actually old enough to get the mist instead of the shot too, but he came down with a cold late last night, so he had to unfortunately get the shot.

Luckily for these two cuties, one of Mommy's Rules for Life is:  get a shot, get a treat!  So, we stopped by Chick-fil-A for lunch and milkshakes after our visit to the doctor!
 

Halloween

My favorite part of Halloween is seeing our cute kids get dressed up!
 
Sarah, our sweet little witch, was allowed to wear her costume to school, and she was so excited about it!  Her current favorite color is purple, so this made her costume perfect!

Jackson got to wear his cowboy costume to school too!  We were going to get him a stick pony for Christmas, (so he stops playing with Sarah's stick unicorn!), but once we knew he was going to be a cowboy, we decided to get him the horsey early.  He named his horsey Mama!

Practicing...


We taught him a couple of things that a cowboy says.  But instead of "yee-haw" he says "ne-haw" and instead of "howdy partner" he says "how partner"!  It was too cute!

It was quite a task getting Jackson to stay still so I could get their picture together!


They are so sweet together!

Love it so much!!

Even though his hat is covering his eyes in this picture, I just love how he's biting his lip in concentration!

I told Bryan that Jack was so cute I want to dress him up like a cowboy everyday now!



 
My sweet Dad came trick-or-treating with us, and it was so fun to have him along!

 
I just love watching them together! 

At one point, Bubba started holding Sissy's hand.  It was so sweet!

I could just eat him!
 
How sweet!

Jack loved ringing the doorbells--sometimes more than once!

Sweet Daddy carrying J's horsey.

We were out way past Jack's bedtime, and although he was such a trooper about it, (because he was getting candy!), at one point he said, "I tired.  Pwease carry me."  I was happy to oblige!

The kids ate quite a bit of candy in between houses.  Jack had never had Skittles before, but once he opened the package--all by himself--he kept saying "yum!"
 
Enjoying their loot once we got home!

 We had so much fun!

Halloween Fun

Leading up to Halloween, we did some fun things at our house.
 
Jackson painted a paper plate to turn it into a pumpkin.  When he finished, he said, "I made it!"  It was so cute!

On Tuesday, I made a Halloween themed dinner including mummy hotdogs, ghost bananas, orange chips, and dirt cups.  We ate it in the den while watching "Toy Story of Horror."  I love doing fun nights like this because the kids get so excited!

Jackson loved eating the gummi worms--or as he calls them, gum!  After seeing his chocolate covered face, Bryan said "not it!"

After school on Wednesday, the kids baked Pillsbury pumpkin cookies.  We've been making these since Sarah was 2, and we just love it!

Jackson's class had a party yesterday, and I signed up to take a fruit tray.  One of the other moms suggested I made kabobs and put the fruit on skewers, but I wanted the 3 year olds to leave with their eyes, so I made this instead!

It was fun being at Jackson's party and seeing him with his friends.