Run Sam!!

Memorial Day Fun

We had a fantastic Memorial Day! We spent the afternoon with the Rowe's and Jackson was in hog heaven. Lawson has so many things that Jackson wanted to play with and I wondered if we would ever get him to leave. He fell asleep before we could get out of the driveway!

Finding joy in the small things...

Eighteen Months

My baby...my precious, sweet baby boy is eighteen months old today. Oh my, where did the time go? It makes me so sad to realize that he won't be little much longer. This revelation just hit me as I was reading Kristi's post about becoming a mother again, Jeff's post about Grayson's 2nd birthday and then Anna's post about how grateful she is to have a healthy baby girl. Needless to say, my red face and watery eyes probably look a bit odd to my coworkers. It seems just yesterday that I was getting ready to move him from his cradle next to our bed to his crib in the nursery and getting up all night to check on him. And still, my first thought every morning is about Jackson. How did he sleep, did he get cold/hot...

Just last night, Clint and I were having a serious conversation while Jackson played in the floor between us. He stopped us right in mid-sentence when we realized what he was doing. He was talking to his daddy on the phone (which happened to be the remote control). "O, daddy, oooh. Bye-bye." And he punched a button and was done. He doesn't say hello well, mainly just the "o" comes out. We immediately started laughing. What would we do without him? Linda, who keeps Jackson during the day, has told me that he calls his daddy regularly on the toy cell phone. He's got that cell phone figured out, makes me very aware of what else he's picking up on.

I am amazed to see how quickly he is learning and growing. He's also figured out the time-out mat. Since I bought that mat (a vinyl place mat) to mark the timeout spot on the floor, he's not been to time-out. I also found it waded into a ball in the corner a few nights ago. Sneaky little rascal!

Wordless Wednesday...again

I've really got to get better at posting. Oops! I guess this isn't wordless after all.

Wordless Wednesday

Missing

A couple of weeks ago, we had a serious case of the "missing pacifers." We went from having four, to just two, then down to one. I happened to find one almost a week later. But, this one pacifier caused me to think that I was losing my mind. Jackson had gotten up around midnight moaning, but not really waking up. I went in and gave him his pacifier and blankie and he dosed back off. He got up at 4:30 (ugh, I know!) doing the same thing. So, I went back in to give him his pacifer. I usually have to feel around the crib and sometimes up under him to find it. But, I COULD NOT find it. I was beginning to think that in my sleepiness that maybe he didn't have one but that couldn't be true. He ALWAYS goes to bed with one and I had found it and given it to him at midnight. I ended up grabbing one of the backups from the basket and going back to bed. The next afternoon I hunted all in, under and around the crib for that pacifier and still didn't find it. Look what I found when I changed his sheets a few days later:


Ha! I'm not crazy! I had to pull the crib out from the wall to finish putting the sheet on and saw this. (Disregard the dust, it is the back of the crib.)

Easter 2009

I'm a little stunned that on Tax Day, I'm finding the time to post. I know where my priorities lie! We had a great Easter with the Cooks this year and Jackson had a blast hunting Easter eggs.

Sweetest little boy ever!

I hope everyone had a great Easter!

Wordless Wednesday

Mmm, cookies...

Playroom

Last week, Lindsey, asked if anyone else had a messy playroom. Lindsey, you are not alone!!