Goings on

I have a ton of fun pictures and don't want to do a million and a half posts so I'll roll them all into one!

Ethan and best pal, Gavin, have twinner shirts. Star Wars Storm Troopers, and one day, they showed up at school in their twinner shirts. Luckily, they are in first grade so it wasn't embarrassing, it was COOL!

 In an attempt to corral Jackson, I put him, his blanket, his pillow pet, and one of his many monkies in the

laundry basket.

(It didn't work very well!)

Emma had a ROUGH day a couple of weeks ago so I gave her the special red plate and a flute with sparking apple juice for dinner! I think it helped her feel better.

Mike has a customer that sells really cool stuff and one day on a location visit, they had these cool hats for CHEAP, so he bought one of Emma and one for Jackson. (Not quite awesome for a 7 year old, so Ethan didn't get one.)

Jackson LOVES this toy and walks around all day with it and is so stinking cute with it that I have to take as many pictures as my memory card will hold!

Jackson got a new carseat and the kids wanted to play with the box so I let them. They drew on it, and played in it until it fell apart and until kids were getting hurt because kids were being too silly.
The liked to jump on Mike while he was in the box!

 Emma in the silly hat Mike bought me when we were dating!

 Emma and Ethan being....silly...as always!

 Jackson wearing Mike's silly hat that matches the silly hat Mike bought me!

 One of the drawings Ethan drew on the carseat box. It's a ship in the area that says "shipping label"! What a clever kid.

 Emma bought a pretty Rapunzel doll with some money she got for Christmas and here she is!

 Emma has taken up dancing lately and here she is in her pretty dance clothes!

 I just can't get enough of her pretty face, even if this picture is a bit blurry!

 More ballet clothes...so pretty, and silly!



ONE!!

I figured out how to post pictures now!!

Jackson had a GREAT birthday.

He was so excited when he woke up and saw all the balloons all over the house!

 Present time was fun!

Even after Christmas, he still had a time figuring out the whole ripping paper thing!

 He LOVES his new monkey book though

 I can't tell if he loves the stuffed giggly thing or his daddy the most!

 He got a train and likes it, despite what this picture is saying!

 Every birthday, all three kids get a new shirt...to help with no one feeling left out!

The birthday shirts!

 Jackson wasn't quite sure what to think of the cake

 Still a little confused

 All it took was Dad cutting it up and he dug right in!

 Woohoo! Birthday CAKE!!!

 After making a mess of himself, he got cleaned up and put on his new warm jammies and played with his awesome new walking toy, which he LOVES!!!

I am thrilled beyond thinking to have Jackson in our family and that I get to be his mommy. He is so happy, even when he's sick. He'll cough and cough and then SMILE! He smiles through the ear infections too. He lights up a room when he enters it and makes everyone around him smile and be happy, including ME!

Ummmm....

For anyone who really still looks at my blog, I have a post to do,

with lots of fun pictures,

but for some reason I can't get pictures to post.

I'll still try!