Jackson's First School Play

The Thursday before last was Jackson's first school Christmas play. It was so cute! His preschool has kiddos ages 1-5 and they did an awesome job. Jackson was very excited about his songs and practiced them at home the entire week prior. Unfortunately Jackson couldn't sleep well and only got 6 (instead of his usual 12) hours of sleep Wednesday night. That morning he was feeling great though so I thought it would be fine. He was very excited to get dressed and get to school and did a great job with his first song. Then as they were exciting the stage he suddenly started crying for me. I should have just let his teachers comfort him but I was so worried that his disturbance would mess up the play that I just grabbed him. Anyway, he just sat in my lap with his head on my shoulder asking if we could go home and go to sleep. At the end of the show he was supposed to go up on stage with the whole cast and do one more song. He almost did it, when I told him he could sit by Ellie but then he decided against it. We ended up taking him home after the show and putting him down for a 4 1/2 hour nap. Adrienne has some cute clips of the show on her blog. Click here to see the videos.


Jackson fixing his hair before school. He was so excited about his show and even said he was going to steal the microphone.



The teachers placing all of the 1 and 2 year olds on the stage. His shirt was tucked in when he arrived at school.



Singing "jingle bells," you can see Ellie sitting to the left of Jax.



Happily singing.



The kids were all shaking their bells.



Class pictures in the nativity scene. Jackson picked up the baby Jesus and wanted to take him home.



Can you tell Jackson is exhausted?



Damian, Adrienne and Charlie.




Jackson's fan club:)



Taking a closer look at baby Jesus.



Jackson trying to steal baby Jesus again. He has also asked if we could name our new baby Jesus. Jay and I have decided against it.

Tough Guy

Yesterday morning we were playing in Gaga's back yard (no surprise there!). I had tried to climb one of her fence posts to see if I could find Jackson's new softball. In one day of playing with it he has already thrown it over the fence and lost it. Anyway, so he tried to copy me and climb up the corner fence post. Unfortunately we didn't realize there was a wasp nest behind that post. I was just a few steps behind him (trying to stop him from climbing) when I heard "Oh man, noner (another) bun (bug) bite!" He had a huge wasp on his stomach who I assume was stinging him. He swiped the bug away and said again "oh man mommy, Yackson noner bun bite!" He never cried or acted too upset but the bite mark on the poor little guy swelled up and had a blood mark on it. Gaga and I were far more concerned about it than he was so I guess he's got a high pain tolerance!


Jackson is not happy here that we are making him stand still to look at the bite (and of course to document it:)



He's now inspecting the bite.



Loving Gaga's porch swing while we medicate the bite.



Already sick of the swing, he doesn't sit for long.



Happily going back to play in the yard!

Potty Training?

Well, I have been very resistant to potty train Jackson. He's been interested for a little over three months. I just don't want to mess with. . .well, the mess. Also I have heard from several sources that training before 27 months doubles the time it takes. Anyway, this last week and weekend he has used the actual potty so many times. Today he woke up from his nap yelling "pee pee!" "Momma pee pee!" I went in to get him and he immediately took off his dry diaper and went to the potty. So twice today he went #2 on the potty. Twice yesterday as well. So, while I am not going to encourage it because I don't want to be in the training stage for a year I am happy to put him on the toilet when he requests it:) Probably TMI for most of you but oh well, the title should have been enough clue and you could have skipped this one.