Jackson Coloring

Jackson loves to color. Why would he want to either sit on the sofa or on the floor when he can lay across the sofa and coffee table! This is the only way he will color. Funny little dude!

Talking to Daddy

Jackson loves talking to his daddy on the phone!

Jack and Luke

On Friday our good friends Matt and Joanie came over with their 8 month old son, Luke. They are thinking of moving and we are really hoping they end up in Plano! It was so nice to see them and the boys were so cute together. Unfortunately Jackson had a pretty tough few hours in the afternoon but Luke was a champ. Jackson even spilled water all over Luke at lunch and the poor little guy just hung in there. . .and with no nap!

Isn't Luke adorable?



Jackson is showing Luke where his eyes are in this shot. Luckily he didn't poke him!



Jackson LOVED Luke and kept asking to hold him.



They are so cute together!

Meeting Baby Myles!

Last week we finally got to meet baby Myles Matthews. Jackson adored him (as expected) and I got baby fever from holding sweet little Myles:)

New Phrases. . .and stuff

Jackson is talking like mad these days. He will basically repeat anything we say. My memory is not great these days but here are a few phrases from the last month or so:

Make Bread and Butter

No Kidding

Oh Man

Oh no not that (last week he said this when he climbed on top of his play kitchen and it toppled over)

Awesome

please buy that (sometimes with the word "now" at the end)

Jackson buy that (Lennon taught Jackson the value of commerce and buying things:)

Pray now

Amen

Jesus (gaga taught him the sign for Jesus as well)

Jackson play playground

Sit down

Stand up

All Right

I need that

Bunnies outside

Dogs outside (basically any animal and outside)

Ride bicycle outside

Eat eggies and mok (milk)

Jackson hungry

Jus jerking your chain (after I told Jay I was just jerking his chain Jax has started saying it. He has no idea what it means or when to say it but it's still funny)

Poor little guy

I love and then any relative or friend

Jackson baby bottle (he says this when he wants to feed a baby a bottle)

He has always said "mmmmmmm" for snuggle but I'm not sure if I have put it on the blog.

His happiest times are when Jay and I are both with him. He lays in bed and says "momma dada mmmmmmm" several times and then says momma and waits for me to say yes and then says dada and waits for the yes and then grabs our faces and snuggles the 3 of us together.

go bye bye dada (he wants to go with jay everywhere)

See Ellie/Baby(Cora)/Meme Enin computer (each morning when he wakes up he wants to
check those 3 blogs and have me read to him and look at the pictures.

Another funny thing he started doing last month is saying "dada, dada, dada. . .JAY!" so if Jay doens't answer fast enough Jax drops the dada and uses his name. While the Francis kids were here he would also try "Uncle Jay."

Dare Devil

Jackson is such a dare devil these days. Actually, I can't really act like it's new. Last night Gaga came over and Jackson was doing his usual jumping off of the coffee table either onto us or onto the floor to belly flop. He started doing this weird thing where he would shake his arms and move his shoulders and his body back and forth. He was dancing for sure but in the strangest way. Then he started jumping off of the coffee table again. Again never with any warning but this time he was jumping BACKWARDS. Yes, backwards. That is my son whom I adore and who makes my blood pressure rise a little each day.
Anyway, part of our bedtime routine is to watch 5 minutes of the Presidents Day episode of the Ellen show. Jackson loves the dancing and the talent on that particular episode. Anyway, as soon as we turned it on we realized that the shoulder thing he was doing was the Ellen dance. It was hysterical and he started doing it agian as soon as it came on the TV.
Today he was doing his jumping again but this time off of the stool in the front yard. I was doing my best to catch him as he randomly catapulted towards me but he was getting very frustrated. He then laid down on the concrete and let me know he was upset b/c he wanted to belly flop like he does inside the house. Dear Lord-please let this precious child not do so many things that can permanently damage his body!


Here is Jackson not appreciating me bringing him in after saying no to the concrete diving.



At first he was not excited about me putting pillows on the floor for him to jump into.



Those dimples get this little guy out of a lot of trouble.




Here's an action shot of Jackson mid jump:)

Lunch at Papa's Office

Last week we also had lunch at Papa's office. This picture shows how crazy it is to take kids to lunch during nap time:) It was fun though, thanks Papa!

dada happy?

Here is a sweet story from a few weeks ago when Jay was snuggling with Jackson. I asked him to email me the story so I could post it because this is our version of a baby book:) So here's Jay's story. . .

I was laying in bed with Jackson and he was about to fall asleep. He turned and touched my face and said "Happy!" I asked him, "Are you happy?" He said, "Yea!" Then he asked me, "Dada happy?" I told him, "Of course, daddy is happy because he is here with you." He then touched my face and smiled and closed his eyes and went to sleep.

3 words and more. . .

Jackson has experienced an explosion in his verbalizing lately. He's saying so many more words and even putting 3 and sometimes 4 words together. Last week he was saying "Baby Bye Bye Airplane" every time he saw a picture of anything relating to KidFest to explain that baby Cora went bye bye on an airplane and today he's been saying the same thing but with Enin (Lennon), Sissy (Jenna aka Aunt Sissy) and Me (Mia). He has also picked up a few phrases from Lennon. He says "outside NOW," "my turn please," "need that", "need that NOW" and several others. Having two babies around for the last several weeks was so much fun!

Lunch with Nana's Babies!

Last week we went up to Nana's hospital to have lunch with her while she was working. The kids loved looking at the brand new baby in the nursery:)



Thanks for letting us bring a little chaos to your day Nana!