Jackson

Here's what's up with Jackson these days. I can't believe he's almost three!

1. He's pretty much fully potty trained! He really did a pretty good job with it. We didn't have that many accidents and he wasn't as scared to go on the toilet as I thought he would be. We're still working on getting him to consistently tell us when he needs to go, but the whole process was a lot easier than I thought it would be.

2. He still loves Curious George, although Thomas and his friends may have taken the top spot.

3. He loves to do things with Dad, especially take rides in the Jeep.

4. He loves to watch and help me cook and bake.

5. He's very loving. He'll give hugs and kisses whenever I ask (which is a lot) and loves to sit and snuggle with me or Phil. Oh, I could just eat him up!

6. His speech is getting better everyday. People other than Phil and me can understand some of what he says now, which is nice! Here are some of his favorite things to say (and their translations):

• "Mom/Dad! DO-in?" (What are you doing?)
• "Mom, where's _______ is? (Where is _____?)
• "Mommy, what happen?" (What happened?)
• "Momma... got dere?" (What do you have/got there? Like, what are you holding?)
• "Dat's real spicy." (He loves to say that food is spicy.)
• "Jackson real sad." "Jackson fun at church." "Jackson real scared." "Jackson hit the ball." (He's always referring to himself in the third person lately.)
• "Jackson go back bed now." (Whenever he gets reprimanded for something or gets upset he wants to go back to bed. He'll even go into his room by himself and lay down in his bed... like his own personal time-out.)
• "Dat's not airpane... dat's a jet!" (Said to Becky when she pointed out an "airplane" (F-15) in the sky.)
• "Emmett crazy!" "Jackson crazy!" "George crazy!" (He loves to say that people/things are crazy.)

7. He loves to be silly and make people laugh. If he does something and someone laughs at it, it just revs him up and he gets even more silly.

8. He loves to run, run, run! And scream, scream, scream! He'll do laps around our kitchen island over and over again. He also loves to hit balls with plastic bats and golf clubs.

9. He's a great sleeper. He still takes a 2-3 hour nap every afternoon, although he has been waking up before 7 A.M. lately, which stinks! He loves his "nice, comfy bed".

10. He's not really a picky eater and will try almost anything. He just only eats a lot of something every once in a while.

11. He's such a good boy. He obeys pretty well and seems to want to behave and do the right thing for the most part. Now if we can just get him to be more patient with his brother. There's still quite a bit of pushing and "accidentally" knocking E down going on. Although when he wants a toy that Emmett has, he'll try to bargain for it by bringing E another toy and saying, "Emmett want this now."

12. It's very hard to get a picture of him nowadays. He's either too busy to stop for a picture, or he closes his eyes, or he is in a mood and won't cooperate and look at the camera. Here are the best ones I've taken lately...

Helping Mommy make cookies...

Helping water the plants...

I got three pictures in a row that look like this...

This is what he does when he doesn't want to do something. He leans over and hangs his head and arms and makes a groaning/moaning noise. It's so funny! What he didn't want to do this time was look at the camera and smile.

Finally got a decent one!

Helping Mom and Becky scrub the patio...