Jackson's sleeping in today (it's 8:30 and he's still not up) so I thought I'd take this time to blog a little bit. My mom has been begging for more pictures. :) We had a pretty nice weekend... Friday was absolutely gorgeous around here - sunny and in the 60's - so J and I went to the park for about 2 hours. He had a great time running around and I enjoyed sitting in the sunshine. I actually even got a little sunburned!
The weekend weather was pretty gross, but luckily we had a little leftover sunshine on Saturday morning, as we had a photographer (Kelly Armijo) come to our house to take pics of us before the baby comes. She was really great and was so good with Jackson, who just wanted to run around outside and wasn't interested in posing for pictures. She put some of our pics up on her blog today....
www.armijophotography.blogspot.com... if you're interested in looking at them. I think they turned out great, especially considering how antsy J was and the fact that the wind was blowing about 20 mph! I'm so glad to have found her - I've always wanted to have professional artsy-type photos taken of our family. She's awesome - really personable and fun, has great ideas, makes you feel comfortable, is great with kids, and her prices are reasonable! My friend, Katie, (who has some pictures of her family down at the bottom of Kelly's blog page) told me about her and I'm very thankful! I can't wait to see the rest of the pictures. Kelly's going to come back after the baby is born and take some newborn photos for us. We didn't do that with Jackson, so I'm looking forward to having some professional pics of this new baby.
Phil and I got both of the boys' rooms pretty much finished this weekend - I'm just waiting on some wall decor that I ordered for J's room. I also think I need to add more stuffing to the crib bumper, as J has pretty much flattened it over the past year. :) I'm really happy with the rooms and I think/hope, hope, hope that J is going to like his big boy bed. We've been spending quite a bit of time hanging out and playing in his new room and on the bed to hopefully get him used to the space. Our bed rail is supposed to be delivered on Wednesday, so we will probably try having him sleep in the big bed this weekend. Say a little prayer that he does well with it, please! He's already figured out how to get up and down out of the bed - is that a good thing, or a bad thing?
He uses his chair to climb up on the bed...
Then turns around and scoots down to get off of the bed...
Lately I figured I'd better start letting him make a mess and experiment more with using utensils. I really haven't let him use any up until this point b/c my OCD self didn't want to have to deal with the mess. It's still hard for me, but I know that he needs to learn how to feed himself like a civilized person, rather than a caveman, so I've been sucking it up and dealing with the mess. Now he almost won't eat at all unless I give him a fork or spoon to use. Here are some pics from an obviously yummy cottage cheese experience....
We didn't go outside at all on Sunday b/c the weather was so terrible, so Phil made J a little lookout station at the front window...
It's sunny again today with highs in the 50's, so we'll probably visit the park again. I hear someone babbling away in the next room (9:00 - wow!) and I think that's my cue to get off of the computer. Hope your day is sunny, too!
He even learned how to slide down the big slide all by himself. Yesterday he wanted me to be up on the structure with him when he slid down, but today he climbed up and did it all by himself several times!
...and eating lunch...
and showing Katherine and Carsen his animal book... 
