Questions

"Will this pizza ever be done?"

"Can we please come inside?"

"Whatcha doin', Daddy?"

"Should I take smaller bites?"

"Have you ever seen such an awesome Lego tower?"

"Does this hat make me look fat?"

"Has there ever been a better Daddy?"

Loveys

Mmmm... graham cracker good!

Graham cracker gone!

Let me share my pain of trying to get a good picture of Jackson these days. Can you put your child in time-out for refusing to look and smile at the camera?

"Okay, I'll look in your direction and smile, but I won't open my eyes!" Stinker!

I took these pictures yesterday while waiting for Emmett to wake up from his morning nap. I was going to try to make it to a MOPS meeting at 9:30, so I put him down early around 8:00. At 9:20, I had Jackson all strapped into his car seat, the car all loaded up, and even had a bottle pumped and ready to go. I went in E's room, got a diaper out, rubbed his back for a few seconds to try to wake him up nicely and he did. not. move. an. inch. I stood there looking at him sleeping so soundly and peacefully and just could not bring myself to wake him up. So we skipped MOPS and instead went to a playgroup at Jackson's favorite place, The Jungle Gym, after E woke up at 9:50. I am such a slave to naps!

Jacksonisms

Me: "I love you, Jackson."

J: "Love you, too."

J: "Love Phee-ul, too."

J: "Love Hodder" (Heather)

J: "Love Hah-met" (Emmett)

J: "Love Hank"

J: "Love Heidoo"

When Emmett crawls over to try to touch Jackson's toys: "No, no, Hah-met!"

When Jackson wants us to put Emmett down: "Hah-met sit Bumbo" (the Bumbo is one of Emmett's little seats) or "Baby down!" (pointing vigorously to the ground).

When we ask him if he wants something: "Ummm... sure."

When he needs Dad to help with something: "Hey, Phee-ul!" (Hmmm - I wonder where he's heard that before).

J's getting pretty good about remembering his manners. He says "please" on a fairly regular basis, and when he really wants something he says it with a vengeance... "Cheerios, peeeEEEAAZZ!" The word gets higher-pitched and louder the longer it's drawn out.

He's also pretty good about saying "sorry". The cutest is when we'll ask him to apologize to Emmett and he leans over and says, "Saw-ey, Hah-met" and gives him a sweet little kiss.

Today I got a cute sign that the boys are going to be good buddies. It totally made my heart melt. They were sitting in the hallway while I was switching laundry around and Jackson did something that made Emmett crack up. Jackson starting laughing as soon as Emmett did, and soon they were laughing together. Then Jackson jumped up and said, "C'mon, Hahmet, c'mon! Get Mom!" He wanted Emmett to come with him to get me. :)

I made minestrone soup for dinner and Jackson ate a whole bowl of it. Right before bed we were sitting on the couch together and out of the blue he said, "Mommy soup lunch morrow" (translation: He wants to eat soup for lunch tomorrow). Then after saying prayers he said to me, "Mommy, I like soup."

Love that kid!! We realize that his language isn't as advanced as many kids his age, but he's getting there! :)

Song of the Week

**disclaimer: This post has nothing to do with the boys, so if you only read this blog to see pics of the boys, then you might want to skip this. :)**

I often put the Adult Alternative music channel on the TV while I'm fixing dinner because I like having some background music and usually don't have time to plug in my iPod. Anyway, the other day this song came on and I loved it so much that I later looked it up on iTunes to download it. I ended up buying the whole CD because it's so awesome. And because I have an iTunes gift card (thanks, Chris and Charlene!). I'm much quicker to buy a whole album when I have a gift card. Anyway, I'm obviously way behind the times since the album was released in 2007, but I thought I'd share the song anyway. When I was reading the reviews of the album on iTunes, quite a few people mentioned how cool the video was, so I looked that up on YouTube. It is a really neat video, and it was fun to actually see a music video again. Do artists even make videos on a regular basis anymore?

Here's this one, if you're interested...

Busy Boys

Jackson has a new favorite pastime... playing with playdough. He was going a little stir-crazy the other day, so I googled a recipe and it was actually really easy to make. It kept him busy for almost an hour and a half, and I was able to get chili made for a squadron function that night. Thank you, thank you, playdough!! Notice how it started out as nice, pretty separate colors and quickly morphed into a rainbowed blob... :)

So excited that he made a snowman... :)

No playdough for Emmett, but he continues to strive to be just like his big brother...

We expect him to walk any day now. He just started standing up with only one hand. And he will walk by himself when holding on with just one hand. We can tell he is dying to be able to run around with Jackson!