My Sweet Jackson

After my last post, I have been meaning to make an update. My previous two posts were about the naughty things that he has been doing, but Mitch made a point that I have neglected to share the great things about Jackson.

Jackson is the sweetest little boy. He is constantly telling me he loves me and he loves to give hugs and kisses. How can you have a bad day when your little boy comes up and tells you he loves you and gives you a kiss? Also, anytime I am sad, he immediately comes over and asks why I'm sad and gives me a hug.......(I hope this is something he continues to do, what a wonderful husband he would make). Jackson's smile melts my heart and his long eyelashes are to die for. He loves his superheroes and he will eat almost anything if we tell him it will make him strong like superman. He loves his little brother and they have been hugging eachother a lot lately....mixed in with wrestling. He is the best big brother! So to end the post, I will say that although Jackson can be trying, take a look at these pictures and you can see why I quickly forgive and will never stop loving.

The Trying Threes

For those of you who get humor out of others distress, this entry is for you. As you saw in my previous post, my patience has been tested a lot as of late. Jackson has been working on not making "houses." He even prays that he won't make them "because they make mommy sad." However he still does but now he calls them "spaceships, cars, and dinosaurs." People have told me that the terrible twos are nothing, and it's the trying threes. Wow, were they right! Jackson has only been 3 for 3 weeks, and he is trying me every single day. 2 nights ago, I decided that I really needed to not yell at my kids. I don't yell a lot, but it seemed like more and more lately. That night, I prayed for patience and help not to yell. Well, I think my patience was tested more than ever and I didn't yell....I just cried a lot.

#1: It started with Jackson waking up at 6:15. Being lazy, I took him downstairs, put him on the couch and turned on the Disney Channel. I came down later and he had gotten this basket of candy out (It was on top of the fridge, I didn't know he could reach), poured it out all over the floor and was having a good old time eating it all.

#2: Jackson has now been potty trained for 3 weeks and he has done amazing with maybe only two accidents the whole time. Yesterday he didn't have any accidents, he just decided that he didn't need to go to the bathroom in the toilet anymore. I noticed that there was some liquid on the treadmill. I wiped it up and it was yellow. I asked him what it was and he said he didn't know. I thought it must have been his apple juice, but kept thinking about it. On top of the treadmill and right next to where the liquid was found was Creighton's little tricycle. I included a picture, and as you can see there is a little compartment in the back for the kids to put toys and other things. I guess that it must have resembled a little toilet or something because when I opened it up there was poop and pee in it. SOOOO GROSS!

#3: Jackson was having quiet time watching a movie in the back room and I went back there to check on him. He said he had some pee pee on his foot. Sure enough, there was. He urinated on a toy. AHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Please note, that he didn't have accidents in his pants. He took them off to perform both of these actions. It was deliberate and just plain mean.

#4: Went to get Creighton from his nap, came back 30 seconds later and Jackson had colored with a black crayon all over the carpet.

There is more, but these were the worst for the day. I didn't talk to anyone about this yesterday because I was too upset. For those of you who want to call and talk to me about this to laugh, please don't. I do not find this funny yet and I am not quite sure when I will. I would like to note, I have disinfected the trike, threw away the toy he urinated on and disinfected all the areas around so please don't be scared of my house. I have also got Jackson back on page and there have been no problems today. I did not pray for patience last night.

I'm Going Insane

I titled this "I'm going insane" because if I walk into another room like this, I really will. Jackson over the last week has developed a new hobby. He likes to make what he calls, "houses." He basically finds everything he can from all the different rooms and puts them in the center of the room and just sits in the middle. Yesterday, he took a very long nap and so he apparently wasn't tired and at 11:30, I was awoken to him knocking on his door. I was so out of it, I just went in there, ordered him back to his bed, and turned off the light. This morning, when I went into get Creighton, I found a very large "house" in the middle of his room that I had to climb over. I was not very happy. We spent 1/2 hour this morning while Jackson put every item back. I thought he had learned his lesson, but this picture was just barely taken, so obviously not. I also want to apologize to my dear friend Marianne, because Jackson went over to play at her house and before he went there I was telling her about his new found hobby. When I went to pick him up, she told me that she left them upstairs for a little bit and when she went back upstairs, they were sitting in the middle of their "house." Marianne, I'm sorry. Hopefully she didn't find it as fun as he does.

The Baseball Game

Last night, we went with Mitch's work to the Omaha Royals game. It was our first Royals game and we only lasted through the 5th inning, but that was actually much longer than I thought. We got Jackson popcorn, so we was happy and Creighton did a lot better than I thought. Here are a few pictures.

Our June Slideshow

This Past Weekend: 4th of July, Children's Museum, the Zoo and other fun!

We'll start out with a picture of my cute, but very naughty Creighton. He found my eye liner and colored his face. He even colored up in his hair. He put it on so dark, it was hard to get off.

The Zoo. I took the boys to the zoo and I forgot how much they love it. We went to the new butterfly exhibit there and it was really cool. There were amazing butterflies all over.

Grandma got Jackson new boots and Creighton would always try them on, so I went out and got him some too. They love them and I love that they can put them on themselves.

The Olympic Swim Trials! I have been looking forward to them coming to Omaha for almost a year. My parents gave me tickets for my birthday and it was so much fun. Mitch and I were able to see Michael Phelps, Dara Torres (41 yr old that broke American Record that night), Gary Hall Jr, and a bunch of others. It was really exciting and great to go on a date!

4th of July fun. It started with swimming during the day and fireworks at night. The boys loved the sparklers, but Jackson fell asleep before the awesome fireworks show and Creighton didn't seem very interested.

The Children's Museum: We took the kid's to the Children's museum over the weekend and they loved it. They had a dinosaur exhibit and they were able to dig for bones. It was a lot of fun.

Jackson's 3!

Happy Birthday Jackson! Jackson turned 3 on Sunday and he had his big Diego party on Saturday with his friends. Ever since Creighton had an Elmo cake on his birthday, he has asked for a Diego birthday cake. He has talked about it a lot for the last 4 months and it was finally the day. Even though it was just the day after the big storm, it didn't stop the party from happening. My mom found this cute vest and so he was dressed like Diego.

The kids had safari hats and nets. Unfortunately, it was REALLY windy, so we had them hold them on their head just for the picture. We had the kids rescue animals just like Diego does. The were running all over the neighborhood saving the animals. Jackson was so excited. He kept screaming, "Oh no, an animal's in trouble! We've got to save him!" The picture below is the kids running back from saving an animal.

We then played place the badge on diego. Here is Jackson in the blindfold. This game was a little too old for the kids. They kept ripping the blindfold off. The didn't quite get it.

Jackson blowing out his candles on his Diego cake. He was too fast for me to get a good picture.

Creighton loved the cake. He dove right in.

We opened presents as a group. When I said it was time to open presents all the kids grabbed one and started opening. Jackson didn't care, so they had at it. It was fun to see their excitement.

At the end of the party, the kids played with about 50 little balloons and they loved it.

Here are some pictures of Jackson opening presents on his birthday and him riding his new scooter. He looks so cute in his little helmet. Happy Birthday Jackson! We love you!