Thanksgiving, Working with Dad, and "Bed Slide"

Here are some random pictures from Thanksgivings at Uncle Charlie's, Jackson helping Daddy fixed the fence in the backyard and the "Bed Slide." About the bed slide - during his "nap" one afternoon earlier this week, Jackson made a bed slide by pushing his matress off and began jumping off the bed and down the "slide." He and daddy played bed slide for a couple of hours that night. When we put him to bed that night, we corrected the bed slide and made it back into a bed. When we went to bed at 11pm, we checked on Jackson and found that he had attempted to make his bed slide again, and had fallen asleep on his cock-eyed bed! We were both amazed at his ability to stay on the bed at that angle! We have video of the bedslide that we hope to post later!

Day at Granddaddy's

Dad and Jackson had a great time at Granddad's and Granddee's the Monday before Thanksgiving. Jackson had been asking to go back to Granddad's house b/c Granddad had set up an old race track that has the little "gun" remotes. Jackson only wants to race against Granddad! Jackson is so in to always doing everything the same way he did it the first time. Therefore, Dad rarely gets to play with the race track. Sorry, no pictures of the race track. After racing, Granddad took Jackson outside to ride the four-wheeler. Jackson was so excited and wanted to take lap after lap after lap after lap. Granddaddy obliged. After some coaxing, Jackson even let his Dad drive him around the yard a few times. Thanks for the pictures Granddee!

baby in mommy's belly

With the new addition to our family coming, Jackson is very excited! He talks often of "the baby in mommy's belly" and says prayers for the baby everyday. While he initially said it will be a sister, he has changed his mind and insists that it will be a little brother. Who knows?!

Jackson has been very understanding about losing his playroom so the baby can have a nursery. He is struggling, however, with not being about to climb, wrestle, and sit all over mommy! He makes up for it by tackling and wrestling with daddy.

So, it seems we need a new name for this blog, as this will now be yet another thing for Jackson to share with the new addition. Any suggestions????

Daddy's little helper

Jackson and daddy have tackled the leaves all day today. Jack has really been a great helper. His favorite part is helping daddy pack the leaves in the bags.

Photos in Foliage

These were taken last weekend in Knoxville while visiting family there.

Jackson & cousin Elle

Mimi, Granddaddy, Elle & Jackson

Mommy, Daddy, Jack, Uncle Tyson, Aunt Amanda & Elle

Arg, Matey!

Getting Jackson to wait until evening to Trick or Treat was difficult. He was ready from early on today! His level of excitement just continued to grow. Playing dress up is one of his favorite things right now, and he couldn't wait to be a pirate ALL DAY. (Note: his concept of a pirate comes from Veggie Tales' Pirates Who Don't Do Anything - hence, he called himself Larry the Pirate).

We went to our neighborhood's Fall Festival for a little bit first, where he did a scavenger hunt, costume contest, and balloon animals.

Then, cousin Ethan joined us and we FINALLY got to go get the candy.

Super Heros and Halloween

Jackson's latest fascination is definitely super heros. Daddy and Mommy get recruited to don capes and solve problems with Super Hero Wyatt (Jackson) and Super Hero Pig (Daddy or Mommy). The super hero names come from the show "Superwhy" on PBS.

And then today when daddy got home from work, we carved our pumpkin. Jackson did not want to put his hands in the pumpkin for fear of getting them dirty!?! Look for pictures of Jackson as a pirate on Halloween, though he was insisting while we were carving that he wanted to be a superhero for Halloween.

State Fair 2008

Yesterday we went with Grandmomma to the State Fair. Jackson was talking about it for days leading up to our visit, and it didn't disappoint!

We saw all the animals...

Mommy and Jackson holding the baby chicks and ducklings.

He was mesmerized by this talking little bus that interacted with him.

Lunchtime!

Jack's favorite part was the rides, of course. His 2 favorites are the bumper boats and this roller coaster. He was positively beaming.

Fall Festivities

Fall fun with friends on the farm...

My 'lil punkin at the Pumpkin Patch

Jackson REALLY wanted to sit on the 297lb pumpkin

Coming next week... our trip to the fair (or as some locals say "da far"). Can't wait! :)

clean freak

Jack currently has some sort of stomach virus. Last night he got sick at his stomach a couple of times. The crazy thing is that as soon as it happened, he was worried that someone needed to clean the floor and couch. He went on and on about cleaning it. Yes, it was a gross mess [sorry for the graphic image]. But, I thought it so odd that the filth is what he was worried about, not the fact that he felt bad! He spent all day today carrying around his trash can, by his own decision. He didn't want to be sick on the floor again.

Halfway through the day I started to see my normal little guy instead of the pitiful one. He looked at me and said, "Mommy, you are having a bad hair day". I cracked up! Where did he get that from?? I honestly don't think I've ever said that in front of him! And, in my defense, I got little sleep from his episodes and I was afraid to leave his side to go take a shower. So, yes, my hair looked pretty bad.

The benefit of having a hill...

Jackson can "sled" all year round.

Yesterday, we introduced cousin Ethan to this fun activity. Although his first go down ended a little roughly (sorry no pics of that!), he quickly forgot and LOVED the ride with Jackson.

And he couldn't get enough of it.

Little Rocker

For some reason, this is the only thing Jackson wants to make with his Tinker Toys.