15 months

This picture sums up Jackson: Happy, wild (see the mark on his eye), hilarious, spunk!

Dear Wild Thing Jackson,

You are one wild thing!! I swear you never walk anywhere, it's always a run. You even run in place, we call it "fast feet." You are obsessed with throwing, rolling, kicking balls. At least an hour a day you spend throwing them in new ways and watching them.. and how dare we try to move them! You do get extremely frustrated when they get stuck under stuff... You also do the most adorable thing ever: you pretend sleep on the changing table in a little baby ball with your bum up in the air..naked/clothed it doesn't matter. I rub your back and you just smile. It's so cute! You love playing in our new back yard with the motorcycle and soccer ball. You scream every time we take you back inside.You also really love running in the teepee for us to chase you. These past three months you have been a MAMA's boy 100%, now you love your daddy but mama is your go to. It's been changing back and forth so I'm sure next month it will be daddy's turn.

The sleep has dramatically improved! You don't cry at all to sleep. You just go in there and sleep!!!!! For naps and night time. You do however still wake up between 5-6 am. You sleep 11 hours at night and 2-3 hour naps. Heaven!!

You can now say: mama, nana (dada), all done, ball, um (up), out, "h" for help, uh oh, get done, bye bye, shoes, bell button (belly button), all the animals sounds, vroom, roar, beep.. I'm sure I'm forgetting some.
Sign: more, all done, help
Wave: hi and bye
Gesture for everything!

You are the funniest little ham ever! I have never laughed so much in my life. You still throw pretty big tantrums and can be difficult but you usually turn it around with big hugs, kisses, and making us laugh. We would never describe you as easy but it sure keeps us on our toes :)

Jackson we have never loved someone as much as we love you! We can't wait to see what the next three months bring!
Love, Mama, Nana (Dada)

A tad early..but who am I kidding?! If this doesn't get done now we will be a 16 months.

Thanksgiving 2013

We have so many things to be thankful for family, health, love, lots of laughter, and of course our new house! This year we hosted Thanksgiving at our house. We started the day bailing on our race (it was 32 degrees outside) only to run a relay later that morning. We watched the Macy's Day parade while we got ready for our guests to arrive. After lots of prep in the kitchen and awesome fried turkey made by Jamie himself, we ate! Yummy food! After lunch/dinner we had our annual basketball game of "horse" which I myself won!! This is a least two years in a row... A game of beer pong later and lots of football we had to put all the babes to sleep. The next morning we had our first annual christmas movie in christmas "Js" as we call them.


Unfortunately, I missed last year's post but here are a few pics:

2012

2013

I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving!

We are.....

........We are... officially...



Homeowners!! Hehe if anyone thought that was a pregnancy announcement! November first we finally bought a house! Whoohoo we are thrilled! It's been a long time coming but with our patience we got such a great house, in a kid friendly neighborhood, in a fantastic location. It was actually the first one we looked at. I have been shopping on Zillow for probably two years (driving Jamie nuts with looking and driving past houses) but when I found this one he said ok lets look. I had that appointment set up immediately and we bought it after our second look. We have been LUCKY that our process was smooth and uneventful. Here it is!!!!

EKKS!! I'm so excited! We do have better pictures but hello we are in the middle of a move :) So we officially move in this weekend. Last weekend we had the main floor professionally painted (highly recommend) and this weekend is the moving of the furniture. 

Jackson in the backyard! Funny story: he was sick last week :( Boo but anyways we thought he was better and just being a PITA. So of course on closing day he takes a 15 minute nap. That's right 15 minutes. And then screamed bloody murder for an hour. I was loosing my marbles. But we made it through the closing with the help of some baby Einstein (which we never do by the way but we were desperate). I knew he needed a diaper change but figured we could wait until we got to the house. Well he dumps water all over his shorts before we even get there and then he has an explosion.. and guess what he had thrown the wipes out of the bag... so I manage to get him cleaned up and shorts in the dryer when it happens again...it's all over his (dry) shorts. No wipes and NO more diapers.  I had to put his bottom in a target bag to get him back to our rental house.... I was dying. I hope none of the neighbors saw our white trash baby. Turns out he was still sick :( Poor baby! 

But our first night in the house (we couldn't sleep there) but we ordered pizza, drank the champagne and unpacked a couple boxes! It was so fun eating outside on the deck. Jackson even got to have Dominos!! Probably didn't help his tummy but he inhaled it! 

For those with FOOD ALLERGIES: You can get Gluten Free Cheese and Pepperoni Pizza that is egg and soy free. 

Halloween Fun 2013

Wow a year makes such a difference! It is crazy to look at last year's Halloween. Aww it makes me sad how fast it has gone!! Last year he was around 8 weeks old this year 14 months. This year has been a whole new ball game since he is walking running everywhere. A couple weekends before Halloween we drove 45 minutes away to go to a "real" farm (ok real for Florida not for Indiana but it worked!).

A train ride in the fields! Jackson was very into his snacks..

Hayride! It was 80+ degrees outside hints the outfit change for Jackson.

The corn maze which Jackson loved because he could run around

Checking out the animals

Kissing pumpkins! It was a great day! He feel asleep in the car on the way there (crazy), lasted two hours in the heat, AND went out to eat!! 

The weekend before Halloween Jackson went to TWO Halloween Parties! One at My Gym:

He was a WILD thing at My Gym. While I was nervous because of all the big kids, he was going fully force right along with them. Only one bloody lip and tons of tantrums later :) He did do really well after the first 15 minutes. Then we went to a work Halloween party where he basically slept through it. I wasn't complaining after all that energy he had at the first party.

Then we did some pumpkin painting!

And some Halloween book fun

The finished pumpkin

Halloween!! The Rubbles

Glow stick party! Had a blast chasing after our friends' dog and cat around, stealing hotdogs and playing.

And some Trick or Treating! Jackson lasted about 15 minutes..he couldn't understand why the wagon was stopping. Plus it was about an hour past his bed time. Overall we had a great time!