Thursday, August 21, 2008

The Elmo Dance

Every time the Elmo's World segment at the end of Sesame Street comes on, Jackson screams and does this dance. I couldn't get a really good dance on video so I took parts of three different ones I've recorded and compiled them. They are hilarious!

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Little Helper


Jackson has become a little helper around the house. Yesterday as we were leaving for the gym, he handed me my car keys from the dining room table. Then as we were about to walk out the door and into the garage he ran off and came back with one of his diaper bags and said, "here you go." Not wanting to discourage his sweet behavior, I ended up taking two diaper bags with us (I left the other one in the car). Then, he attempted to open the car door for me!

When we got home from the gym, he started playing with his TMX (Tickle Me Extreme) Elmo, which really upset Libby. This is the Elmo that stands, sits and rolls on the floor while laughing. I took some pictures because it was too funny!


Wednesday, August 6, 2008

I Heart Elmo

During his bath tonight, Jackson was playing with several toys that included a frog, a rubber duckie and a monkey. When he picked up the frog I said, "This is a green frog. A frog goes ribbit ribbit." He then picked up the duck so I said, "This is a yellow duck." Jackson said "duh." Then I told him what a duck did and he said something that sounded similar to "quack quack." Lastly, he picked up the monkey and after the whole spiel, I didn't get "monkey" instead I got a goofy dance with arms flying and a "hoo hoo haha!"

Before I put Jackson to bed I played today's Sesame Street episode for him. After doing his dance to the song and screaming in excitement, he sat against the pillows right in the middle of our bed and pulled the covers up and stuck his thumb in his mouth. It was too cute! He did the same when the Elmo's World portion came on at the end...

Monday, August 4, 2008

What a Wonderful Weekend

This past weekend we did a lot of family activities. On Friday night, we sat with Jackson and watched Sesame Street until Scott had to go to work.


Hugging his Elmo wind up

On Saturday, Nicole and I took Jackson and his BFF Cameron to the pool at the country club. Cameron is almost a year old now, talks and even barks when he sees a puppy!

Cameron is in the 95th percentile for everything but his head is off the charts! Maybe that's why he already knows how to make animal sounds?
Sharing Cam's baby snacks with him
Cameron sticks the ENTIRE cookie in his mouth!
Scott met us at the pool after his golf game
All of the boys...
Feeding the birds...

On Sunday, Scott and I took Jackson to ITZ which is similar to a Mr. Gatti's. I took Jackson on the roller coaster which I'm not sure he really enjoyed but he didn't seem to not enjoy it either.

Right before the ride...
I tried to make him hold up his arms and he let me!
On the baby carousel. This lasted all of 20 seconds before he started crying. We tried to tell him it was like the one in Mary Poppins but he did not care. He would not ride anything else after that either. Maybe next time.