News on our Boys

Today has been very eventful. My C-Section has been scheduled for May 7th at 9:30am. We are very excited to meet Preston!

Tonight, about 30 minutes after putting Jackson to bed, he came into our room. He has never walked through the dark house before to find us. He wanted to sleep with us. It broke my heart to have to take him back to his room. I read to him for awhile and he still didn't seem appeased. Finally, I tucked in his Elmos, Grover, his ball and his books and told him that they had to go night night so he needed to be quiet. He shushed me, gave me a kiss and a hug, so I left again. I'm waiting to see if he gets up again. I don't want him to wake Scott up!

Valentine's Day 2009

This past weekend, we went to see Meemo and Poppie. Jackson was good for the most part on the plane to Dallas and the drive to Hillsboro. He wasn't too bad at Meemo and Poppie's either. Coming home though, he was a terror! He didn't want to watch movies so he kicked the seat in front of him the entire flight, threw a horrible temper tantrum, screamed and cried. As we were taxing to the gate, discussing how we were never traveling with him again, he fell asleep.

We are glad Poppie is feeling better as he recovers and that we got to see him. We had so much fun!

Jackson's 2nd Birthday Party

This year we had an Elmo theme for Jackson's second birthday. The party was fun, the food was yummy and I think we have just about every Elmo toy ever made. Thanks everyone for making this day special for us.

I Can't Believe We Pulled This Off!

Here is the cake Janet, my mom and I made for Jackson's birthday party today. We still can't believe we did it! Party starts in 4 hours...


Granny sculpting Elmo out of Rice Crispie Treats...

Cake Board of Fondant...

Janet attaching cake to the base...

Piping Elmo...

Elmo sans eyes and nose...

Here we go!

Finishing touches...

All done! (Many, many hours later)

Guess Who's Two?!?!

Today is Jackson's second birthday. We can't believe two years have flown by so quickly. We went to Chuck E. Cheese's tonight for pizza and playtime. Jackson enjoyed playing any kind of game that included a ball. He also enjoyed putting the tokens in the slot and pulling the tickets!

Now we're busy getting ready for his party Saturday! Here's some pictures from the evening...

Dancing to the music

Cheese Face!

Sliding. This went on forever...

Riding

This went on for awhile too...

Playing basketball with Daddy

Not quite ready yet...

Big Boy Bed!

Since my belly is too big for me to reach into Jackson's crib, we converted it to a toddler bed and he is doing really well with it. He actually stays in it which is nice. When we put him to bed the other night he said "love you," which melted our hearts. He's also getting his pleases and thank yous down. We couldn't be prouder. We can't believe he will be two in less than a week!

Christmas Adventures in Texas

We made it back from Texas in one piece! We went to Wichita Falls, Jacksboro, and to Dallas (twice). Our camera died about half-way into our trip and we forgot the charger. Here are the pictures we were able to take up to that point.