Crazy November!

November has be so crazy for us. With wedding showers, parties, wedding, and birthday parties...we are going insane! I was in Shay's wedding this weekend and we had a blast. It was so much fun last night dancing with Andrew! The wedding was amazing and everything was so beautiful. At the reception they had the bestest band ever Flavor which were so awesome. We danced and my feet still hurt!

Jackson got to spend Friday and Saturday with Grammie and Grandaddy. We have had this morning to rest and relax. We had subs for lunch and I am about to bake a cake for Andrew to take to work tomorrow. Then we are off to Jackson's first ever birthday party! Gregory is turning 1!!! It seems like he was just born! Patty is making it a cowboy theme so we are excited Jackson gets to wear his "Howdy Partner" shirt! Things have been great just really busy!Carter was all dressed up for the Cowboy Party!

The birthday boy!

Jackson had a blast at the party!Our little gnome:)
Greg didn't like everyone singing to him.
Buddies:)

Pumpkin Carving and Halloween!

Sorry for the delay but as usual we stay busy. Jackson keeps growing and is getting more mobile. He now has two full in bottom teeth. Hopefully it will be a while before we are blessed with more teeth...I am just now getting some sleep!

As usual we kept up our tradition of carving pumpkins. This year we added a 3rd pumpkin for Jackson:) He sat in his jumpy seat while we carved...he had fun watching.
When we finished we sat him up on the table to see the pumpkins face to face....he wouldn't look them directly in the eye....
Then he got use to them.On Friday (Halloween) we got dressed and went to lunch in downtown Newnan with Patty and Greg and Megan. Then we walked around and went Trick-or-Treating. Of course we spent some time at Grammy's work! Aunt Sarah even came to visit!
This is what Jackson did most of the time...maybe next year will be more eventful!
Gregory was Tigger!

When we got back to mom's work Grammy saved him by taking him out of his hot chicken outfit. He was so excited to get out!
When we came home we got dressed in our Halloween shirt and got ready to pass out candy to all the kids! It was a great first Halloween and I can't wait until next year when he is WALKING around! Crazy to think about!

Bribery Works

So as you know we haven't been sleeping well because of these darn teeth. Saturday was heck and took us all Sunday to recover. Well last night Andrew told Jackson that if he slept all night he would buy him a Tigger toy. Well lets just say I didn't wake up until 7 this morning and the first words out of my mouth were "Thank you Jesus." So I figure its either 1. Jackson is feeling better 2. His teeth aren't bothering him anymore 3. He was exhausted from only having a 30 min afternoon nap or 4. He understood how to manipulate Andrew into buying him a toy :) So lets just say tonight when we went to Walmart to get Halloween candy Jackson got to pick out a Tigger. He loves it so much!

Today Andrew worked from home because I had to go back to the doctor for an ultrasound. I have had pains and a bulge in my side from where I had my surgery last year. So thankfully the ultrasound didn't show anything out of the normal. The doctor called radiology and they suggested a CT scan if the problem doesn't get better. So what Dr. Turner is thinking is that maybe I didn't get time to fully heal from when I had surgery, then went back to work and then went through child birth. So things in your body stretch and move around and things are trying to find their right place and trying to heal. I am also not use to carrying around 20 lbs of Jackson with me where ever I go. HE is my new 20lb appendage. So I have to start doing more abdominal exercises to firm up and make those muscles stronger and see if that helps. If it doesn't get better or gets worse then we will do a CT scan in January. Fingers crossed that it will get better!

In other news I have been learning to use my embroidery machine and Andrew took this picture of my first finished thing. I embroidered Jackson's name on his blankie:)

Tomorrow we are going to carve our pumpkins so those pictures should be cute! Enjoy the pictures of Jackson, Daddy and Tigger:)

6 month check up

On Friday Jackson had his 6 month checkup. He had a little fever when we got there. He weighed in at 18.5 lbs and was 27 3/4 inches long. He is still in the 90th percentile in his height. Poor little guy had 4 shots including the flu shot. With him not feeling well already the shots didn't help at all. Since we got back from the doctor Jackson has been fussy and still having a low grade fever. So it could be: a cold, his 2nd tooth coming in, reaction to shots. I'm not worried, but maybe that is because I am currently unable to think straight since I haven't slept in over a week. He had me spoiled with sleeping through the night for so long and then bam! I know he doesn't feel well but the doctor said that once he starts feeling well and if he is still waking up in the morning it could be that he is just getting use to waking himself up at night. Oh well, I can now definitely see how people drink coffee. I am considering taking up this form of drug to keep me sane...or I guess I can kick up my Coke intake *the drink that is*

In other news my sewing/embroidery machine came in yesterday. For those of you that don't know I am trying to take this up as a new hobby possibly career. So I got it yesterday and with all of Jackson's drama I didn't get to play much on it. It was sort of like waking up Christmas morning as a kid and opening your favorite present and then your parents won't let you play with it. Andrew has been great taking care of Jackson and letting me have a few minutes to run some errands and play on my machine. I love him so much and don't know how I'd do this without him. I'll keep you posted on Jackson:)

Pumpkins!

We have been loving this fall weather! Andrew got to finally cut some of the wood from some trees we cut down and I got to dress up Jackson and take is pictures outside! Enjoy the pics! In other news Jackson's tooth is still coming through and he still isn't sleeping well. I think that I am getting use to not sleeping. Jackson is becoming more and more full of personality! Last night he laughed forever and so hard at Paris. I would throw Paris' toy on the couch and she'd jump up to get it and Jackson thought it was hilarious! He is very curious about his toys and wants to play with each one of them at the same time...and explore them by putting them in his mouth! I can't believe he is growing up so fast!

Kids Castle Park

So Monday, sticking with a tradition ;) we took Jackson to Kid's Castle Park in Newnan. Jackson got to swing and go down a slide for the first time. Maybe he'll enjoy it a little more when he gets older. He just looked around and soaked up everything around him!

Yes he did lick the swing...oh well...

On Tuesday me and Jackson went to Jefferson Parkway to Amber's wedding shower. We had fun seeing all of our JP friends. Here are a few pictures of Jackson getting ready to go!

Response to Andrew's blog

So I encouraged Andrew to contribute to the blog and he did the bestest job and cracked me up! Hopefully we can do more like that. Anyway in response to his blog, I give Andrew bookoos of points for actually telling me that the stroller broke. I couldn't imagine me being alone with Jackson in the Target parking lot and pulling out the stroller and a wheel go flying across the parking lot! So I was out on Saturday when Andrew called and the way he was talking on the phone (you know how you set up the situation for someone before you confess something happened?) and he said "well I wanted to take Jackson for a walk so we could watch the planes fly by(airshow was going on) on this nice day and I had Jackson in one arm and I was trying to pull open the stroller with the other one when..." All I could think was no Jackson got hurt! But thankfully he was just telling me about the stroller. He acted like he was scared I was going to be upset about the stroller. I wasn't mad at all. We bought that on what is called an impulse buy. Or as Andrew says "I wanted a TV you wanted a stroller" Last year he was trying to convince me to get a TV while we were at Target and he knew that I was really wanting a stroller so he sold me on the idea by letting me pick out one a Target. We SOOO should have done research on that one! Anyway I want to end this part by saying I have the most wonderful husband in the world for calling and telling me and thank God he didn't duct tape it. I don't know which would have been worse...opening up the stroller in the parking lot and the wheel go flying across the parking lot or pulling it out to find that the wheel is duct taped on and that I couldn't' make left hand turns....oh joy!

On a Jackson note...he FINALLY, FINALLY has a tooth that is poking its head out! Gesh if we have gone through all of this for a tiny tooth, we have a long road ahead! Also you may know I just recently taught myself to knit. Well I just finished my first baby hat...as you can see by the pictures this one is a wee bit too small for Jackson...maybe a newborn? Jackson looks Jewish...(I didn't say that to offend anyone).
Also we got to have dinner last night with Andrew's parents and with Uncle Mark. We had fun and it was nice to get in a visit!
Tonight if the weather gets better we are going to try to take Jackson to Kids Castle Park for the first time! That should be fun!