Now what?

One of Our Fall Pics

Our little buddy



Reading with Nana and Barney

Well we are here, settled, Thanksgiving is behind us and we have a little bit of time before we head HOME for Christmas (which I am so ready to hit the road, I would leave now for Arkansas if I could). It feels funny having a day with "nothing" to do! Amazon made it way too easy for me to Christmas shop today during Jackson's (shorter than ever)nap and I even had the stuff shipped to Mom's so I don't have to haul it from here. Nice! I started getting ready to head to Publix but that never happened. Good intentions I guess. That is fine with me though because we will just go tomorrow when Jeremy can go with us. Every time we grocery shop I wind up telling Jeremy that next time I'm going alone, but when next time rolls around no one wants to stay home so off we go! I assume that I could think better if I went alone :).



Jackson, on the other hand (literally) has wanted Mommy 100% of this day. Usually he will play fine for a little while or at least aggravate Chloe, but not today, not without me by his side. I'm not complaining at all, but it does make things such as laundry, dishes, and dinner a little bit more complicated. I'm wondering if this is a new "thing" or not. He has been so funny, I think I always say that, but it is true. His words are just precious and he can repeat anything you say. Right now he likes saying "Jackson's room" and he loves getting onto Chloe. He will tell her to hush and tell her no. It's cute. He also gently sat on her yesterday with his paci and juice and said go horsey. The look on her face was priceless!

Stats on our boy:

At 20 months he is 34 inches tall and 32 pounds. He is borderline 3T, but mostly 2T is still fitting him fine. Size 9 shoe.

Favorite things to eat are: Cheese, yogurt, broccoli, pizza, chicken nuggets or any other kind of chicken, tractor snacks, spaghetti, cinnamon toast crunch (only a little because it is so sweet).

He drinks plenty of milk and juice.
Counts to 12 and knows chunks of the alphabet.
Sleeps through almost every night for 10-12 hours and has a 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 hour nap every day around 2:00.
~~He is kind of a big deal around here, as you can probably tell and always will be!~~

I love our new place, however I would not mind being in Las Vegas or Hawaii or Disneyworld about now. My brother Brian is singing in Las Vegas this week (lucky).  

At the Riverwalk last week with Brian

My great friend Autumn just moved to Hawaii (lucky and warm!) So we are going to Disneyworld. Not right now, but we have decided to go in March. I am so excited! We used to go every year and I haven't been since 2006 so it is very much time for us to go.  Jackson will be tall enough to ride a lot of rides (accompanied) and Jeremy has never been! We decided to make it Jackson's 2nd birthday trip, but I think we will go in early March to avoid the Spring Break rush. Shades of Green is a military resort that has great deals and right now active duty families get a huge discount on park tickets! AND we are less than 400 miles from there. So, I have said this before but this time I mean it! We are going. Will it be stressful and tiring with a 2 year old? At times, but it will so be worth it.

Macy's Parade with Grandpa



So that is what is on my mind. We are ready for the weekend and ready for Christmas break! I am happily back into blogging now. I am so mad at myself for not keeping up. This is like my journal and helps me to document the memories we are making! In my defense we have been crazy busy and covered a lot of territory this past couple of months!