Catch Up!

Just some funny things about our boy
 (yes I'm kind of ignoring the fact that I haven't blogged in almost 5 months)

For starters, at 2 years and 3 months, Jackson weighs 35 pounds and is 35 inches tall!
Mostly size 3T
He knows his alphabet

Counts to 15

Repeats everything and loves to sing!

Has been calling us Jemmy and Meenda quite often here lately. It is hilarious! For example: Hey Jemmy, more apple juice peez? 

Eats everything except for green beans and brussel sprouts

Loves all kinds of rice, pizza, broccoli, and taco filling :)

When he greets people, he says "How ya'll doing?"

When we leave he says "Good to see ya"

When he is in bed with us, he will face Jeremy and say "You gonna be ok?"

  (every night since neck surgery he asks this question)

Still loves water, baths, and washing his hands.

Loves playing with Chloe. This usually means aggravating.

What have we been up to since January?

My love had his second birthday

Army ceremony time!

Relaxing by the Campfire

He loved the giraffe

Happy times at the zoo

Looking at a Giraffe

Nashville!

Bass Master

On Broadway

Mom and Brian in Nashville

Dad (Jack's Poppy) came to visit

Singing "Brown Eyed Girl" with Uncle Brian

Easter

First Trip to the Zoo

Zoo Train

Chattahoochee River Walk

Margaritaville, Nashville

Ben and Jerry's

Riding with Aunt Katlyn

Mother's Day 2011

Sprinkler!

Even though it is HOT, we are enjoying the summer! Jeremy goes back to work after the 4th of July holiday weekend. I know he isn't looking forward to it, but I am still confident that we will be out of the army by Christmas! Things are moving along faster than we expected, and they are already talking about moving him to the WTU "warriors in transition unit".

Time will tell...

PS I have learned how to blog from my phone now! That should enable me to update more often :)

Shakespeare Can Be Rough

 My little guy loves the bookshelf. Today he grabbed the Complete Works of William Shakespeare and took off running with it. Before I could stop him he tripped...and caught the corner of the book under his eye. He cried pretty hard for a minute and was over it.



At the park on post.

We took advantage of the warm weather this weekend along with everyone else. Once we left the house I was wishing I had worn flip flops. If only that weather would hang around!

Nap #2

After lunch

Yes Jackson has been sick, but we weren't going to keep him cooped up. We did skip church since his nose is so runny and his cough is bad. I knew they probably would appreciate us staying home...even though I think he caught this bug in his class at church! So on Saturday we had to go by Jeremy's office to unlock some stuff. Luckily, I got to see Jeremy's awesome work truck. We were hoping Jack would be awake to take a ride but it was his first nap time for the day. Maybe next time.

:)

Next was lunch at the PX then we went to the huge playground on post to play. I can't believe what a little monkey this boy is.

He can climb these no problem. We are close by to help.

Sand between the toes

After we played HARD (2 naps!) we went by Publix, CVS, and Rite Aid. I didn't take pictures but I did get 24 free light bulbs among some other things like diapers, wipes, shampoo, and 2 rebates for $10 Publix gift cards. I don't know what I will do in AR without Publix :)

Saturday night we were home in time to enjoy the rest of the daylight too, Jack was happy about that.

Lately he has been waking up in the middle of the night to get in bed with us. I don't know if it is because he is sick or not, but as long as he goes back to sleep I don't mind it at all. He is such a cuddle bear except for those feet he likes to kick around. If I am awake enough I usually take him back to his room.

Me and my girl lounging, she is so goofy. She wanted her picture taken.

In the back of the picture above you can see a turned over tool bench that belongs to a boy in his officially terrible two's. It is probably a combo of being on medicine, not feeling well, and his mommy's perfect timing of hiding all the paci's, along with the big "2" approaching. Jumping off couches, climbing, breaking things, rebelling, throwing fits....we are there. Thankfully, he goes to sleep at nap and bed time so easily! We tell him it is time, we get no argument, we tell a story, and before the end he is out. Yay!

Another thing he has learned to do well is twinkle twinkle little star. He LOVES singing, so the other night while he was going to bed I recorded this. He has gotten even better at it now too! I'm not

sure why the video turned out so dark. He has a good night light.

 

If music be the food of love, play on

--William Shakespeare

Is it Spring yet?



Wagon ride!



I let Jax play outside today and I know I shouldn't have. We were only out there for about 30 minutes and it was 55-60 degrees...but he has been sick and I don't think it helped him any. He was too hot in his jacket. Benadryl won't even touch what he has going on with sinuses and congestion. He wanted to go out so badly I finally gave in after nap time.

 I thought keeping his ears covered up even if its warmer can't hurt

 He isn't doing worse tonight, but he is not better for sure. As the tradition goes, I will be calling the doctor tomorrow (always on a Friday) and begging for help.

He sang his own lullaby tonight and I just want to never put him down. Twinkle twinkle little star has never sounded so precious. I keep hearing him cough, so I'm just waiting on him to come out of his room with his monkey and crawl in bed with us :)

It has come down to this...I feel like my shopping trips are like self inflicted homework and I have to report on them haha! It is such a fun challenge and hobby. But I am blogging about it I think because I take saving money more seriously now than ever and I want to keep up with what I'm saving and maybe ignite some ideas in your minds too. Fun for me, probably boring to you :)

So how did the Publix trip go? I think pretty well. First off, we were out of coffee (a staple) and so they were having a deal on the whole beans luckily and I spent $5 on 2 bags that we normally pay $6.99 a piece for at Wal Mart. I'm thinking maybe I should have bought a couple more.

Also, I took advantage of the deal going where you buy a certain name brand item you get theirs for free...Spaghetti was the theme so I got some free pasta, sauce, baby spinach, and parm cheese, and had coupons for the name brands. That helped.

Can you spot the little boy?

Anyway, there are a couple of items not pictured (hummus, cheese, Sam Adams($8!), and the (2) juicy juice 12 packs are hidden). 4 V8 splashes that I am excited about. Some strange purple passion potatoes that I have never heard of in my life, (free or else I wouldn't even go there) and lots of baby spinach, lettuce, soup, rotel, (4)spaghetti sauces, and condiments galore (thanks kraft!). We are set for some cookouts haha!

Total before coupons and B1G1: $105.61
After: $31.04 with tax
70% savings!
Of course I will be going to Wal Mart this weekend for chicken and a few other generics, but I am happy with the outcome tonight. Oh! And I stopped by Rite Aid and picked up 2 free 4 packs of GE Light Bulbs. Sweet. 

Jeremy is ready for the weekend, I am ready to stop being dizzy and to stop having a constant headache, and Jackson is ready to breathe normally :(  But we are happy and looking forward to some pretty weather Saturday and a good time at church Sunday if Jax is up to it.

Special Deliveries!

Package from Grandma and Grandpa

 This lucky little boy has gotten 2 things in the mail this week from his great grandparents!

Package from Mamaw and Papaw

 The first envelope was from Mamaw and Papaw Louis, and it was chicken feathers! The look on his face was priceless. He has been asking about the chickens since we got back home. Last time we were home he played with feathers when he was at their house and it really left an impression :).

We were laughing SO hard at his expression

I gave him his stickers from Grandma after bath time

When he saw his Elmo Potty DVD he said Oh Wow! We watched it almost immediately and he listened to most of it.

It is a good thing he has gotten some surprises this week! Last night was really rough. He has had a runny nose and chest congestion for about 2 days. Last night he woke up throwing up, followed by covering Jeremy almost literally from head to toe with round 2. I don't know if it was from sinus drainage or what happened, but today he hasn't been sick anymore. He is very irritable and wired, but I think that is from having no sleep last night.

Also as of last night, we are pacifier free! I hope we can stick with it. So far it has been easy. He can't breathe out of his nose right now, so it was perfect timing.

Of course since I hit up CVS tonight, I had to document my trip.

Luckily I had a coupon print up from the red machine in the store( you scan your card and it prints up some coupons for the day) that was $5 off of 2 Revlon products. Well they had some Revlon products for 75% off and I wound up getting them for $5 total=Free! I had coupons for everything else except for the Physicians Formula bronzer which was on clearance for $2, at Wal Mart it is around $10. Between coupons and money back I spent $7 and I got back $4.

Publix will either be tomorrow or this weekend, depending on how Jackson is feeling.

Just Another Day

Snack time! He could eat broccoli at every meal!

 Well, less than 2 months and my baby will be 2 years old. That doesn't seem right! I guess it never does.

This past week has been easy going for us. We haven't had many plans, aside from going to church on Sunday. The past 2 Sundays we have gone to Cascade Hills in Columbus. We really like it so far, but we are thinking about trying another church this Sunday. My main concern with changing is that Jackson is not a fan of his class already, and moving around might make it worse. He likes his teacher, and he is happy as long as she takes him outside (indoor/outdoor play ground) and has one on one time with him. He does not like being inside with the other kids. Hopefully he will get over that soon. She said they were going to work on being happy outside then once he is ok with being left with her, she is going to work on being inside.

Proud Mom brag warning! She did tell me that he is the most verbally advanced child she has ever had in her class. This is a huge church with over 8000 members! She could not believe how well he communicated and how much he knew :) I felt terrible about leaving him crying, but it cracks me up knowing that he talked to her as much as he did. He kept telling her "Mommy and Daddy will be right back ok?" Poor baby was crying when we picked him up too. I was afraid that he had cried the whole time, but she said he had just started  back up when the parents started picking the kids up. We had a pager and she never paged us. Last week she did because he was upset and she wanted to make sure we knew...after I calmed him down he was fine and I left.



His little legs are starting to thin out!

My guess is that he is hitting a growth spurt, since he has been eating a ton and his legs are thinning. He is now 35 inches tall....so I know he has grown about 2 inches at least in the past couple months. He eats all the time. I keep giving him more until he raises his hands and says "all done". Sometimes he has a snack before bed too. I did the height predictor online, and if he didn't grow any in the next 2 months, his prediction is 6 foot tall. I think I believe it! 

Big Boy



 I love my boys


Good Daddy, Good Hubby :)

 It has been cold but sunny out, so we are trying to be outside as long as we can stand it.  Another change is that bedtime is now at 9:00. That is a nice change, I get much more done and I can get in bed earlier too.

I have a thyroid ultrasound tomorrow. I'm hoping for some answers within a week or two!