Farmer's Market and Children's Museum

First Impressions

Here's a picture of the boys this morning on the first day of preschool. When we got there, I took Jackson to the potty where I discovered that he wasn't wearing any underwear. Note to parents: Old enough for preschool does not always mean old enough to get dressed by oneself.

Two more from this afternoon...

Jackson has a placemat that has a picture of the United States on it. Today he pointed to California and said, "You went there." I said, "Yeah what's it called?" Jackson: "Ummmm." Beth: "Come on you know this. It's starts with a C." Jackson, remembering, said as if sounding it out: "In-ter-state." Haha. BTW, if you haven't seen the movie Cars then this makes no sense I'm sure.

Later we were in the car and it started raining. Jackson said, "Where's my umbrella?" I said, "I don't know. I haven't seen it in ages." Jackson said, "Which Asia are you talking about? You mean my umbrella is where Uncle Chad lives?"

Okay that's all. I'll stop now...

New Funny Quotes from Jack-Jack

The other day Jackson said, "Mommy you and me should get married." I said. "Okay but what about Daddy?" He said, "He can be the audience."

You know in Finding Nemo when Marlin says to Nemo, "Hold my fin, hold my fin!" instead of hold my hand? Jackson and I used to always say that to each other when crossing the street. Now he's taken to saying, "Hold my tire, hold my tire!" He also calls his shoes tires, and says he's getting a new paint job when he changes clothes.

Mat taught Jackson the lyrics to this hilarious Flight of the Conchords song, and he's been going around saying, "Baguette! Huh huh huh!" (with a French accent) You kinda have to be there for that one.

Yesterday Jackson came to work with us. We were shooting out in the middle of this soccer field and our grip Chris asked Mat, "Can I get you an apple box to sit on?" (Apple boxes are these wooden boxes that the lighting crew has in different sizes that are used for many things including sitting on when you're in the middle of a field.) Mat said, "No thanks." But a couple of seconds later Jackson goes "I'd like an apple box to sit on pwease" as if we were all there to cater to his every need. haha

Jackson is so into books that he actually talks like a book. For example he peppers his conversations with expressions like "Suddenly, Daddy came downstairs." or "I was so surprised that I bounded out of my chair with a start." I'm not kidding. You really have to be around him all the time to pick up on it. I'm convinced he'll be a great writer someday. This morning I told him that over breakfast, and he reminded me that he was going to be an astronaut. I said that's great, but if it doesn't work out you can always write science fiction novels.

At breakfast the other day Jackson asked me where strangers lived. I said: They could live anywhere. Strangers are just people we don't know. Jackson: So they're not bad? Beth: Welllll...not necessarily. I mean, they might be just like you or me, but we just don't know them. Jackson: So a stranger could be a kid like me? Beth: Sure. Jackson: So they're good? Beth: They might be. Jackson: So strangers used to be bad but now they're good? Beth (getting frustrated): No, I didn't say that. They could be bad. Jackson: But where do they live? In the woods? Beth: Yes, they might live in the woods. Jackson: Behind our house? Beth: No. No one lives behind our house, but if they did they would be strangers. Jackson: So nice people like us might live in the woods behind our house? Beth: No. Just don't talk to strangers, okay? Jackson: Okay.

And Nana he's been talking all day today about coming to your house this weekend and eating sausage and scrambled eggs, going fishing, and riding Big Poppa's tractor.

Private school here we come!

A friend shared this little gem with Mat from the Miss Teen USA pageant, and he just showed it to me. So sad but hilarious. I'm filling out the application for Regents as we speak. Ha just kidding, kind of...

Fun Friday

Jackson and I had a rough day yesterday. By bedtime I was wondering if he was actually trying to get me to put him up for adoption, and he was probably wondering who replaced Mommy with her twin sister Meany. Jackson just needs constant attention. I can't relate to that really, because I've always been the type of person that likes to be alone and spend quiet time by myself. If you try to let Jackson play by himself he will be loud, destructive, disobedient, noncompliant, and argumentative, bordering on demonic.

I was trying to get too much done yesterday - returning work emails, cleaning, cooking, etc - and it didn't help that Mister Baby hasn't slept all week. So after saying a lot of little prayers throughout the day for patience and one big prayer last night that today would be better (especially since Mat is out of town), we started fresh with a clean slate this morning. I realized that I might as well get a babysitter for them on my days off if I'm just going to focus on my own agenda anyway. So today was all about the boys. No work, chores, errands, email, or phone calls while they were awake. Here's what we did...

First stop was Deep Eddy. I was little worried that none of us would like the cold water, but it was actually great. They even played calmly on the towel during rest times.





I can never take a good picture of Luke from the front when we're outside. His eyes are so sensitive to the light that he won't look up at me. Here's proof that he was there too.



After lunch Jackson went down for a nap without making a scene which happens about once a month. I decided to reward the boys afterwards by mowing. I even blew off the deck. This picture is for my Daddy who is always amazed that I do stuff like this now sometimes. We won't be making it a habit, though, don't worry.

(I will admit that the mowing pic was staged. Out of the ten or so attempts that we made at taking it, this was the one where Jackson framed it up with my head in the shot.)



You may think mowing and blowing qualify as chores, but at our house it's entertainment - kinda like going to the movies or something.



I made one of Jackson's favorite meals for dinner which I like to call Brown Food. It's basically taco salad without all those pesky red and green vegetables. Hence the color and the name.



Popsicles and Mary Poppins for dessert.




And then books and bed. It was a much better day today, an answered prayer.

Spitting Image?

Mat's mom has been telling me how amazed she is that Luke looks just like Mat did when he was a baby. I don't know...I don't really see it. What do you think? :-)