3 Years Old and 15 Months Week 1

The boys and I went to visit Nana, Papa, and Aunt Aimee in Tennessee for New Year's.  Jackson talked Nana into baking cookies with him.  The boys had fun playing ball in the yard and helping remove the ornaments from the Christmas tree even though Nana wasn't ready to take it down.


The boys were helping me do laundry when we got home from Tennessee.  They loved it when I would push them around the tile floor in the kitchen in their laundry baskets.  What a workout!


Jackson had a dentist appointment last week.  He will tell you that he was a bad boy and did not let them brush his teeth. We will try again in 6 months.
Carson and I played with bubbles one day while Jackson was at preschool.  Carson caught onto blowing them very quickly.  He loved trying to catch them and squealed when they popped.


The boys have been playing basketball in the kitchen.  We took the Christmas tree down and left the basketball goal in the house.  It is nice to have on cold days when we cannot get outside.

Merry Christmas!

Santa Claus visited our house last night.  His reindeer at all the glitter food in the front yard but Santa left a few crumbs from the cookies on his plate.  He delivered a basketball goal with two balls as requested by Jackson.  The boys love playing basketball in mom's kitchen.  They also got a lot of new books, train sets, ornaments for the tree and other fun toys. 

Jackson got a bicycle that trails behind our bikes.  Now Carson can have the bike trailer all to himself.  They both got a kick out of riding around the neighborhood.  It was good exercise for mom and dad too.

Drew got a huge helicopter that we have flown three (3) times today.  Jackson loves watching it fly.

Carson said, "Happy," today.  He is so cute.  He also loves to give his brother hugs.

3 Years Old and 14 Months Week 3

The boys have been sick this week.  Jackson has pneumonia and Carson has bronchitis.  Needless to say, we have not done much.  We did make Chex Mix, fruit cake cookies, gingerbread cookies and hot chocolate reindeer for Jackson's preschool class.

Last Friday, we went to Nicole's house for a family Christmas party.  Each family brought $5 gifts for the kids to open.  It was fun to watch them tear through the paper.  All the kids are so excited about Christmas!

Jackson tells me daily that Santa is going to land on his roof and come down the chimney with presents.  He wants to know if the reindeer will come inside too.

At the doctor's office, Carson weighed 30 pounds and Jackson weighed 42 pounds.  Both kids have big feet.  They are growing up so fast.

Carson is talking up a storm.  He is saying "santa, ball, brother, dog, Riley, good, hi, all done, outside, shoe, down."  He repeats everything.  In the morning, I say, "Hi" when I open his door.  Carson says, "Hi" back.  Then I say, "How are you?" and Carson says "Good."

3 Years Old and 14 Months Week 1

 
Jackson is loving every minute of Christmastime this year.  We started decorating for Christmas this week.  We decorated inside and outside the house and then went to the mountains with friends to cut down a Christmas tree.  The boys were very helpful trimming the tree except they take off more ornaments than they put on.  Also, the candy canes were a bad idea.  I found Carson eating one right before bed last night plastic and all.

 

Jackson told Santa that he wanted a charger for the helicopter.  We tell Jackson the helicopter has to charge when we are tired of playing or he would never stop.  I guess he thinks we need a better charger or that two might be more helpful.  He also wants a basketball goal with two basketballs.  I think the second ball is for Carson so Jackson will not have to share.

 

We believe that Santa may have been Santa Claude, Santa's Claus's brother from the South Pole.

 



 

Jackson is trying to keep Carson in the picture in front of our tree.  Carson is too busy walking around to be contained.  Jackson helped Drew saw the tree down.  We hung out at the farm for about 2 hours waiting on Santa Claude.  The property is beautiful and we had fun playing badminton with the boys.

3 Years and 13 Months Weeks 3 and 4

Wow!  What a busy two weeks!  We went to Weston, FL with Nana and Papaw for a week.  Jackson, Drew and Papaw got to go fishing with Uncle Zack.  They all caught fish off the Florida keys.  Jackson and Carson had fun playing with their cousin, Kaia.

Jackson and Carson did a lot of swimming at the resort's pool.  Jackson loved jumping off the edge of the pool.  Carson preferred floating around in his raft.  We built sandcastles with Nana at the beach one day.  It was too choppy to get the boys in the ocean but we walked along the beach.  Papaw took us to see alligators.  Both boys touched the baby alligator.  Jackson said, "It will bite me," when I asked him if he wanted to hold the alligator.  What a smart boy!

Carson has spent the last two weeks perfecting his walking.  Now, he does not crawl anywhere.  We officially have a toddler and preschooler in the house.  Jackson starts preschool tomorrow for half a day three days a week.  He is excited!

We spent last week with Grammy and Poppy in Savannah.  All five cousins were there for Thanksgiving.  Jackson was the oldest at 3 years old and Jillian was the youngest at 9 months old.  It was a lot of fun and a lot of chaos! Poppy said their house would never be the same again. 

Jillian, Jayla, Jackson, Carson and Kaia

3rd Birthday Party

 

Jackson celebrated his 3rd birthday at the airport.  We sent boarding pass invitations.  He choose to have a pull apart cupcake cake in the shape of an airplane.  He helped me make airplanes out of Tootsie rolls, a stick of gum, two lifesavers and a rubberband.  The parents and kids had a great time watching the planes take-off and land.  Carson would point and yell, "Ane. Go. Go. Bye. Bye."  We were at the park by the airport for 3 hours and Jackson was still amused by the planes at the end of the party.  I have never seen him sit so quietly and just watch.

2 Years Old and 13 Months Week 1

Happy Halloween!  We carved a pumpkin with the boys.  Neither one of them wanted to touch the gooey insides.  Jackson loved blowing out the candle inside and asking me to "fix it."

We had the neighbors on the street over for a potluck before the trick-or-treating started.  Jackson loved running around with all the big boys.  Jackson did not understand about trick-or-treating until it began but he got the hang of it fast.  He was running from house to house watching for spooks along the way.  He told us it was "a great party."

Both boys went as skeletons.  Their costumes were glow in the dark pj's. 

Carson is cutting two molars this week.  He said Riley.  It is funny to hear him talk when Jackson would not at this age.  Both boys are getting so big.  We bought Jackson size 12 shoes this week.  Our neighbor who is in kindergarten wears an 11.5.

Jackson fell into a table leg this week and ended up with 5 stitches in his eyebrow.  It is healing well but still bruised and sore.