School Picture

Here's our big boy looking all grown up in his school picture! He's learning lots at preschool this year- at least I think he is. He does a very good job on all the papers that he brings home. Most of the time when I ask him "What did you do at school today?", rather than tell me about it, he just says "Look in my backpack." I pretty much have to pick details out of him. We have a homework assignment every week to look for pictures that start with the letter that they are studying and glue them to his letter page. (They are making a book of the whole alphabet.) Sometimes this project goes pretty well, other times we butt heads over it. It amazes me how much he'll let other people teach him things, but when I try to help, he wants no part of it! Overall, though, I think he's doing great and should be more than ready for kindergarden next year.

What a Difference a Year Makes!

Just had to add a picture from the day Jackson was born to compare him to now. Can you believe have much he's grown and changed? The first year is a very busy time for a baby!

Birthday Pictures!

The Birthday Boy!
Blowing out the candle!

Enjoying his first birthday cake.

Presents!

Happy Birthday Jackson!!

Jackson turned 1 year old today! We can't believe that it's been a year since he came to complete our family. He's grown from 6#10oz to somewhere around 22#. We haven't seen him take any real steps yet, but he should be walking anytime. He's standing up on his own a good bit, but when he realizes what he's doing he sits right back down. Talking is his thing right now. He still babbles a lot, but says several words too. His favorite is "Dadada" and sometimes "Dadeeee!" He's changed so much over the last year, and has changed our family, too. Noah was so excited the day he was born, and has stepped into the role of big brother so well. He's never been jealous at all, watches Jackson like a hawk to "protect" him, and overall just loves him to pieces. Jackson seems to adore Noah just as much. He wants to be where Noah is and play with what Noah's got all the time. We had a birthday party after church today. Jackson had lots of fun digging into his cake with both hands and eating it up. He got lots of fun presents, too. We'll hopefully have some pictures up tomorrow of the big event, but couldn't let October 5th pass by without a Happy Birthday post! So Happy Birthday little buddy!!! We love you!!!

We're Still Here...

Just wanted to post a quick note to say that we haven't fallen off the face of the earth, we're just having computer issues. Our internet is apparently working fine, because on David's work laptap, we have no problems. The home laptap is evidently the problem because I can't seem to access the internet from it. The problem with that is that all of our pictures download into the home computer, so I can't post them yet. I've gotten some cute ones this week- the kids playing outside, and one of Jackson today raiding the pantry! Yes, I left the door open and he completely cleared out the bottom shelf. I found him eating through the plastic on the bag of marshmellows. I can't get one kid to eat, and I can't get the other to stop! Anyway, hopefully we'll have everything up and running again soon. I hope so anyway- Jackson's birthday is Sunday, so you know I'll have lots to show then. Check out Lori or Rebecca's block for pictures of Girl's Night Out at Logan's tonight. It's been a couple of months since we got together, and all though only a few could make it, we still had a great time. Thanks Lori for putting it together for us!

Date Night

I Since I'm always posting about the kids, I had to include something that the grownups did for a change! David and I got to have a date night last night- the first one we've had in a while. We went out with some friends to dinner at Connor's Steakhouse at Bridge Street, then on to see the new movie Fireproof at The Monaco . Both were really good. The makers of the movie are a group from a Baptist church in the Atlanta area; previous movies are Facing the Giants and FlyWheel. All of the movies have a good message to them, and the acting/production has gotten better with every movie. Up until Fireproof, they haven't used "real" actors- they use people from the church. Kirk Cameron approached them about being in this movie and he was the only "real" actor in it. Anyway, it was very good, so go see it when you have the chance! We had a really great time on our date, and decided that we have got to find a way to make date night happen more often!

P.S. Thanks Aunt Wendy and Uncle Scott for keeping the kids so we could have a night out and thanks Noah and Jackson for being good so that maybe we can do it again sometime!

Kids for McCain

We finally got a McCain/Palin sign for the yard this week, so I had to get our little Republicans to pose for a picture. Maybe if I send it on to the McCain campaign they'll make it to a brochure or something- don't think they could find any cuter advertisers! By that way, Noah's wearing a long sleeve flannel shirt because it was Johnny Appleseed day at school and he had to look the part.