Happy Easter!!!

Ok so I'm a little late-- but we had a fantastic Easter!

Checking out his Easter Basket!

He was excited!!!

Holding his new ball and looking at his book

All his goodies  (I'll list what was in his basket below)

Family Photo!

Jackson & his cousin Parker-- cranky after church lol!

Jackson and his other cousins- Miryan Makalyn and Lainey...  This picture cracks me up lol!

 We just had a great day, we went to the Easter breakfast & service at church, then went to my husband's aunt & grandma's house for dinner and some fun afterwards.  Here's some video/pics of our day!





As for what the Easter bunny brought Jackson, here's what was in his basket!

1. Stuffed bunny
2. sidewalk chalk
3. matchbox cars
4. bubbles
5. book (Baby Animals Touch & Feel)
6. sunglasses
7. applesauce pouch
8. reese's easter bunnies candy

I hope you all had a fantastic Easter-- what was in your kiddo's Easter basket this year?

Easter/Spring Photos!

The weather today was ABSOLUTELY gorgeous!  First real "shorts weather" day this year, high of 77 and sunny.  Perfect weather in my book!

I decided to take full advantage of the beautiful day and get Jackson's Spring/Easter pics taken.  I'm no professional, and I don't have a DSLR (I've got a canon powershot I recently finally learned how to use the manual settings ;))  But I was super happy with how they turned out.  Love them- and love my baby boy!

Here are some of my favorites:

Spring is in the Air.... finally!

Hey!  It's been a while since I updated-- things are going great though!

Little man is now 16 months old.  Little turd STILL isn't walking on his own.  He certainly zips around crawling and cruising (holding onto furniture and pushing his push toys).  He's saying more words now... he has added the word "car" to his vocabulary and will try and repeat us sometimes.  He's also working on his molars still, He's got one top one most of the way through, the other top one is barely through, and the bottom two I can feel but haven't actually broken through yet.  Fun times!

MWAH!!!!

Blowing Kisses!

We haven't been successful in our night weaning attempts so far.  We decided to put it on hold for a bit, and thankfully he HAS gotten a little better.  There for a while it was getting ridiculous.  Now he typically nurses in the very early hours of the morning (like 4-5ish) and goes back to sleep till around 7 when he's up for the day.  Then most days he will go the entire day and not want to nurse again till bedtime, then once between 10-12 when he comes in our bed.  Some days are worse but I can handle the good nights.  I think we are just going to have to get him sleeping in his own room all night for it to really work for him.

Duke & Jackson watching the snow melt!

 The winter weather has FINALLY broken.  I REALLY hope that snow is in the past until next winter.  I normally like snow but after this winter I'm officially OVER it and ready for Spring!  We've been able to get Jackson outside quite a bit the last few weeks and he loves it! 

Got to try out his wagon he got for Christmas!

Still LOVES to swing!

LOVE!

Yesterday was my birthday--  The big 2-8!  Gosh it feels so crazy to be almost 30!  Not that 30 is old really, but I guess in my head I still think of myself being in my early 20s.  Not anymore!  I had a good day yesterday.  Today we are going out with my parents and one of my brothers to celebrate!  (my other brother & his fam are out of town)  Red Lobster here I come.  YUM!

Jackson enjoying some Qdoba queso dip!  We got takeout per my request from there last night.  LOVE Qdoba!

Some other fun exciting things-- we are blessed to be getting an awesome tax refund this year, it should be here sometime next week (yay!)  With it we will have enough money to finish our emergency fund, pay off all three medical bills from Jackson's birth, AND one of our credit cards!  (woot woot!)  We also have allotted ourselves some "spending money" from it, so I'm looking forward to doing a bit of shopping and getting a much needed haircut!

YAY!  We still have a long way to go-- but it's a relief to finally be making some progress!

Oh and I am doing VEDA (Video Every Day in April) for the first time over on my YouTube channel... so go check it out! :)




Alright that's all for now-- I'm hoping to do some Spring/Easter pics of Jackson soon (as soon as I get his Easter outfit!) so look for a post with those very soon!

Bye!

15 Months Old!

Jackson is now 15 months old!!!

My sweet boy!

He has his doctor's appointment on Tuesday, so I'll record his video update after that and add it to the bottom of this post

A few things about Jackson at 15 months...

• He's wearing mostly 18 months clothes, but still a few 12 month things fit as well.  He's in size 4 diapers and size 3 shoes.
• He's STILL not walking yet-- at least without help.  But he is crawling & cruising EVERYWHERE and getting into everything lol!
• His personality is really blossoming and shining through at this point.  He is very sweet (loves giving hugs and kisses), very social (aka FLIRT!), and a little ornery too! 
• He says "mama" "dada" "Duke/dog" "hi" and "all done (ah-da)"  He also has started talking up a storm in his own little jibberish language, complete with hand gestures and head nods.  Haha, it's hilarious.
• He is understanding soooo much more now.  He can follow very simple directions, he knows how to put his chunky Melissa & Doug puzzle together, He knows his nose, eyes, and ears.
• He has eight teeth, working on the ninth and tenth now (molars, yikes!)
• He is in a transitional time between one and two naps.  Most days he still takes two (either two decent ones or one long one and a car cat-nap), but there's been a few days where he has only taken one.  He does ok on one nap but he's generally ready for bed by 7 instead of his usual 8.
• He is still part time cosleeping with us.  Goes to bed around 8 in his own crib, then wakes anywhere between 10 and 12 lately, and sleeps with us the rest of the night.
• We are currently working on night weaning (another post on that later) but last night we went from 11-6 without nursing!
• We are still obviously nursing.  Nighttime frequency has been a crap-shoot lately but like I said we are night weaning now so we are working on that.  During the daytime though he usually only nurses 2 or 3 times-  first thing in the morning, sometimes in late afternoon/early evening, and then before bed. 
• As far as eating solids goes- he's not a picky eater but he will go through little phases where he doesn't want to eat very much (pretty sure it's related to teething).  His favorite foods are bananas, puffs, goldfish crackers, pb&j, green beans, apples/applesauce, macaroni & cheese, and pancakes.
• His favorite toys are anything with buttons, knobs, switches or wheels-- this includes the stereo, remote controls, light switches, and toy cars or anything with a steering wheel!  Some other favorite activities are cleaning out the (safe) kitchen cabinets, and cleaning off the living room end tables! ;)

I just love this little guy so much, and even more every day (just when I think it would be impossible to!)

Here's his video update...

Valentine Pics

Today is another snow day!  We've had so many this year but I'll take it.  It's currently snowing now :)

I took some Valentine's Day pics of Jackson this morning since I was home and able.  My brother borrowed my camera and hasn't gotten it back to me yet so these are iPhone pics (so the quality is mediocre) but better than nothing ;) 

He wasn't super cooperative lol, kept trying to escape ;)  In the end he was happy because he got his first sucker when we were all done!

Haha what a goof!

My favorite!  This one is going to be used in his Valentine cards for his grandparents

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