What's in your Tonka truck?

Jackson really likes the Tonka truck we have. He likes to stand in it no matter how much I tell him not to.

He is just too darn cute!

He is getting to be just like Jarrett closing his eyes when the flash goes off.

Occasionally he puts stuff in it and pushes it around but he would rather ride in it and have us push him around.

Look Mom, I can turn off the lights . . .

and then back on again! and off and on and off and on. Jackson has learned that if he shuts the toy box then he can climb on top of it and reach the light switch. I tried to catch him in the act but every time I got close he just grinned and tried to act innocent.

"Who, me? I'm not touching anything!""Mommy, hold me!"
He is quite the little monkey lately.

More Christmas

Special thanks to Mary for taking care of us while we were sick and taking care of the boys. Jackson and Mary were fast friends.

Walter and Chris were the only other kids there. If you can still call them kids.

Mary showed Jack how to play the drums on pots and Tupperware. He enjoyed being allowed to drag everything out of the cabinets. I'm sure his Grandma was smiling down on him.

Happy New Year

It certainly has been an interesting year. I would like to end the year with a prayer. I'm not very good with this so bear with me:

"Dear God - thank you for everything. You have blessed us with wonderful family and friends, good health and employment. We pray for all the people who are in need and hope that all who are lost will find You in the new year. Please be with us as we struggle with issues in our lives and guide us in the right direction. Help us to make good decisions. Amen."

Christmas

I hope everyone had a good Christmas. We did except for having the flu for a few days. Luckily the kids didn't get it. We went to Rozel to see Grandpa, Aunt Mary, Uncle Mark and Cousin Walter. I didn't take many pictures because at one point I lost my camera and used my new phone and I'm having a hard time getting the pictures off of it. Here are a few pictures. Here is Jarrett and his present from Grandpa. Here is our little monkey climbing on the coffee table. He is quite the little climber.

One of Jackson's favorite toys is Grandpa's walker.

Jarrett really liked the new DVD Daddy bought him for the trip. Jackson was just happy to be on the couch.

If I figure out how to get the pictures from my camera, I will post more.

Christmas with Thomas

For Christmas Matt made the boys a table so they could have a place to play trains. To say that they love it would be an understatement. We found Thomas stickers to put on the table so it looks like a train table. The top of it is actually a wall mural but it works well on the table. I turned the picture so that the mural is right side up.

Somehow we ended up with 4 different kinds of Thomas track (how does that work? not very well) so we improvised. Jarrett had a buyers guide from one of the boxes with every possible Thomas thing you could buy. He called it a "map" and kept telling us we were putting the track together wrong. We kept on trying to get the best layout possible and Jarrett just went back up stairs. He eventually came back downstairs.

They also got Little Einstein, WonderPets and McQueen toys. Just an FYI for Julie- yes, we took down the scrapbooking table. Sorry.

Jackson's Christmas Program

Jackson's program was VERY cute. his class dressed as elves and sang (I use that term loosely) with the 2 year old class. They shook jingle bells, jumped up and down and danced. Jackson ended up with 2 sets of bells. I think he was the best bell player there.

He was really funny to watch. He wandered around the stage and almost walked off of it a few times. I think there were at least 6 adults on stage and 4 in front of the stage making sure no one fell off.

They were all very sweet but I think he was the cutest one there.