Pumpkin Carving

Chad and Jackson carved a pumpkin together...okay Chad carved the pumpkin Jackson was entertained by it for a minute before he went on to bigger and better things like walking around his high chair repeatedly. It is miserably cold, windy, and rainy here hence the reason why we carved it on the kitchen table so excuse the mess please!

Fall Fun

Since this is probably going to be the last pretty day for a while we dressed Jackson up in one of his cutest fall outfits to get a few pictures. He wasn't very smiley but oh well I guess. There are also a few from last night in the bath tub. We just switched him to taking baths in the big tub and boy does he have a good time!

We are busy here getting ready for Halloween and packing to go to Louisville which we are so excited about! Jackson has so many cute Halloween outfits for this week, so check in for updates! Chad and Jackson are also suppose to carve a pumpkin this week which should be interesting to say the least.

Jackson took his first two steps without holding onto anything on Tuesday, Chad's birthday. We are still waiting for him to take off on his own but he is making progress.

Apple Harvest

I made it home from Pennsylvania late Saturday night (which was an awesome trip by the way) so in order to spend some quality time with Chad and Jackson we went to the Apple Harvest Festival on Sunday. I had bought Jackson the cutest outfit with a cow and an apple tree on it and what better chance to wear it than at the apple orchard! We went to my friend Samantha's family orchard. Unfortunately Jackson was more interested in the pumpkins than the apples but at least he had a good time!

This is my and Daddy's new favorite game and yes my mom does realize it is dangerous!

It was a cold morning and I wanted daddy to share his coffee!

This is the only way mommy and daddy could get me to leave, they had to buy me a mini pumkin!

I Wanna Help!

Because I have to go to Pennsylvania on a field trip with the kids this weekend, Jackson is leaving for his nana's tomorrow. Needless to say we have spent the night packing. Of course Jackson felt like he needed to help especially when it came to picking out his pajamas and his blanket. Unfortunately for Chad and I, Jackson's help just turned into more work for us. Oh, well he had fun anyway.

Jackson's Halloween costume came today. I am not sharing pictures yet because I am keeping it under wraps until the big day but oh my goodness is it adorable! I can't wait for Halloween now. We were worried he wouldn't wear the head piece but we tried it on tonight and he had a big time in it. Thank goodness! Here are some pics of all of Jackson's hard work tonight and a few random ones as well. Please don't mind the fact that he kept losing clothing it is a long story!

I'll pick out my pjs mom!
No these are the ones I want!
Now where is that blankie?

No more blankies in here...

must be down here somewhere

Here it is mom!

Check out my new top tooth!

4 down 3 to go

We have sold 4 of the 7 puppies now. Needless to say it was a busy weekend here. The 3 males are left. We can't believe it, we think 2 of them were the prettiest in the bunch, I guess people are sexist when it comes to dogs. Anyway, if you know anyone looking for a super sweet dog, send them my way please!!!
Jackson had a great week. At school (have I mentioned how much I love that place!) they taught him to clap whenever he heard patticake which is so cute. He is also working on saying Bailey. We continue to be so close to walking, this has of course led to many accidents. Sorry so many bath pictures this week, I couldn't choose!

Washing my feet.
Brushing up on my b-ball skils.

Yay only a few more weeks until basketball season starts!

My new favorite play place...yes my mommy realizes it is dangerous but it is play with this or the outlets, so mommy picked this!

Another Week

Just another week here. I am finally beginning to admit that with teaching school, going to school, and raising a soon to be toddler I may only be able to blog once a week. I hate not being able to share pictures more often but I feel like time just gets away from me these days. Jackson is still changing a little more all of the time. He is adding more words to his vocabulary. His new favorite is uh-oh which is pretty funny to hear. He is amazingly close to walking. He will let go of the furniture for a minute or two until he realizes he isn't holding on, then he gets scared and grabs it again. He is still into everything of course and wears us out trying to catch him. Of course his appetite is still come and go and his favorite food choices change daily. Today our favorites are sugar snap peas (don't ask me why!) graham crackers with bananas sandwiched inside, and of course our go to favorites bacon and cheese straws. Mmmm...doesn't that make you hungry!

In other news we went to church for the first time in what seemed like forever Sunday. Much harder with Jackson now! He was very hard to entertain and keep still. We did okay until he threw a cookie and it hit someone in the head 2 rows up. After that he went to the crying room with Chad to burn off some energy! Lets hope next Sunday goes better!

Dressed and ready for school, just needed to play a few minutes first.

Playing with the train set Nina got me.

Riding on Reese's Muffin Man car. It was so much fun!


My favorite place to play...mommy's bed!

This is exactly why you don't give a 9 month old spaghetti.

Dressed and ready for church!