Fun at the Fair

We took Jackson to the fair tonight with Miss Regan to ride the rides and see the animals. Jackson had such a great time with Regan who rode all of the little kid rides with him like a champ. I realize that in most of the pictures that Jackson looks like he is mad or miserable, but we just call that his "Brady" look and he really did have fun I promise!

New Pet

Against Chad's better judgement, we decided to get Jackson a new pet...a little two gallon aquarium with a beta in it. The plan is to add a couple of more fish in a week or two, pending we don't kill this one in the next couple of days. Anyway, Jackson is so cute with his "fishie" he is just enjoying watching it for now but I am sure he will want to get it out and hold it one day soon! He told the fishie good night before bed and even blew it a kiss and as we speak he is laying in his bed talking to him, so sweet!

Waiting for daddy to get the tank put together.

Blowing the fishie a kiss night night.

Pool Boy

Jackson has turned into such a pool addict! He loves to go and you definitely don't have to ask him twice to put his swim trunks on! Today he decided he didn't need to wear his ar floats anymore and could swim by himself...you can imagine where this is going. He ended up sinking which I thought would scare him into wearing the arm floats. Of course it didn't scare him and instead he wants to swim by himself all of the time. None the less, he had fun playing with Regan and Reese who are both really good swimmers!

Beautiful Days

The last couple of days here have been absolutely gorgeous so we have capitalized on the opportunity to do some fun things with Jackson. We went to the park last night and let him play for a bit until he discovered the pond and geese, he wanted to go swimming in it so bad he couldn't stand it! Then we took him for ice cream, his favorite of course and spent the rest of the night relaxing on the newly renovated porch. Tonight we had a lazy day and curled up in bed and watched Finding Nemo since Jackson is obsessed with fish now, I think we heard ooohhh....fishies, 100 times but it was fun! It is going to be a busy weekend here so hopefully lots of pictures coming!

The Rest of the Story

The rest of our trip to Ky was a lot of fun. Jackson enjoyed it so much this time and really put on a show for everyone!

Mom and dad have a pug puppy named Callie which Jackson has not dubbed Calliou and he loved to torment her! The played tag night after night running around the house like maniacs...it was adorable!

Jackson was tractor crazy in Ky too. Dad got out a lot of Brady's old tractors and trucks for Jackson to play with which was fun. Except for the fact that after dad played with him the first time, no one could every play right which resulted in Jackson being aggravated with all of us because we didn't do it like Pop!

We were very lucky in that my grandfather, uncle, aunt, and cousin were able to come from Iowa to see Jackson while we were there. Jackson loved them all but especially Uncle Ken, who he now calls Uncie Fishie, we are not sure why!!

Cow Crazy

We really did not think Jackson could be anymore cow crazy than he already was. Turned out that our trip too Ky made him even more so! He had so much fun on the farm with the cows it was amazing. He got right in there and tried to help clean out stalls, get the cows out of the parlor, and feed the babies. Mom and Dad made the mistake of teaching him to say get out of here cows when they were leaving the parlor so now that is his favorite thing to say. The proof is in the pudding though!

Happy Anniversary

While we were in Kentucky we decided to go ahead and celebrate our anniversary for 2 reasons. 1) We had mom, dad, and Brittany there to babysit and 2) I was going to be in Ky and Chad in Va for our real anniversary on the 1st. Anyway, we decided to go to Beaumont Inn and had a wonderful southern meal of fried green tomatoes, crab cakes, corn pudding, mashed potatoes, lima beans, and the most wonderful chocolate trio for dessert. We had a great night of adult conversation and no food being flung. Happy 3rd Anniversary Chad!!

June 27, 2009

July 1, 2006

The Simple Things

As I said before, we really wanted to take Jackson to do some fun things while we were in Ky. Come to find out no matter how cool what we planned was, it was still the simple things that made him the happiest. Mom bought Jackson a little pool with a slide and sprinkler. He loved it and spent hours and hours in it until the weather got chilly late in the week. Here is my little fish!

Jungle Jump

After hours and hours of discussion we decided that Jackson was still to young to go on a "real" vacation this year. I mean, who wants to clean sand out ot a diaper, or pay $50.00 a day to go to Sesame Place only to discover Jackson is afraid of characters, or any of the other hundreds of ideas we came up with! Instead we decided to visit mom and dad in Ky but make it really fun for Jackson.

One of the "brilliant" ideas we came up with was taking him to this place called Jungle Jump for a fun afternoon. Jungle Jump is a huge building filled with inflatable slides, jumpers, etc. Jackson had a pretty good time although a lot of it was a little to big for him. Chad, Brittany, and I however got quite the work out taking Jackson up and down the rope wall to go down the slide...my legs are still sore!!!