Peter Piper Pizza Playdate

Our neighborhood playgroup met up at Peter Piper Pizza on Friday and Jackson had so much fun. The pizza was good and there were lots of cool rides and games to play. We got 176 tickets (no, I did not spend $100, we just hit the jackpot a few times!) and Jackson got to go home with an awesome new green dinosaur!

Here's the cool guy wearing his Spiderman shades while riding in Spiderman's car.

Of course, Jackson rode the motorcycle at least 5 times, too. The whole time he kept saying "dad" and making the vroom vroom noise that a motorcycle makes. Anything that dad does is definitely cool.

70 degrees in January!

Is anyone else finding it hard to believe that we have had multiple days in January that are in the 70s? We just had to take advantage of this greatness today, so we headed over to the park in Rockwall after Jackson got out of school. (School, by the way, is going fantastically well. He doesn't even get sad anymore when I drop him off and both of his teachers always tell me what a great day he had when I come to pick him up. He now eats lunch AND takes a nap. The nap has really shocked me!) Anyway, back to the park. We went with Gigi, Boom and Miss Madison and I think everyone had fun. I'm sure we'll go back soon and I'll take a few more pictures of all the really cool things at Harry Myers Park.

Jackson being his usual "mon-kee" self. If there's something to hang on, my kid is on it!

Riding in the side car while Gigi drives the cool yellow motorcycle.

And my favorite pic of the day. Jackson taught himself how to go down the slide head first! Oh dear. This kid is such the little daredevil.

Dino Day

Jackson and I headed out to the Heard Museum this morning to see all of the dinosaurs. It was really neat, although I wish I would have known it was outside (a tad chilly and very windy), and we both enjoyed ourselves.

Jackson's first dinosaur encounter. I thought he handled it like a champ. He looked right at the dino and said "Hi!"

Jackson meeting a tricerotops

The big daddy of the day--T Rex. The Heard Museum also had a live animal exhibit.

Jackson's favorite animals by far were the two cute little wallabys. I asked him on the way home if he liked the wallaby and he said "yeah" quite emphatically. Then I asked what the wallaby did and he said "hop, hop, hop!" It was so cute to see that he really did learn something new today:)

Posing at the end on this large lime-green dino.

What a cool way to spend a Monday morning!

Quite the character

Last night Jackson hung out with his Poppy and Mamaw while we went to dinner with friends. We went in to pick him up and he was upstairs laying down on the bed talking to Mamaw. I noticed that he was holding his black spider man sunglasses (guess they were still in his bag) and wearing his new belt (the fave from Christmas). We walked downstairs and Jackson decided that he now wanted to add the sunglasses to his already stellar outfit of pj's and a belt. To better set the scene, the house was dark...maybe 2 lamps were on, but he didn't care. In fact, he wore them all the way home in the car, too!

I had to run in when we got home, grab the camera and come take this picture.

After we got home he continued to wear them for at least 5 more minutes. Cracked us up! Two things are for sure, he's got a mind of his own and is NEVER borning. We love it!

Big day at the Little Gym

Jackson completed another semester at The Little Gym and had such a fun day.

It began with a good swing on the low monkey bars. (Jackson now tells me that he is a monkey, which is oh-so-true)

Then he moved on up to the "big" bar, which he LOVES.

After swing time, we ventured over to the air-track. He's never been a fan before, but today we had a break-through. He was running all over the place on this thing and loving every second.

On to our first skill of the day...rolling over the big donut

and ending with a front roll. Good job!

On to the obstacle course, which he managed like a champ. Notice the "oh wow" expression on his face. He knows he's up on the highest thing-a-ma-jig.

Side stepping on the beam was the second skill of the day. Pretty sure that hands in the mouth are a nervous habit of his. Maybe he was intimidated by the two pretty teachers.

Jumping off the beam brought out the big smile again:)

Hooray! Got my favorite big, blue ball!

He really only plays with the blue ones. Showing off his basketball skills here. I think he impressed Landry.

Bubble time! He loves to get bubbles on his tummy. Cracks me up every time. The other day we went to a make-up class and had a different teacher. She didn't know about tummy bubbles and he ran up to her with his shirt held way up high. She gave me a funny look and I said, "just humor him, please."

At the end of class Jackson got his medal.

Yay little ones!

Little Rascals

Yesterday we went over to the Pointer's house for a get-together with some friends. They have a small water cooler that was oh-so-tempting for the J man. He was so fascinated with it being right on his level and just kept pushing the button and making water come out. After getting in trouble a few times for this he stopped messing with it...I thought. A little while later, Jackson and Presley disappeared. When I came around the corner this is what I found.

They were sticking their fingers where the water gathered at the base of the water cooler and then putting them in their mouths. Harmless enough, and as you can see, apparantly very fun! I went back to chatting with the girls and thought everything would be fine. When I came back a short time later, the entire floor was covered in water and Jackson was hollering "Uh-oh!" over and over again. Yes, dear, that was definitely an "uh-oh," but I'm glad y'all had so much fun making a mess!

Happy Birthday, Gigi!

Gigi's birthday is today and we went out to dinner last night to celebrate. Jackson and Madison did really well and we all enjoyed our yummy food.

Here's mom's birthday dessert medley. All five of those mini desserts were so scrumptious and the chocolate cake with the warm gooey middle was to-die-for!

Hope you have a great day, Mom. We love you!