Two cutie pies

The two kids before we went to Meet the Teacher for Mother's Day Out. I am SO excited about the fact that they start tomorrow!! Hallelujah!

Jackson posing in his daddy's boots.

He loves to run around and be a "nekid ninny." And I'm much more at ease letting him do it now that he's decided that the potty is his friend again. Yet another reason to celebrate:)

Gigi and Boom's new pool

My parents are in the process of moving into a new house that's in our neck of the woods and we couldn't be more excited about it. The house is gorgeous and the pool is awesome. We got to try it out this afternoon and had so much fun. It didn't take but about two seconds after getting outside for Jackson to ask to go down the slide.

Waving to Gigi

He loved it!

Miss Madison hanging out in the kiddie pool and watching Jackson,

who was very busy practicing his swimming skills. He really is turning into quite a little fish.

Come on, cooler weather!

I'm all for summer, but I do miss our park days. In celebration of the cooler weather that occurs before 10am, we've been visiting our favorite parks. Jackson's been very good at showing Madison the ropes.

Looks like she doesn't need any help on the slides, though.

She's got those figured out and loves to do some good sliding.

Maddie did take a few lessons on how to look like a monkey. Monkey man himself was in full effect the other day.

Checking out the view from a really tall slide. He told me that he was going to go down it all by himself.

Eh...on second thought...maybe not!

Is it just me, or does Jackson look like a 4 year old in a baby swing?

Shopping for Maddie

The other day we went over to play at Taylor's house and Jackson immediately fell in love with this shopping cart. Madison decided that she wanted it, too, so I encouraged them to cooperate....

by simply putting her in the cart. They thought it was so fun and I thought it was hilarious. They really are two peas in a pod:)

We love our Papaw!

My papaw came over to visit last week and got to spend time with two of his great-grandkids. I'm pretty sure they wore him out, but it was so good to see him!

Jackson was way too busy to stop for a photo-op, but Maddie was just pleased as pie to oblige us. She cracks me up when she does this expression.

You blink...

and suddenly your child is scaling a rock wall, no problem. We went to a park today that we haven't been to in a while. The last time we were there, I was going down the slides with Jackson and putting him in the baby swings.

Today, the kid ran over to this big rock wall and just started climbing.

In no time at all he was half way up...

No need to stop there--the view's much better from the top!

It's the little things

These past few days have been challenging, to say the least. Sweet Miss Madison just hasn't been herself. Those molars are such a bear. Maddie was pretty fussy before dinner was ready. Maybe it took so long because our propane ran out on the grill while I was cooking the pork chops...so I had to move them inside and fix them on the stove. Argh! Just what I wanted with two hungry kids waiting on me to get me their food.

Anyway, Maddie was upset, so Jackson pulled her highchair as close to his seat as possible. He spent the entire dinner catering to her. Feeding her bites sometimes, asking her if she was ok other times. It was so precious. I feel like I need to bottle these special memories because they really do make my heart melt.