Romeo

I have mentioned Jackson's girlfriends before, but this post is about one in particular. Miss Mia. Mia is the little girl that dressed up as Cinderella and held hands with Jackson the Fireman at their school Fall Fest. A few weeks ago Jackson told me he wanted to write Mia a note. He dictated, I wrote. It said, "Dear Mia, You are my girlfriend. I love you. Love, Jackson." We put it in his bag so that he would remember to give it to her at school. Right after that he got really sick and I completely forgot about it. Fast forward to this past Wednesday. When I dropped him off that morning his teacher had two white envelopes for me. The first one was addressed to Jackson and inside were these two notes.

This is a love note from Mia.

Guess she was so smitten by his love note, that she decided to draw him a picture as well. This cracks me up--check out the size of his forehead!

The real humor was in this envelope, though.

I opened it up to find this 5 page application! It's from Mia's daddy and had me laughing out loud. It has lots of questions, like "Do you own or have access to a van?" "Do you have a tattoo?" It also has a sectioned entitled Daddy's Rules for Dating.

Rule One: If you pull into my driveway and honk, you'd better be delivering a package, because you're sure not picking anything up.

The whole thing is hysterical. I am keeping it for sure, and probably making a copy to give out to whatever boys try to date Lila one day!

I am thankful...

for so many reasons this year. Here's a glimpse...

For a Boom Pa who cooked a delicious turkey!

For cousins that love each other dearly...

For my sweet husband who I love more and more each day...

For Gigi who fed baby sister so that I could finish cooking...

For Memaw who held baby sister so that I could get the food on the table...

For the three little ones being so good all through lunch...(they are raising their hands in response to my question of "who likes turkey?!" So cute!)

For being able to spend Thanksgiving with lots of family...

For my little guy finally feeling better! This truly was the best Thanksgiving blessing this year. He felt so good, he went to the garage and came back with this paint roller!

We are all so thankful for a Memaw and Poppy who adore these three munchkins...

and for Uncle Andrew who is always up for entertaining the oldest rascal.

We are thankful for Gigi and Boom, too. This has been a hard week and I have needed a lot of support. I could not have asked for two better parents. I love you both so very much.

And finally, we are thankful for this sweet little girl and her good health. She's standing on her own now...won't be long before she's off and running! Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and was able to share it with those that you love.

Finally!

It took 7 1/2 months to the day, but our little girl has finally slept through the night! She went to bed at 8:45 last night and didn't wake up until 6:00 this morning. Hallelujah! Although it's probably more a result of her ears feeling much better, she picked a great time accomplish this task. You see, her big brother has been sick as a dog all weekend. The poor little guy has run fever almost nonstop for the past two days. We have been to two different urgent care clinics this weekend because his fever was so high. Neither of those doctors have been able to figure out what's wrong--both the strep and flu tests came back negative. Hopefully his pediatrician will have some answers for us this morning.

So big!

Little sister stood up unassisted this weekend!

Doesn't she look like such a big girl?

"Hey Mom, I'm just hanging here with Jackson!"

Thanksgiving Party

This past Friday sister and I went to Jackson's school for his Thanksgiving party. I was in charge of bringing the dessert and drinks. I got the really yummy sugar cookies with the sprinkles on top and thought all the kids would love them. They are usually a big hit in our house...that is, unless they are the normal looking white sugar cookie color. If say, by chance, they are the brown sugar cookie color, my child will completely denouce them.

He took one look at them and said, "these are the wrong color, mom." He then proceeded to lick the icing off the top, being ever so careful as to not inadvertently get any of that "brown" cookie in his mouth. Why the kid has such disdain for chocolate is completely beyond me!

After snack time we were ready for the game. Just check out how much taller this kid is than the little boy standing in front of him. A dad at the party actually told me that Jackson looked like he was 5. Can't say I disagree.

I'm pretty sure his height was a disadvantage for the "Pin the Hat on the Turkey" game! All the other kids got it much closer:)

While the big kids ate and played, Miss Lila had fun, too. All of the girls were so sweet to her. At one point I heard some singing and looked up to see these three girls singing to her. She loved all of the attention.

Here she is bonding with her brother's "favorite girlfriend" of the week. I'm pretty sure Lila approves!

Even though I knew it would be futile, I tried to get a group shot.

It was really comical trying to get them all to sit still. A true group of wild indians. Thank you, God, for their sweet and patient teacher. She is a saint!

Out and about

So it's almost Thanksgiving and the weather is still gorgeous here! We just had to take advantage of this beautiful sunny day and spend some time outside.

Lila got all ready to roll and even decided to sport her boots today. I love, love, love them!

We strolled around Firewheel Mall with Memaw. Lucky for Lila, Memaw even let her push the stroller for a bit. Such a big helper.

After eating a cookie at the tollhouse, Jackson said it was time to go throw some money in the fountain. He showed his sister just how it was done--he made 3 wishes and then tossed in the coins. I'm still not sure gets the "make a wish!" part, but he plays along so that he can throw the coins.

After coin tossing, big brother was off to the races. He jetted across the grass and into the play area. Then proceeded to scale this aparatus, that I think is supposed to be a sailboat from the future. Very modern. I'm just glad he got up and down safely:)

We thought Lila could check out the playground, too, so in she went to see the train. What a fun afternoon. Can't wait to do it again soon. As far as I'm concerned the cold weather can stay gone. We are warm weather peeps, for sure.

A kiss

Last night while we were eating dinner Jackson said, "mom, can I give you a kiss?" Then he leaned over and gave me the sweetest kiss on my cheek. I told him it was the best part of my day, and it was.

No matter how crazy life gets, it's so nice to stop every once in a while and enjoy the simple things...like a kiss from your first born. It really does make my heart smile. I love that kid so much.