Fire Station Fun

Last Friday we went on an outing to our local fire station. It was so cool and the kids were completely mesmerized. Here's Jackson on the front of the engine.

He's wearing his firefighter sticker and just in awe of being around the big fire truck.

The whole gang after our tour was over. The firefighters were really nice to the kids. They gave us a tour of the station, showed us what's inside the truck, put on all their gear (Jackson was a little unsure when the man put his mask on), turned on the fire engine lights and let the kids sit in the Captain's chair and "drive" for a little bit. What a neat day:)

Monkey Business

Last night while I was cooking, the little monkey talked Jackson into being a little rascally. Check out what those two were up to while I was mixing up the mashed taters.

I heard a lot of scraping and looked up to find Jackson using the grill tool to scoop the dog food out of the bowls and into the water bowl. Oh dear. It was such a mess. No doubt it was the monkey's idea. Gotta love J's outfit, too.

Candy Holder or Sock?

This afternoon we were running some errands and Jackson decided to take along his sucker. While we were stopped at the red light I asked him if he was finished with it. When he didn't say anything, I turned around to check for myself.

This is what I saw...check out his right sock. He's made it into a make-shift candy holder. We've come a long way from the first sucker in the car...that one ended up smeared all over his face. This time he even remembered to put the wrapper back on before it went in his sock! Way to go, little guy!

Things I learned at the park

1. Jackson does not like lady bugs.
2. He loves wildflowers, though, and ran all around smelling many of them. I wish I would have had my camera for this. He'd run up to one, bend down and smell it, then stand up and say "good," and then move on.
3. We fed the ducks and started giving them some names. My names for them were random - Charlie, Walter, Suzie, etc. Jackson's names for two of the ducks - Memaw and Poppy. Pretty funny.
4. My favorite, though, was this: There are normally two big ducks and we call them Mama and Daddy Duck. They weren't there today, so I asked Jackson where he thought they were. He said that Mama Duck was in El Paso and that Daddy Duck was in "El Paso, too." He thinks that everyone goes to El Paso because I went there to see my friend, Stephanie, so I guess that was a pretty good guess about those ducks:) Aunt Steph, have you seen our ducks out in El Paso? If so, tell them Jackson's looking for them.

Silly Monkey

Most kids hate being on "leashes." Mine puts them on for fun!

He brought this monkey to me this afternoon and asked to wear it. He thinks that it's the coolest "pack pack" ever.

It's been almost an hour and the monkey is still on his back. Wonder if it'll come off for dinner?

Obama?

A few weeks ago Jackson picked up on President Obama's name. He would hear the newscasters saying it on TV or us mention it whenever we were reading the newspaper.
He now says "Pres-i-dent Oh-bama" and is so proud of himself for knowing this big fact. He's taken it to a new level this week, though...

and has decided that not only is Noah the new Obama,

but so is Moses. Wonder when Obama turned into an old white man?! The best part is that Jackson actually knows that it's funny to say that these men in his book are Obama. I'll ask him if that's right and he'll get this goofy grin on his face and say "ye-ah" while nodding his head. Then he'll just start laughing really hard. The kid really does has a good sense of humor and keeps us laughing quite a bit:)

When Mama doesn't feel like sweating....

we go hang out at the mall...where it's not 92 degrees! Jackson had a blast. We originally went to Collin Creek for two reasons:

1. I wanted to get him a shirt from Baby Gap
2. I thought he would have fun riding the little train.

Apparantly I haven't been shopping at that mall in a while b/c so many stores have changed. Went up the escalator (yes, I know, it says "no strollers allowed," but hey, the umbrella stroller is so manageable, so we went up anyway) to Gap and low and behold it was gone. In it's place is now a plus size store. Perfect...that helps me none! So, off we went to the play area.

Jackson had such a good time running around and sliding down all of the slides.

He loved driving the cars, too, as you can see by the huge grin on his face.

After all that we headed over to the train. Here he is about to take off for his big ride. Such a cute little engineer:)