Heavy

Daddy let me wear his badge today when he was home for lunch. It is so heavy it kept pulling my shorts down.

Big Helper

Jackson is becoming quite the helper. Everything that mommy and daddy do, Jackson has to do it too! Today daddy was watering the garden and Jackson wanted to help. Here are a few pictures of Jackson watering the fence. We are working on pointing the water toward the plants.

My Big Boy Furniture

Yesterday Nana, Papa, & I met mommy & daddy in Canton. Fortunately the tornado that blew threw was there before we arrived and didn't damage any of the shops we were there to look at. We actually didn't see anything except for a few garbage cans knocked over but apparently the news crews found all kinds of damage.

The whole purpose for the Canton trip was to get my big boy furniture. Mommy & Nana found a bed for me and a dresser! Daddy spent today sanding the furniture down so we can paint it to match my big boy room. How exciting!

This could be a slow process but we'll keep you updated on how my new room is coming along.

Our First Garden

We have a garden! This morning mommy, daddy, & I planted our very first garden. We have big tomatoes, grape tomatoes, yellow squash, and bell peppers. I am super excited! Here are some pictures of our progress. Daddy had to put our garden in a cage so the friendly bunnies won't eat all of our veggies. We'll make sure and show you our first crop. Hopefully we'll get a crop.

Right Hand or Left Hand??

Doin' What Guys Do

While mommy & Nana Jo were shopping at the mall, Grampa taught me how to sit and wait. He said that normally you have to hold all their bags to but mommy & Nana Jo didn't buy anything.

Pick a flower then.........

stick it in your nose?

stick it in your ear?

run away from mommy with it in your ear?

Trains!

After we got back from Chuck E Cheese, mommy & daddy surprised me with my very first train set! I love to play trains when I go to church or to Ethan's house so they thought I'd like to have my own trains at home. I'm SO excited to set them up and get to play trains everyday.

Happy 2nd Birthday to ME!

I hit the big 2 yesterday. I'm officially a toddler! Boy, I'm getting old. My age doubled from this time last year. To celebrate I had my first experience with Chuck E Cheese...or as I like to call it, "the mouse". (If you ask me what I did for my birthday, I'll tell you I played at the mouse.) A few friends came with me and we had a great time. There were all kinds of games for me to play as well as fun games for the grown-ups. Mommy made me an Elmo cake this year so I had tons of fun getting red icing all over me and everything around me. It was a great day...can't wait to go to the mouse again.

4am Wake-Up Call

Picture it.....4am, daddy runs into my room, swoops me out of bed and puts me in the closet with mommy. There are no lights, mommy isn't saying much because she's also half asleep and we sit in there as daddy listens to the wind. About 30 minutes later, daddy gets me out of the closet and takes me back to bed. A bad dream....no, it was real. Another tornado in our area. Two years of life, two times in the closet for a tornado (actually more than that if you count being in Ms. Dianna's closet last week).

Anyway, I thought all was back to normal as I snoozed the rest of the night away in my own bed. Little did I know. Mommy got me up at the usual time but brought me breakfast in my room and quickly changed my clothes so we could head to school. She tried to keep me from remembering that I ALWAYS watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on tv as I eat breakfast in the morning (I remembered I was just too tired to say much). Why didn't I get to watch it this morning?....because we had no electricity.

No electricity, a blown down fence, and a lot of missing roof shingles...that's what we got while we hid out in the closet. Got to love it!

Pizza

Tonight mommy & I made a pizza for dinner. After the pizza was in the oven, I had a lot of fun cleaning the dishes. I didn't scrub them in the sink, I cleaned them off my own way. Mommy said that I come by my love for licking the bowl (& spatula) honestly.

New Cup

You know it's been a pretty uneventful week at our house if there's a post on my blog about getting a new cup. I was pretty excited about it. My first cup with a straw, not a sippy lid. Yesterday daddy let me drink out of his cup with a straw so today mommy thought she'd buy me my own.