Posted by Kristen on Jul 2, 2010 in Uncategorized | 0 comments
Memorial Day weekend we spent time with family and friends. We went to a BBQ at our friends the Edward’s house on Saturday night and then spent Memorial day with Ryan and Stephanie and the girls at the pool.
when we left for Bogota all of our church friends were pregnant or maybe had one little one…the group as multiplied!
Owen got to take his first swim with his cousins! He loved the water and was happy to lounge!
yep, it’s a pipe. don’t ask. We don’t know where he learned this.
crashed on the couch watching Beauty and the Beast after a fun afternoon at the pool!
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Posted by Kristen on Jul 2, 2010 in Uncategorized | 0 comments
In the end of May we went strawberry picking and took a picnic to an overlook on Skyline drive in the Shenandoah Valley with my brother and his family. I remember going there as a child with my family on vacation so it brought back lots of memories. The kids were great strawberry pickers and had so much fun.
The next day Jackson and I made strawberry bread with our fresh strawberries! He was so proud of his pick!
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Posted by Kristen on Aug 19, 2009 in Uncategorized | 0 comments
We are a little behind on getting this posted. I sat down to finally get the pictures up and announce the name and the pictures won’t load…grrrr. So, Seth will once again have to work on them! We promise we will post some good stuff soon!
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oh my goodness….2 years old is sneaking up on us!! Jackson has had a fun month and is learning so much. He has been talking for a while now but seems to be talking so much now…and to everyone!! He is now using 2 words together like “need people” (for his little people). A couple of days ago I had a couple of little boys here for speech therapy. Jackson loves to see the “big kids”. He was doing “high 5” with one of the little boys and started cracking up. He said to the little boy “you funny”. Today he came in and saw Elmo laughing on his video and said “elmo funny”. He is also using lots of action words like “raining”, “sleeping”, “running”, and “eating”. He loves to comment on how fast he goes when he runs. He learned “fast” with daddy! A couple of nights ago I kissed Jackson and told him I loved him. He said “thank you, mommy”.
He is really playing with his toys now. He does some pretend play with his little people. He enjoys pretending to feed them and shares his sippy cup. He named one of his little people Sonia. For those of you that don’t remember that was our first maid. Yesterday he insisted that Sonia come in the car with us. Everywhere we went he told people that it was Sonia. Very funny. He has caught on to the names of some of our front door guards. His favorite is Juan Carlos. When we go down the elevator he starts asking if Carlos is there. Every morning the guards comment on how cold it is outside. Just last week Jackson popped out of the elevator and proclaimed “frio”…for cold in Spanish! They all broke into laughter that he understood their system!!
Other favorite activities are coloring and the bean bucket. The bean bucket is a big tupperware of dry beans that we hide plastic toys in and go hunting. We scoop and pour and say “ay a you?” (“where are you?”). It’s a nice activity to do inside on rainy days if you spread out a towel under. Jackson now knows the beans stay on the towel. Jackson has a tantrum every single time the activity ends.
Jackson’s big adventure coming up is that we are flying home to TX to take him to the farm for a few days. The whole trip will be an adventure but we think he is going to love the farm. He loves cows and horses at the moment so it will be fun when he realizes he gets to be so close to them!
wiped out after church; about to get in trouble for sitting on arm of couch and jumping off; Easter egg display at mall; kissing Ruthie’s picture because I said we needed to give her birthday kisses.
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