Birthday boy

Jackson's birthday was on the 2nd and he turned three years old. Where did my baby go? We had a fun family day that started with him waking up to streamers and balloons everywhere, which by the way we could have stopped there. He could have played with the balloons all day long. We went to Panera for breakfast which is Jackson's favorite place to eat (mommy's too, purely coincidental) and then to wal-mart to look around (sadly a favorite too), followed by petsmart where he picked out a dark blue fish that he has since named simply "dark" short for dark blue, her color. Mommy was tired from being big and pregnant so then Daddy and Jackson went to the park and out for ice cream. The day ended with presents and cake. What a fun day.

The easiest cake I could think to make was Mickey Mouse who luckily he is really into right now, so it worked out. He likes the classic cartoons and has started to watch his first tv show of Mickey Mouse clubhouse which has evolved into that plus 2-3 others on playhouse disney. I figure I will do whatever I can to occupy him at this point and deal with the guilt later.
(didn't take the time to fix the bad red eye, sorry)

Just like Mommy

Does he have the I'm tired of being huge and pregnant look down or what?

Jackson came out of his room the other day and said look "just like mommy, a big belly like mommy". He's nice enough to point out on a daily, sometimes hourly basis "wow, mommy's belly is big" and other comments that I really don't need pointed out daily by this point in the pregnancy.

I just want to be happy

I had to share a quick story as Jackson says so many funny things these days that blow me away. He is into labeling emotions on us and himself and has even used the phrase "I'm frustrated". The other day a few weeks ago he was having a really rough day and was crying about everything all day long and fighting me on everything. After nap he woke up and was just near tears about everything I asked him to do or not do. I finally said to him, "honey, what's wrong with you today do you need some cuddle time?" and he said to me so sad and serious, "mom, i just want to be happy." I asked him what he said and he said it again, " I just want to be happy". I guess sometimes we all just have bad days and can't snap out of it even at two. It gave me perspective on difficult days, that maybe he's not trying to be difficult that he just might be having a bad day too.

It's been so long I almost forgot how.....

OK, so no surprise to anyone I am horrible at blogging. I'm guessing I'm not going to get any better at it once baby number two arrives, so I'm going to stop apologizing, this is who I am. I'm going to post as much as I can tonight but they are probably going to be out of order and all over the place because I'm so behind. I'm going to start with the post recent and head back. I'm 36 weeks pregnant today which is a pretty big accomplishment, come tomorrow I will have carried longer than with Jackson which was the big goal. One more shot to the hip and I'm free to have her. I'm ashamed to say that when I had a strong bout of contractions this week my first thought was you can not come out until I get my hair cut, knowing it would be forever until I had the chance again. So mission accomplished here's the new 'do......

This was my mid-life sticking my tongue out at my mom. When I was growing up I always wanted bangs and my mom would never let me have them so I finally decided to try it at 26. I finally got the bad orange hair color completely taken away, yeah, worth every penny.