Smiling through the plague

Ahhh nothing like a warm welcome to fall with a nice fat head/chest cold. Jackson brought the plague home and now we all have it. It's a good thing that Jackson does adorable new things to make me smile and forget I feel like death.

Cute new things:
1. The other day Jackson was trying to saying something that I couldn't understand and was pointing to the kitchen counter...I walked over and pointed to each thing and he said "no...no...no" until I pointed to the kleenex box and he exclaimed YES. So I pulled out a tissue and handed it to him fully expecting him to either eat it or rip in into tiny microscopic pieces but he totally shocked me by precisely wiping his nose clean and then asking to put the used tissue in the trash. HUH??!! No one taught him to wipe his own nose and he totally did it! Hoping this trend will continue once we get to bum wiping. :)

2. Saying pweease (please) when he really wants something. So dang cute. Also didn' teach him that. I think he just knows I can resist when he looks at me with the big blue eyes and says "pwwwease". I'm suck a sucker.

3. Walking Finnegan. Jackson will take the tag on Finnegan's collar and lead him around the kitchen circle. And of course Finnegan is such a sweetie and totally lets him.

Those are just a few of the flipping adorable new things Jackson has started doing. I simply can't stand how cute he is sometimes.

Coooo-Keeeey

Jackson's latest obsession has the dogs leaving lakes of drool on the kitchen floor that nearly led me to hitting my head on the dishwasher. He saw me give the pups a bisquit and now he wants to give them a "cooo-keeey" oh about every 1.3 seconds. Obviously the dogs are loving this new pastime. I have to lie to Jackson and tell him all the cookies are gone or I fear we'll have a VERY fat, VERY happy Lab, a 200lb Newfie mix and a Rat Terrier shaped like a basketball.

You can see him saying "cooooo-keeeey" in the pics above. :)

I'm NAKED!!!!

The uh-oh heard around the world....as Jackson took of his pj's by himself. As you can tell from the photo he was uber pleased with himself. I'm hoping it was only a fluke since these pj's don't have the little snap tab over the zipper. (fingers crossed)

Giggles at the zoo

Jackson also LOVES to play his version of "red light, green light" but he says bop (stop) and go. He always busts out laughing when you stop after he does. And he'll play this game for what seems like forever!



On Sunday Jackson and I headed to our local zoo to take advantage of our beautiful weather. We got there soon after it opened and it was nearly deserted! We had a great time checking out all the animals, had a close encounter with a free ranging emu and were lucky enough to hear a monkey symphony. So in other words a perfect day for two animal nuts. :)

Our little zoo has a wonderful petting zoo and Jackson completely LOVES the goats. He squeals with delight when the goats nibble on his fingers and will go from goat to goat to get nibbles. LOL Here are a few pics I snapped of him after getting said nibbles.

And we have had heard many new words recently!

-cractor (tractor-new obsession)
-apple
-I wub you (will repeat it when you say it to him)
-pider (spider)
-ghoss (ghost) and will say ooooooo when you ask him what ghost says
-pupkin (pumpkin)
-pissa (pizza)
-settle (as told to the dogs)
-poopy
-hole cow (holy cow)
-okayyy
-hot
-toofbush/toofpase
-get nice (said to the dogs before they take a treat)

He has also started saying Hi and bub-bye to strangers...which he NEVER did before. It's really cute. :)