Handsome x 2

Does it get any better looking than my two sweet boys? I don't think so!

Jackson's Letter to Santa 2006

Dear Santa,

I have been a good boy.

Cody wants cars.

I want markers and wooden Thomas track. (Neville and a caboose, a coach, and that crane thingie.) Also a truck that I saw at Target. And the machine to make Slurpees.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

That is the ABC's, Santa. I know them.

Love,

Jackson

A conversation with Jackson 11/30

(while making banana bread after he successfully cracked 2 eggs into a bowl BY HIMSELF...and helped me make stew this morning by peeling a potato and cutting it with a butter knife)

Me: Jacks, you are really good at this. Do you think you might be a chef one day?

J: Yeah.

Me: Do you know what a chef is?

J: Yeah.

Me: What is it?

J: A cooker.

Me: Right.

(later)

Jackson: Yep, I think I'm going to be a chafe when I'm big.

Me: I know it!

J: I know it, too. I think I could even make pizza. Not now, but when I'm bigger. Like 11.

:)

Time for Hot Chocolate

Nothing better after playing in the freezing cold than warming up with a cup of hot chocolate! And this is the good stuff, made by Godiva. Of course, I'm not sure the cocoa gurus at Godiva intended their sacred chocolate goop to be drunk through a straw, but so be it. :)

SNOW 2006!!!!

We woke up to snow after nap today!!! Jacks immediately put on all his cold weather gear and ran outside, for fear it would be gone before he had a chance to fully enjoy it. Cody, on the other hand, chafed against the suggestion of a jacket. Having convinced him he needed at least that, I lost the battle over the gloves and hat (the latter mainly because his head is too dang big for his hat from last year!). Once outside, Jacks had fun touching the snow and the frozen water in the lid of our sandbox (yes, we left it open....oops), but Cody was disgusted by the cold and kept blowing on his hands after touching the snow, hoping to warm them up. Jacks was slightly disappointed that the snow wasn't sticky enough to make a good snowball, but we had fun trying. We didn't stay out too long, but it was great to have snow to really get us in the holiday spirit!

Meg and Anthony go to Prom

Not technically about the brothers, but just for you K-K! :)

Santa Visit 2006

I took them today because I figured that after tomorrow's MRI, Cody's goodwill towards his fellow man will have disappeared LOL. Honestly, I didn't have high hopes for today either after he kept telling random people NONO, but as soon as he saw Santa he walked right up to him. Santa asked him to give 5, and he did...then he went over to Santa's other hand and gave 5 there, too, since Jacks was being shy and not responding.

Once on Santa's lap, Cody wouldn't smile but at least he wasn't screaming and crying! This is progress, and I was completely gobsmacked. Anthony said Cody looked like a mob boss who was thinking, "Oh Mama. You made a big mistake. Big. No one puts me in Santa's lap. Ever. Now you're going to have to sleep with the fishies."

And Jacks told Santa he wanted "fresh markers since Cody dried out the old ones" and wooden trains.

Ho Ho Ho!