An update on Jackson

Jackson is a full fledged crazy, busy, funny, 2 1/2 year old!! Here are a few picture of what he has been up to in the last couple weeks (besides our whole potty training fiasco).

Here is a site you will see DAILY at our place. A row or line up of cars somewhere in the house. The arm of the couch is a favorite place. He loves to drive them down the "ramp". He has always loved cars; and all type of cars and trains are still his favorite toys bar none.

We made a fort the other day for him to play in. Once I got it all done I told him to get his cars to play in the fort with.... of course he didn't want to play IN the fort-- instead he drove his cars on TOP of the fort... haha silly boy.One of my pet peeves that he tends to do is get on our bed and pull all the pillows on top of him. Or he will throw them all on the floor. For some reason it drives me crazy!! I just want my pillows to be nicely in place on the bed. One day we made a "nest" for him.... he requested a picture (which is something he always does when he thinks he is doing something cute or cool; he asks for a picture! haha!!)

He has also been into his stuffed animals lately. They all sleep in his bed with him at night and one day while he was watching a movie he wanted all his animals to watch too. I thought it was cute how he lined them all up on the couch with him. (Oh and don't mind the ghetto towels on the couch... this was when we started potty training and I didn't want him to have an accident while sitting there) Justin and I have both been trying to be dedicated in running and exercising. Therefore, Jacks has seen us often get in our running clothes and head out the door. One day when Daddy left Jackson got on my running shoes and sunglasses and declared that "Jackson goin runnin! Bye Mom! See you later dude" (yes that was his exact sentence... he calls me mom a lot now instead of just Mommy)
He also likes to stretch with us when we get back from running:
And last, he LOVES pictures! Whenever I snap any type of picture he HAS to see it after. Now instead of just looking at the pictures he has figured out how to take pictures. He got a hold of the camera and started snapping some shots. Below is what is picture worthy to a 2 year old:

My favorite is the last picture in the bottom right hand corner. It is a picture of the TV.... whoever guesses first who it is gets a prize! :)

Jackson's imagination is beginning to really blossom and it is so cute. Here are a couple funny stories.

1- The other day he was looking out the window and started to yell down at the cars. This is what I heard. "Hey car!! Hey! Jacksons talkin to you! Mere (come here) car! Hey! [Where you] Goin cars?!"

2- We were having a fun at the dinner table one night and decided to tell a story and let Jackson fill in the blanks. He actually did a really good job with this so we wrote his story down. (The underlined words are his, and I had to add a couple of words to make it make sense)

Once upon a time there was a barn. And in that barn lived Mommy and Daddy. One day they went and got some milk to give to Santa. They took the milk to [the] table. But they thought that Santa needed something to go with the milk so they got him chips. Santa came and left something for them, it was a car! So they took the car drivin and went and saw [some] dogs. The dogs were [taking] a bath. And they all lived happily ever treat! The End

And there you have it.... our crazy,busy, funny Jackson in a nutshell.