Siblings

My babies love each other so much - even at such young ages. Jackson just lights up when Rachel is around and wants to watch everything she does. Rachel wants Jackson to know everything she is doing and is such a good helper with him. I can't wait to see how their relationship continues to develop as they each get older! (Since they do have to get older - if I could choose, I'd make them stay babies...)

She's trying to help him stand up here - but he's just too heavy!

She wants to help feed him (for a little while anyways)...but look who did the work here...! He can hold his bottle for short periods of time if he wants it bad enough.

Here is Jackson trying on Rachel's bunny ears that Nana brought!

Class Pictures

Here are the kids' class pictures from this year.

Rachel is in the top row - smiling as usual.

Jackson is third from the right on the bottom row - not even looking at the camera...silly boy. It's got to be hard taking a picture of that many babies and having them sit still - much less looking at the camera.

Just wanted to share!

Nannette's 70th Birthday

Happy Birthday to Nannette! She's 70 years young! Last weekend we went to the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant for brunch and it overlooks the runway at a local airport. It was fun to sit and watch the planes and helicopters taking off and landing all morning. The food was delicious too!!















I think Rachel had just about as much fun as anyone! She was laughing and enjoying herself the whole time! Jackson had a bit of a dear-in-the-headlights look most of the time...

The Circus

Michael took Rachel to her first circus on Friday morning. She was very excited about going.

He was waiting in line and she wanted to see what was inside...I thought this was a cute picture.


They got there early to go down on the floor and experience things first hand.


Her tatoo on her hand.


Dancing with the instructor...

Her treasured cotton candy came in this cute hat!



She had a really good time even though she may have been a tad young to really enjoy all of it.

Teeth!!

We now have teeth! Well, Jackson does anyways. His two bottom teeth came in at the same time a few weeks ago and was actually pretty easy. We took a few minutes last weekend to try and get some pictures of his new pearly whites...it was a little difficult. But we did get some really cute pictures of him!


See them down there?



Sweet boy...




"I said stop messing with my mouth!!"


So there you go. And actually, just yesterday we discovered he has one popping through on the top and possibly the other top one about to come through! These don't seem to be as easy...

Our Visit to Charlotte

Well, we finally made it back to Charlotte for a visit and we managed to see almost the entire family - even if only for a short period of time. I forgot to take my camera to dinner Friday night so I don't have any pictures of that night unfortunately...

Saturday morning we went to the park with Grandpa. Rachel loves feeding the ducks (or geese in this case).






She didn't actually ride with Jackson on there - we just set him on there for a minute - and that was long enough!

We made a stop by Great-Grandmother Perkin's house - she met Jackson for the first time!

And we went to the playground Sunday morning as well with Nana... Rachel loves playgrounds and will go anytime you ask her.

Jackson getting in on the swinging action...

Rachel loves bags...

Overall it was a very good trip. We drove during nap time in hopes that Rachel would sleep some of it - but that didn't happen - either time. She stayed awake and never even closed her eyes. But it wasn't too bad. Jackson slept pretty much both drives - which was great. It was his first road trip and he handled it like a pro!

The Past Few Weeks

Jeffrey and Constance came over for dinner a few weeks ago... Jackson proudly wore his "My Aunt Rocks" shirt that Constance had bought him... So cute!

He loves to eat his socks!

We started Jackson on cereal about a week ago. So far he is not loving it. This was his first experience with it.

I couldn't get it in his mouth fast enough (for the first minute or so - that soon stopped.)

And that was enough of that!

We actually had a pretty weekend last weekend - it was almost 70 degrees outside! So we took our lunch outside and had a picnic...


Our happy little guy... He is six months old now - I just can't believe it's going so fast. I want him to stay a baby b/c he's so sweet and innocent...