I'm a big kid now!!

On Thursday night after my softball game we decided to change Jackson's crib into a toddler bed. The first couple of nights have been pretty rough, but (the 4th night in his bed) he slept the whole night! Here are some pictures of the process...



Jackson thinks he is helping, but really just getting in the way!


So we found something else to occupy the time...a video on youtube!




Yay, all done!! His favorite part of having a big boy bed is jumping on and off!


Look at that face, he is so happy!



Time to get some sleep (yeah right)!

Five on Friday

1. The other night Jeff, Jackson and I went outside to play with Jackson's new cozy coupe car!! I had gone out the garage and Jeff followed and shut the garage door behind him. No big deal the front door was open, or at least we thought it was open. When I got home from work and brought Jackson inside I locked the screen door so he wouldn't go outside, I forgot to unlock it before going upstairs. If you know Jeff he is obsessed about locking and closing doors. Jeff immediately went into panic mode and proceeded to climb on the grill, hold onto the shingles and then stand on my shoulders in order to get a grip on the deck. He hoisted himself up, climbed over the railing and onto the deck. Luckily the deck door was open otherwise we would have been in trouble. Once we got the door open we went back inside...all that for being outside for less than 10 minutes.

2. We had a big event for work last night...our 4th annual Summer Celebration! Every year we have a raffle with great prizes and its held in Northeast Minneapolis. For the last 3 years that I have been employed at PRI I have been in charge of money collecting portion of the raffle. No big deal you would think...except we have some real interesting people that work for PRI and have no idea how to be organized. For the last month I have been entering the money with the corresponding tickets into a spreadsheet. Our grand total was $10,880.00!! It was great to see the money come in and we exceeded our goal this year!!

3. Jackson has been really loving the outside weather and will constantly ask to go outside and ride in his new car (cozy coupe). I have to admit I am enjoying the outside weather as well. Funny side note, it was raining on Tuesday night and Jackson wanted to go outside in the rain, so we undressed him and let him out on the deck...it was hilarious! I have pictures...I will post them later.

4. Having a hard time thinking of things to say on my blog lately...so you will probably see me post every other Friday unless my life suddenly becomes more interesting.

5. It's Friday!! Yay!! Looking forward to Jeff's nephew Ryan's graduation open house on Saturday and pricing clothes for a garage sale on Wednesday-Friday next week. Should be a pretty good weekend.

Five on Friday

Five random things that are going on in my life at the moment...

1. Work, work, work...this week has been about midnight on Thursday! What does this mean you ask?? Well, every 1st of the month I have the "glorious privilege" of billing 225 clients that attend our programs. Sounds easy you might think, but there is a cut off of when all the claims have to be entered and this week it was Thursday by midnight. This meant I had 4 days to enter in all the data (well really only 3 days since Monday I was in meetings all day). I decided I would push, push, push to get it done and I did it in 3 days!! I worked 32 hours in 3 days, but its done!! So if any of you saw my post on FB that this is what I am referring to as being a workaholic just this week!

2. Last weekend was a weird one...On Friday all day I felt fine, when I got home Jeff thought it would be cool to get Little Ceaser's Pizza for dinner. I started by having a Mike's Hard Lemonade and waited for him to bring home the "Ghetto Pizza" as he calls it. Well he called me and said the line was extremely long and we should get something else. At this point I was no longer in the mood to think of anything else and so we ate nothing. At about 7:30 I started to get the chills and feel very cold but I was really warm. My stomach was a little nauseous but I was attributing this to drinking alcohol on an empty stomach. I decided to take my temp it was 101.5! We got Jackson to bed and I took some Ibuprofen and went to bed too. I woke up at around 2:30am and had a pounding headache, so much that I thought I was going to puke. I got up and took some more Ibuprofen. Jeff had to work all day Saturday and I was just praying whatever this was would just pass since it was me and Jackson to fend for ourselves most of the day. Well Jackson was up at 6:45am and I was still miserable. At this point I had a full blown MIGRAINE...if you have experienced a migraine you know what I am talking about. I put a movie on for Jackson and crawled into bed praying he would be safe in the house without me watching him. A couple hours later and nothing had changed on my end I decided to call Jeff's parents and make an appointment at Urgent Care. Jeff's dad Jack ended up driving me in and Jeff's mom Pat stayed to watch Jackson. The weird thing was that I still had a fever (101). After all the questions and poking a prodding the Dr. decided to give me a shot of Ktortol (sp?) basically a big dose of ibuprofen and also write me a prescription for Imitrex (migraine meds). After I got the shot (in my butt) I had to stay in the room for up to 20 min. to make sure nothing happened to me, I guess? Long story shorter I took the migraine meds and it still didn't go away, my fever went even higher then finally broke at about 6:00pm that night...the migraine was finally gone by Sunday daytime and I had some relief. It really stinks having migraines.

3. Jackson, Jeff and I have been enjoying walks around the path in our neighborhood lately! Jackson has become pretty independent when walking but been really good about staying close to mom and dad! The other night just Jackson and I walked around the ponds and saw some ducks and geese, ran through the sprinklers, and watched the ants build their house on the sidewalk...it was a very entertaining evening.

4. As most of you know I am playing on our Church women's softball team. Last week we had a double header. We had to be at the field by 5:45pm and with me working in SLP it can be challenging to get home by 5:30 if I leave after 4:20pm. I got to the ball field by 6:00pm and luckily the baseball game was still going on so I didn't miss anything. What I did miss that night was the fact that I am getting older and not as agile as I used to be. I pulled both my groin muscles and both quads...it really, really sucked for the next week walking around and even getting in and out of the car. Next week calls for a really good stretch BEFORE the game!

5. So many babies are being born this Spring and Summer! Jeff and I have talked about having another baby, but as we see it our living quarters would have to change before this happens. We do not have room for another little one and I have never liked where we live. This would mean putting our house on the market again and I dread this. We have tried to sell our townhouse for over 4 years off and on I mind you but still it really stinks when reality hits you and no one wants our house. Makes you feel like your stuck and your house isn't good enough. I hate failure, so as I see it no babies in our future for at least another year or so.

Fun times with Jackson!

The last couple of months Jackson has been doing so much more helping out and getting to be a big boy. We made cookies together, he helped with spring cleaning by putting on all of my workout clothes at one time, and drinking out of my milk glass at dinner!

Making cookies with Mommy!!


Eating cookies...yummy!


Jackson decided to try on all of my clothes and walk around the house. We tried for hours to take a layer at a time off and he refused. Silly little boy.

Jackson is becoming so much more independent these days...here he is with my milk from dinner and not giving it back :)

Looking so innocent...

Good job buddy!!

Yummy milk!

We have enjoyed going to the park and walks in Bunker Hills. Jackson was such a big boy on our long walk he walked by himself most of the way and even carried his own water cup! He got a little tired at the end of the walk and sat on Daddy's shoulders...he thought he was pretty cool. More pics to come of the summer months!!

Trying out text messaging to my blog to see if it really works. If so it would me a more convienient way to update my blog.

Pictures

Just thought I should post some pictures of our family since its been a while...some of our friends took these pictures and did an amazing job!

Jeff and Jackson :)

He is too cute!



Jackson picking his nose :)

Our little family! I like this one too!

25 Random Things

I decided I would finally finish my 25 random things and post them on my Blog. Here goes...


1. I hate the phrase, “what’s for dinner?” it makes me very crabby.
2. I had my appendix out when I was 6 months pregnant with Jackson
3. I love to organize, but can never seem to get things in order.
4. My son cried for the first 10 months of his life. (I still have no idea why, apparently neither does he)
5. sometimes I say things and wish I hadn’t (happens way too often)
6. I had my Gallbladder out 1 week after we got back from our honeymoon.
7. I love Ellen DeGeneres; I think she is one of the funniest comedians.
8. My favorite sound in the world is listening to my son laugh
9. I have been to every state in the USA and 4 continents.
10. I love playing games any kind, but love video games the most.
11. I really like hardware stores and find myself dreaming of how I can remodel the home we don’t even own.
12. I love listening to music especially stuff that no one has ever heard before!
13. I have very expensive taste, but never have the funds to purchase…one word “Coach”
14. I don’t like loosing touch with friends I feel as if I caused the friendship to be distant or non-existent if I do.
15. I get these really weird hiccup things (mostly after I drink or eat something) that cause others to look strangely and wonder what to say.
16. I love to laugh especially the kind where you can’t breathe and you start crying uncontrollably from laughing so hard.
17. I am a very independent person and sometimes forget that I have a husband and a child. Doesn’t work to well.
18. The first car I purchased was a 1985 Mercury Topaz named “Nugget” I had leopard print seat covers and leopard print wrapping paper taped to the inside roof of the car. It was great!!
19. I have completed a triathlon and didn’t even train for it. (Not smart).
20. I am a terrible cook (refer back to #1) but have managed to cook at home for over a month now.
21. I really like good deals and use coupons whenever they are available
22. I love to play softball I get exhilarated when I hit homeruns
23. I used to want 6 children but now I might be okay with just 1 (refer to #4)
24. I really dislike “The Wiggles” but I always dance when I hear the song, “Hot Potato”
25. I have really big hands and feet and have a hard time finding shoes (it stinks).