Still sick...

So we're still sick!  After my last post, Savannah and I proceeded to get the pink eye, JW and I had the flu for over a week, and just yesterday I had a GI bug.  Fun.  Jackson is till coughing, Savannah has so much snot flowing that in the morning her face is caked, and our home feels germ-infested.  Major Lysol this weekend.  JW's okay, hurray!

It's a Sick Christmas, sigh...

So it's a few days before Christmas, and Jackson is sick with a fever.  Then a few minutes ago I heard Savannah upstairs with the telltale "barking" cough of croup...oh joy.  Now both of them are sick for Christmas!  I hope they get better by the 26th so that we can spend the day with family, but if not, oh well, we'll make do.  I just hope they get better and we don't have to go to the ER or anything, since all of the doctors' offices are closed. 

We've been doing the "7" days of Christmas with the kids, giving a little gift each day, so that they're not so overwhelmed on Christmas day.  I wanted Jackson to really enjoy each little thing instead of being so inundated with things that he didn't know what to play with.  It's worked very well.  And I'll probably hide some toys away that he gets on Christmas so that I can bring them out during the year for some fun year round, ha!

Jackson is obsessed with Charlie Brown, specifically the Charlie Brown Christmas movie.  He is convinced that he is Linus, even carrying around his blue blanket.  It's really funny.  It's lasted for a few weeks now.  Every once in awhile he'll be Jackson or Goofy or Mickey Mouse, but usually if you call him Jackson he will say, "I'm not Jackson, I'm Linus!"  It's funny.  I'm grateful to his preschool and Sunday School classes for humoring him and calling him Linus. 

One more funny thing...the other day I said to Jackson, "Hurry up or you'll freeze your butt off," and Jackson replied, "Then how will I go poop?"  Ha!

*I forgot to mention, when Jackson wasn't feeling well, he said, "Pray with me, Mommy!"  So cute!!  Thank you Jesus!*

John the "Bad-ist"

I just HAD to post this one for my future memory bank.  Jackson is of the age where he says some of the most hilarious things.  A few weeks ago, after Sunday School, I asked him what he learned.  He said he learned about a BAD man.  I asked who the bad man was...he answered, "John the Bad-ist."  I chuckled under my breath and asked, "Why was he bad?"  He replied, "Because he went around shouting and yelling at people."  It was hilarious.

The following week, he climbed on my lap after church and announced, "I wanna be bap-tized, mama."  I asked him what that meant, and he said, "I go under the water, come up, and then I'm baptized!"  So cute.

Last week at church, JW led worship, and he was practicing hard all week.  One of the songs is called, "Sing, Sing, Sing," and Jackson had the lyrics memorized and was belting them out at church louder than most of the congregation!  It was hilarious. 

I love my boy!

15 months old...and a new word!

So, Savannah will be 15 months in a few days...and yesterday she said her third word.
1. Dada
2. Mama

3. Jackson!!!!!  It sounds a little funny, very guttoral, but it's totally what she's saying.  It's adorable.!  She just loves her brother.  And I must say, he's not as rough with her anymore.  I don't usually get a lot of time to just see them interact and play--when I'm home it's so rushing from one thing to another, dinner, errands, bath, bed, etc.  So this weekend was kind of lazy and I loved it.  Although Savannah's vocabulary is quite limited, she understands so much, it's very clear, she's just being stubborn.  She points a lot and says, "ah" for everything.  I know what she means usually, though.  She will have her well child check in 2 days, so I will post her stats then.  But she's in 18 month clothes, size 5 shoes, size 4 diapers.  She's pretty much done with baby food, will eat ANYTHING, and loves loves loves to eat.  Her favorites are bananas.  She will eat two in one setting if I let her.  She is just getting into dolls, which is super fun for me!  But she still really loves cars and imitates Jackson playing with his cars on the couch, it's so cute.  She's so snuggly, is still nursing, and I was going to wean her before my sister's wedding, but I think I'll keep going, we love it so much.  I don't pump anymore, thank the Lord, but I will bring the thing to Mexico to get me through the 4 days away from her to keep up my supply.  She definitely has more soft and cuddly transitional objects than Jackson's cars--her fave is Sandra Boynton's cow stuffed animal.  She is the BEST napper and sleeper, it's awesome.  I love you baby girl!

**Update: Her doctor's appt was today and she screamed the ENTIRE time!  She had to get 3 shots too, boo hoo. Her weight was 23 lbs 14 oz and her height was 31.5 inches.  Around the 75th percentile for both, good for her! 

Day Out With Thomas

I'm on call this weekend, but I managed to be speedy during rounds and make it to a family outing--Day Out with Thomas!  We took both kids, and despite a thunderstorm scare, the ride was great (although a bit boring for the adults), and it stopped raining afterwards.  Jackson got his picture taken with Bob the Builder's team, Sir Topham Hat, and Thomas himself!  He was very well-behaved, and even ended the trip by going in the big potty before we left!

Savannah did great!  She's going thru a growth spurt and can't seem to get enough food lately; we stopped at fast food on our way home because we were so hungry, and I felt so bad...I forgot to bring anything for Savannah, and she was watching Jackson eat his fries and screaming and crying because I think she wanted some too!  Even though she had a TON of milk, it wasn't enough. 

She can wave and say "Ha" for hi; she can play patty cake; and she plays peek a boo! 

Tonight before bed, the two of them were running arouind the room making each other laugh, it was so cute!  Jackson was throwing his blanket on her head and we would say, "Where's Savannah?" and she would pull it off and start cracking up!  It was great. 

That's all for now, I'll add pics later!

Random Stuff

So I just wanted to note a few things.  First of all, Savannah now has 4 teeth!  Hurray!  They're not even yet, so it looks really funny.  She also has started saying a word for when she wants to nurse, "Na-na."  Cute!  And she has begun to carry around her little bowl of cheerios, spilling them all in her wake.  It's great.

Jackson is very much into the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.  He will "become" Mickey or Donald or Goofy throughout the course of the day, and we can't call him "Jackson."  He dances to the song at the end of the show, and he now has a Mickey doll he can carry around.  It works really well when Mickey does certain things I want Jackson to do...  He even does "Mousekersize" and runs around like crazy doing flips.  He's a good tumbler! 

Last night, he decided he was Heidi the kitty-kat...so I proceeded to give him milk and "cat food" (dinner), and he actually ate some!  My plans slightly backfired when I threatened to put him in his cage if he didn't behave, and he actually WANTED to go into the cage, at which point I revealed there wasn't really a cage.  Oh well.  :)

So cute, love my kiddos!

And she's.....One Year Old!

A few days late, but here goes...

Dearest Savannah,
You are ONE YEAR OLD! This year has gone by so fast, I can hardly believe it. Here are some of the things you are doing:
You just started to walk a few days before your birthday, and now there is no stopping you. You walk with your little pudgy left arm held up in the air for balance. It's so cute!
You can do, "So Big!" and "Patty Cake" and "Peek-a-Boo!"
You can say "Dada," "Mama," and "Hi."
You can wave hi and bye-bye.
You can climb stairs all by yourself and practically anything else you put your mind to.
You wear size 12-18mo clothes, size 4 diapers, size 4 shoes.
You weigh 22.5lbs and are 29.5 inches long!
You love playing with your peeping eggs and Little People.
You sleep all through the night in your crib, and when you wake up in the morning you play with your stuffed animals and various toys that play you lullabies, and sometimes you even put yourself back to sleep.
You stopped drinking out of a bottle a week before your birthday, so you drink out of a cup with a straw, and you can drink whole milk now! You are still nursing, but I'm going to stop pumping soon at work, :( because you eat so much food and drink whole milk during the day.
You love it when Daddy's snacking; you make a beeline for his snacks and water.
You still love playing with your brother.
You love baths and just figured out how to turn the water on by yourself, joy.

Daddy was in North Carolina on your actual birthday, but we had your party a week later. Gaga and Papa and Aunt Paula traveled so far to celebrate with you! You had so many friends and family show up to see our little one year old! The cupcakes were not my best creation...Red Velvet...but I can't do everything right, right? I went out and bought you a little cake from Meijer later on, but to my relief, you didn't seem to like it any better than you liked my cupcakes, which you did eat quite a bit of.

I love you so much and I am so proud of you, Princess!