I Love Jackson!

Yellowstone National Park!

This is some more of our trip to Yellowstone, I posted them backwards, scroll down if you want the intro, hehe.


So this is Jackson with some of his cousins that were there. That is my brother, Jared with Judd and his wife standing behind him.

This is Jackson pretending to get his hand bit off. He loved all the statues by the way. There was this big bear on it's hind legs in the center of the round about on the way to our hotel that we passed every day and he thought it was SO COOL! We didn't get a picture with it b/c Judd said we could cause an accident.

These are ALL the stairs that Jackson climbed all by himself! he did NOT want ANY help. He didn't even want me to hold his hand. Look at the very top left of the pic, that is the road where the stairs began. Jackson was a great walker the whole week. He did very good and never asked to be carried.

This is me and Jackson at the bubbling springs at Mammoth which are mostly dormant now. Judd and I came here 4 years ago and it was beautiful but they had a little earthquake a couple years ago and shifted everything so the old boardwalk is all built around dormant falls now. Below is Judd with Porter.

Yellowstone National Park!

We took a trip to Yellowstone in May. We had SO much fun. My mom got us hotel suites with a kitchen and living room which we shared with my sister and her family. We also had two of my brothers up with their families. We stayed for ONE WHOLE WEEK! We had so much fun. We stayed in West Yellowstone and we got to see the whole park. We did a little everyday. Jackson would only last until about 2:00 (when he woke up from a nap in the car.) So we would try to get up and get into the park early everyday and then by two we would come home and lounge in the hotel. They had a playground for the kids and a huge pool which we used everyday. Jackson was in heaven!!!

This is some of us looking at the mudpots. This was a nice 1/4 mile hike (roundtrip)HAHA so really short and sweet!

This is the bear and wolf museum that we went to on a day that it was raining. They had real bears and wolves and some birds it was pretty cool.

This is Jackson and Porter in the Museum sitting on a real bear rug. They had it out so you could feel what bear hair felt like

This how we toted Porter around when we were on the board walks or on short hikes. He was Daddy's buddy

and this is Jackson feeding the statue Elk his sandwhich! haha
we had a lot of FUN thankyou MOM!!!

Beans

I forgot that beans are a baby friendly food! I am so happy. I know Porter is just a baby and up until now all he has had is milk all day and all night! But ever since I started babyfood, and it's been 2 months, I feel like he needs more variety in his life. What if all I had to eat for 2 whole months was just squash, sweet potatoes, carrots and peas? Oh did I say more squash? or and green beans, and squash again, and then sweet pototoes, oh wait here's some apple sauce, and squash agian...okay okay you get it...I forgot about beans! he loved them when I gave them to him today! just the really soft mushy kind that come in the can and taste like brown sugar. Oh boy! oh boy! he loved em!

I have tried meats but they make him gag. I have tried bread, which he LOVES and graham crackers too! He eat's those baby num nums but all of the above are "self eating foods" so he gets really, really messy, So I have to be in a really laid back mood to give him that stuff.

sorry this may be a borring post for most, so here's a picture.

Muscle Man

He was in this bouncer, then he flipped himself out, and pushed up on it! haha! he is a strong boy...I wish I had abbs like that.

So Porter has started doing push-ups!! NO BOY slow down! I do NOT want you to crawl anytime soon! but I'm afraid it wont be long now...

And of course, as soon as Jackson saw me grab the camera he wanted to show me the push-ups he could do! I love my muscle men!

Some bath time pics

Yeah! Porter is getting big enough to have a bath with Jackson. Jackson is very excited too whenever I decide to take the time to put Porter in the bath with him. It's hard for Jackson not to splash like crazy with excitment! but I think Porter is getting used to the splashes of water! Jackson's favorite thing to do is scoop up water with his toys and then dump the water out on Porter's head!!! what are big brothers for?? haha!!