HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY

Two days ago, January 20th, Was Jackson's Birthday! We started the morning at 7:15 which I would normally yell at him to go back to bed, but instead I got up and turned on his favorite cartoons while I made him these Micky Mouse pancakes!

He was WAY excited to eat them. Micky Mouse is probably the only pancake that I could make that he would actually be able to recognise! haha! he thought they were great.

Then! Our ward does a social group! And there happened to be a meeting on his birthday so I took cup cakes and we had all the kids sing happy birthday to him why he got to blow out the candles!! YOU should have seen his face. He thought he was SO special! It was awsome!

Then that night we had a big family party. Judd made sweet, sweeeeeet pork, and I made "cafe Rio" beans and rice. And we had these delicious burritos! I made Jackson this dragon cake, which I am SO proud of. Mostly because Judd didn't think I could do it. But VUALA!! there it stands!

AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, Jackson loved his cake too. Look at that smile! We relit the candles a few times because he just LOVED blowing them out!...to see more birthday, keep scrolling down!

Jackson loved tearing into his presents! He knew just what to do because he got lots of practise at Christmas time.

OooOOo The Jungle Book. This is one of his most favorite movies! (The other is Lady and the Tramp and the movie Up)

This is a lovely Tshirt his Uncle Juston and soon-to-be Aunt Nicole got him when they went to New York City over Christmas break!

WOO HOOO! this was the biggest hit of the night! Grandma found Jackson a "Steel Stork" Car Carrier! He loves this toy and he played with it all night and all day the next day and today too! I got him that plastic one that's red from the dollar store. Boy does he just love the "Steel Stork" one! Grandma's know best!

Thanks everyone for celebrating another year with our little boy Jackson. Look at him, he is just SO proud to be TWO!

birthday continued

Jackson in his Grandpa's arms. He is a proud TWO year old!!














Jackson loved to open presents. He knew just what to do (christmas time was good practise)

Okay, so not the best picture of Jackson, HAHA but this was by far his favorite present of the night, a steel stork car carrier. oOOoooOOo he loves to play with this!! Thanks grandma and grandpa

This is from Uncle Juston and Aunt Nicole. They went to New York for christmas and brought Jackson home this lovely T-shirt.

This is another GREAT gift. Jackson loves the Jungle Book. Now he has his very own!

My Naky Boys

Porter is doing great. You can tell by that huge smile! We took him to his WIC appointment yesterday and he weighed 11 pounds! he is two months on the 16th. His length was 22 1/2 inches! So he is a growing boy. He gained TWO pounds this month...Jackson was 11lbs at 1 month haha! but it is SO fun to see Porter watch me walk around the room. He follows me with his eyes so well. He smiles EVERY time he sees me. And when he smiles really big he has a dimple. I hope that sticks and it's not just a dimple from fat.My Naky boys. Jackson is still doing SO well with him. He loves him SO much. Almost every time Jackson throws a tizzy fit and we draw his attention to Porter he stops crying instantly and starts smiling. He sings songs to Porter. He talks to him. He says "hello" to him every morning. He loves to cuddle him. It is just SO funny!
But Judd's mom, Sue, says that Judd was JUST LIKE THAT with his brothers and sister...So tender. It really makes my days easier to see them bonding so well. . . It also makes me want to have more kids. HAHA but don't worry we are still waiting a while.

HAPPY 1 MONTH BIRTHDAY

Today at 7:40 PM Porter will be 1 month old!! He has grown so much since we brought him home from the hospital. He can focus really well on our faces now and look into our eyes. Which is really fun and special. He is also getting pretty strong. He is a very sweet baby and LOVES to be held. He will never fuss if he is being held! AND today he started smiling at me when I coo at him. He really can smile! it's not gas or muscle spasms, everytime I coo he gets a smile. It's so cute, what a special gift to me for his 1 month birthday. Jackson didn't smile at us for cooing at him until he was 3 months old!..just a difference in personality! Porter also nurses longer. Jackson just gulped the milk down! Porter also has a cute little cry, like a lamb!
So I thought I would do a little comparrison between him and Jackson. I have Jackson's baby book and I have a picture of him at 1 month. I also have the same outfit that the picture was taken in so I put it on Porter and snapped the camera! They look so much alike to me in person..but the pictures show differences. the angles are different, and Porter's hair is fluffed out because I just gave him a bath, so it's kind of distracting. ANYWAY there are differences..I just can't tell you what they are.

Porter on top and Jackson on bottom. Remember the angles are different and so is the coloring.

They both have my nose, my lips, my cheeks, judd's eyes, judd's hair line, judd's brow... I think Jackson was just more chubby, haha! and that is the difference. Jackson is 11lbs in his picture and Porter is 91/2 lbs.

Jackson

Okay how could you NOT love this smilie face?

Jackson and I built a tower of lego blocks today and he had a lot of fun bringing out the old toys

Porter's contribution...okay so I stuck that block in his hand. I am such a poser!

It's a pretty awsome tower huh? mostly I am posting to let you know I think Jackson is happy to have his mom back. The last few days I have been able to give him about an hour of just one on one attention where we play together. Not watch TV (which we have been doing A LOT of since the little babe got here) So he has been a happier boy. Now I need to work on making it be around the same time everyday so he can depend on it.

I just want to say I LOVE BEING A MOM OF TWO BOYS!! It is SO fun. I love it when I have BOTH of them on my lap. Or when they are BOTH snuggling me in my bed...of course it's not all fun and snuggles. But those times sure make up for the lack of sleep, and the crankiness (that applys to me, Jackson, Porter, AND Judd!) I just love to look at them together. And just imagine all the fun stuff they are going to get to do together. All the stuff Jackson is going to get to teach his little brother.

Porter with his brother

This picture was taken at 3AM after I fed Porter I stuck him in Judd's pit instead of in his own crib since Jackson was in bed with us too. I dont think Judd even knew. He NEVER wakes up when I feed Porter or when I change his diaper, or when I turn the light on, or when I have to change his whole outfit bc he pooped on everything! Anyway I couldn't pass the photo op.

Okay so the last two nights we have had Jackson in our bed with us becuase he has had a night cough so he doesn't sleep good at night. Jackson is also in his own big boy bed and he does well except if he wakes up at night it is impossible to get him to go back to his own bed. Well he doesn't ever really wake up except sinse he's had this cough. ANYWAY he has slept better with us since he's been sick. So we have had both boys in our bed last night (we usually don't have Porter in their either) So it's been really fun.

The next few pics are of just the brothers...tender, I konw.

These are blurry, sorry!