I'm One!!!!!!

Jackson


Ryan
is

one!!

I can hardly believe my baby is one! This year has flown by. But at the same time it's hard to imagine our lives without him! I feel like he has always been a part of our lives, bringing us so much joy and laughter. Jackson definitely has a personality! :) So of course we had to have a fun birthday party to celebrate this special boy.

We had a very busy and fun birthday week with company in town and I'll try post pictures from our week and his party soon.

Brotherly Love

At times the boys are really sweet together! (Jackson actually initiated the hug here!)
Jackson loves it when Cooper feeds him.

(I just thought this was cute of Jackson)

Kisses are a favorite around here.

Although it's not always a kiss! :)

Awww....sweet Jackson

and Cooper

Hopefully they'll always be best of friends!

Water balloons!

We've been playing with water balloons a lot around here recently. They are SUCH a pain to fill up but Cooper loves them.

Dana and her family came over for dinner last weekend and the kids enjoyed playing with the balloons. Here are the moms and kids posing for a photo!
Ashlynn and Cooper very carefully playing with the water balloon.

Then I watched Ben and Eliz one day so I thought I'd make them again. Here the boys are playing with the balloon carefully. This lasted about 1 minute, then they just had war.

Here Cooper is getting Elizabeth.

This is how she felt about it! She was SO upset she got all wet. After this no one was allowed to throw at her, she only could throw at them! :)

The cutie pie boys.

I made them stand with their eyes closed then I threw a balloon at their feet hoping to get them wet. They didn't really seem to care.

The balloons were gone in about 1 minute so I got out the sprinkler.

Jackson's watching all the fun.

Eliz was happier now!

Jackson tried to eat anything he could get his hands on!

We had a fun day with our cousins!

Brothers

As Jackson has grown older I have loved watching the interaction between the two boys! They generally play well together (not that they "play" very much together yet) but there are times that they fight or Cooper doesn't want to share toys with Jackson. Just recently though, JACKSON has been the one to not share with Cooper! I posted a few pictures below.

Here are the boys dressing up as daddy for Father's Day.
Either giving Jackson hugs or tackling him, I'm not sure which.

Awww... my pseudo twins. I like to dress them alike! :)

Ok, evidence of Jackson not sharing. He loves this sheep seat and Cooper started sitting on it. Jackson crawled over and is now in the process of trying to pull Cooper off of it.

"What mom, is this wrong??"

VICTORY!

More...

They have matching shirts and I tried to get a good photo of them in them. This is what I got...

Oh well, better luck next time.

Birthday Fun

Laura and I celebrated our birthdays last week (along with my Aunt Amy and Uncle Ross!) and my parents took us to Cheesecake factory for lunch. It's been a tradition the last few years so it was fun to do it again.

My dad took a long lunch and joined us!

Cooper, Ben, and Elizabeth. What's so funny is we did NOT plan to have the boys wear their matching shirts. We just showed up and they were each wearing them! They truly are our twins :).

Here's sweetie pie Jackson. He did a great job at lunch.

All of us outside Barnes and Noble afterward.

That night when Ryan got home, they had a Sponge Bob birthday for me (cute huh? :))

Then Cooper took the camera! I asked him if he'd take a picture of me and daddy, and he was actually able to get us in the camera and take a picture. No small feat considering the camera is so huge! After this though I couldn't pry him away from the camera. I thought I'd post a few of the photos he took along with his commentary...

(btw-not a flattering photo of me but his commentary was too funny)

"Mom, why is your mouth in an o ? I don't want your mouth to be in an o."

So then he takes this one

"Mom, where are your hands? I want to take a picture with your hands."

"There are your hands!" (Isn't he so funny?!?)

Then he took this one of Jackson

Maybe he'll be a photographer one day! Now I just have to fend him off every time I get out my camera (which is about 5 times a day). Maybe it wasn't so smart to introduce him to the camera this young!