The sides of Jackson

The angry side:

A few weeks ago Jackson was pretty upset. It all started from him being mad that I said I wouldn't tell him a story on the way home from school until after he told me about his day at kindergarten. He kept stopping when we were walking and saying he wasn't going to walk with us. He did this the whole way home which landed him in his room when we got home until he calmed down. Before he calmed down these are some of the things he said/shouted from his room.

-If you don't let me out I"m never going to let you in my room again. Except for laundry.
-You're asking for it. (I don't know where he learned that. I'm pretty sure Doug and I don't say that... But maybe we do without me noticing it...)
-That's it. You asked for it.
-(He started throwing a pack of diapers at the door and I told him if he broke the door he'd have to do a ton of chores to earn the money to pay for a new door. He said something like this:) I'm not doing any chores to pay for a new door.

He had quite a few funny things he was saying. I should have recorded them so I could remember them better.

The sweet side:

This conversation was on the way home from my parents' house tonight:

Jack: Santa's definitely going to give presents to Kenzie.
Me: Yeah... because she's so cute?
Jack: Yeah, and she never makes bad choices. She's just my favorite little girl.

5 Months

Coleman is 5 months old today!

Falling asleep...

Here's some picture from that last month.

He's very smiley and is starting to laugh occasionally.
He really loves to be held and doesn't last long not being held unless there's a lot of entertainment around him that he can see.
He likes watching TV.
He doesn't go to bed as easily as he used to. We usually either rock him or let him lay downstairs with us while he falls asleep.
He also doesn't sleep as good as he used to.
He loves baths.
He's still not rolling consistently. And I'm okay with that.
He loves his family and is so happy when he sees us.
He makes a high pitch sound a lot. It's usually a happy sound.
He's still little and skinny.
He's cute and we love him.

Here's a cute video of him laughing:

Some more pictures

Mario, Luigi, and our princess.

Jack's last soccer game.

Jordan's mohawk.

Thumbs up and a mohawk.

Kenzie wanted me to take a picture of her.

I saw a blogpost recently about how to make a bouncy ball so the boys and I made some last week. It's the white thing Jordan is holding. It didn't bounce as good as I had hoped it would at first, but after sitting for awhile we were able to get it to bounce better.

5 and a Half!

Jackson had his half birthday on Sunday. He was really excited for it and kept asking me if I was going to surprise him like we surprised Jordan for his half birthday. I kept telling him no. But we did and so he was happy :) One of his friends in his primary class gave him a happy half-birthday card. It was pretty cute. Jack must have told him before that it was going to be his half birthday.

This outfit is pretty funny. He and Jordan were trying to sword fight.

We spiked his hair in the front recently. He also let me spike it all one day. He usually doesn't like me to do anything to his hair So I was excited.

He had his primary program on Sunday. He did an awesome job. He memorized his part and said it perfectly. I was pretty proud of him. My sister requested a video of it so here it is:

He's a few things about Jack these days:
He loves school, but is happy he doesn't go all day.
He loves graham crackers and usually wants them for all his snacks.
He has a very loose tooth. I can't believe he's that big. But he's excited for the tooth fairy to come.
He's really good a remembering and memorizing things.
He loves me to tell him stories.
He doesn't like doing homework.
He's a tantrum thrower.
Lately he's been threatening us like "if you put me in bed, then I'll keep on getting out of it." I don't think I'll be too sad when this phase passes.
He's a good brother and loves playing with his brothers and sister.

Soccer Party

Jack's soccer season finished his soccer season a few weeks ago. He had a soccer party at Roundtable Pizza and got a trophy.

Jack's team with his coach.

Halloween

Jackson had a halloween party at school. I was able to go help out at it. He's Mario. The swat team kid next to him is the boy he plays with the most.

For Jack's lunch I made him a sandwich ghost. He thought it was pretty cool and kept asking how I did it.

We went to my sister's house for a dinner party and then went trick or treating.

These are all the kids that were at the party.

Coleman fell asleep while we were trick or treating.

I think that it would be nice to someday be able to go trick or treating without having to bundle up. And in the daylight. And when it's not raining like it did a little this year. Maybe next year we should go visit my sister in Texas for Halloween :)

Jackson walked around with my dad and some of his cousins while Doug and I were with Jordan and Kenzie (and Coleman) going a little slower. He was out longer than us and so when he got back to Ashlee's house he didn't get to dump out his candy because we had to leave right away. He decided to dump the candy out in his lap in the car.

Cariving Pumpkins

We carved pumpkins last week...

As usual, the kids didn't want to touch the gooey stuff so Doug and I cleaned them out.

Jordan tried using a spoon to clean his out.

Jack tried using the tool that came in our pumpkin carving kit.

This is the look I got from Kenzie when I asked if she wanted to help.

Colie watched from the highchair.

We had the kids draw faces on their pumpkins. Doug helped Jordan carve his.

Jack carved most of his by himself.

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If you look closely you'll see a guy on the mouth of Jordan's pumpkin. He said he drew a mouth-bed.

Jordan and his pumpkin.

Jack and his pumpkin.

Jackson tryiing to eat his pumpkin.

Doug and his pumpkin. He used a stencil thing to cut his out.

This is mine and Kenzie's pumpkin

Kenzie hugging the pumpkin.