Jimanie's Crickets: Week 19: June 16-22

This week I started back at Western, and Jackson started his day care in Bellingham. We both only go on Mon/Wed, so I feel like that is a pretty good compromise, and I don't actually start teaching until next Wednesday - this is just a few practice and prep days for us. We both did pretty well, but I'm glad we are easing ourselves in!

Mason:
- we love it when he says "when I'm a dad / fireman / pilot / grown up..." I'm not quite sure where he got the idea/understanding about growing up to "be" something, but he has so many great ideas of what he can be, and makes very smart comments about what he'll do as a dad / fireman / pilot / grown up. :)

- He is so sweet and thoughtful about asking us questions, which HE comes up with on his own... "How was your day / work / flight today?" If he hears us mention something in the morning while we are all getting ready, he asks us about it later!

- One day, I made the bad decision to try and squeeze in a grocery trip between picking up Mason from school and nap... bad. idea. Anyway, he was a hot mess, very fussy, hitting Jackson, hitting me, grabbing things on shelves, crying about EVERYTHING... it was not good. That night, after we had all napped and recovered, he asked me "how was your day, mommy?" I proceeded to tell him that I had a pretty rough day because of our grocery trip. Apparently he LOVED the story, so now every day after he asks me "how was work?" he asks, "how was your rough day the other day? The one at the grocery store?" and he wants me to tell him that story again. Ugh, lol.
- One of Mason's least favorite things to do while swimming is still back floating. He also doesn't love lying down in the bathtub, and having his ears underwater. However, this week he discovered that it sounds fun to sing with your ears underwater :) What a great discovery!

-He likes to stand upstairs and look downstairs and say, "below down there!" (instead of hello down there).

Jackson:
- is all about bringing his hands and anything else he's holding to mouth
- he found his feet this week and is super excited about grabbing them

The calm before the storm - he woke at 4:00 our first morning for Bellingham, so I brought him to bed to feed him, knowing I probably wouldn't get back to sleep otherwise. But then this precious boy slept in my bed all morning while I got myself ready, then I finally had to wake him.

"first day of school! first day of school!"

Infant playland at Jackson's daycare

They sent me this picture a few hours later to show me that everything was going well and he was taking his bottle just fine!

They also have a webcam that I can log into whenever I want to check on him!

Here he is during story time :)

It was an exhausting day, so he slept all the way home!

Jim and Jackson came to watch Mason's swim lesson

We got a few pictures at the end of our play time, he loves the noodles

This is Jackson's "dude". We like to bring him everywhere with us.

Firefighting. With "fire boots" and a "fire hat"

Just some sweetness

Mason learned to "tuck in his own toesies"

Which is bittersweet because my rule is I will only tuck him in once each night... but he's getting so big!

He started making this hilarious face this week, where he would shrug his shoulders up, squish his cheeks, and smile. Makes me giggle out loud!

One of the days that we didn't have work/school, we fell asleep on the couch together.

It wasn't planned, but we both really enjoyed it! <3

Look! FEET!!

First this little wiggle worm scooted his way off the mat.

Then he got more interested in his feed than his toys :)

Mas has discovered flashlights. Flashlights with glow sticks on them. He must have one every night for bed. It is pretty cute to watch him lay in bed and play :)