He walks!

JT took his first steps back in June, was taking a few more in July and is a full blown walker since the 5th of August. Of course crawling still gets us where we need to go faster, so most times we'll walk a little and then realize we want to be somewhere fast, so we start crawling again. Either way, he's walking and my world is changing....for the better if you ask me :-)

Best I could get of him walking...that kid is hard to snap pictures of
I noticed not to long ago that there are not a lot of pictures of me with Jackson, so I started taking some on my own
Pushing his friend Sam around on Sam's new radio flyer rocket!!
He points at everything now and says "dat"
Crashed.....he sleeps in all different positions, I swear he does somersaults all night

Playing at the park!
I will pay for this picture one day....or actually I think he will :-) Daddy bought us a new hat to fit my ever growing head!
Since my kid is the one who ALWAYS get sick, I've decided that every time we change his diaper we will wash his hands too in the sick like a big boy....he LOVES it!!
Just rinsing off

A Texas state of mind

Travis found this...so funny!!

What's with the gigantor Longhorn?

I like ol goal post! I wanted to add a little "Ft Worth" to the title of our blog and found Goal Post for sale on the internet. He's only $10,000....Travis said that the picture doesn't look real because his horns are so huge. Well that explains why he costs more than my car :-).

Here's some pictures of Jackson swimming with his friend Abram.

Splashin!
Mom, this is so much fun!!
Awwww
Driving daddy's truck
Oh, no sir....we don't mess with the gear shifter!! (check out the devious little smile on his face)

A stroll down memory lane

I was looking back and noticed that I only put things on here about my kid. So I thought I might change it up a bit and let y'all get to know a little more about me. Maybe you only read this for updates about the baby, but for those who don't, I thought I would enlighten ya a little bit on some little things that are Crissy....in the secular sense.

I just stumbled across a new video/song by Bon Jovi...Make A Memory (actually I think it's about a year old, but it's new to me). OK I have to admit this out loud, y'all....I like Bon Jovi, a lot! Does that date me or do I just have GREAT taste in music. I really don't think I can name one bad song by them and in my opinion I think they are a legend in soft rock. Travis makes fun of me for still liking them, but really how can you not?

So hearing this song made me want to stroll down memory lane and listen to some of his old stuff. Really, they guy doesn't put out a bad song, it's just impossible. And I find it funny how a song can take you back to a certain time in your life. Like for example, the first time I heard Wanted Dead or Alive, I was eleven years old and it was the fourth of July. They were showing the video over and over again on MTV on the Downtown with Julie Brown show. It was also the weekend that Young Guns II opened (Wanted Dead or Alive was from that movie). It's funny how almost 20 years later I can still remember that weekend all due to a song. Maybe only my memory works that way, but I remember things best if a good song is playing along in the moment. Does that make sense? Do y'all have that too? If you're driving down the road, you hear a song come on the radio from years past and it reminds you of either a person or a time in your life? I can still remember the night I met Travis all from a song. It was August 12, 1995 (how's that for longevity?) we were at a high school party (we'll just leave it at that) and some one had the radio on and I remember hearing All I Need to Know by brand new artist, Kenny Chesney. Wow, how long has that been....13 years??!! Bonus: Travis and I danced to that song at our wedding, July 10, 1999....9 years ago. Y'all can sleep better knowing that. Your welcome! :-)

On another note. I was looking at a picture from our wedding day today and noticed how young and innocent (pictures can be deceiving...I was far from innocent) we both looked. Then looking at the picture right next to it was one taken of the three of us just a few weekends ago and in it I look worn out and aged, where as Travis looks great!! See I've had this theory forever and it just rang so true to me today.....Guys just getter better looking the older they get. I met Travis at the young age of 16 and now that he's at 30's back door, he's better looking than ever. But adding to that theory, I wonder if it's because I love him so much more now than I did then, or if it's because looking at him I can see all the life and memories we have made together or if it's because through growing together in Christ, He has given us marriage that I could have only dreamed of and so that makes him the most attractive person in the world to me. (or it could be that Travis is out of town and I miss him a ton....I think that has a little to do with it. Absence makes the heart grow fonder!)

Just some ramblings....welcome to Crissy's world! Hey, it's more entertaining than Elmo's, right!? :-)

If you want to hear the song Travis and I danced to on our wedding day and see Kenny Chesney with long hair, check out this video

One cool dude!

I snapped these before nap time today. That kid just cracks me up sometimes. He actually wears these when we are running around outside cause the sun bothers his eyes so badly, but he'll continue to wear them in the house when we get home.

As Travis says...."I think that kid has a personality that I'm a little familiar with". Hmm, could it be his mama's? :-)

Will it ever end?

Let me start with I HATE WEDNESDAYS. They just plain suck, that's why they are called hump day.

We are still fighting off illness around here. It just seems to move to different parts of our body. Last week Jackson and I both got a nasty cold and I thought we had healed up on Monday, but apparently our bodies where just gearing up for round two.

Monday afternoon, after the zoo, Jackson only slept 45 mins when we got home. Hmm, weird especially since he didn't get a morning nap, soo on we go with the afternoon. I start to notice that he's getting a little crabbier than normal when he's missed a nap. 

Fast forward to 11 pm....Jackson wakes up wailing and when I go in there he's burning hot. Great. Take his temp and it's 103, so we go through the drill of Motrin, cool wet clothes to the head and rock him back to sleep. 2:30 am, again same thing, except this time the fever has broke to a cool 102.1....whopitdo! He won't go back to sleep either so I bring him into our bed (oh I can just feel my ears burning now... "I can't believe they are letting him sleep in their bed".....well you do what you can to survive sometimes) so he fell back asleep and slept good till about 5 am. Then he woke back up, but only felt a little warm so I just fed him and put him back to bed in his crib. 

All day Tuesday we was running high fevers and then they would break but only come down to around 101. He just wanted to be held and you could just tell he was uncomfortable. I decided not to call the Dr on Tuesday because of the schooling we had just gotten on fevers when he had pneumonia. But on Tuesday night it was a repeat of Monday night, so first thing on Wednesday we called Dr Worsley. I swear I feel like that place is my home away from home. 

The story gets better from here. So we have an appt at 11:30 am with Dr Worsley. We go in, I run down all the symptoms (which by the way seem to be identical to when he had pneumonia) he checks Jackson all out and says that he hears a little sound in his lungs and we need to go get some chest x-rays at Harris, AGAIN. Fab! We pack up, go across the street to the hospital to get the x-rays. We had just been there 6 weeks earlier so I knew the drill and apparently JT didn't forget either, because when we walked back into the x-ray room he immediately started screaming....he knew what was coming. (To get chest x-rays of a little guy you have to hold their arms straight up above their head, and when they are sick....let's just say it's no walk in the park. Even the tech said..."wow, he's really strong" as she was helping me wrestle my little guy). They snap a few pics, I take JT across the hall get him all calmed down and we head for the exit. Keep in mind that he has not had a morning nap AND has been up since 7:30 am. So we get out to the parking lot, it's burning hot outside (around 102 I think) and I decide to start the truck before I put Jackson in his seat so it will start cooling down. Well right before I stuck the key in the ignition I accidentally push one of the buttons on the keys and hear the door locks. I didn't pay attention to what they did, I just turned the key and got the A/C fired up. JT was standing in the drivers seat playing with the steering wheel (his favorite I might add), so I grabbed him and shut the door to preserve the A/C. Walked around to the passenger back side and guess what?? LOCKED!! That's right I locked myself out of the truck with it running with the A/C in 102 degree temps. THANK THE LORD I grabbed Jackson before I shut the door. The best part? Travis lost the other key to the truck when we were in Wyoming. So calling him to come and help me was a lost cause. After a few choice words, a near mental break down, Jackson screaming at the top of his lungs in the hospital foyer because he's tired, a few phone calls, I finally got security at the hospital to help me Slim Jim the door open. The best part is when he got it open, he says to me..."well, the bright side is, it's really cold in there". Well that's because it had been idling in the parking lot with the A/C blasting for 45 mins. I think I burned a 1/4 of a tank of diesel from this incident. At least I didn't have to pay a lock smith and the guy was so nice. The Dr called late in the afternoon and said the x-rays were negative (another Praise!) and that it is a virus that needs to work itself out.

Today started good, but ended bad. I think all the drainage is making our tummies upset. Well I know mine is anyways and Jackson seems like he still isn't feeling great either. 

I just want this week to end!!

Who loves the zoo? WE DO!!

We went to the zoo this morning for a few hours with some friends and had a ton of fun!! Who knew looking at animals would be so relaxing. Jackson & I needed some fun, since we both spend the weekend sick with a cold. Summer colds are the worst, I think. Jackson loved the big animals and the baby gorilla's. He would point, kick and get all excited. There's the bird exhibit that you go into and feed these little birds that everywhere. I hated it because birds freak me out, but Jackson loved being able to get that close to the animals.

I think we'll be hitting one of the Grandparents up for a yearly zoo pass for Jackson's birthday. That might be a once a week deal we'll be doing, especially when it starts to cool off.


He was pointing at anything that moved! He especially loved the Cheetahs

Bekah and her pretty babies...Sam & Jordan
Jackson and his future partner in crime, Sam.
Jackson completely amazed by the Flamingos
Riding the Huge Lizard...I think they're called Comodo Dragons?

Checking out the penguins as they swim.
Brown or blue? I think definitely blue. Either way, he didn't get those baby blues from me.
Yes, folks he is a climber. Actually this is him getting back down. Travis caught him all the way on top of the ottoman.
I don't think you can really tell by this picture what he was doing but it was hilarious. He was mad that he hit a wall and couldn't keep walking so he was either sassing the toy and just gripping out loud. He does this a lot when he gets frustrated with a toy, I can't help but laugh at him.