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Sunday, September 2, 2012

Wilmington & Western Railroad

We took a trip in mid-August to go to the Wilmington and Western railroad about 15 minutes from our house. It is open every weekend and involves a 30 minute train ride to Mt. Cuba Observatory, which is just a picnic area, and then the ride back. This was the first "real" train ride for Jackson and he loved it so much, he even listened to me when I told him he had to sit still!

He is truly my child though, because after 20 minutes into the ride, he fell asleep. It's just something about being in a moving vehicle!

When we got back to the station, we bought Jack a new Thomas whistle and had some lunch. We heard that this train runs around Christmas and it's fun to go see all the lights along the way, so I'm sure we'll be back.

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Hot off the Press - Haircut!

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Before

After!

Last weekend Jackson got a pretty awful haircut. Bangs were totally uneven, back was blunt cut and the overall Dutch boy look wasn't working so well for us. After spending some time wondering what he would actually look like with a proper little boy haircut, we bit the bullet and took him to Kids Kuts. He was great - sat so still in the Lightning McQueen seat and watched the movie while the hairstylist took a #5 to his hair. She used a little hairspray at the end and voila, a real little boy appeared!

Mommy almost told her to leave it short on the bottom and long on top - a true '80s do!

Goldilocks had all of his hair cut off

Breaking bedtime to watch Bryce play Baseball

Adam has been talking for the past couple of months about how he wanted to take Jackson to a Nationals game to see Bryce Harper play in his rookie season. So, when they rolled in to town to play the Phillies, we went to the Friday night game. The weather was great and we had great first row outfield seats which meant a ball from the bullpen and a close view of Bryce when he was in the outfield.

Watching batting practice

Lots of stairs for a little boy to climb

With the Phanatic

Checking out the bullpen

Watching Bryce's first at bat

Bryce had two hits

Firefly

The weekend of July 20th, G-Daddy Phil descended on Delaware for the inaugural 3 day music fest in Dover called Firefly.

Adam and Phil went on Friday since I was in Chicago for work. Jackson spent the day with Rosie, Adam's admin, and her two grandsons. Adam, Phil and I went on Saturday to see the Killers headline and Jackson stayed home with Ms Janet, our regular babysitter. We decided that at 2.5 years old, Jackson was ready for his first music fest, so on Sunday we took him for a few hours. He was one of maybe 3 kids there, but he loved it!

Killers had a killer show

Mommy and daddy took a nap in the hammocks

Jammin' with daddy

GDaddy Phil and me

Bedtime Fun

While still an overall good sleeper and napper, Jackson has recently become quite pesky when it comes to bedtime.

It usually involves us putting him to bed only to have him reappear downstairs a couple of minutes later. Once back upstairs, he spends time turning the light on, aligning his trains, asking for the iPad (which randomly started one day even though he has NEVER had it in bed before) and then inevitably he falls asleep. Sometimes in his bed, sometimes on his bedroom floor and other times in the hallway. Twice he has ended up downstairs without us even hearing him go down there!

Asleep on the floor

Before passing out, he made sure his trains were all aligned.

In his bed, but not without drama

Sleeping in the hallway

.....and we're back!

Well, hello there! Did you think we had forgotten about you?!? Two months of no posting leave you wondering if Jackson had broken our camera? While that is entirely possible, the truth is that we had a very, very busy July and then spent the month of August recovering from the summer of craziness.

Given it's Sept 1, we're wiping the slate clean, but to do that, we've got to go backwards before we can go forward. So, with that - let's go back to the end of June when we took our annual trip back to WI.

As usual, it was a whirlwind trip that has us up and down 94 - from Milwaukee to Tomah to Chippewa and back again. Here are the highlights:

Grandma Hanson's 90th Birthday

An amazing accomplishment and one worth celebrating with the entire family with a nice diner.

Acting Like a Big Boy with Grandpa Bob

From pretending to drive all the different "toys" (tractors, forklifts, golf carts) in Grandpa Bob's "shed" to drinking kiddie margaritas, Jackson was acting like a true little boy.