2.25.08

Jackson keeps a really busy concert schedule.  He's always on his way to Indianapolis or somewhere to do a concert, so I was surprised when he grabbed his guitar case today and told me he was going to see the Tarheels.  "Why are you taking your guitar?" I asked.  "I'm going to play my guitar for Rameses.  He's gonna like my music."

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2.27.08

Much of the time, Jackson isn't Jackson, he's Uncle Aaron.  Today he leaned over to love on Eli in his swing and Eli got his hair.  "Did you pull my Uncle Aaron hair?"  he said.

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2.29.08

Jax, Eli and I got up before David and Mia this morning.  Jax wanted me to go to the bathroom with him so Eli and I went in and sat down on the stool while he pottied.  "Jax, can you tell Eli how to use the potty like a big boy?"

He started explaining, and when he got the toilet paper, said "You hold it on your dingle for 40 days and 40 nights."

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Mia names the four season:  Potassium, Judges, Winter, Snow

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2.08

David took Jax on a "date" one Saturday to Joseph-Beth to see a drumming demo.  On the way Jax commented on a "white man" he saw on a billboard.  That's the first time we've heard him comment on skin color.  Later that night we were driving home from church.  David was goofing off, doing something crazy, and Jackson said "Daddy, you are a silly white man!"

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3.10.08

We went to Em and Aaron's for an extended weekend.  Mia was playing with a plastic baggie , so I told her to put it down because it was dangerous.  "Just trust me, Mom!"  ("What did she just say???"  I'm thinking to myself.)  "Trust me, Mom.  Just trust me."  I still made her throw it away.  By the way, a lot of people comment on how tall she is.  I'm starting to think not really....for a 15-year-old.

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On the way home from the same trip, I suggested that we maybe should turn Mia's TV screen around so Eli could watch something.  Of course she flipped out.  Jax didn't go nuts but did calmly disagree with me.  "That will be too weird Mom.  It'll be weird if you slide her TV screen around.  We might get nervous if you do that."

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3.08

Mia got mad at JJ, pointed her finger at him and said, "PEACE ON EARTH!"

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3.24.08

Jax came to our bed in the middle of the night again.  David said, "Jax, you need to go sleep in your bed."  Jax replied, "I just need a short break."

The next morning he crawled in again.  He looked over at me and said "Mommy, your hair is beautiful."

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Now that he's learned to tee-tee like a big boy (standing up, "like Daddy does it"), he's serious about the matter.  I was getting ready to give them baths, so they were both naked in the bathroom.  "Y'all need to go tee-tee before you get in,"  I said.  Jax proceeded to put his boxer 'greasers' (briefs) back on so he could pull his dingle through the hole- tee-teeing the big boy way.  Wow.

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One day last week Mia was in our bed in the morning.  She heard J stirring in his room.  (GASP)  "I hear my boy!  My boy is awake!"