Adelaide at 7 weeks old...



"Who me?!"  I love this shot below...

What do you get with a box of peanuts, Jackson, and his Gram?!





A lot of fun!!



And a LOT more mess



Gotta love the peanut-angel...



We had a great trip to McKinney to visit the Purcell family (aka: Gram and Grandaddy, to Jackson and Adelaide).
Here's Jackson having fun with Gram, and 2 of his cousins (who he LOVES), Parker and Chase.
It was a Happy Thanksgiving!

Snapshots of the kids this weekend, doing what they do...
Adelaide looking beautiful on the changing table (we hang out there a lot), and Jackson messing around in the rain after school.

This was too cute not to share .
They've both grown loads since this was taken 1 month ago!
Adelaide: has outgrown diapers and clothes... and is feeling heavier all of the time, which is wonderful!
Jackson: was stalling going to sleep tonight and said "hey, nice shoes mom!" as i walked in the hallway, then proceeded to lead me to his window where he pointed out the bright Stars tonight, and sang the whole Twinkle Twinkle song for me .

The day finally arrived!  Jackson's been asking for a month to go trick or treating, so he finally got his wish yesterday.  and it was a BLAST!

He started the night before, with the trying on of his costumes and running around the house 'trick-or-treating' with his little bag... either in the Fireman costume, or one of his two, one-size-too-small Superman costumes .  They are both highwaters on him, so on the real night, he wore the one without shoes attached (since that superman costume makes him look like he has more feet sticking out of his KNEES...awesome!)  I'll be adding photos here...you can see our Super-happy little Superman, in tow with his friends---Batman and Robin!

It was great, and they flew from door to door saying Trick or Treat!  at one point some kids were handing out the candy, and Jackson looked at the girl after and said "Ok, now You go get your bag!" (in other words, you need to go get some candy too!!)

Fun night with friends, family and candy...and surprisingly he was asleep by 8:15pm...ahh....

When Jackson caught a glimpse of Adelaide's umbilical cord this week, he said...

"Is that garbage??"

So now he mentions her 'garbage' every so often...

He did the same thing at our neighbors' house the other day, when matt took him down there to see if his friend could play.  The dad answered the door and they chatted for a minute, when Jackson paused, stepped inside, sniffed the air, and said " Smells like garbage!"  She was cooking dinner....

Apparently anything can be garbage!!  it's a catch-all word!!!

I got to enjoy a sweet time on the recliner with both Adelaide and Jackson the first night home...he was all cuddly with us, which was nice because we'd missed each other over the weekend while we were in the hospital!

So Jackson hopped up and was sitting there, and observing Adelaide drinking her milk... then he looked at me and said "I want milk!" He hopped down, walked around and got on the other side of the seat next to me....sat down in the seat, pulled out my arm and bent it so my elbow stuck out.  Then, it happened.  He tried to get milk out of my ELBOW.  My mom and I died laughing and he looked up and told us....

"It's empty!"

That's right, it sure is.

He thinks milk comes out of all sorts of things now....he thinks he has some in his belly button, too .

Adelaide ('Laidey') Grace Purcell arrived Saturday, 10/10/2009.  She made her debut at 3:23pm, weighing in at 7 lb 12 oz and 21 inches long.  She's already been a blessing to our family and we're enjoying getting to know her!  Jackson loves his little sister and enjoys trying to find her toys to play with, ask her if she'd prefer water/milk (then try to go get her some in a bottle!), and offer her snacks of his .

Well, it's been a wonderful summer around here!  This picture of Jackson pretty much sums it up.  We've gotten to have play groups with friends, see all of the grandparents all through the summer (and play with our cousins!!!), had a great summer school experience, do swim lessons (he loved it this year...quite different from our experience last year at lessons!), and go to the Little Gym in Houston for 2 little camps (lots of jumping, swinging, running...a dream come true for Jackson, i'm sure!)

We start the new school year on Monday...I know Jackson will love it...I'm all sappy and sad about him going, though!  A new year, another look back and realizing 'He's Growing Up!!" (wah!), lots of excitement...but my hormonal pregnant self just mainly plans to cry about it next week, Ha!  I'll have to keep myself busy so I don't wallow in it .

Have a great week....I'm glad to be getting us started on a blog!!
Shay

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