every last one...

mommy put papa and uncle matthew to work...and jackson, you were their little helper/hinderance...without pants.  there seems to be a theme here...you rarely wear pants...and it's really cute...for now it 's cute...so for future embarrassment i'm posting every last one of the pictures of you being a big helper...in your underwear...

 

 

 

 

and so uncle matthew can see his work after it was painted...

 

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE how it turned out.  you're hired.  seriously, matthew, you're hired to come and do the bookshelves in the office...that sounds like a fun vacation for you, right?

 

now granna just needs to sew a cover for the bench cushion...i have the fabric, mom...

pink toesies...

zoey, your first pedicure...courtesy of aunt kiki...

 

 

and jackson, you could not be left out...HAD TO HAVE your toes painted, too.  mommy found some blue for you, but took no pictures...thought i'd spare you the future embarrassment...

table it...

uncle matthew bought this for you...an instant favorite.  just about everyday we were at home, you were outside playing with the water table.  it kept you busy...it kept you busy until i MADE you come back into the house...and there was usually crying, screaming, and gnashing of the teeth when we were done for the day...

 

 

and again water in the face.  funny...



the relatives came...

we had lots of help moving in.  grandpa miller came and did the heavy lifting.  granna and papa came to look after you hooligans.  and uncle matthew and aunt kiki came to spoil you rotten. 

 

here you are enjoying one of kiki's presents...water balloons!!!  didn't take you long to get the idea...throw a balloon at a person and they get wet.  fun.

 

 

zoey taking a splash to the face...

 

 

uncle matthew brought this...we couldn't fill it fast enough...

 

at this point, we didn't have any grass, so the fight was contained to the patio...kept your targets close and easy to hit.

and we're back in south carolina in our NEW house...

we headed back to south carolina in june to move into our NEW HOUSE!!! 

 

you each have your own room.  not sure if you liked being in different rooms, especially at night.  jackson, your first night in your own room was the first time you ever asked for your door to be left open.

 

you are LOVING the stairway...it's LOTS of fun to stand upstairs in the hallway and throw things over the railing...i just hope that's the only daring thing you two discover to do on the stairway.

 

mommy can actually "hide" from you in this house.  if you're not watching me like a hawk, as you usually do, i can move to a different part of the house and it can take you several minutes to find me...unlike at the other house when it took just seconds.

 

here you are having a "picnic basket" on the living room floor.  it was a pants optional lunch...of course.

 

 

AND...big bonus...there's a playground and a POOL just down the street...LOVING our new neighborhood!!!

pinterest flop...

desperate to find things to keep you two busy...found this idea on pinterest...it was a flop...you were not "into it" at all.  guess the activity wasn't messy or destructive enough for you...

 

 

i consider it an epic fail because it only kept your attention for 15 minutes...15 minutes was not worth the effort...and the effort was minimal.  BOO!!!

cookie face...

favorites...

night-night and your thumb...you have these things and you're a happy girl.  you DON'T have these things...heaven help us because you just about lose your mind...you are inconsolable.

 

your thumb is almost deformed because it is so often in your mouth...hopefully you stop sucking it someday and it goes back to normal...cause...it's kinda gross looking.  i have no idea how i'm going to get you to stop putting it in your mouth.  a pacifier...you just throw it away.  a thumb...not exactly throw-away-able...



 

cute little thumb sucker...

goin' swimmin'

 

zoey, i could eat you up with a spoon!!!  that bathing suit...forget it...every time i see you in it, i'm a gonner!!!  you have my heart completely!!!  and those piggies?!!!  how cute are YOU?!!!!

 

jackson, you've become pretty fearless in the water...you jump off from the side and go under the water...and again, CANNOT get you out of the water even when you're cold...

 

zoey, you took to the water like a little fishy...you're a bit more cautious than your brother, but it is just your first year swimming like a big girl with floaties...

 

love to see you enjoying the water as much as i did as a kid...