angry flower...

once again, not happy about the costume...

"C" is for cookie...

"jackson, wanna be a cookie?"

"um, no thanks."

and finally...sweet cooperation...

"if i wear this, i get candy?!!"

four lousy houses...that's all we could find...good thing he quickly forgot the candy, enjoyed the wagon ride, and was completely happy with a leaf from the ground...

i bought FIVE bags of candy...FIVE BAGS!!! and we've had a total of ONE knock on the door...matt's taking the rest to work...next year, forget it--we're putting jackson in the car and hitting a fancy neighborhood like everyone else seems to do...

to great matchette's house we go...

on our way...sure are cute when they're sleeping...

went on lots of walks with grandpa...

at the park...

LOVE IT!!!

afraid hair cut is in his near future...too many people refering to him as "her"...

pumpkin patch...

it looked like pumpkin patch '10 was gonna be a lot like pumpkin patch '09...lots of tears and sadness...UNTIL we found some fun things to do...

sandboxes filled with corn...

TRACTORS...by far the favorite...

pony tire swing...

pickin' a pumpkin...

and running away from daddy in the hay maze...

30 weeks...

had a few contractions during church last sunday...not the squeezy kind, but the HURTY kind. thought i should finish getting things together...just in case...

we're ready for you, baby girl...10 more weeks then you have to promise to COME OUT!!!

overalls...my FAVORITE!!!

new favorite: ELMO...LOVES ELMO!!!

old favorite: BOOKS!!!

is there anything cuter than a little boy in overalls?!!

CHEESE!!!

THIS is what you get when you say "cheese" to jackson...he won't EAT cheese, but he'll certainly give you the cutest "cheese" face ever!!!

because you can never have too many tubby pictures...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JACKSON!!!

these pictures are all out of order...and didn't necessarily all take place on his actual birthday...oh well...my brain is not smart enough to figure out how to load them and then post blogs in sequential order...and really--who cares???

these are all AFTER party pictures...

a radio flyer wagon from grandma and grandpa matchette...LOVES IT...it sits in his room because we don't have a garage...and i often go in his room and find him sitting in it...LOVES IT!!!

look at that hair blowing in the wind!!!


tonka dump truck from mommy and daddy...find him sitting in this, too...wants to be pushed and pulled back and forth...

CAKE!!!

jackson really wasn't into his cake...AT ALL...we were pushing his fingers into it...NOT interested...

snickerdoodle and strawberry cupcakes...YUM!!!

didn't like the hat on his head...so...


we took a picture of it on the counter...

first, tentative touch...

THIS is as messy as he got...how boring!

a sip of milk to wash it all down...

PRESENTS!!!

most impressed by the SIZE of this one...

a wagon...YAY!!! just what i wanted!!!

noisy hammer...having a hard time figuring out how to GET IT OUT...

racing cars...

dump truck...love those eyes!!!

NOISY dinosaur from aunt katie...noisy, but at least it plays a new song or two...we--mommy and daddy--were getting sick of the songs his jumper plays...nice to listen to a new one...4,000 times a day...

john deere tractor from grandpa...

POOL!!!

best pictures i could get...wasn't looking at me in any of them...was too focused on the WATER...LOVES the water...crawls out of this floating contraption and tries to go face first into the water...still has not learned NOT to do that...even after countless nose-fulls of water and coughing/sneezing fits...after a visit to the pool, i spend the rest of the afternoon worrying that he's going to drown in his sleep...did you know that can happen??? IT.CAN. if you get water in your lungs, you can drown hours later...it's true.

he flirts with all the pretty girls he sees at the pool...smiles and babbles to them until they tell him how cute he is...little ladies man...