Good Morning!

This is what I woke up to this morning. Can't get much better than this!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We enjoyed spending time with both of our families and eating lots of delicious food. Dylan really enjoyed eating his chicken (aka turkey!). He wouldn't eat it when we called it turkey, so we told him it was chicken (which he's obsessed with) and he gobbled it right up!
Here's a picture of Olivia admiring Jackson. She apparently got too close for Dylan's comfort and he felt he needed to tell her "That's MY baby Gackon!" Dylan is not really a big fan of Olivia. I think it has to do with having to share her with Mama & Papa. He's not about to share HIS baby Gackon as well!

Here's a picture of a few of the Haarmann cousins being silly with Dylan and Jackson. It was neat to watch Dylan interact with some of the older boys. He's starting to actually play with them instead of just watch them. He jumped right in this picture, making silly faces with the boys. In the past he would have just looked at them like they were crazy!

This is just a cute picture of Dylan chilling in Jackson's bouncy seat. He looks so big. I feel like it was only yesterday that he would scream his head off whenever I put him in that bouncy chair!
Here's Scott and Jackson relaxing today. All that turkey made Scott tired...or it could have been the camping out at Best Buy last night. I woke up at 3:30 to feed Jackson and Scott was gone. He wasn't in Dylan's room and his car wasn't in the garage. I texted him, only to discover that he decided to go camp out, hoping to get a laptop. They passed out tickets for each product that was on special and they ran out of laptop tickets before they got to Scott. So, he stood outside in the freezing cold for a few hours for nothing. Since when did my husband become one of those crazy Black Friday shoppers???!!! I think it's insane!

Scott's new fish

I'm always complaining about Scott's fish tank. It's very messy, and it takes up way too much of Scott's time. But, he bought a new fish and it's pretty neat. Don't tell Scott I said that! (haha!) Here's the new fish...

Jackson - 5 Weeks

Just some cute pics of Jackson. He's 5 weeks old now! He has been so alert the past couple of days. It's so fun to watch him take it all in and try to figure us all out!

I think this picture is hilarious. It looks like he's trying to leap out of the picture!

Thanksgiving Treats

So, I bought a bag of Halloween colored M&M's with every intention of making Halloween M&M chocolate chip cookies...you know, in my spare time. Well, Halloween came and went with no cookies. I saw a picture of rice krispie treats with M&M's in them though, and decided to make that instead. I thought Dylan would have fun helping me sort the colors and we'd just have rice krispie treats with orange M&M's. I'm calling them my Thanksgiving Rice Krispie Treats. What the picture failed to tell me though, was that unless you are Martha Stewart the M&M's are going to melt when you put them into the HOT krispie mix. I even waited a little bit before mixing them in. The M&M's got soft though, and when I went to flatten the rice krispie treats into the Pyrex dish, all the M&M's split apart. Oh well, they still taste yummy! Here's Dylan showing me the orange M&M while he's sorting them.

Here he is collecting his paycheck for helping me sort them M&M's! I wish I could always pay him in M&M's!

When we make brownies, he loves to lick the spatula. (who doesn't???!!!) He insisted on licking the spatula this morning, even though I told him it's not as fun as the brownie spatula. He gave up pretty quickly!

Happy Birthday Mallory!

We hope you have a great day today, and are enjoying your trip to Florida! Happy 1st Birthday!

Just for fun...

Here's Dylan's one month pictures. Do you think they look alike?

Jackson is 1 month old!

I can't believe it, but Jackson is already a month old today. We celebrated the day by going to his one month check up and getting his one month pictures taken. Jackson is weighing in at 11 pounds 6 ounces, putting him in the 88th percentile for weight. He's 22.5 inches long, which is in the 84th percentile. He's my healthy little monkey!

Tummy Time!

Tonight all the boys were enjoying tummy time. I just thought it was sweet. Dylan was encouraging Baby Gackon to look up. :)
And it worked! Baby Gackon was lifting his head up. They grow up so fast!

Jackson looking sweet.

Park

Here's a few fun pics from the park! I just think this is a sweet picture. Scott and Dylan are heading towards the playground.

Dylan hasn't enjoyed the paparazzi (aka me) following him lately. But, I caught him smiling at me!

A close up of Jackson at the park.

Dylan's peeking through the stroller to check on Jackson.

2 Week Check Up

We had Jackson's 2 week check up yesterday. Everything is looking great! Jackson was born weighing in at 8 pounds 7 ounces, and was 8 pounds even when we left the hospital. On his 5 day check up he was 8 pounds 4 ounces. Now he is 9 pounds 9 ounces! I think it's safe to say he's a good eater!
Here's a cute story about Dylan. Jackson was crying while the doctor was examining him, and Dylan was very worried. I tried to explain to Dylan that it was okay and the doctor was just making sure baby Jackson was healthy and strong. Dylan stopped me and said "Not okay mommy, Baby Gackon cry." He was so worried about his baby Gackon...it was so sweet! He is already proving to be a fabulous big brother!

Happy Halloween!

We hope everyone had a safe and exciting Halloween! It was perfect fall weather for trick or treating. I feel like it's usually rainy and gross out on Halloween. Dylan and I went to a few houses for trick or treating, but he wasn't very excited about it. I ended up pushing him in the stroller from door to door. He would give a very forced "Trick or Treat," followed by "Thank You." Maybe next year he'll be a little more excited about it. He's had a lot going on over the past few weeks! Our neighborhood really seems to enjoy Halloween. There were fire pits on every other driveway and everyone was out celebrating. We gave away four giant bags worth of candy. And, we had to turn our lights off before the trick or treating was done. We'll know better next year!

Our first stop of the evening was Mama & Papa's house. See how excited Dylan seems to be about Trick or Treating. We even had to force it at Mama & Papa's!

Dylan was so excited to show Jackson his old chair. Dylan used to love it as a baby, and he still loves it today! The chair entertained him for what seemed like hours. He would play with the choo choo then go back to the chair. He wanted to make sure it was still working for baby Jackson.

Here's a picture of Dylan dressed as Woody. He wasn't quite sure about it though...

My sweet little Jackson dressed in his pumpkin outfit.

and here he is in his Halloween shirt.

Here's a few pictures of the boys. Dylan was so excited to get to hold Jackson. He's had a cold since the baby was born, so we haven't really let him too close to the baby. He was feeling better though, so we braved it! Look how happy he is!

That night though, when they were all dressed up, Dylan did not want to sit by the baby. This was as close as we could get him. Most of the pictures we took were of Dylan trying to get away from the baby. We had to bribe him with some of his candy so he would sit still for the picture!