My day with Jackson!

Jackson's personality is growing more and more.  He is constantly entertaining me.  Here's a few snippets from today:
We saw an ambulance driving by so I said, "Should we say our prayers?"  He answered, "Yes, OUR PRAYERS!"
Later on Jackson was telling me how super hungry he was.  I asked him if we knew where we were and how close we were to Dylan's school (which is right across the street from Panera, where we were going to get lunch).  He said, "Mom, I know where we are - we are in the car!"
He's so funny and clever!  He cracks me up everyday!  Today I was so lucky to spend the entire day with him.  We've both been counting down to our fun day, and praying for the rain to stay away so we could have our fun.  We went on a field trip to Valley Mount Farm and Purina Farms.  Jackson got to feed and kiss a horse, pet pigs, bunnies & chickens and watch a super fun dog show!  We found a STL cake too!  I'm so grateful for my special day with my special guy.  :)

Air Show

We were part of the thousands that tried to get to the air show this weekend.  We sat in traffic for almost an hour before we gave up and pulled over.  After a short walk, we found a good spot to sit and watch the air show from afar.  The first part of the air show wasn't very interesting to the boys.  Even though the planes were flying right over us.  I thought it was pretty cool, but I could see where the boys were a little bored.  It was a little slow at times.  They managed to pass the time by playing in the dirt.  :)

  Right before the Blue Angels started Jackson declared that he had to go to the bathroom and he could not wait.  So, we started walking back to the car.  We were still able to catch most of the air show as we headed back to the car.  Jackson thought it was too loud!

  Scott and I kept an eye on where the planes were at all times so we could tell the boys when one was getting close, so they could cover their ears.  As we got closer to the car, we thought we were too far from the air show, so we stopped paying as much attention.  We were walking right behind a movie theater so we couldn't see to the right of us.  All of  sudden one of the planes flew over right in front of us, scaring all of us!  The boys were terrified!  There were lots of screams and tears.  The plane was SO loud, and it all happened so fast!  I couldn't help but laugh at the situation.  It took a few minutes, but the boys finally got over being scared.  Dylan was talking about how the Blue Angels are the best pilots in the world all afternoon, so he must not have been too scared, thankfully.  :)

 Dylan really liked this formation because they were far away (not as loud!) and they looked like bowling pins!

Happy Easter!

We had so much fun celebrating Easter this year!  Although, Trevor was not a huge fan of the Easter bunny...

 He did enjoy finding a couple of eggs on the egg hunt though.  The boys did a great job helping him.  Once the little kids were done with the egg hunt, the big kids all lined up to go.  This is the first year that Jackson got to go with the big kids and he sure held his own!

 Jackson loving on the Easter Bunny.  He was SO excited for Easter this year.  He could hardly sleep the night before!

 The Easter Bunny hid tons of eggs all over the house!  Look closely and see if you can find the eggs that they missed! 

 Trevor had a low grade fever all day on Easter.  My poor, sweet baby.  Here is my sweaty boy catching some Z's while the boys were on another egg hunt.

 Dylan absolutely idolized his cousin, Jack.  Jack is so sweet and good to Dylan, which I love.  He's the perfect kid for Dylan to look up to and aspire to be.  :)

We hope everyone had a fabulous and Hoppy Easter!

Dying Eggs!

The Haarmann cousins!  It is next to impossible to get them to all look at the camera and smile at the same time.  They seem to be looking in the same direction in this picture...

 Trevor is so excited about his new elephant!

 Dylan was pretty proud of his 'artwork'!  This is the paper towel they were putting the eggs on when they took them out of the cup.  :)

 Trevor's first time dying eggs!  He loved it!  Jackson is showing me his favorite egg.  He was so proud of himself! 

Trevor's Birthday Party!

We celebrated Trevor's birthday this past weekend.  He was NOT a fan of his cake.  He's actually had cake before (he's so the third child!) and loved it, but he wanted nothing to do with this cake!

 He was a tired boy after the party, and went to bed as soon as everyone left.  The next morning he woke up with a smile on his face, and was ready for presents!

He kept staring at his new sippy cups.  I think he was trying to figure out why there was no milk in them!  At one point, he actually tried to drink from the cups - while they were still in the package!  Silly boy.

 He's rolling in the money now!

 He had a great birthday weekend.  Thanks to everyone who helped him celebrate his first birthday!

Trevor is ONE!

I can't believe my sweet baby is ONE!  What a fun year it has been!  He is so close to walking now...he just has to let go.  He loves to give his brothers kisses and will drop EVERYTHING if he sees someone playing with a ball.  He loves to play 'catch'.  He gets into everything...every drawer, every cabinet, anything within his reach!  He's so tall too, that we really have to watch where we put things.  The other day he pulled a placemat off of the KITCHEN TABLE and knocked down everything that was on that placemat.  Seriously, I did not know he was tall enough to reach things on the kitchen table.  He's in the 98th percentile for height, so I guess I should have known better!  He doesn't sit still very long now, so it's hard to get good pictures of him.  Here he is before he woke up - possibly the only time he is still!

 Birthday Boy!

 My favorite boys!  (Dylan still has an orange soda mustache from the ballgame the day before!  He did take a bath, but it wouldn't come off...must have been a good orange soda!)

Go Cards!

Today Dylan, his friend Grant and I headed to the ballgame with their school.  The older kids (and a few of Dylan's friends!) were singing the National Anthem before the game started!  The weather was absolutely perfect!  Here are the boys when we finally got to our seats.  They were so excited for their nachos...I think because they knew that after nachos came cotton candy!

 Here's Grant helping some random lady (I assumed she was part of the St. Paul crowd, but it turned out she wasn't!) start the wave!  

 We found a friend!  Jayden, Grant and Dylan.  Such handsome young men!  (Never mind Dylan's orange soda mustache.  LOL)