Am I five yet?

For the last couple of weeks, Jackson has asked every morning whether he was five yet.  It really started when we mailed his party invitations and as soon as they were in the mailbox, he asked if he was five.  Each time he asked, I hated to break his heart and tell him no, while at the same time I hated for the day to get closer that he would turn five.  The day has come and our baby is most definitely no longer a baby.

He's finally 5!!

 Jackson had his party last Friday night and we saved some presents for him to open this morning.  Apparently all of this present-opening has him spoiled.  Once he finished opening presents this morning, he ducked his head and sheepishly said he wanted more presents.

 Every gift this morning was dinosaur related.  It's becoming his new obsession.  I can't believe how many dinosaur names roll off of my tongue each day, much less all the names Jackson has learned!

 We headed to Krispy Kreme for a birthday breakfast this morning!  I had a candle to stick in his doughnut, but he informed me candles were for cakes.  My bad.

 He loves the doughnuts almost as much as the doughnut machine!

He is always asking to watch the machine.

 I tried to get a picture of the 2 of them.

I think this pretty well sums up our life with these two.

 Jackson did sit still for me to get a quick picture of the two of us!

 From here on out, I'm backtracking.

  The Sunday before Jackson's party, Grammy and Grandpa came down and we took Jackson to pick out his birthday present from them--fish!!  We found an aquarium and he picked out a blue, red, and gold fish.

 He and Katherine love feeding them and Jackson likes to put his dinosaurs in front of the tank pretending like the dinos are about to have an easy dinner.

 Fast forward to Friday . . . it's time for a party!

 Although Jackson is obsessed with dinosaurs, he discovered Angry Birds several months ago and said he wanted an Angry Birds party!

 Getting a glimpse at his cake!

 Headed to the party!

 Jackson's party last year was at a jump place and that's where he wanted it again this year.  Jackson with William and Nicholas.

 Grandpa even got in on the fun with Katherine!

 The big moment!

{If you look at Jackson's friend in the white and red shirt in the picture above and below, he was getting ready to blow the candles with Jackson!}

 I feel like I'm cutting the fun off abruptly, but after cake and ice cream, the boys jumped a little longer and we headed home to open presents.  A couple of his friends were crying when they had to leave, so I think it's safe to say they all had a good time.

We've had a fun time celebrating our FIVE year old!  We can't wait to see what this year brings with all of the new adventures we're about to have!

13 Days Ago

I'm a little late in our 4th of July pictures!

We went to Alabama for the better part of the week and had a good time.

On the morning of the 4th, Katherine was a little excited to

get in the water and started prepping early!

 Uncle Sam even made an appearance!

I'm crossing my fingers our Christmas card

will have a picture this good of the two!

Two more Uncle Sams!

Ready to swim and begging for the gate to be opened!

 Jackson's favorite thing to do in the pool!

 Jackson and Katherine both took swimming lessons this year.  Katherine's class only worked on blowing bubbles in the water and floating on their backs.  During the lessons she always wanted me to let her go, but they weren't wearing floaties in the class, so she was frustrated.  Zach took his hands off of her here and she turned into a FISH!!  Our little girl is a swimmer.  She started kicking her legs and could get to wherever she wanted.

Our future Olympic swimmer in action!

Headed to help her older cousins pick apples . . .

she ate her weight in apples!

Since seeing the 'dinosaur robots' in New Orleans, Jackson had been asking non-stop to see the 'dinosaur bones' again.  So we headed back to Atlanta for the museum and while there Katherine experienced The Varsity for the first time.

 I don't have too many pictures from the museum since it was a repeat visit, but there was this new exhibit.

 Jackson ran in the exhibit, but once we chased him down in the first room, we had seen enough. It's a good thing we had eaten prior.

We had a pretty low-key and enjoyable holiday!

Bedtime Story

Happy 4th!!