Post from Big Poppa

I know we have been in the habit of posting on Wednesday, but I felt like posting in the midst of all this rain. Jackson and I have had some quality Father-Son time lately playing outside in the mud and rain, so I figured I would share.

We went on an exploring adventure through our neighborhood. We waded through a creek and splashed in every puddle on our path.

We filled this bucket with water and he ended up in it.

Here is some sweet mud on our afternoon of Disc Golf

More Disc Golf.

Yet another Wednesday... I love it!!

So it is late yet I don't want to miss another Wednesday of not updating our blog!! Plus I am a night person so it is easy to stay up=) (unlike Jonathan who is fast asleep)

Well this past week we had Jackson a birthday party in Ruston, went to the first Tech game of the season, had game night at the BCM, and just the normal day by day things=) Overall, it was a great week!!


Jackson pretending to blow out the candles... I forgot the fire!


All his friends..


The amazingly cute and delicious cake made by Caroline Stamm!!



Jackson at the Tech game...




Jackson playing with his new birthday toys=)

Pictures from yesterday's update

Don't judge this cake. I made it. It is NOT mold...it is multi-colored icing assortment melted and poured into the bunt pan

He does a complete 360 to hit the ball


This top picture is Jackson in the tunnel during his one year pictures. This bottom one is him in the same tunnel on his second birthday!

BCM...

It seems as if every moment of our life since last Wednesday has revolved around BCM and the craziness that is the first few weeks of the school year! It has been a lot of fun and great to be able to have Erin and Jackson right in the middle of it all.

Last Thursday was Jackson's 2nd birthday and I (Jonathan) was able to come home for a few hours to go to the park with Jackson and Erin, share supper together, and bake a cake for the boy. We had a great time. I then had to go back on campus for "Fusion" (a United Campus Ministries kick off worship service...I fell asleep). Friday was a fun evening of Pancake and 4-Square Fellowship at the BCM. Jackson was all over the place playing and meeting folks. He even grabbed a pair of scissors from my desk and as I wrestling them away from him, he clamped the scissors across the top of my thumb. He made me drip blood. I was quite proud of him. Saturday was a great family day and then an evening of Young Adult Sunday School Get Together. It was a load of fun and Jackson LOVED his time in the nursery with his new buddy, Ethan Hogg.

This week at the BCM was the week of firsts: First Journey, First Soul Food, First 56, and (my personal favorite event of the year), Church Road Trip (progressive dinner amongst 5 local churches). While I was leading that through the BCM, Erin and Jackson were at church setting up. Jackson made two new college buddies, Jurdon Thomas and Mark Whisenhunt. They played ball with him, loved on him, taught him to say "Rock-N-Roll." It was a great time and he LOVED them and HATED to bid them farewell.

So, that is about it. Erin left the camera at church, so no new photos at this point. Sorry.

24 hours later...Camera retrieved...photos now available!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACKSON!!

Birth September 10th 2007

Jackson 1

Jackson 2

So today is Thursday and we missed our Wednesday update. We missed for good reason. Jackson, Ellie, Zoe and I all went to GA to visit my family. We went to see Jessie play softball and to celebrate Shelby's 12th birthday and Jackson's 2nd birthday. We had TONS of fun. We got back last night and were off to the BCM. Classes at Tech started today and that means that things at the BCM are up and running. Last night they had a block party and it was great to see all the old students and the new ones!!

Today is Jackson's Birthday! We are so blessed to have such an amazing son! He is growing up way too fast!! He has learned all of his ABC's and is learning his numbers. He loves to talk and tries to say everything we say. It is so adorable!! He also loves to color, watch TV, read books and just play! He really loves animals, outside and being with friends!

Talk to you next Wednesday!!




Jessie pitching!! She is awesome!! They won 3-0


Ellie. Zoe and Jackson at Collidge Park.

Jackson eating cake!!

Shelby blowing out her candles=)

One of the many toys Jackson got for his birthday

Blue Ice Cream = Green Poop

Erin has graciously allowed me, Jonathan, to update this post. The reason being: she has found some documentary on PBS.

So, the summer is quickly coming to an end. I am no longer working 9am-noon. I am back to full days in anticipation of the craziness that is about to ensue here at Louisiana Tech and all the BCM events surrounding it. What does all of this mean? It means I take FULL advantage of my time with Jackson in the morning and in the evenings as I jump in the tub with him almost every night and play. We snuggle on the bed together watching Blue's Clues prior to our family pray/singing/Scripture time before bed. He is so wonderful and definately my best little buddy.

Last Friday we enjoyed an evening together at home as a family and then decided to go to Wal-Mart and Maggie Moo's Ice Cream shop. Jackson is like a kid in a candy store when he goes into an ice cream store. He gets so excited. He only knows one color, "blue" (either he knows more and enjoys messing with us by calling every color "blue" or he has some weird eye disorder where he legitimately sees everything in blue). Anyway, he picks out some Blue Cotton Candy Ice Cream and we sit there and eat our $12.55 worth of ice cream.

The next day, I get an invitation to go play disc golf at SGA Park with some buddies. I decided to take Jackson, just because I love the time with him and I enjoy him living the adventure that comes with access to unlimited dirt, sticks, rocks, etc. Well, 4 holes into our 18 hole course, Jackson gets really still and his face turns red, which tells me, he's taking a dump. I figure since it is a hot day and he is running around sweaty, the last thing he wants is warm stool sitting snugly in his diaper, so I decided to go on home and get him changed.

I realize that this is no ordinary poo. It was massive. I was such the proud papa. We took him straight to the bathroom and I stripped him down as I noticed it was all up his back and all over his clothes. It was awesome. It was such a rich hue of green. We put him in the tub and hose him off (thanks to our mobile shower head) and the water turns as green as a crystal sea.

Since this has quickly turned potty-talk, Jackson's new favorite thing to say "ewww Daddy pooted...shoo wee." I am NOT hesitant to say that he also appropriately says "ewww MOMMY pooted...shoo wee" (I hope Erin chooses not to proof this post).

I guess that is all that happened last week: Jackson crapped a lot of green.

JClark

Oops, Erin says there is more to our week than just that.

• Erin made her grandmother's homemade cookies to take to church for an after-church fellowship. That brought back some good memories for her.
• Erin also sewed, which impressed the pants off of me. She MADE Jackson a pillowcase and a top sheet...and not even from a pattern! She just took some fabric and her sewing machine and voila! A pillowcase and a top sheet.
  
• We enjoyed a great time of fellowship with some church friends at a cookout. Jackson has a new buddy from church named Ethan. They are great friends and play well together.
• Jonathan fixed a mower.
• Thursday we got Jackson's 2-year-old pictures made by the very-talented, Donald Page out at Lincoln Parish Park. Jackson LOVED playing out there...and we got some great shots.
  
• ...and the same old same old

JClark




Green Poop



Erin's grandmother's cookies (which Jackson calls "dookie")



Jackson's new pillowcase and sheet



One of Donald's pictures (Erin made that shirt too!)