November 2009

Not much really happened in November.  The beautiful fall continued and came to an end by the end of the month, and there's a great slideshow below.

Here are a couple of videos below of Jackson eating.

We drove down to Alabama for Thanksgiving.  Both Jackson and Lincoln were good (they slept the whole way almost) and we made it in ~14 hours.  What can I say about Thanksgiving . . . well, it was crazy.  Josh and Jon David had driven from Anchorage (69&1/2 hours straight) in Josh's VW Bus and surprised us by being at the house when we arrived.  We had a family party in Birmingham the 2nd night were were there, and then the next day went down to the lake. 

Jackson and I visiting my great aunt.

Shopping with Granny at Publix

We all went down to Auburn 1 day to see campus, my old apartment that JD lives in now, and have lunch at Mellow Mushroom - it hasn't changed a bit, unlike just about everything else in Auburn.  That's one reason I like going there. 

We also went out to that new monstrosity called "Tiger Town", which when Sarah and I were at Auburn was on the edge of the boonies and was just forest.  Anyway, we got Jackson an Auburn hat.  He was always wearing mine but it's obviously way too big.  I expected him to get tired of it within hours at most, but he LOVES that hat.  He wears it ALL THE TIME, even now.  And he wears it like an older kid - it's always straight, he tkes it off and adjusts it with 1 hand.  It's hilarious.  He literally sleeps in it and if it isn't in his crib when he wakes up, that's the 1st thing he asks for. 

We were there a couple of days when all of Sarah's family started to arrive.  The rest of the week was just a blur  - lot's of people, food, and dogs.  Sarah's brother, Andrew, and his wife and family came.  Isabella is ~1yr older than Jackson, and this was the 1st time we got to see their new baby, Lucas. 

On Saturday, we needed to get out of the house, so we packed a picnic lunch of leftover turkey sandwiches and drove down to Dadeville to a nice playground they have there for the babies.  Jackson loves slides, and even on those curved tunnel slides, he'll go down head first. 

After the playground, we all went to Horseshoe Bend National Military Park, which I'll talk about in its own post.

Jackson with Grandpa Wiley

Fortunately, Sarah and I took  off the entire week and the Monday after, so we left Saturday night and still had a day to recover, which was nice, because that drive back is so much worse having done it just a few days before.

Catching Up - October

October is a great month here in southeastern PA.  The leaves are in full color, the days are cool and crisp, and there's so much going on.  Here's a summary of some of the things we did this month. 

Jackson was starting to eat with a spoon, and got pretty good with it by later in the month. 

Jackson loves Lincoln, and he's lucky Lincoln is so patient.  Jackson tackles Lincoln, pulls his fur, and loves to climb into Lincolns crate with him.  Lincoln is a great big brother. 

We had dinner with our friends and their 2 adorable daughters.  Jackson's working his magic.

The next day is when we took Jackson to the photographer again.  If you want to see those pictures again, click here. There are some great ones. 

Late in the month, Jon David and I sceemed to surprise Sarah with a visit by Jon David, during which he'd drive up in our new car (thanks maw!).  We had a good time.  We did some new things, and some of the same things we have to do every time he comes.  For exampl, we had to get cheesesteaks from the best cheesesteak place in Philly.

Then we walked a couple blocks away to the Academy of Natural Scienes, where our dinosaur from Argnetina is being worked on.  I wanted to show JD what we've done on it.  Here's Jackson outside one of the entrances. 

I believe this was the same day that we went to on orchard to pick some apples, but it was pouring rain the whole time, so we just bought a ton of apples in their farmer's market. 

The next day was gorgous, so we took JD to Chanticleer Gardens.  This is the same garden we went to with Sarah's mom just a couple days after Jackson was born.  That was late summer, and obviously it is fall now, so it was really nice to see the difference in season.  I'd love to come back here in spring.  JD took a lot of nice photos. 

And then there was Halloween, but I already posted on that.  Click here to go back to that post.