Mama's Birthday

Mama had a great birthday this year. She had a fantastic party the day before at Granma's, where Jackson helped her open presents.


And on the actual day, we had a party at our house, and Mama opened her great presents from Daddy and Elyot, 'NaMe and Grandaddy and Anne and Chris. Jackson picked Mama a very special present, all by himself. It's a flashlight, so that Mama can have one by her bed just like Jackson does. When Jackson went to bed that night, he said, "I think you like my present so much that we'll never fight again." Mama promptly shed a few tears.

Jackson's Portrait Doll

This term at Jackson's school, each of the students was given a calico doll and asked to make a self-portrait. Here is Jackson with his:

Mama, Lili and Granma all helped Jackson with his. We got started by looking through Memaw's button jar for some blue eyes.

Mama got to come to Jackson's school (on her birthday!) to help him talk about the process of making the doll. Our talk and the photos we took of the process were featured in the Daily Reflection Journal that day (click on photo to zoom in):

Red Hair at the Fair

Jackson, Elyot, Mama, Daddy, Vicky, James and Olive attended a local school fete last Friday. Jackson decided to have his hair dyed his favourite colour.


Crazy!

Then he and Daddy went down a big slide.

Party Time!

Jackson really enjoys having movie nights and slumber parties with Granma and Lili. Here are some recent shots:

Letting Off Some Steam

The other week Ross came over and brought his neat donkey steam engine.


It reminded us a little of Grandaddy's train set, except that it worked using steam, rather than electricity. Neat-o!