Jackson's 2 Year Stats

Jackson's 2 Year Well Check:
Weight: 23.6/5%
Height: 34/50%
Head Circumference: 19.50/75%
Shoe Size: 7/8 toddler
Diaper: size 3 (although you could easily wear 4 and are right on the edge of needing to)
Clothing: 2T... and sometimes 3T (definitely not in pants though... in pants you still sometimes need 24 mo which has a smaller waist size (if it doesn't have an elastic band), although 24 mo is starting to get to short)

Jackson @ 2 Years Old

• Favorite Food: brown rice, chicken noodle soup... pretty much just the noodles, chedder cheese, waffles, french toast, toast with butter and honey OR garlic toast, pretty much any bread, corn, fruit (especially grapes), pasta with butter and salt (no sauce), potatoes in any form, popcorn (your favorite is kettle corn), pretty much any snack type food, and ANY sweet. You are still a very picky eater and don't eat very much when you do eat.
• You pronounce candy, "kia" ... like the car.
• Your most used phrase during the day is, "Up please!" (request for us to hold you)
• Your current favorite DVD is "Ratatouille." You always point and say, "cook". You also still like watching Barney, Sesame Street and Baby Einstein.
• You are pretty meticulous about where things go and love to put things away. You pick up an item that's out of place and say "away?" (hope that lasts!)
• You are such a little character and have us laughing throughout the day.
• You love books and going to the library. You particularly love going to storytime and jumping onto the beanbags.
• At bed/naptime you have to have Mr. Bear, Elmo, and your books in bed with you. Every night we help you get under the covers (Elmo too) and you give us kisses and we say goodnight (after both mommy and daddy sing to you).
• When we come to get you in the morning, you always get a huge smile on your face. Recently you like to take Elmo, Mr. Bear, and your books out too.
• You love getting into mommy's purse... especially for chapstick, mints, and if you had it your way gum!
• You now let us know when you have a poopy diaper... you point to your diaper and say, "poopy, I change it"
• You love when all 3 of us lay down in bed and get under the covers. You'll pull up the covers to your chin and say, "night, night!"
• You love helping me with chores... laundry (separating colors and pouring the detergent in), sweeping, dusting and cooking/baking.
• You love running around the island screaming and laughing... especially with daddy's chasing you. You scream "uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
• You love making loud, silly noises and laugh in delight when we copy you.
• You copy EVERYTHING we say.
• You love looking at pictures of pple you know and things you've done.
• You pick up on things really quickly and are a smartie pants. We pretty much think you are a genius:).
• You love going to Grandma and Grandpa's house.
• You enjoy going to the mall and observing all the commotion and people (especially during the holidays and also when you get to play at dino land)
• You love all balls and know which sport they belong to.
• You love Buzz lightyear (even though you've never seen Toy Story), but there is one in nursery class you love. Before you got one for your b-day you would say, "Buzz... church" just to let us know you know that Buzz is at church. You would say this at the most random times during the day.
• You love bubbles.
• You love flashlights.
• You love turning anything/everything on and off.
• You love this little flying saucer thing that Grandma and Grandpa Bevans gave you last Christmas... and particularly love charging it;P
• You love animals
• You know all your letters, some numbers and colors (red, yellow, green, blue, purple).
• If asked how old you are you will say, "I two!"
• You love to cuddle and give hugs to mommy, daddy, grandma and grandpa, and sometimes your little friends in nursery.

It's Good To Be TWO

On December 19th Jackson turned 2! How did he go from this...

to this very busy toddler SO QUICKLY?!



It is INSANE how FAST it went! Jackson is such a good little boy and is an absolute sweetheart with a heart of gold. For his birthday we had a little party over at my mom and Robert's where he got completely spoiled (not to mention he was also spoiled by Grandma and Grandpa Bevans! He is one lucky boy!). As you can see, Grandma and Grandpa Jensen's main gift was a tricycle... I think it'll take some practice this summer to get the peddles down (Every time we try to put his feet on the peddles, he says "no, no." I think it's a weird feeling for him to have his legs stretched out), but that doesn't stop him from riding it. He LOVES it and was grinning from ear to ear when they brought it up (all assembled thanks to Grandpa (Mark was particularly excited about that one).
The cake was kind of a disaster (or at least the decoration part). I had bought black icing to draw a basketball, but when I was ready to start drawing the lines it was nowhere to be found. After DIGGING through the trash (yes, I actually did, thinking it was mistakingly left in a grocery bag) I found the receipt and the icing was not listed... which meant it's in a Harmon's cart somewhere... probably frozen. So, I just dyed some icing blue (it was all I had) and went with it. Oh well. I do have to say the cake itself was the best cake I ever made... thanks to a Good Things Utah recipe:). As long as it tastes good that's all that matters, right?
Jackson had a blast "riding" around on his trike and eating cake (he didn't care about blowing out the candles, just eating the cake... which he asked for every 5 minutes). :) It was a really great day! Happy 2nd Birthday my sweet boy!! We love you!!!!!!!!

Bevans Christmas Card 2010

This year I'm being lazy (no real excuse) and "trying" something different... a blogger/e-card:). I will return to the normal mailing out of cards next year! ;P

2010 has been a wonderful year for us and definitely busy. Mark had a CRAZY semester... with a Master's class, an hour long commute, planning lessons for Spanish 2 and 3, doing other required things for school, oh and having a toddler (and wife:)) shadow him around when he gets home every day... he definitely deserves this week and a half winter break! Mark decided to take a break from master classes until summer (especially since a newborn will be added to the craziness in April! We're loving being home right now (the best part of him being a teacher are the holiday breaks) and Jackson follows him around EVERYWHERE like a little puppy dog! Mark is pretty much his hero... it's Mom, who? whenever Daddy's home! I welcome the break at first, but then start missing my little side kick! Although, he still comes up to give me lots of hugs, kisses and smiles... he seriously is the best little boy in the entire world. We're loving the age he's at right now... he's a little sponge and just soaks up EVERYTHING!

Here's to 2011!!! YAY!! I love the fresh start each year!

Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Differences... so far...

Although I was a tad bit more nauseated with this baby (I threw up twice with this pregnancy and 0 with Jackson's), the main differences are...

1. This pregnancy is F L Y I N G by, Jackson's seemed to take F O R E V E R. I'm thinking it's because I now have a little toddler to LOVE on and keep me busy, busy, BUSY AND I know how hard the first 3-4 months are... and how LITTLE sleep I will be getting (plus this time I'll have a busy toddler to look after too), so I'm enjoying and savoring the one-on-one moments I have (all day) with my little guy and the SLEEP I am currently getting while I still can:).

2. Jackson was a MOVER... I mean he moved all day long (sometimes all night)... not just little movements, either... BIG movements, like "HEY, Mom! I'm here!!" He hasn't changed at all and has been an active and alert little guy since he's been born. This sweet little girl barely moves at all and when she does it is small, little (dainty:)) movements. It makes me paranoid... but it doesn't matter what I do, she only moves when she wants to... and that's not a lot. Maybe it will change as I get further along? I can't remember. But, I'm kind of crossing my fingers that she's calm and an amazing sleeper:).

3AM

Yep, 3 AM and I am not sleeping... and haven't even fallen asleep even for 5 minutes since going to bed at 11:30 (and I thought that was late!)... and it's not because of a crying baby... but because of sterioids. I've had pretty moderate-serious asthma since I was 5 (resulting in several hospital trips when I was younger, one of the trips included a collapsed lung). However, most of my life it really hasn't effected me besides taking inhalers... I've always been very active and done whatever sport/activity I desired.

However, it DOES really effect me when I get a cold... or more specifically a chest cold, which is why I always get a flu shot. Usually flu shots do pretty well keeping away the serious flu/cold illness'. However, this week I was hit with a really bad chest cold. For the first day I put off going to the doctor, but that night was HORRIBLE and I could barely breathe and was taking my inhaler every hour (and of course, the entire night I was thinking about what this was doing to my little baby). So, went to the doctor, she checked my oxygen levels which were low and I couldn't take a full breath... so she put me on a 3-5 day course of steroids. Today was my first FULL dose of steroids. I didn't think I was experiencing any side effects, but now I totally realize I AM. Because it is TOTALLY unlike me to be up until 3 AM willingly (I am so NOT a night owl and am usually the first to bed).

HOWEVER, I do want to say that steroids are a miracle for asthma. My lungs totally improved within even a couple of hours and today I felt like I could breathe again COMPLETELY normal!

Anyway, the END (of my middle of the night blog writings;P). Hopefully I'll get at least SOME sleep... PLEASE!

Ho! Ho! Ho! = Christmas Tree

A couple of months ago I pulled out this little bath toy Santa for Jackson told him it was Santa Claus and that Santa says, "Ho! Ho! Ho!" and "Merry Christmas!" So, every night at bathtime Jackson would talk about Santa and what he says.

About 1 month later, the stores started putting up Christmas trees... so Jackson points to one and I told him it was a Christmas tree... 2 seconds later he pointed to it and said, "Ho!". Yep. So every time he see's any Christmas tree... he points and says in a loud voice, "HO!"

The funniest Christmas tree or "Ho!" story:

We were walking into the library and next to our library there is a big Christmas tree. I point out the Christmas tree and say, "Look at the big Christmas tree." Thirty minutes later as we're walking out of the library, Jackson points to the Christmas tree and says loudly, "Big ho!!" Hmmmm... yep Jackson. No matter how many times we have corrected him, he never changes his word for Christmas tree (which is funny since he will point to normal tree's and say... tree).