Yay...pictures!

Well my laptop is officially dead. It won't even boot up correctly. However, I managed to save my pictures...specifically the ones from the month of September that were waiting to be uploaded to winkflash. BTW, my digital friends...$.06 digital print sale until October 3rd...use coupon code: ONLY6CENTS.

So here are some pictures from Jackson's 5th birthday party at Pump It Up on September 13th. He officially turned 5 on September 16th. He had his well child checkup on September 19 and was 36 pounds and 42 inches tall. Now in Nana and Papa's car, Jackson can sit in his own booster seat. He is such a big boy now!

The birthday Prince sits on his birthday throne

Our party crew! About 30 kids (pictured) and their parents (not pictured)

The Pusch Ridge Preschool Boys from the Stingray classroom

Some of Jackson's classmates from Pre-K at Immaculate Heart were in attendance
"The boys"

"The girls"

Aunt TJ and Taylor have some fun together

Taylor couldn't get Grandma to take her on the slide but a picture is okay too.

Even I got in on some fun

Papa made it out to celebrate

Anthony is a bit tuckered out after running and jumping for an hour and a half

The party room we had cake and ice cream cups, soda, chips, and candy

Soccer cake for my soccer star

The birthday Prince and the King.

We gave the kids balloons in their goody bags...who needs jumping?

Night Night Taylor

Taylor has been going through many milestones this month. She's doing GREAT at potty training. Staying dry about 95% of the time at night and about 70% of the time during the day. Yes there is a lot of "parent/teacher training" involved since she doesn't tell us all the time that she's got to go. But at least she isn't resistent to trying in many different places (yet). Some children have aversions to public restrooms, some will only go on their potty seat, some only in 1 specific bathroom at home, etc. Not Tay. She's an equal opportunity potty girl. :-) I'm hoping at least by the middle of October we'll get her wearing her big girl undies during the school day. She seems very excited about them as we picked up a package of Princess ones, Arial ones and Minnie Mouse ones. They have been washed and are ready for her use...next month (keep your fingers crossed)!

The second major hurdle is to get her OUT of OUR bed! I know we've been really lax and it hasn't helped that Nana and Papa co-sleep with the kids when they stay over there with them. I guess you pick and choose your battles. She'll sleep in her big girl bed reluctantly waiting for us to finish in the kitchen or office but then we have to move her with us to our bed or she'll wake up at 2am and come find us SCREAMING! Not something we really want at that hour when we have to wake up 3 hours later. I know...we're lazy! However, by this time we would have pushed a LOT harder because I normally would be pregnant around this age with the next one. Obviously, that is not the case here. No bun in the oven.

So tonight we made Taylor go into her own bed...as you can tell I'm trying to stay up as late as possible so she'll at least get a few hours in her own bed. But the girl kept coming out and checking up on me. Every time she did this big bro Ant-on-ney would come out of the boy's room and check up on her. So sweet bro Ant-on-ney gave her his Carter to sleep with and would be her "tucker inner". AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! So sweet, but the poor boy looked so sad for her too. I thought he was going to shed a few tears for her when she was crying in my office pleading with me to "slweep wit me momma!" After about 3 tuck ins by Ant-on-ney, I suspect she's finally off to dream land. Every so often though, I hear the rattle of Carter's internal rattle so we'll see when I head back in there in about 30 minutes to take her back to "your own bed" (Momma's bed). Where's Jackson in all of this??? SLEEPING!

My laptop is dying a slloooooooooooooowwww death!

Well I think it's official...I'm the killer of laptops. Shhhhhhhh, don't tell my Oracle counterparts. :-) My lovely 5 year old blue Toshiba Satellite laptop is on it's last leg. For the past month I've had physical memory dumps, swaps, crashes, bad reboots, etc. So last night I burned my important files off the hard drive onto cd-rom. I'm in the process of moving the pictures stored there onto the media card and then I have to work on my iTunes stuff. After that, it's time to say bye bye to my technology buddy. Granted this is the second laptop I've had in 10 years and the first one died because of the bad battery problems...yes...the laptop heated up so much it almost burned through a TV tray stand. Fortunately, it didn't catch on fire like I've seen in some pictures from the Toshiba lawsuit a few years back. I personally think it's the internal cooling fan that is going because anytime I hear it kick in to blow it also makes a grinding noise and then I get some sort of dump of memory or crash occur of all my applications.

So I guess it's time to save my money to purchase myself another laptop, especially after I get my pictures and iTunes library off of it. In addition to the new hardware and software, I'll have to get an external hard drive so I can backup all my pictures and files to it. :-) Granted I have http://www.winkflash.com to use for our pictures, but it's always a good idea to have another backup if you don't have the hard copies...which I don't. No money = no pictures = no up to date scrapbooks. :-( OH Well!