Our Weekend

On Friday, one of my oldest friends, Chelsi, was in Dallas for a conference, so she came by to visit. And, when I say she is old, I don't mean age. We grew up down the street from each other.
It was great to see her. She came bearing sweet gifts for the boys.
Cooper is in love with this giraffe. Jackson is quite possessive over it, too!
And she also brought them a cute pig and the book, If You Give a Pig a Party. I have read the book ALOT since she gave it to them on Friday. ALOT. Luckily, it's a super sweet book! Cooper crawled up into Jackson's chair and read through it for a while, too.

During naptime, I made some cupcakes to bring to our friends, Rebekah and Tom. They had a little baby girl, Margaret, on Thursday. I went down to the hospital to meet the newest addition on Friday evening. I planned on taking lots of pictures, but even better, I got to hold her the whole time. Oh, sweetness. She is so cuddly and warm and tiny and perfect. I have had two babies in the past 2 years, but I still forget how little and completely dependent they are at first. Anyway, here is a link to her blog, so you can see how adorable she is. http://louisfam.blogspot.com/

When I got home, Colin had taken some pictures of the boys with their cupcakes after dinner.
And Cooper wanted to make sure all of it made it in his mouth ...
every last little bit....

Today, after church, Jackson and I headed back down to Dallas to meet Chelsi and some friends for brunch at Bread Winners. YUM. Yum, Yum, Yum.
It was beyond nice to have such great one-on-one with Jackson. Life with one kid, and a kids that is 2 1/2 yrs old, is SO calm, quiet, and, well, easy. I actually had conversation during lunch. And we were there for 2 hrs or so. He did so great, and really enjoyed his lunch. He took a long time to finish, but he enjoyed ALL of it. He kept us all laughing.

And afterward, a cupcake for dessert. It's been a high-sugar weekend. I think it took him over 20 minutes to eat the cupcake, and we had a small crisis moment when some of the icing slid off the top, but in the end, he was fine. And he never even ate the cake - just the icing.