We're Back!

Welcome back avid readers of this blog! Sincerest of apologies for being gone so long. I took this vacation thing a little seriously and have been gone for far too long. Our trip was fantastic. We had a blast traveling through Europe and I will post more on that later as I'm sure y'all want to hear about our reunion with our sweet boy.

My parents (and half of El Paso) did an incredible job taking care of our cub. So incredible in fact, that Jackson did not want ANYTHING to do with his momma or dada upon our arrival. My mom says he didn't appreciate being left behind and for such a long amount of time. I don't blame him, but it did break my heart when he didn't want to hug me.

After a few hours of persuasion though, the boy came around and was soon jumping on us, wrestling with us and saying, 'momma and dada' like usual. Phew! I thought I would be begging for forgiveness for weeks the way he was treating us!

The rest of our Memorial weekend was smooth sailing after our initial meeting and we decided to celebrate by going out on the lake with the cub.

Not only did he show off some pretty impressive swimming skills; he also showed us all of the new words he learned while in El Paso. The boy is now using words like; Gigi, Tio (uncle), Tia (aunt), doggy, pato (duck), gracias (thank you), Bibi (my brother) & baby/bebe.  In addition to the ones he already knew. I don't mean to brag, (well yes actually I do...) but this kid can TALK. It's going to get him into a world of trouble down the line because he really never stops talking, but for now it's cracking us up. 

Thank you eternally Mami y Papi for watching Jackson. We now know for certain that while we enjoyed our time away, we will never spend so much time away from our little cub since I don't think he'll forgive us next time and we missed him WAY too much anyways. 

Au Revoir Momma!

My parents were in town this past weekend and we celebrated Mother's Day with them. It was a bittersweet celebration since the reason for my parent's arrival was to take our little cub back to El Paso with them for a whopping 10 days. They will be watching Jackson while Jack and I take a vacation to Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam.

While I am thrilled to go to Europe for the next few days I am sad to leave my sweet boy behind. I was worried he'd think we were abandoning him and he'd never forgive me but as is turns out he has abandoned me....

Well, not exactly but while my parents were here, Jackson became ENAMORED/OBSESSED/OVERJOYED with my dad. To the point that he didn't even want to come with me! If you've hung out with the boy recently you know he only wants his momma....well, now he only wants his 'abuelo'. Abuelo has become his new favorite word and his new favorite person. When we packed him up in the car at 4am on Sunday he was only crying because Abuelo wasn't in the backseat with him, (not because we were leaving him or anything).

So I think it's safe to say he's in GREAT hands. Thank you mom and dad (and 1/2 of El Paso) for watching him, and I leave y'all with some videos of Jackson hamming it up at dinner Saturday night. You'll hear him say 'abuelo' (grandfather) 'vamos' (let's go) 'dos' (two...but he uses it to mean 'down') and 'byes'. He's getting pretty good at this language thing ;)

Dog Jogging

The other night we decided to go for a family run. After a few miles though (and thankfully close to home) Chaucer was DONE. It just so happened that Jackson was also done with being in the stroller.

We decided it would be best if the kids switched seats. Chaucer was relieved (seriously, he didn't even try to jump out) and the cub enjoyed pushing his brother around in his stroller. Kind of ridiculous huh?

Cinco de Mayo

As y'all know Saturday was Cinco de Mayo. No we are not Mexican, but we VERY much enjoy celebrating the holiday and this past one was no exception. 

We had already planned for a fun family day downtown but had not planned on Jack having a strong desire to buy a piñata. Why you ask? I don't know, but when Jack gets something in his head we always see it through.

So Piñata buying we went!  Jackson had just woken up from a nap so he must have thought he was in a dream or something when we put him in the middle of all these piñatas! 

He then became VERY interested in them and ooooooedddd and wowwwwwweddddd...

 And when the store owner handed him a stick...Well forget about it...he was in heaven. 

Check out 'Burro'. He came home with us and stared at Jackson the whole way home. Nah, this isn't at all scary folks. 

Piñata shopping wore us out so we then headed to Lucy's to have some delicious fried chicken...

                                      
 And we're fairly certain Jackson can tell when we're around Town Lake (downtown Austin) because he always starts saying, 'agua, agua, agua' around Congress and Cesar Chavez. I mean, it's his 2nd favorite word anyways but he just always seems to know when there is a body of water that he must get in to.

We are not the type of parents to disappoint our lion cub so to the 'agua' we went. His FAVORITE place on Town Lake...Butler Park.

This place has a splash pad that this kid is CRAZY about. We had one cool Cinco de Mayo, hope y'all did as well :)