Nice Night for a Post

Update on Jackson:  It's been almost 24 hours since he fell and no more puking.  Yea!  I had to wake him up at 8:00 this morning to get him ready for church.  At church, they moved him down to the baby room because he just wanted to go to sleep.  BUT Jeff and I agree that he's simply tired and there's no problem with his head.  11:00 is WAY too late for a 1 1/2 year-old to be going to bed!  We are all taking BIG naps today : )

So, I'm sitting up waiting for 12:15 to roll around because I have to wake Jackson and check him over for signs of concussion. He fell down a concrete step this afternoon around 2:00. He was fine and dandy ALL day, but he started vomiting on our way home tonight. I know from several unfortunate personal experiences that head injury + vomiting = concussion. I hardly considered Jackson's incident an injury, but apparently it's a distinct possibility that we'll be packing him up to head in to the ER.   3 is the magic number--3 times to up-chuck in the 24 hours following a bonk on the head means you go get checked out. If we do have to go to the ER tonight, I don't know how we'll get there. One car seat is out of commission due to mass quantities of vomit. As a matter of fact, I'm opposed to getting back in the Camry at all for at least a week---it REEKS! It took us 2 1/2 hours to get home from Arlington tonight because of our 2 clean-up stops...one in the car and one in, yes IN, the CVS pharmacy. It's been a nice night. But you all are going to benefit because I'm using this time to post cute pics. Enjoy...

Jackson and I got together with Ryan and his sweet mom, Sandy, on Thursday morning for a little park time.  Here they are "racing" to the top of the slide...

He likes it a lot better when the slide is all clear.
They were sharing this stick back and forth so sweetly.  I'm praying that he'll keep his sweet, loving spirit always.
On Friday morning, we had another playdate at the park with lots of friends.  Caroline and Rebecca are on the back teeter-totter, Addi and Jackson are on the front one.
Baby Davis enjoyed swinging for a while.
Everyone took turns riding with Jackson because he never wanted off the teeter-totter.  If you enlarge the pic, you'll see how much he LOVES Jacquelyn (Rebecca's mom).
Rebecca was SO gentle when she rode with Jackson...practicing her "big sister" act and doing quite well.
Everybody piled onto one teeter-totter for about 10 seconds before they gave up.  Jackson, Addi, Rebecca, Davis, and Heather (Davis' mom).  
Jackson was perfectly willing to let Rebecca practice "sistering" with him.  This was not a posed shot.  They were actually riding the merry-go-round like this for quite a while.  Sweet kids.
Addi and Rebecca working together to fill the pipe up with dirt.  Important jobs these girls have.
Kelly and Caleb came up for a visit on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning.  We took the boys to the pool for a bit (we wanted to try out the new neighborhood toddler wading pool).  Caleb loved it but Jackson complained about the water being too cold.  He wouldn't really get in so we headed over to the park (2nd time that day for Jack) to let them play instead.  
Jackson taught Caleb how to do the teeter-totter since he had practiced all morning with his other friends and their moms.  
This last picture is so special to me.  I went running the other morning while the kids stayed home with Jeff.  When I got closer to the house, I could hear the kids yelling "Go Mommy!" and "Mamamama!"  They were sitting at the window watching for me to come home.  I could see their sweet smiling faces looking out at me and it was just precious.  I didn't have my camera outside with me, of course, but here's a rear-view shot of the crew waiting for me to return: