Jackson and the Giant Slide

Momma has been lazy and not doing much story telling. She's been putting up slideshows as a cop-out, so today I'm going to catch you up on the story of my brother Jackson and the giant slide at Avery's birthday party.


As you all know, we love our cousin Avery. She's the best big cousin, and she was especially great a couple of weeks ago when she turned 8. Everyone keeps talking about how they can't believe she's 8, but I don't know what the big deal is. What's wrong with being 8?








Either way, we went to the Hurts' beach house in Port O'Conner. It was a great party for both Jaxyn and Avery. The Hurts are really nice people, and we're greatful they let us hang at their place.










Jaxyn got a huge slide for her birthday, and when we arrived at the party is was already set up, and Avery's friends were hard at play on it. It looked like so much fun, and Jackson and I could not wait to put our swim suits on. Momma made us wait a while so everyone could see us looking cute first before we got all wet. It was during this time that Jackson began his dream of going down the slide like all the big kids.

All he could think about was going down that slide. Momma and I both knew he wouldn't do it, but that made him even more determined. We tried distracting him with cookies, and it worked for a while, but that slide just kept calling his name.






Here he is just staring at the giant slide. "Oh, if only my momma would put my bathing suit on! I would show that slide who's boss," he thought.



























Momma finally put our bathing suits on, and Jackson went straight to Papoo to discuss his strategy of conquering the slide. I just rolled my eyes like I always do when Jackson gets a wild idea.













The plan was for Avery to climb to the top and slide down with him. Avery did her part, and climbed to the top to wait for Jackson. As you can see from the picture, Jackson had second thoughts. Avery tugged at him from one end, and Jackson had a death grip on Papoo.

When it was all said and done, Papoo put him in the middle of the slide and let him....er, made him do half of the slide. Everyone clapped and talked about how brave he was, but you can see from the picture here, he didn't exactly put on a brave face for everyone. you can't blame the boy for having dreams though, right?

It's summertime!

Today is our last day to stay at Miss Victoria and Yayo's house (that's Charro, for those of you who don't know our language). We've had a really good time staying there while our momma works. We eat a lot of Mexican food, and we dance to the music videos on Univision. Momma is very jealous, because she would like to spend her day doing the same thing.

Miss Victoria asked our momma how her Spanish was the other day, because she's worried we're going to forget all of our Spanish vocabulary during the Summer. She was sure to tell Momma that Sesame Street was on in Spanish on Saturday mornings. Sadly, Momma knew this even before we came along. She's a pretty big Sesame Street fan. We've made a lot of friends at Yayo's we'd like to give a shout out to: Big Aiden, Little Aiden, Gage, Bailey, Ethan! We'll see you on the flip side!

Even though on occasion we plan on dropping in on Yayo and Miss Victoria, we are really looking forward to hanging out with our Gigi for a month. Gigi bought us a new blow-up pool yesterday at Target. If you need us at any time during the day, that's where you'll find us. Gigi used to spend her days on a float in the big pool (we like to call it a bath), sipping on margaritas, but her summer vacation has changed. Welcome to Gigi-hood.

Ta Da!

1,2,3...Jump!

Avery turned 8!