Jackson is CRAZY

Jackson has just gotten nutser and nutser with each passing year. He was funny at two. He was still funny, but quite a bit more annoying at three. He was bordering on just plain obnoxious at four. And now that he's five, he just driving me flat bonkers! He doesn't really misbehave, he just gets on my nerves. Can you punish a kid for just getting on your nerves?? He's still funny, but he tries too hard to be funny so it's not as funny anymore. We were seriously considering home schooling him for kindergarten in the fall. Seriously considering it. After careful consideration, we decided to send him on to real kindergarten. The other day Jackson was acting like his insane self and I said, "It's a good thing we're not homeschooling him because I think I would have to become an alcoholic to be able to make it through the day." Not really funny, I know. (And not really serious either Mom and Debbie.)

Jackson does some pretty funny little accents here and there that he's picked up. Kind of British, but not really. But if we laugh at him he keeps saying the same thing 50,000 more times until I think my brain is going to explode. And he has this fake laugh that he does at Mikey to get Mikey laughing. I just don't really know how to describe it except really loud and really nerdy. And he probably says "Huh?" atleast 50 times a day. I can't wait until he picks up lots more annoying habits from the little worms he'll be in school with.

But he dances pretty cool. And Phillip and I noticed the other day that he's nailed down some of the best argument phrases in the world like "but still" and "no, for real" and "come on" and "Dude!" And he likes to kiss me on the arm and Phillip on the head. So, I suppose he does have some redeeming qualities.

Update on future (hopefully) Micah Hintze

Most of you reading this probably received my e-mail update on Tuesday. But I figured I would just post it anyway. We had court on Tuesday and found out that bio. mom intends to relinquish her parental rights. Just because she intends to do it, doesn't mean she'll actually do it. But atleast we know she's not fighting to get him back. If she doesn't relinquish, we will probably have trial to terminate around November. That's kind of a guess on my part because the "pre-trial" is set for October 23rd. Anyway, things are going about as good with him as we possibly could have hoped for. And he's just so dang cute. It's really pretty ridiculous how cute he is.

We had a good scare a couple months into this thing by the CPS worker telling us that mom was doing "great." Her definition of "great" and mine must be very different. Funny how some people really like to use the word "great" a lot. But that's another post for another day.

What a difference a year makes!

I don't mean for this to be a morbid post or anything, so if it makes anyone uncomfortable, I'm sorry.

I realized something pretty cool a little while ago and I thought it was worth sharing. I haven't written in a while about the miscarriages that we've had. Honestly, those losses are not on my mind that much anymore. And that's a good thing. Not that those babies will ever be forgotten. But the pain from loosing them is mostly a memory.

Anyway, what's cool is that I just realized we got Mikey a year....almost to the moment we found out about our fourth baby. I had my appointment on January 11, 2006 at 4:15. I found out at that appointment they could not find a heart beat. They sent me to the hospital where I had an ultrasound at 5:47 when they confirmed the baby was not alive.

CPS walked in our door with Mikey at 5:30 p.m. on January 11, 2007. One year later. I think that's pretty cool. He's brought a lot of healing to this family.

Crazy ABC's

We've been working with Jackson more with his letters and numbers. He'll be going to Kindergarten in the fall and his writing really needs some work. So here is a picture of Jackson's alphabet. I especially like the Q.




On a completely unrelated side note, Mr. "Micabee" got his first temporary tattoo at an Astro's game on Sunday. I wish I could post pictures. Things are looking very good regarding keeping this kid. We have court on Tuesday and I should know more after that's over.

Should I be worried?

Phillip and I went in to check on Jackson before we went to bed and this is what we found....





White Noey (The original), Blue Noey (the replacement), and Brown Noey (the extra) are all hanging on for dear life from Jack's top bunk.

Work stuff

I feel pretty defeated at work lately. I just feel like I'm not doing a good job and I'm letting little things slip through the cracks. I don't know what it is. I don't know if it's the added time and attention another child requires. I don't know if maybe my heart is just not in it or what. Anyway, I need to step it up and start paying more attention to what I'm doing. I feel like I could easily be replaced with someone who would do a more thorough job. Attention to detail has never been my strong suit. This is not coming from any kind of reprimand or anything like that. It's just something I feel within myself. I wish I could just make a part time income doing something I actually enjoy, but I don't see that in the near future. I'm not really as down in the dumps as this post may appear. I'm just stating the fact that I'm not keeping all these balls in the air very well.

Update on crazy School Supply Lady

Ok, so it's the school supply lady (I'll use the term "lady" loosely here) who is so against the Tattoo shop near our church. Anyway, on Sunday she put a bunch of flyers on cars out in our parking lot. I didn't see it but I heard that it had a picture of the Tattoo shop in Brazoria, you know the one with the skull heads, and it said something like, "Help keep this out of our neighborhood." I probably have the quote completely wrong, but you get the idea. So, now we not only have the neighboring pizza place trashing up our vehicles while we're busy doing the church thing but we also have the crazy School Supply Lady doing it too. I think I'm going to create a flyer that says, "Stop putting trash on our cars while we worship our Lord" or something holier than though like that and post them all over their places of business. Maybe I'll even put our church logo on it. That would be a great idea. I could be the first person ever to be fired from our church. Who knows, maybe it would pave the way.....

So, that's the latest news. If any of you are interested in making C.S.S.L. really ticked off, go to the City Council meeting and show off your tattoos. I think I'm going to get one or two just for the occasion.