Socks

Today's topic is socks. It is seemingly random, but in my attempt to bring back the essence of our "everyday life" to my blog (as opposed to just milestones and big events), this is par for the course.

So the other evening {after wearing the socks for a full day} Jackson sat on the couch and started crying. Why, you ask??? His socks matched.

{For the record, he picked his own socks. I blame the crying outburst 

on the fact that he's still adjusting to not napping while he's over at Miss Beth's.}

Generally speaking, socks don't match in this house. 

The root of this norm dates back to Julie and her friend Chelsea who is now one of our wonderful babysitters. Upon witnessing these two girls wear mismatched socks, Jackson insisted that HE wanted to wear mismatched socks... like to the point of actual lengthy discussions "But Chelseeeeeaaaaa!" After finding random socks throughout the house because he was dissatisfied with his matching pair, I eventually decided to quit fighting a battle that really wasn't worth fighting! Turns out to be one of the best decisions in my life.

I'm not even kidding.

Laundry is the bane of my existence and folding socks is just the nail in the coffin. Once I embraced the whole concept of mis-matched socks, my life became a million time easier! No folding socks for this girl. I collect the socks from the laundry and put them in the drawer! No big collection of matchless socks cluttering my floor waiting for the match to be found. The whole concept is rather liberating.

Since I am still mostly in control in what Belle wears {she can be mighty opinionated at times}, I chose two of the same TYPE of sock, even if isn't a direct match. Jackson on the other hand, he mixes animals with superheros with Lightning McQueen with Missouri Tiger socks. The best part-- I truly don't care.

In fact, I've embraced this new lifestyle for myself.

Anyone else have a Mommy Battle they've decided wasn't worth the fight?!?

Photo Dump

These are just recent photos I’ve got lying around my desktop that haven’t made it into a post. I’ve shared most of these photos on facebook recently, so some of you have seen them, but I want them on this space so when I have blog made into a book, they will be here! Plus, my kiddos are super cute so you should always be eager to look through tons of pictures.

Last week, we took Jackson’s favorite walk—to the trains!

Belle was my laundry distraction helper this day!
{I had several people tell me they thought this was Jackson at first!}

Jackson climbed into bed with Belle after a nap one morning. Lots of giggles.

I took this picture at Chick-fil-a awhile back… Belle just loves to give kisses so much that she kept kissing the little boy on her placemat!       

I snapped these photos one day in class. Apparently even though I’m enrolled in Grad School, I still eat like a kindergartner.

I caught Belle in the act of her favorite activity—playing with the trash and recycling. Seriously… our home is flooded with toys. Why does she love trash?

This is the result of me telling Jackson to get on some socks so we could put shoes on to play outside. Not quite what I had in mind… but he did what I asked!

Cutest little Chiefs fan ever.

Jackson discovered himself on the security tv at Wal-mart. He was pretty captivated by seeing the boy on the tv do the same thing {dancing like a crazy person} as he was doing!

I traced the kiddos with chalk yesterday {much harder than you think!} Jackson added faces, shoes, and he drew a stripped shirt for the boy. Belle was in charge of the yellow. Pretty good! 

This was Belle today after church this morning. She fell asleep clutching the fork!

And two more pictures from this afternoon. I realized that I several pictures of Belle so I wanted to get another of Jackson. And this is why I don’t have as many pictures of the boy. While he said “cheese”, he didn’t look up from what he was doing. Belle on the other hand walked right up and said, “cheese” with a perfect little smile.

 

Whew! Lots of pictures. Lots of cuteness!