Zoo Appreciation and First Day of Speech School

Look at me... PIGGIE TAILS... Her hair in the back is getting so long. Jenna will now sit for me so I can do her hair!! I love piggie tails. BIG smiles!!!
Jackson at the zoo in the aquarium exhibit. We love looking at the different fish.
Just a picture by the sign... Jackson was going to point the opposite way of the signs.. but he got distracted. Imagine that!
Dad and Jenna at the park after the Zoo Appreciation night. Really, we as patrons should have an appreciation night for the zoo... not the other way around. They are a HUGE asset in our community!
FIRST DAY OF SPEECH SCHOOL. For those of you who only know Jackson now and not three years back you would not understand why he is in speech school. Lets just say he went into speech school saying maybe 20 words at age THREE.... His speech just EXPLODED and finally had him saying things like "I want" and "I Need"... that was HUGE for us. We are still working with him everyday and reminding him to use his words and not react. Jackson is such a passionate child... he is passionate about loving people, passionate about his "friends" (webkins), passionate about many things and when he is mad.. he is also ver PASSIONATE... phew.. to say the least. I have spent soo many days and nights crying wondering what we did wrong and why we could not help Jackson. Now I know that we are doing the best we can and with the help of those in his life who have believed in him despite the challenging days and have never given up on him.. He has come such a long way. I am sad to say that there have been people who have given up on him... more than I can believe but Jackson has proven that he is worth every tear, prayer, and bit of energy that I have. Jackson deserves to have respect like everyone else, patience from those around him and love.... lots of love. Ok.. so to make this short I want to say thank you to all who continuously believe in Jackson and have stood by us. We are blessed.

Speaking of blessed... Jackson was SOOO excited to go to Patty and Kristi's school...

Yep... VERY excited... we were wasting time outside waiting for the bus to come!!! He looks soo darn cute!Here comes #12 - Karens Bus. She pulled up, he put on his backpack and said hi to Karen...and proceeded to tell her that "today is my first day of school". He told everyone that he knew it was his first day of school. Yep.. no bye for mom.. just get on the bus and go!

I had to get a picture of him on the bus... too cute!

Jackson is coming home.... here is the bus coming down the street. Jenna is waving.

Bus is HERE!
He was very excited to see his sister and Mom waiting for him...
And finally... something I have wanted to do since he started school... meet him at the bus and surprise him with a gluten free m&m cookie... fresh and yummy!

It was a great day and we are looking forward to a GREAT year!

Mish Mosh

Jackson and I were making a tent while Jenna slept... this is what we came up with. Then we decided to have a bon fire and play guitar... Jackson sang to me and we roasted marshmellows over the fire... Yah.. we have quite the imagination.

The weird thing on the floor is our "bonfire" and Jackson is holding his guitar.

Daddy gave Jenna a treat... She loved Daddy the rest of the day! Jackson was doing a project.


Ms. Jenna showing off her Burchill Construction pride for the Headwaters Day Parade. A picture of all the kids... Carter Burchill, Jenna, Hannah, Hunter and Jackson. They were all very excited to start throwing candy at the parade.

Daddy, Jackson and Jenna... proud to be a Burchill! Jackson loved throwing (sometimes whipping) candy at the people on the streets)

The parade was a great turnout and we had a lot of fun. This weekend I will be taking the kids to a parade at a surrounding city but we will be catching candy this time instead of throwing it!

First Day of Preschool.... first day of preschool

This is what I heard all morning... I am going to preschool, its my first day of preschool. He was soo excited and proud to be going.


On our way to preschool... can you tell he is excited?
Outside of preschool.... just dying to go in.
Inside of preschool room.. tons of fun things to do!
Mrs. Kristi... Can you tell my son is NOT shy. He just went and sat right on her lap.

JAckson running around yelling about school.

Jackson had a great day despite a girl "being mean to him". You never know with him. He said he had fun and had a good day. He is now napping FINALLY and is already asking when he can go next.

Labor Day and Crazy Morning Hair.

Today we went to the Mooreton Labor Day Parade. We have done it almost every year. It is a fun event and usually Jackson walks away with a haul. This year he was by some older kids who litterly took candy out of his hands...and mine. I was really dissapointed that the parents didn't do anything but actually laughed that their kids were being like that. Oh well. It taught Jackson how NOT to act. He knows he has the part right in front of him to get candy and that is it. He even shared some of the big candy bars with a little boy. I was very proud of him.
Jenna even got into the parade. She got into waving when she saw what Jackson was doing and they threw candy. This is the best picture I could get of her doing it.
It is sooo hard to get a good picture of JAckson and Jenna together. Jackson is eating a candy bar and Jenna eating her rice cake. They love rice cakes...
This is Jenna this morning.. it is her CRAZY hair.. she is like me in the morning.. CRAZY CRAZY HAIR!

Here is a short video of Jenna and Jackson at the parade.

15month checkup, golf and a vist from Grandma, Bumpa and Doc.

It was time for Jenna's 15 month check up. Blaah.. I hate those appts. We did find out she is climbing up on the weight scale. 80% percent for weight now and 30% for height. Not bad! We are delaying her MMR until she is 2 but she did get 2 of the 4 shots that are due for her. We are choosing to space it out for her rather than overload her body with too many shots at once.

Jenna is quite the little princess. She now does not mind having her hair done so I take advantage of that. This day she had used oatmeal as hair gel so I had to be creative as to how I put her hair up. This is what it ended up like.

Jackson and Jenna went cruzing around in his car. They are having fun and getting into some trouble at Uncle Ryan and Daddys new shop.

Grandma and Bumpa and Uncle Doc came to visit. They are going to steam thrashers reunion to see the old tractors. We went last year but it is too hot and dirty and HUGE for two kids who NEED NAPS. We are finding out that when Jenna doesn't get the sleep she needs, she is a crab!! YEP... we are going through some two's stuff already. I don't get how in our house we don't hit, spank etc.. but our kids think they can hit. GRR! :) Jackson has been practicing his golfing. He really has his swing down and can WACK those balls good!!

The evidence from Jacksons golf practices. He has to make spots for the tee's... sigh.. my grass is not liking this.

Jackson has really been liking this "contractor" stuff lately (do you think dad is walking around proud or what) and LOVES tape measures. He "weights" everything.. ok.. he is learning. Anyway, one day he was getting ready for work and got his phone like dad and hung it on his hip. Then he got his dads tape and was ready for work. Prior to this picture he even had his pencil behind his ear. Dad surprised him with his very own tape measure this weekend. We put his name on it and he loves it. I had to share this conversation I had with Jackson . Jackson "Mom, did you know that Jesus puts garbage on the earth when people are bad". Mom "No Jackson.. I think the Devil does bad things like that". Oh.. yah. Where he got that I still don't know. But now when we see litter, he says. . yep.. the devil did that because people are bad. That kid!! Jenna is now saying the sounds of almost any animal you can think of. I am trying to upload a video of her doing it.

I am BAAAAAAAACK..

Ok.. hang in here. I have more pictures to post but have to get them off my camera. I finally got my computer back and am trying to get caught up around here. So here are just a few pictures to catch you up!

Jenna LOVES Jacksons Fisher Price FP3 Player.. listens to it all the time. She even knows what buttons to push.
A visit to the zoo with the cousins and Nana.

Jackson showing me how big he is compared to the eagle. I will be MAD if they ever get rid of this.. this is our yearly thing that we do.
DA DA DA DUM!! Jackson is now wearing BIG BOY UNDERWARE at NIGHT! He did wear nighttime diapers just in case, but since he has not had a bedtime accident in MONTHS... we decided to go with big boy undies all the time. Jackson was SOOO proud! He is wearing Transformers undies!
Jacksons project from last week. Jungle Theme Projects. When our week was up Jackson told me that the Elephant does not live in the desert.. they live in the SAVANNA. Ok... soon he will be giving ME weekly lessons.

My two monkeys at the zoo. Jackson loves to give Jenna a ride!
My favorite Duck. I just love it!
Jenna loved my nails and kept going and touching them. I grabbed the bottle and actually painted Jenna's nails. She got squirmy the last two toes but did great and we looked soo cute.. our little piggy toes!
She wore these around for soo long one day. I swear if any of our kids are going to walk in their daddys construction footsteps.. it will be this one!

Jenna and Mommy playing outside while Jackson naps.. oh, Daisy was playing with us too.

Computers at the Doctors

I apologize to all of you who I email on a daily basis or check in with. My computer has been at the "doctors" for 3 days now. I cannot access my emails for one of my email addresses.. and I can get onto my husbands computer but have had a garage sale yesterday and today we have an open house from 5:30-7:30. It has been crazy. Hopefully get my computer back tomorrow and I can get back to my normal coorespondence. Anyway.. just wanted to say that I am still alive!!