Bacon is meat candy

Happy 30th Brad! Stacy gave brad the ultimate gift - BACON! i secretly enjoyed our bacon mornings just as much as Brad. I made the ultimate in chocolate cake (real dark belgium chocolate melted required in obscene amounts) for the day of Brads birthday, while on the weekend we had a few of Brad's friends over and had a local joint cater ribs and all the southern fixin's. We had enough food to feed an army - we ate it for 3 days straight!
Birthday boy.

more cake? Jackson can speak clearly when he wants too - he learn't to say "Happy Birthday" and that went along with "CAKE!" so pretty much whenever he sees cake he rambled off "Happybirthdaycakecakecakedaddy"
on my way to playgroup - we didn't last long - Jackson had the mother of all tantrums and we left within 15 minutes. little shit. as you can see I try to shower and present myself nice at playgroup - no baggy shirts and p.j bottoms allowed. on this day - for no particular reason I put on a brooch that has been in my mothers family for a fair few generations and tend to think of my Nanna Doss when I wear it. My Nanna Doss passed away a few days after, peacefully into the arms of heaven. My mum is down in Melbourne with family, I havn't had a chance to speak to her yet - but know she would have been grateful to see her mum peaceful and at rest.

At 19 months old - Jackson is in the 95th percentile for height - and 80th for weight - a good combo aparently. He wears a 71/2 wide shoe. If the doc could have understood Jackson (aparently he has an accent) he would have been impressed with his vocabulary - and although the kid counts obsessivly he has a great sence of humor - he does a crazy half bent knee walk that makes me crack up every time. He has taken to mimiking animals a lot - and says thank you in a cute high piched Aussie accent that makes people stop and smile. He does not like me to hold his hand in public - or in the water after he has gotten used to it after a minute. At the beach older children who can talk in proper sentences (around aged 2 & 1/2) keep comming up to him expecting him to talk back, but the most he says is "you boy" or "nice baby" - I then have to let the other parent know - hey he's just 19 months!