i have a few things to post about, so consider this a hodge podge of how the last 24 hours have gone for us…

numero uno: jackson’s latest obsession is with red, as you can see from the pictures. jackson reaches for red all the time, pulls his fur, and wants to pretend like red is the stuffed lion he wrestles in his crib. and so this morning, we let jackson ride red like a pony… because that’s just what you do when a child is that obsessed with an animal; you let them ride the animal.

numero dos: last night’s sleepover didn’t happen. we brought jackson home last night. the drop off had gone fine, the 10 minutes post-drop off went very not fine, and the three hours after that went even worse. jackson was traumatized, terrified, and refused to eat. the first two of those three things, i think i could handle… yeah, so it’s a different place, different people, different stuff. but the refusing to eat, i can’t handle. you guys know i can’t handle that. so after getting the call that jackson wouldn’t eat, paul and i brought him home. damnit. we need a babysitter up in this piece asap! research on that will commence this week.

numero tres: mom mailed (yes, in the regular mail) me a story from people magazine. the story is of a single dad, matt, whose wife, liz, died 27 hours after giving birth to their adorable baby girl, maddy. matt’s blog has been added to my links of “where nic reads” and is definitely a blog you should check out… with a box of kleenex. his story is heart-warming, tragic, and beautifully painful.