Jackson's Here!

Jackson Read Black was born Friday, November 14th at 1:45 pm. He weighed 7 lbs 9 oz and was 20 inches long. We are so excited he is finally here and he really is a good baby. I am recovering a little slower than I'd like but such is life with a c-section. Everything went really well though-Jackson had to spend awhile in the nursery with breathing problems and I was going crazy wanting to see him-finally almost 8 hours later they brought him to me. Madison thinks he is cute but I still don't think she really comprehends it all. Unfortunately we have had to keep Jackson away from her since she was diagnosed with hand, mouth, foot disease the morning before he was born. She is healing though and gets really excited when she sees him-I think she is going to be great with him. Luckily Brian's mom, Jolynne is here and she is saving my life! Here are a couple pictures and I will try to put more up soon-I know these aren't the best!

Part IV: Pumpkin Patch and Halloween

PUMPKIN PATCH

Before my Mom left, we decided to go to the pumpkin patch and pick out the perfect pumpkin (which we didn't even carve) and Madison was such a doll!

Isn't this the cutest pose!

Grandma and Madison with Madison's selection of the perfect pumpkin.

I love this next picture, it looks like she is playing hide-n-seek with someone!

We couldn't decide at first on the perfect pumpkin and Madison seemed just as undecisive.

TRUNK OR TREAT

Since we missed our ward's trunk or treat, we decided to hit up the Leon Valley's party and enjoyed visiting with everyone we don't always see. Madison was such a cute witch and Brian put a lot of time and effort into his costume!

Trying to get a pose-it is so difficult catching her before she runs off somewhere. I was so excited at first because it seemed like she didn't mind her hat.

But she let me know rather quickly that it would not be worm all night-in fact she would be taking it off very soon!

It was fun handing candy out to the kids but Madison didn't really get into it very much. Once she went to one car and realized she had obtained candy-she was done and ready to indulge.
She also figured that it wasn't worth working for it when we had a huge bowl in the back of the jeep-so she remained there the rest of the night!

TRICK-OR-TREATING!

Friday night we decided to take Madison to the houses in our neighborhood-hoping she would participate and not stop at the first sign of candy. Luckily, Clayton showed up and they were both immediately excited.

We waited around for awhile waiting for signs of other trick-or-treaters and thought we would let the kids get warmed up with a piece of candy. Madison was all for relaxing and eating chocolate while we waited.

She even wanted to share her spoils with little Lucy who was the cutest lady bug!

I think we got impatient and eventually started the night for the whole neighborhood-luckily others joined along very quickly. Brittani and Matt handed out candy while we went! There was one house that was decked out with decorations and had a scary skeleton by the front door that would of a sudden start talking. It kinda scared me at first but Madison and Clayton loved it and kept laughing at it!

They were so cute together and would hold hands from house to house-unfortunately I could not get a decent picture of this Kodak moment but here is the cutest thing I was able to capture.

It was such a fun night and being our first year not in an apartment, I loved getting to hand candy out and seeing all the different costumes. Madison did really well although her stomach was not used to the sweets and she exploded during the night and now has the rawest, blistered bum which made today a lot of FUN! Poor girl. Hope everyone had a great Halloween and I can't believe it is NOVEMBER!