Wee Wilson Tales

Jax turned four in January! He has grown up so much this year. He started the 3 and 4 year old program here at Northwest Community College this year. It has been so fun to watch him make friends and become independent. When he started the program, he clung to Mrs. Penny's leg. After Christmas, he was quite capable of taking care of himself in school. He is really smart, and it is great to see him have the opportunity to be in a good learning environment. He became really good friends with Canon at school, but also enjoyed playing with Braxton and Lee. He even asked his little friend (girl) Presley to go with him to see a movie! I promised him a bike if he would go to "school" for one full week to give it a try. So, he has also learned to ride a bike this year. This year Jax has become quite the story teller...in a good way. I believe he is going to have his Grandaddy Ogie's story telling abilities. We had to spend the night with my parents a last month when our po...

Well, I am so far behind on this blogging that I am not even sure where to start. I can't make it too overwhelming or I won't do it at all! So I am going to start with an update about each of my Wilson boys!! I think I will start in the middle....with Ronin! I love this kid!! He is still 2, but will be 3 on September 17th. Currently, he is a momma's boy. They all go through phases, but right now it's me! He loves to sing songs. Some of my favorites to hear him sing are You are my sunshine, Big Rock Candy Mountain, Doe a Dear, Sing What I Sing... Earlier this year he was in one of those precious language transitions, and he sang Big Rock Candy Mountain with me. I left off the last word in each stanza and he was so cute..."One evening as the sun went down, a jungle fire was BURN-BURN (burning). And along came a hobo HI-HI (hiking), and he said boys I'm not TURN-TURN (turning). I'm headed for a land that's far away, beyond the crystal FOU-FOU (fountain). ...

Since it's too overwhelming to try and do all the blogs that should have been posted the last few months, I'll just have to start with the recent stuff. I am a little busy... and my blog has suffered for sure! So I will start with the snow! We had a wonderful time playing in the snow! It started snowing on Jax's fourth birthday! We were thrilled, but it definitely messed up our plans. Everyone who knows me well would not be surprised that I started freaking out and canceled our plans at the thought of getting stranded in the snow away from our children! We were taking Jax to Southaven to Chucky Cheese and going to see a movie...just me, John, and Jax. We ended up at Walmart buying groceries and the roads were already getting slick when we left. We got about 6 inches of snow. These gloves are a nightmare to keep on! All bundled up...Ronin! We had a blast on this! I think John was trying to throw Wendy and me off in the gully...I should have known better than to let him pull ...

I surprised John with a trip to Lake Tahoe. He opened the present...written in code of course...and realized he flies out on a skiing trip the very next morning! He hates to fly so that gave him less than 24 hrs to worry about flying! Lake Tahoe...I have never skied with a helmet until we got here!!! Nearly everyone was wearing helmets, and all the employees were required to wear them. It made me a little nervous...and all I could think of was Sonny Bono. Snowstorm hit the last afternoon we were there. More like a blizzard. It snowed so hard on the mountain that we couldn't read the trail maps. We kept going down the wrong trails! I prayed all the way down a few slopes that I have no idea what level of difficulty they were...very steep with lots of jumps is all I know. We also had to evacuate our hotel and stay in Reno so we wouldn't miss our flight the next morning. We flew back into Memphis. My parents picked us up at the airport (with our kids), and we drove to Texas. We st...