Jackson Danger, Incident Report, Day Four(?)

Jackson made a short little road trip today to Seminole, OK, to visit the Jasmine Moran Children's Museum. Now that was a nice little museum. It's a hands-on adventure experience for kids. Jackson in fact was a bit young to get the most out of the experience, but he thoroughly enjoyed it nonetheless.

Jackson especially liked the shopping experience and the thin hemispherical gas-filled liquid soap film exhibition.

Ok, so, I enjoyed it too, so what? Every grandparent likes to blow bubbles with their grandkid - or at least they should.

Some of them even like to BE IN a bubble with their grandkid.

The only real incident to report today is Jackson's obessive compulsive disorder. The day before yesterday he fed the last of the carrots to Joe the Horse, and ever since then Jackson has reminded us at ever opportunity that we simply MUST get some more carrots for Joe. At the museum today, Jackson took his turn at the grocery store experience and went directly to the produce area and filled a shopping cart with carrots for Joe.

Later, when Nana returned from a shopping trip to a real store this afternoon, Jackson questioned her about the carrots. Nana told him that yes, she had remembered to pick up some carrots for Joe. Jackson replied, "I wanna see 'em," and made Nana show him the carrots before he was satisfied.


So, I conclude that Jackson is far too overly concerned with the mundane circumstances of life and that he is too much like his mother (who, by the way, is too much like her father).


Makes me so proud.

Jackson Danger, Incident Report, Day . . . whatever

Jackson is beginning to feel right at home with Nana and me - and we wonder if that is a good thing.

The day began like every other day with Jackson, i.e. with the single word, "CHICKENS". For some reason, the little guy simply loves visiting the CHICKENS. And he wants to go out and see the CHICKENS first thing every morning, even before getting breakfast.



Now, for him, this is great, but I'm a coffee person and I don't function well without my first (and second and third) cup of coffee. While Jackson is visiting us, I may have to set up the coffee maker to brew my coffee automatically (like I must when I'm NOT on vacation from work) because I sure ain't gettin' much of a chance to do so manually when I'm dragged out to see the CHICKENS first thing every morning.

Jackson did have one incident this afternoon that quite disturbed Nana Pam. Once, while in the process of getting his diaper changed, Jackson declared, "I wanna see Joe!"and, escaping the grasp of Nana Pam, rushed out the back door and ran toward Joe the Horse with Nana Pam in hot pursuit yelling for Jackson to get his naked butt back in the house.

Hey, Jackson, you forgot your boots!

We didn't think we were at this point yet, but we found out that Jackson Danger is now capable of outrunning Nana Pam.

Jackson Danger, Day Three (or Four, I can't remember)

All is well with Jackson Danger and there are no incidents to report - at least Jackson has nothing to report even if Poppa and Nana could write the proverbial book.

There has been little progress on producing a "bubbub-free" Jackson, and just as much non-progress on pottie-training.



Nana and I have picked up were we left off thirty-some-odd years ago with pretending we don't smell something and telling the child to "go hug Nana" or "Poppa wants you" or whatever it takes avoid the issue at hand.

Jackson went to the State Fair yesterday and witnessed a goat birth, chickens hatching, and a cow judging. I think the chickens hatching was a bit traumatic for little Jackson - he didn't quite seem the same while gathering eggs at the Farmage later that day.

There are many more things to report, but it's already 10:02am Wednesday morning and I'm tired, and it's time to start duct-taping little Jackson to his chair so Nana and I can get our morning nap.

But, first, we have to pick up some money . . .

Jackson Danger Incident Report, Day Two

Jackson had a very productive day, but he is beginning to show signs of being in a rut. First, he fed the chickens, then talked to Joe the Horse and greeted the cows in the next field. Then he ensured that all was well within Danger Land Workshop. And all this before breakfast.




We had fresh farmage eggs for breakfast along with bacon. Then went outside and did it all over again, only in reverse order. Only by now, there were some eggs within the chicken coop and Jackson collected and helped clean the eggs.

He had a nice long nap this afternoon and we all had a very relaxing evening before bath and bedtime.

Jackson Danger, Day One Incident Report

Most of the day was spent traveling from Lenexa, KS, to the Farmage in Newalla, OK. Jackson did quite well traveling in the truck and made the comment that visibility was excellent, being able to clearly see the cows and horses in fields rushing past as we careened through Kansas.

We did have one slight incident involving Elmo. Seems that Elmo had a propensity for biting Jackson's fingers, and Nana Pam had to repeatedly chastise Elmo and put him in the front of the truck for a time out. Nana kept telling Elmo that we don't hit other people, we dont' poke other people, and above all we don't eat other people. At one point, after one of Elmo's frequent time outs, Jackson began biting Elmo's bugged eyes. Nana started to chastise Jackson, but then realized that Elmo was a muppet and not a people, so through a technical loophole, Jackson was allowed to eat Elmo eventhough Elmo was not allowed to eat Jackson.

After a thorough count to ensure all of Jackson's fingers were still attached, Elmo was remanded to permanent timeout for the remainder of the trip and the timeout continued upon reaching the Farmage.

We got to the Farmage around 6:00pm this evening and Jackson went right to work: First, he fed Joe the Horse a couple of carrots, then said "hello" to the new cows next door. Then he hurried to feed some crumbles to the chickens and helped gather the eggs from the day's output. He met the neighbor lady and petted the cat Abby and said "goodbye" to the cows. As the sun set slowly in the west, Jackson decided it was time to go inside and take a bath and go to bed, which he did precisely at 8:15pm.