During spring break we took a trip to Nashville (our soon to be new home town) to find Brent an apartment and get somethings in order to move. It was a nice break from trying to get a million things done around the house. Before going to Nashville we stopped to see Pop who is doing better. He is still not 100% yet. Between Muscle Shoals and Nashville Jack got sick and it was terrible. I just knew this trip was going to be bad...but it turned out to be great. First of all there was no high chair in the hotel room for Jackson so he got to eat his breakfast in the big chair and loved it.
Later our friend Holli Blass came by to visit. She lives an hour outside of Nashville and I have been friends with her for several years. It will be nice to have a friend in the area. She told us all the good places we had to go. Then we went to Super Target to get new bathing suits. The hotel had an indoor pool and we just had to go swimming. Of course the bathing suit I found for under $40 was very unflattering. However, it was just fun to swim with Jackson. Brent and I have been married for over 6 years and we dated for 4 years before that. So I guess you could say we have been together for over 10 years. In that 10 year time frame it is very rare for Brent to get in a public pool. He has never been to the pool at the local rec center, when we go to the beach he never really gets in the pool, he has just told me he does not like public pools.
However, he got in the pool with Jackson....he said he would do anything for his son. After swimming Brent found Jack playing in his car seat in the room.
After we found an apartment we went to the outlet mall and did some walking around. Jackson is really walking now so we let him walk. He did a little window shopping also. He was very good on this shopping trip.
Later we stopped at Books-A-Million to play. He found some toys he liked and I found these fun hats to put on him (the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts).
The next day we ate at Toot's which is a place our friend Holli told us about. Jack looked at the menu but there was nothing on it for him to eat.
We got him a float and went back to the pool for a little swimming again. This time there were towels folded up like elephants by the pool. Once again Jack had a great time.
The next day we ate at Cheddar's and Jack just had to sit by Dad in the booth. After I put on Jack's PJ's he wanted to play in the dresser drawers and had a great time.
Then it was time to go home. On the trip up I finished his Easter "Chocolate Bunny" hat. It is a little to hot for a hat but it was so cute I had to make it. I made it a "Chocolate Bunny" so it would be more manly.
Last weekend was Brent's first weekend back from Nashville. I did not think Jack would really get really excited to see him. I just thought he would be excited like he usually is when Daddy comes home from work. Well when Brent opened that door and came in Jack just started squealing like a pig and running around. He was so excited to see his Daddy. Daddy also brought him something back, a green eggs and ham lunch box. Jackson has just started carrying things with a handle around so he loved it. 
Later that day Jack and Daddy went outside to play. It was such a nice day. Mom stayed inside to clean up. It is so hard to keep your house ready to show all the time.
I know some of you may think there is nothing to knit or crochet during the summer. Jack will not be getting any cute summer hats, however there are lots of other cute things. So if you see him in this outfit the next time you see him, it is because I worked hard on it and want him to wear it more than once. He looked so cute.
