Friday, November 06, 2009

Bub's latest

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  • Today at lunch Jaxon asked to hold the A&W bottle that was on our table. He picked it up, said "Whoa, heavy.." then started pointing at the logo and said "A...6...W." I love that he thought the ampersand was a 6. Anyway, knowing the letters proved to me that the "learning time" we have everyday is paying off. Good boy.
  • Jax counts to 10, but only when he feels like it. His favorite numbers are six and "semnen". He jumps when he says those.
  • Last Friday I put little notecards under the protective plastic on his highchair with all the basic colors. (You can see them underneath the pumpkin 2 posts down.) After lunch he wanted to stay in his highchair for over two hours because he wanted to keep saying the colors over and over. Hewas so excited about it. Now he'll point to brown and say "Is this pink??? Noooooooo.." He thinks he's so funny. One of his favorite things to do is point to people and tell you what color their shirt is.
  • He reminds us to read "Jesus book" when he's laying in bed at night.
  • He is very attached to things. When he wakes up in the morning, he picks up both of his pillows, all 3 blankies, his binky (and an extra if there's one on the dresser beside him), and walks into our room. If he can't fit everything into his arms he'll come in and tell us to hurry and go get his other blankie or pillow. He is all about comfort.

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  • He is particularly obsessed with his shoes. This is something that has been the case since he was about 10 months old. He'd wake up in the morning and ask for his shoes first thing. I think he inherited this from his dad. Most of his shoes were purchased before he was born*, and he still has a bunch to grow into. I got all his shoes out today so I could organize them into size then pack away the ones he doesn't fit anymore. We have some good memories with these shoes.

*Don't worry- now that we have two kids and we're poor we don't buy shoes like we used to. Soak it up, bud. These are probably the last of your fancy feet days. He'll probably be desperately trying to fit into these when he's a teenager.

  • Jaxon is shy around people at first, but grows to love you quickly. He remembers names and will talk about people months after seeing them.
  • He is a massive clean freak. Oops. This one is my fault. He asks me to wash his hands multiple times at every meal. He also asks me to wash his face if he gets any speck of food on there at all. I'm trying to convince him that it's okay for him to get dirty when he eats, but I think it's already engrained too far. He shouts "Oh no! What happened?!" When he sees a crumb on his hand or shirt. I had to take the picture (2 posts ago) of him with marker all over his hands because that was the first time he believed me when I said it was okay to get dirty. He whined at first, but after a while he embraced it and finally started coloring without worrying about his hands.

  • We were leaving the house last week and he said he had to "clean up blocks!" first. Crazy. Yes, for me this is great, but sometimes I wish he wouldn't worry about it.
  • At the park he stops at the top of the slide and cleans off all the woodchips. He won't go down the slide until they are all cleaned up. It is hilarious but also makes me feel bad.. but as long as he's happily cleaning and not stressing I guess that's okay. On the way home yesterday he saw a rock in the grass and said "Put rock in da garnen." and walked over and put it in the garden where it belonged. He saw a bunch of other ones in the grass as we went along and he made sure to put those in, too. He told dada all about it later that night when I mentioned we went to the park... "Put rocks in garden." He is all about having things in their place. Again, gets this from me. Sorry buddy.
  • Jaxon still hates falling asleep without running his fingers through my hair. For some reason this is his ultimate comfort. Has been ever since he was a few months old. When I hold him he always puts his arm back around my neck and plays with my hair. It's now a comfort thing for me, too. I absolutely love it. The other day at nap time he asked if Haven could lay down by him, so I put her on his pillow and he caressed her hair until they both fell asleep.


  • He loves to give hugs and kisses. When I was pregnant and sick he would always come up to me when I was laying down and give me a big kiss, then lay his cheek on mine. Oh man, this is one of my favorite things. He's such a gentle little guy. He does this to baby Haven, now. He loves to kiss her when she's sleeping.
  • He also likes to tell her all about his favorite things when she's sleeping. He'll go up to her swing and grab her hand and yell "Baby- blocks! Basketball! Baseball! Elmo! Ernie and Bert!" Thankfully she can be a deep sleeper.
  • He slaps my bum. Gets this from his dad.


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Monday, November 02, 2009

22 Months

Hard to believe that this little boy:

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Is now this little man:

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Almost 2. Sheesh. It's gonna be hard to convince the girls to stay away for much longer. 'Specially with these moves..

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Sunday, November 01, 2009

Richard Dreyfus

J and I wanted the "perfect" costume for Jax and started brainstorming about it a couple of months ago. We brainstormed and brainstormed and brainstormed. (We were really good at it.) We brainstormed until it was the day before Halloween.. then finally J told me I could go ahead and do whatever, so my mom and I quickly made a Peter Pan costume. It was cute when he kept his hat on and when the outift wasn't covered up by his coat.

But coats foiling Halloween costumes is a must in this family. It's tradition:

I was such a beautiful child.
Hey, why did I not think of putting his costume over his coat? Dang it! ha



J thought long and hard about what he wanted to carve into his pumpkin. A few ideas he toyed with were a janitor, Richard Dreyfus, and a scary face (but who does that??), and ended up going with this:

Well done. I say it tied pretty close to last year's... this time, though, it lasted a lot longer.

While we were working on our pumpkins, this dang fly kept coming and landing on the fresh paint on my pumpkin and I was getting concerned that it was going to go get it's feet and butt marks on our couch or pillows or mirror or something. Only now do I realize the marks would have been microscopic, but this fly was driving me insane. I told J I had been trying to catch that same fly for the past week and he said "Are you serious!? A WEEK!? I can catch that sucker in one fell swoop!"

Well, 42 "fell swoop"s later he gave up, and that fly and its mangly painted bum are still flying around our house. Time to bring in the big guns. The only problem is that Jaxon is in LOVE with it. He laughs his head off every time he sees it and throws his hands in the air and says "Bug, come! Bug!! COME!!"

I'm afraid that he's soon going to have to experience another one of these disappointments. Circle of life, boy... circle of life.

Now we're chilling at home with a sad little girl. All I need to say to you moms is: REFLUX. Hope her meds kick in soon. Nothing worse than not being able to comfort your baby.


Thursday, October 29, 2009

Our Bubba Gum

Little man said our dinner prayer yesterday.

We started out for him, saying "Heavenly Father, thank you for..."
then he took over the rest:

Dadda.
Momma.
Baby.
Dadda.
Gammas.
Gampas.
Da nums.
Da wall.
Da ceiling.
Buzz. (as in Lightyear, not this guy)
etc.

As he went on and J and I held back our laughter,
in my head all I could think was:



Thank you for Bubba.

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Monday, October 26, 2009

New love.

Do you ever get bored but you don't feel like cleaning so you spend your free time looking at pretty things on the internet??

Er, me neither.. but if I did.. I'd be seriously lovin on these things:




The Stephanie Necklace - So awesome.




The Stella Necklace - Can I redo my wedding so I can wear this?
J are you up for it??




The Isabel - A little more simple. Still so cute, though.



Can you believe this coat? I am obsessed. Plus look at the inside:


Gah- I love it. Just don't look at the price.

And of course I'm always looking at lockets:



































The other day I was looking for a tea kettle online and wound up at Anthropologie dying over their aprons. Have you seen them?


Too bad they don't have backs on them, or I'd wear them as dresses. They are that cute.




J always asks what he should get for my birthday, mother's day, christmas, etc. I told him he no longer needs to ask- these aprons are a perfect backup plan. Wouldn't aprons be a fun thing to collect and hand down to your daughters? Am I crazy? Hope not cause that's what I've decided to do. I've always wanted to find something to hoard. What about you? What do you collect?

Friday, October 23, 2009

One Month Old

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Time flies when you're changing diapers having fun.

Totally in love with this girl.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Don't hate me because I'm frumpy

I just realized I'm wearing the same clothes I was wearing yesterday. Not because I decided to wear them again today, but because I fell asleep in them during a feeding last night and I haven't gotten shower yet today. This is a little scary considering that I have spit up as old as 24 hours on many orifices. So to say the least, I look DAZZLING today. Reminds me of this old post.

Having 2 babes 20 months apart is awesome, but many days I feel like I get nothing done besides feeding and bathing them. And since the doc advised us not to go out with a newborn during this horrible flu season, we've been staying in most days. If it weren't for the sun I wouldn't know day from night. I'm starting to think I'm losing my mind (literally).

Let me elaborate...

I just walked by the calendar to see what the date was, and found myself in a bit of a predicament:

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Okay, I thought, I know it's a Wednesday... so it's gotta be either the 9th or the 16th.

I was SO close...

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...Only a month and a couple weeks behind is all.

Happy October everybody! (Who knew and didn't tell me??)

What is it with months passing so silently these days? Do I need to hire a group of bagpipers to conduct a ceremony in the neighborhood so I'll realize the torch has been passed? And where can I find these bagpipers that you speak of??

Anyway, our extended September wasn't that bad..

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In the meantime I got to teach Jaxon to count to 7 and taught baby how to intimidate:

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Can't wait to see you again, September. I just hope you're not as long next year.

Monday, October 19, 2009

Always with me..


I've wanted this custom-made necklace ever since Jaxon was just a little growing baby in my belly. My sweet mother in law surprised me with one last week and she had no idea that I've been wanting it for years.. How awesome is that?

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If you're a sentimental fool like me and want to wear your babes' names around your neck (nothing wrong with putting your man's on there, either), go here.

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I won't leave home without it.