Enjoying a fall evening, just as any boy loves to.


And I now declare tonight to be bath night.

new shoes

My yogurt-loving, blonde-haired, almost 15 month old, 24 lb, molar receiving, wrinkly-face-smiling little boy is doing great. You know, 'cause you were wondering, I'm sure of it.

Yogurt for you, yogurt for me.
If he spots it while I have the fridge open he is sure to climb in and grab a "ga-gurt".

All that fantastic sleep we had been getting is a thing of the past. Once again. But on a side note he knows how to sign 'please', just working on when to use it.

I've gotten him 3 pairs of shoes in the last week, between garage sales and GoodWill. All in good condition. One pair I am ever so proud of is the one's from GW. Basically brand new Pedi Ped's for $1.50! It amazes me the things people just give away! I also found him a lawnmower that I believe will blow bubbles, but for now he loves it just the way it is, so they shall be saved for another day.

Towing the mower along.

"It's really okay mom, I know how this stuff works."


Hmm I think we have some learning to do.

mr. giggles

(Pardon the shaky camera skills, and breathing noises. We were laughing at his spunky-ness :))

my big little helper

Jaxon found the broom sometime last week. (Probably because I rarely have used it until lately. We've had some big things going on around our house, so keeping it clean is high priority!) He still loves 'helping' vacuum, throwing things in the garbage-even shoes, and has began trying to talk. As his parents, surely we can decipher words that others probably think are nothing, but that's why we're special ;) Yogurt, cracker, all done/gone, UH oh, gogogo, outside, and bye bye are some that he has his own version of. Oh and not only does he like giving 'five', he now has learned to give 'knuckles'.

Really trying to carry the milk. Someday!
We went to Yokes the other day to get milk and eggs that were on special. I remembered they have miniature carts for kids to push, which made me excited assuming he would love it. We found one in the cart return outside and he was so proud to push it all the way into the store...that is until he saw the enormous cart with a car on front to sit in. He ditched the mini cart and was trying to climb in the car. I figured that would be fine, and got him buckled in and off we went to do our shopping. Oh my goodness, that thing was SO noisy. Probably sounded like a freight train going up and down the aisles. But he thought it was great, so we had fun with it.

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This crazy kid loves silky stuff, like the edge of his blanky. A while back he found a skirt of mine draped over a hanger in our closet, apparently just in his reach. He would constantly disappear into our room and come out with it moments later. I would laugh at him then go put it back. Well it's been happening more lately, so sometimes it goes unnoticed.
Somehow he managed to get the waist of it around his head. He marched around like that for a bit before he got frustrated he couldn't use his hands. (A little girl would be pretty cute!)

Tomorrow it is...

UPDATE:
The surgery went well, and very fast! He was gone barely 20 min. I hardly had time to use the restroom, make some spiced cider and visit with another mom in the waiting room. The dr. came in to say he was done, and that a nurse would be in once he woke up. They must have met each other in the hall, because she came in right after he walked out!
All the nurses he crossed paths with were sure to 'ooh' and 'awe' over him. I can't blame them, he is quite irresistible to say the least. I was informed by someone that when I'm told how cute he is, I should respond with "yea, you should see his dad!" Ha. I think I might try it.
They warned me he would be sleepy, tipsy and crabby the rest of the day. So far he hasn't acted phased a bit. I'm hoping after he eats he will be ready for a nice nap though. I wouldn't mind one myself :)
Cute little gown.
(too bad it's blurry, I only had my phone to take pictures.)

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Jaxon will get to celebrate his 14 month birthday by having surgery. Bright and early that is. Well I'm actually not sure how bright it is at 6:30A, but we're going to find out.

I was looking at some oldish pics of Jaxon and it got me wondering if his eyes weren't quite as blue as they once were.


VS.

Maybe they are still nice and blue.

And I added this one just 'cause it cracks me up. He doesn't look like the same kid to me.


Little cowboy
He loves his 'horsie'. Not afraid one bit of all the noise it makes and tries climbing on by himself.

Jaxon playing basketball

loving this age.

Kent and Jaxon

Jaxon has been so much fun lately! More like I have a little buddy to hang out with all day, everyday. He loves anything outside. If he hears discussion of outside, stroller, bye bye etc he immediately begins flapping his arms waving bye bye in pure happiness. His high level of curiosity leaves him reaching out his hand to touch/grab things that catch his eye.

Oh, and you wanna know how he has been sleeping? Well let me fill you in, I'd be glad to! After being up for about 2 hours in the morning he is ready for a nap. And then again in the later afternoon. Naps aren't majorly long by any means, but better than nothing. And shortly after 8p he is showing signs of being ready for bed time. Last night for example, he slept from 8:30P-9A. With ZERO waking up. That doesn't happen every night of course, but we're on that path I believe. He is probably going through some cruel growth spurt, and will go back to his old ways as soon as I publish this post, but I shall enjoy it while I can!

We took away the pacifier except for bed time, and emergencies of course. But there have been few. I even leave the house without it! I'm getting brave. My main point was that I think this might have to do with his sleeping without waking 7 times a night. He would wake when he lost it, and being dark couldn't find it. After many nights of being woke up constantly, even to just walk across the house to his room and back, really messes a person up! I've never been one for letting him 'cry it out'. Sure some fussing is normal. But I feel that's my job as his mother. At this point all he knows to do when something is wrong is cry, and it's my duty to figure out why and do my best to fix it. Lately he has even been falling asleep on his own, in his crib. I usually still rock him at night, mainly because I enjoy it and it's part of the routine.

I wasn't aware that learning to walk backwards would be so neat, but it appears to be at least that. I've also caught him more than once reverting back to his baby ways, rolling around on the floor, grabbing his feet. And he also makes flopping down on your belly and sprawling out look like fun times.

So as of now, life in our house is great!

And tonight, just as I was putting the finishing touches on this post, Jaxon decided to dive off the couch with a pillow and cracked his head good on the coffee table. Kent's cousin Blaire (who has been staying with us off and on quite a bit lately, making good buddies with Jaxon. J will follow him all over.) was sitting with him so he got to witness the accident first hand. I heard the thud and went in to console him, figuring he just bonked his head like usual. But before I got there Blaire said something along the lines of "there's blood, do you have something to get it out of his eye?" So of course, I go into panic mode. Kent was still not home from work at this time, so as I'm trying to hold a rag on his head and keep him calm I'm also packing up to take him in for stitches. Before he gets home we negotiate that since it had stopped bleeding that a bandaid just might do. Either route we figured he would be getting a decent headache, a bruise and possibly a pretty scar to go along with it. J seemed fine after we both got over it. We did notice later that the table was moved about an inch from where the dents in the carpet were, and I believe he did that when he hit it. OUCH!

Sitting with Blaire shortly after.
His pacifier and blanky pretty much made it all better.
If you click on the picture to zoom in you should be able to see the nice mark.