Jaxon's Three year old Stats

Today we had Jaxons 3 year old well check. The doctor said everything looked great - he is developing great and even though he is hard to understand sometimes - his speech is fine for his age haha.

Height 40" (about 3'3") - 92%

Weight 36lbs 4oz - 87%

Jaxon does much better at the doctors now. He loves riding the elevator to get to the doctors office and he is VERY friendly to everyone. The receptionist who took our paperwork got asked a million "why's" from him. In the waiting room he talked to a young mom and her baby and tried to share his food with them and told them all about me and baby Addison and Dan and on and on. He is very outgoing and he loves to talk. I do my best to have him sit down and keep to himself so he doesn't bother people, but I don't want to stifle his energy and friendliness. He can be such a sweetie - on the flip side he can also be such a terror.... we are working on it. But I love him to pieces! 

Jaxon is THREE

Jaxon - we love you so much! You are such an energetic little boy! Everyone who gets to know you falls in love with you. You love Dinosaurs, trains, cars, and sports. You have an AMAZING imagination and can pretend anything. You love your sister and are so sweet to her and always make sure she is taken care of. You love your friends and are friendly to EVERYONE. We can't imagine our life without you! We are so excited to watch you learn and grow and see what you accomplish this coming year! Your dads favorite son, moms little man, and Addy's best buddy! Happy Birthday sweet boy! WE LOVE YOU! 

 

 

Waiting for your arrival!

6.16.09 - the day you were born

1 Month old

2 months and loving to smile

3 Months old - on his blessing day!

Family picture on blessing day

4 Months - first Halloween. This is the same costume Dan wore when he was a baby!

5 months

5 months

6 months

10 months and WALKING!

6.16.10 - ONE YEAR OLD!

1st birthday party - loving his cake

14 months

a year and a half!

2 years old

2 1/2 he became a big brother

THREE!!!

Human by day...Pteranodon by night

It's no secret that Jaxon loves Dinosaurs and I know I have blogged about it many times. I have also blogged about the very wonderful imagination this boy has. We can pretend ANYTHING! Well he loves Pteranodon's (if you are not familiar with Dinosaurs - this is actually pronounced Tran-a-don and they are the flying dinosaurs... not sure why they threw a P at the beginning). Well every night to get Jaxon to go to bed without a fight - I have to turn into the mommy Pteranodon and he is the big boy Pteranodon and we fly to the "nest" which is his bed. Oh and I don't want to forget that I have to talk in this very high pitched squawking voice when I'm the mommy Pteranodon.... whatever works right???

Also, while I am sitting here typing this, Jaxon is in quiet time. We call it quiet time now because some days he will nap, and some days he plays with his toys...the important thing is that he says in his room during quiet time. Well he is "whistling" at me to come help him with something. I say "whistling" because he doesn't know how to whistle, all he does is he puts his fingers up to his mouth and he does this high pitched scream. It’s pretty funny actually.... but apparently not only am I a Pteranodon...but a dog too!

Dan's New Calling

Yesterday Dan was sustained and set apart as the Bishops Executive Secretary. After they extended the call last week - we left and Dan said, "that sounds like a calling you should have" haha. I have been doing Administrative Assistant work since I was 19 and I really enjoy it and so it was just kind of funny. But yesterday when he was being set apart, there were beautiful words said during the prayer and Dan and I both got very strong confirmations that this is what the Lord wants him to be doing right now and even though it means more time away from us, I know our family will be blessed because of it.

Dan has also officially started his summer externship with the Federal Judge here in Lubbock. Since he started we were able to figure out that with the number of hours he is required to put in there - he will be done around the first week of July which means we can plan on heading to Utah the week of July 9th! We are very excited to see family and friends and have my family meet Addison for the first time!!!!

Addison's 4 month appointment and family update

Addison had her 4 month appointment on Friday June 1st. Granted, she was 4 1/2 months at the time... but oh well haha. Here are her stats...

Weight 13lbs 11.5oz (haha basically 14lbs) - 41%

Height 25 1/4 inches - 76%

Head 40cm - 16% (she has my small head :( poor thing)

Right now she is rolling over from her stomach to her back. When she is playing on her activity mat with the toys hanging above her - she gets REALLY mad that she can't pull them into her mouth. She grabs them and tries and tries and then starts screaming cause she can't get it. Dan and I laugh cause it really is so funny. She wants to put EVERYTHING in her mouth, including her toes! She loves eating her toes. She will laugh when we laugh. She has these really cute and girly squeals that we love to hear. She will smile when someone smiles at her. She loves kicking her legs really fast so it looks like she is running in the air. I tried starting her on rice cereal a few days ago and she was not ready. She kept gagging and spitting it out so we will wait a little longer! She is so cute and we are just loving every second with her!

Jaxon is being such a good big brother! He wants Addison to be with us all the time. He is always saying how cute she is. He loves giving her kisses and sharing his dinosaur toys with her. A funny thing Jaxon is saying now days is... "that's a great idea" and he says it to everything. Jax, lets eat lunch "ok, that’s a great idea". Jax, lets go play with your cars "that’s a great idea" lol - we think its pretty cute.

I just started a 2nd part time job. I am helping take care of 5 duplex's (basically doing what property managers do without that title since I am not licensed haha). So far its been a lot of work for me to learn what I am supposed to do and getting one of the units fixed up with new carpet and paint and getting them ready to be posted and rented... but its been good. Trying to juggle that and my other part time job with both kids has been a challenge and my poor house is suffering and not getting cleaned, but I will get it figured out and it will be great.

Dan is externing with a judge here in Lubbock this summer. He needs to complete 130 hours but can't start until his background check comes back (hopefully that won't take too long) so as soon as his hours have been completed, we will be going to Utah! We will be staying until at least August 14th because that is when my little sister Whitney is getting married!!!

Today Dan got asked to have a new calling. He will be sustained next week most likely so I can talk more about it then. The Stake President was the one who met with us and it was interesting to me that he wanted to meet with me first, then Dan, then us together. I didn't know that they did that. I think we met with the Stake President because the Bishop had to leave to do some medical stuff (our bishop is a doctor) because I think this calling is something that normally you would be called by your bishop for - but who knows. Anyway, I'm sure Dan is going to be sad to leave nursery HAHA - but the Lord obviously wants him in this calling.

Well that’s all our little family is up to right now.... until next time!




Jaxon's 3rd birthday Party

Jaxon doesn't turn 3 until June 16th - but originally we were going to be in Utah in June so we wanted to have his friend party before we went. We found out our summer plans were changing and we wouldn't be going to Utah until late July a few days before the party so we decided to just go ahead with it anyway since the invitations were sent out and a few of our friends are moving this summer :(

I asked Jaxon what he wanted to do and he wanted to go swimming so we had a pool party! We are very lucky to have a friend that lives in a beautiful apartment complex with an AWESOME pool and she was nice enough to let us have the party there. The party was on Tuesday May 22nd from 6:00pm - 8:00pm. We were lucky and had the ENTIRE pool to ourselves! We provided dinner which consisted of hot dogs (they have a built in grill area at the pool which made it great for grilling hot dogs) pasta salad, veggies, chips, drinks, and of course cup cakes!!! I had all these cute decorations I was going to take - but it ended up being kind of windy (welcome to Lubbock) so we decided to keep it simple so we weren’t chasing party decor all over! Jaxon loved having his friends there swimming with him! After they swam for a while - we got Jax out - sang happy birthday to him and he opened his gifts! He got a lot of good stuff! We are spoiled with our awesome friends here! After he opened his gifts they swam some more. Jaxon was so cute and kept thanking everyone and he had so much fun! I am pretty sure he thinks it was the best day of his life - he was so happy and had so much fun! Here are a few pictures!

Party favors for the kids and the cupcakes

Addi ready to PARTY

Some of our friend eating!

SWIMMING!

Jaxon's favorite thing - he loves it when daddy throws him up like that!

Beautiful mom's playing with the babies!

Dad's in the pool playing with the kids!

Jaxon loved that everyone was singing to him

Opening his gifts

Some of his friends wanted to help him open the gifts... too cute

This picture sums up the party - Addy fell asleep, Jaxon loved his water guns that he got - I laughed a lot and look a little crazy and Dan is just cute haha.

His gifts - he has some awesome friends here!!!

Mother's Day

Mother's Day was right in the middle of finals - so we decided to celebrate a week later so Dan wouldn't be stressed out studying and be at the school during most of the day.

So on May 20th we had my Mother's Day.

What a perfect day it was! The night before Dan gave me beautiful flowers and that night he woke up with Addison and fed her so I wouldn't have to get up in the night - he also let me sleep in a little (we have 8:30 church so I couldn't sleep in much). Then him, Jax and Addy came in with breakfast in bed and my gifts. Dan got me a beautiful bracelet and some earrings and he wrote a beautiful Poem about mom's. I also got a drawing Jaxon and Addison did.

After we got home from church, Dan let me nap to try and finally catch up on sleep, then he cooked dinner while I relaxeed and played with the kids. It was such a wonderful day! I loved being able to spend time with my adorable kids and wonderful husband and I didn't have to worry about cleaning or cooking because Dan did all of it with a smile on his face! It was great! I feel so blessed to be a mom! It has brought more joy to my life than I thought possible!


This picture was clearly taken BEFORE my nap... I look pretty tired - but the adorable two kids I'm holding are totally worth it!

I also want to write a little bit about my mom. My mother is the most giving, hard working woman I know. She is truly amazing and I miss being able to be around her, but I love being able to call and talk to her, cry to her about my struggles - and have her understand and give me great advice. Becoming a mom has made me appreciate my mom more and more. It's sad that it took that for me to appreciate her the way I do but it's better late than never right?! I love you mom - you are AMAZING and I hope to be as good of a mom to my kids as you were to me!