Be Prepared!

After my last post, you might think that by the title of this post it would be another Lion King reference, but it is not.  So my previous church calling I was on the Emergency Preparedness Committee, the block captain specialist.  This was not my favorite calling, but I tried to do my best.  Well I got a new church calling a couple weeks ago and I guess my best work got me the new position of the Leader over the Emergency Preparedness Committee!  What?!  I feel very inadaquate to be in this position, but I will do my best to fulfill it.  So speaking of fulfilling my calling I just wanted to inform everyone about the Utah Shake Out that is coming up!  I encourage everyone to take some time to participate to help prepare yourself a little bit better in case there is an Earthquake.  I guess this is a good calling for me, because it will at least get me better prepared, but hopefully I can help some others as well ;)

I also started and Emergency Preparedness blog a little while back...
www.victorspondice.blogspot.com
I try to post some helpful things every once in a while to help us all get better prepared (some of the stuff more applys to my neighborhood).

Lion King...isms.

Lion King is the first movie that Paxton would sit through and LOVES.  He would ask for it just about everyday.  We listen to Disney music in the car and he always wants Lion King songs.

Here is another Lion King "ism"...

Think of the movie Lion King and the part where Mufasa dies and Simba is yelling "Help, somebody, anybody".  Well the other day I pulled into the garage and got Paxton out of the car, as we were walking inside he stopped at the edge of the garage because he saw some people outside across the street.  He then started yelling "Somebody, Anybody".  It took me a minute to figure out what he was doing, when I remembered that part on Lion King.  He cracks me up, that kid, love him!  He has so much of that movie memorized.

We have been showing Paxton lots more Disney movies.  He now likes Brother Bear, Jungle Book and Toy Story are some of his other favorites.  We like to rent new movies and c.d.'s from the library every so often.

2011 Scrapbook...

DONE!!!

I'm so happy that I have finished another year of scrapbooking!  I'm just loving this digital stuff.  I am now starting a book for our Disneyland Vacation, once that's done it is my goal to finish year 2010 and 2012 by next March (they have an annual 50% sale at that time, so I'm hoping to be done).  I have ordered my 2011 book and can't wait to get it in the mail!

Create your own Mixbook photo book.  Click here and sign up today!

http://www.mixbook.com/r/4095642

If it seems that I have slacked with my blogging (which I know I have), it's usually because I'm Mixbooking!

St. Paxton's Day

Paxton's birthday was a lot of fun, and we took way too many pictures that day :)  My sister, Jamie has already blogged about that day, so I will just send you over there to read about Paxton's Birthday. 

View my sister's blog to see the rest of Paxton's Birthday.

Also, a couple days later was Paxton's 2 year old check-up. 

Weight: 30 lbs.  75%

Height:  34 1/2"  50%

He also got one shot that day and he was such a big boy, he didn't even cry!  I was one proud mama!  I just prepared him before it happened what they were going to do and he had a package of fruit snacks in his hand that I told him he could have after the shot.  I told him that he doesn't have to cry, that he can be strong and he was!  When the nurse came in, Paxton said "shot" and then after she gave it to him she said, "Yay, we're all done" and Paxton started clapping his hands saying "Yay!" 

Uncle Trev

My brother, Trevor came to visit all the way from Texas back in February.  It's taken me forever to get this post done mostly because I needed to get pictures from Trev.  

We loved having him here!  Paxton warmed right up to him, they were buddies.

We went to Jamie's so Trev could see her new house.  We had dinner and hung out, playing ping pong in her basement and danced to music.  Paxton entertained us all.

 One of the days we took Trev to the Aquarium with us.

I loved watching these two interact together.  I miss having Trevor and Sandee live here.

 Afterwards we went out to lunch with Papa.  It was a good day!

 The family minus Sandee and Paxton (I'm not sure where Paxton is).

 Siblings youngest to oldest.

Before we went to the airport on Trev's last day we went and ate at Chuck-a-rama. 

We loved having you here Trev and we missed you Sandee!

We are so excited for them, they are expecting a baby due in September!  Can't wait!

TWO!

HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY!

A few things about Paxton...

• He is very social and likes to say hi to everyone. 
• He also likes to run ALL the time it seems like.  Going to the library and other places leaves me all sweaty and exhausted most of the time.  He sure keeps me on my toes.
• He is into telling people what to do, "Sit down" and "Come on" and even a little bit of road rage "move it car!"  I don't know where he got this from.
• He is just now figuring out that he can open doors.  When he opened the door to the garage today I said "Good Job, I think".  It may be time to start keeping doors locked!
• He is such a good little talker.  He uses lots of sentences, he's singing songs (too many to count), and he has such a good memory for names.  Of course he know the names of our families that he sees more often, but he surprises us when he remembers other peoples names that he has only seen a few times and not very often.
• He is a PICKY eater!  They foods he likes he eats very well, but other things he ends up just playing in it.  I've had to start having him wear bibs again during meal times because he gets so messy.
• He loves to watch movies and it use to be that Lion King was the only thing that could keep his attention the whole movie, now he is branching out.  A couple other of his favorites are Jungle Book and Toy Story. 
• We are excited about the weather getting nicer because Paxton loves to be outside!  Whether it's riding his cars, going to the park, chasing Lilo, playing in the dirt or just going for a walk.  It sometimes is a challenge to get this kid in the house.
• When Paxton doesn't want to do something, his way of throwing a tantrum usually is to just lay down wherever he is at, sometimes being the middle of the road.  Then there is no getting him to stand up and walk, I just have to pick him up.
• Paxton can count to 10!  He doesn't always get it right, but he can do it.  He even sometimes says 11, 17,18.  He knows the color blue and green really well and can sometimes get other colors too.  He knows some of his shapes like circle, oval, heart and star.
• Paxton still has his one nap during the day for 3 hours.  It's so nice, he is such a good sleeper.  At night we put him to bed at 7:30 and he usually gets up between 7:00 and 8:00 in the morning.  We do still give him a binkie only for sleeping though.  He is good about spitting it out in his crib when he wakes up.  I'm just not ready to get rid of it because he is so easy to put to bed and I don't want to mess with that. 

I love this little boy and the person he is becoming. He is such a sweetheart, always giving lots of hugs, kisses and cuddles. He is constantly surprising us with the things he is learning and keeps us all laughing. He knows how to get the attention of everyone in the room and loves it. He is so silly and such a boy all around!
Happy Birthday Paxton, we sure love you!

Sneek Peek

Paxton's birthday is coming up, he's going to be TWO!  So I had my sister take some pictures of him to remember this age.  Click here to see some of the pictures, I will post more later.  She is giving me the rest today, I can't wait!  She does an amazing job!  Thanks Jamie!

The Happiest Place on Earth

Paxton was a little scared of Sully.  He was really big!

Paxton loves Mator!  After the picture, he went up to Mator touching his teeth.

Paxton loved pointing out Mickey Mouse on the ferris wheel.

So here is a video of our vacation, beware it is long!  I couldn't help myself in putting on some cute video's of Paxton riding the rides.  I hope you enjoy!

Disneyland!!!

Here are a few pictures from Disneyland.  I have a ton of pictures and video's to sort through, so hopefully the rest will be up shortly. 

Paxton was so excited to see Mickey Mouse.  When we were in line he couldn't take his eyes off him, when we got up there he was a little shy, but as we walked away he kept saying "bye Mickey".

I think Donald Duck was Paxton's favorite.  He was a little nervous to get too close to Pluto so we had to give him a little push.

Paxton likes to help us sing the song... "M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E" we sing that part and he says "Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck".  It's so cute!

Paxton loved LOVED Disneyland and seeing all the characters and going on the rides.