June 18, 2013

March: 3 years old, Easter & more

Happy St. Paxton's day!
On Paxton's birthday we used garbage bags and taped them over his door and in between his door and the bags filled it with green balloons.  So in the morning when he opened his door, the balloons came tumbling in.  He thought it was pretty great!  Then the leperchan left us some Lucky Charms for breakfast.

      This year his birthday was on a Sunday, so he got to wear 
his new church outfit which included green pants.
Then after church we had dinner at Grandma & Grandpa Sorensons.  We then made shamrock sugar cookies and took them over to visit with Ci Ci, Addison and Grandma Cindy.  It's always fun seeing Paxton interact with them.  

3 years old!
My sister Jamie took these awesome pictures of Paxton.  She is so great, especially to work with this kid ;)  I think he was harder than doing newborn pictures.  He is just always on the go and did not want to smile... lots of bribes that day!




Some things we want to remember about this age...

*He is potty trained!  (for the most part)

*He loves to talk!  He will go up to anyone and start talking, whether it's asking them their name, telling them a story and asking them for something.  For example:  at the library he asks other moms to read him books or at the park he asks other moms to push him on the swings.  I guess he sees too much of me all day long.

*He loves to play pretend especially if it has to do with swords, guns, bad guys or animals.  

*He likes to go swimming, but he doesn't like to go in the deep end unless you are holding him, even if he has his life jacket on.

*He has this little four-wheeler that we got him for his first birthday, and he has NEVER liked to push the button to make it go.  And he still doesn't, I don't get it.

*He loves to watch all kinds of different movies.  He use to like to watch the same one over and over again, but now he chooses different ones all the time.  We even like to rent them from the library.

*He's also great at quoting lines from movies, it's hilarious!  Two of my favorite that he says are, "My fathers not crazy, he's a genius!"-Beauty and the Beast & "Mom, you have freakishly big hands" -Wreck it Ralph.



The ZOO
Paxton loves going to the zoo to see all the animals.  I think his favorite is the "huge giant elelphants" (as he calls them).

Easter in St. George

We went to St. George with my family over Easter.  Paxton was sick prior to leaving, throwing up and stuff. But he seemed to be getting better so we still went.  Well he threw up once in the car and once on Easter after he ate a bunch of candy.  But I was a proud Mama when he ran to the bathroom and made it all in the toilet!
The Easter Egg hunt was all for Paxton, but this will be his last year because next year all the babies will be old enough to join in on the fun.
Paxton got lots of eggs!  At least he is nice enough to share his candy.  He had a good time finding the eggs, we had to help him some.
Then we colored eggs.  And this is Paxton's new angry birds shirt from Grandma.


Happy 8th Anniversary to Rem and I!  It landed on Easter Sunday this year.  We did nothing for each other this year, I guess that's what 8 years of marriage does to ya.  I guess the St. George trip was our gift to each other to be able to spend time with one another.

Paxton and Lucy opened their Easter gifts from Grandpa & Grandma.  Paxton wanted to read Lucy her book, what a nice cousin.

The boys and their guns, they were having a blast ;)




Enjoying the nice weather and each others company.

One of the days we went over to the splash pad and river walk for Paxton to play in the water.  As we were playing around, we noticed a whole bunch of characters walking around.  So Paxton got to meet a bunch of them and take a pictures with some of them.  We weren't sure exactly why they were there, but we think they were just advertising that they did parties for kids.  It was fun that we got to see them, Paxton thought it was pretty cool.

Paxton even went on the carrousel, I was so proud of him.  Because in the past he did NOT like them and would cry the whole time.

What a great and busy month!

June 17, 2013

February: Potty Training & more

Back in February we decided we needed to get this kid potty trained before the new baby came in May.  I was dreading this time and the first few days were NOT fun.  We hung out in the kitchen a lot so we had to figure out different ways to entertain ourselves like playing in the kitchen sink, we also played cars on the kitchen floor and worked on the alphabet and more.  


 Maybe it's better that I'm blogging about this later so I don't remember all the horrible details, but I guess I don't remember the good ones either.  I think the hardest part about it was doing this while being about 6+ months pregnant and having to clean out yucky underwear!  He soon caught on, but I think it probably took a good 2-3 weeks before he really had it down.  Even now today he still has accidents every so often.  He doesn't like to be told when to go and he goes very last minute and has to RUN to the toilet.

 Paxton took A LOT of baths in the kitchen sink.  Rem and I had decided we wanted to re-tile the upstairs shower/bath which he started demolishing in January.  Between work and school he didn't have much time to work on it and it took forever to get it back.  It sure was a pain to have to make sure all the dishes were done and the sink was cleaned out before I could bath him.  Although he sure loved it!  I guess it was nice that I didn't have to lean over a bathtub.



            Here is his first potty chart.                          We had to turn on movies for him while he went #2
                                                                              because he never wanted to sit there long enough to go.


His first prize for completing his chart.                          Potty training with his cousin is so much more fun.

And then we had to do a second potty chart because things were not going so well.  And he finally finished it and got another prize!  I'm so glad it's over with even though I still have to deal with it every so often.

 One day while Paxton was eating breakfast, he dropped ONE cheerio on the floor and naturally Lilo (the dog) ate it.  Paxton freaked out and threw his spoon on the floor and as I tried to explain to him that that's what a dog does and we like her to clean up the floor for us and I can get you as many more cheerio's as you'd like... he took his hand and slammed it on his bowl making his cheerios and milk go everywhere!  This picture does not do the mess justice.  Can we say tantrum?!  He then ran to his room and slammed his door. Can we say teenager?!

The other picture... Paxton I liked to go swimming quite often at Dimple Dell.  He loves the shallow end where he can touch and loved to play pretend.  He's not so fond of the deep end, he will not let go of me as much as I reassure him that his life jacket will hold him up, he doesn't trust it.  Maybe one day, but I don't want to force him in fear of him never wanting to go swimming again.

Valentines Day

Paxton wanted all his animals to watch him eat breakfast.

 Rem had to go to work, so Paxton and I got to hang out.  We got to planning Valentines Day for dad since he also had class that night (which he ended up skipping).  I made the effort of making one of his favorite dinner... chicken rolls and drove to his work so we could have dinner with him.  Which afterwards we went out for crepes and frozen yogurt.






We use to take turns planning Valentines Day, but now we decided to spend it together as a family on the holiday (since it's hard to find a sitter) and then Rem can take me out on the weekend on a date.

Paxton and Rem made me a nice card, got me my favorite candy and picked out some pretty flowers.  Paxton picked out the colored ones and Rem the white ones.  What a great couple days we had!


Sleepy boy.  Love how he puts his arms behind his head.           Loving my sweet niece, little Lucy!   

Playing with one of his best buddies, cousin Maya.  They play so well together and I think part of it is because they both watch Dora and Diego and they love to play pretend.  They are so cute together!

I had these two sleepy heads in the car.  Getting ready to have two kids myself!