Some things we want to always remember about Paxton...
He finally figured out how to do thumbs up with just his thumb and not his other fingers.
His favorite thing to watch these days is Lion King, it use to be Barney or Leap Frog. He loves Lion King ten times more than any other movie or show. He asks for it all day long and even when it's over he asks for it again and when I tell him that he just watched it, he throws himself on the floor crying. He loves the music and gets so excited when he hears it. We rented some Disney music from the library to listen to in the car and now he just asks for the Lion King song. At the beginning part of the movie where it shows all the different animals gathering together, he will name all of them off. At the part where Simba is being chased by a herd, Paxton gets up and starts running up and down the hall, saying "run fast" (he does this every time, so cute). He sometimes will get up and dance to "Hakuna Matata" and "I just can't wait to be King". Paxton does not sit through movies, he gets bored of them, but not Lion King, he loves it!
Pax still LOVES to read books! He will read them by himself on occasion and sometimes I even find him saying the words he remembers out loud. When I read him a book, as soon as we are finished he will say "one more" and after we have read one more he will say it again and again until I say it's enough.
Before bedtime we brush his teeth (which he likes to help out), say prayers (which he is now repeating what we say) and give hugs and kisses (he now always says "family hugs").
Paxton is becoming a very picky eater. I would have to say his favorites are string cheese, Mac n' Cheese and hot cereal. He has many other things he will eat and like, but it's getting to be fewer and fewer it seems like it.
I love it when Paxton sometimes after he laughs he says "oh gosh". It cracks me up everytime!
Paxton makes everyone feel loved. This is my sweet Grandma, she was over for dinner the other day at my parents and Paxton took this book over to her and took her by the hand and said "read it". It was so sweet. He is very good about greeting everyone and using their names. Paxton is so friendly, sometime he can be shy towards new people, but he warms up to them quickly.
Paxton can be very difficult to punish these days. The other day Paxton threw a huge fit over something and Rem told him that if he didn't stop, he would have to go on time out. Paxton immediatly stopped, excitedly said "time out" and took his dad by the hand and walked to time out and willingly sat there. I don't know if it's punishing him when he's excited about it.
I tell Paxton that he is cute ALL the time. Every once in a while he doesn't like when I say this to him, the conversation goes a little like this...
Me: Oh Paxton, you're so cute!
Paxton: Don't tell me!
Me: Oh but I am going to tell you because you are cute.
Paxton: NO!
It makes me laugh when he says "don't tell me" :)
Paxton's starting to sing parts of songs. It shocks me everytime he starts to sing one. It's crazy how much these kiddo's pick up on things.
Every night when I put him to bed I tell him "you are the best ever, in the whole world". One day when I was holding Pax, he started patting me on the back and said "best ever, whole world". Thanks buddy!
It's about time I get this up... Christmas was a month ago, can you believe that?!
It's Christmas morning! We got up at around 7:00 to open presents. Paxton needed a little help opening his presents in the beginning, but then he got the hang of it. He LOVES his slide! He kept going down it over and over again until finally we gave him some more presents to open.
Yes Paxton remembered that we left Santa and the reindeer some treats. It was so funny because the whole morning between opening presents he would go over to the plate and start sniffing it. He picked up the pretzel and was looking at it and then decided that he wanted to eat it.
One of his favorite presents that morning was a $2 motorcycle toy. He was so excited with each present he opened, even the socks... "Socks!" he said with a big smile on his face.
Rem was excited about his new shoes and even Lilo got some presents.
Then we went to spend the rest of the day with my family.
We had to get the traditional stair picture.
We spread out opening gifts throughout the whole day. Paxton got spoiled by his Grandparents.
Sharing loves with his Auntie Erika who got him a Build-a-Bear.
I think Rem was more excited about the mini frisbee golf cage. We got some fun things to play with!
We had a wonderful Christmas, especially to able to share it with Paxton!
Paxton was so excited for Christmas, we told him all about Santa and everything we were going to do that day.
On the drive to GG Hughes Christmas Party his excitement didn't last long, as soon as we hit the freeway he was out. I carried him in from the car and he didn't even wake up. He slept on GG's bed for half of the party. We were glad he napped though because we had a long night ahead of us.
Then we were off to Grandpa and Grandma Sorenson's. We started off with dinner when all the sudden Santa came through the door saying HO HO HO and gave all the kids candy canes. Then each of the kids got to sit on his lap.
I was proud of Paxton, he didn't want to sit on Santa's lap but we put him up there and he didn't even cry. He was even looking at Santa and talking with him and not trying to get down.
One of the Sorenson traditions is to play the food stealing game. We all bring a food item for each family member, wrap it up and stick all the items in the middle. Then we take turns either picking from the middle or stealing from someone else. When it came Paxton's turn I helped him by giving him 4 different food choices to steal from and he picked his fruit snacks that we had to open right away!
Paxton loves his uncle Bob (Russell) and played with him for a good portion of the evening.
All the boy cousins! Wow seeing him sitting next to them makes him look so grown up, he's not a little baby anymore.
Paxton is such a friendly little boy. After he opened this present, he ran over to uncle Gary to show him. This surprised me because Paxton rarely sees his uncle Gary because they live in Logan.
Opening presents. Grandma Sorenson made hats for all the grandkids. She ran out of time to finish them so Paxton got an adult size one that she already had made, but Paxton still loved it, he LOVES Angry Birds! (He later received one just his size)
2 Angry birds and the pig AKA Kamryn, Kaden and Rem
We had a lot of fun at the Sorenson's. Paxton was so done by the end of the party because it was way past his bedtime, but we still had to leave Santa cookies. We ended up just leaving Santa some chocolates from our neighbor gifts and pretzels for the reindeer because that's all we had. It was fun to show Pax what we were doing. And you will have to wait to find out if Pax remembered the next morning.
So my brother showed this video to my family and we watched it several times in a row, laughing our heads off. Yes even Paxton was laughing.
Here's the video...
Well a couple of weeks later Rem and I and Pax were sitting down for dinner and all the sudden Paxton lets out a real loud one, we look over at him and he says, "HIPPOPOTAMUS TOOTED"! It was hilarious, like he was trying to blame his toot on the hippo. Haha, just thought I'd share :)
