October festivities

Paxton and I drove to Logan to go see the PUMPKIN WALK.  We met up with the Stott cousins and even went out to dinner afterwards.  It was a lot of fun to spend some time with cousins that we don't see too often.  The boys enjoyed looking at the pumpkins, Paxton especially enjoyed the Madagascar one.  Cute Keaton was all tuckered out and slept through the whole thing.

 

 Paxton, Kyler and Kaden.

 

Aunt Erika even came towards the end to come say hi.

 HAPPY 28th BIRTHDAY to me!

I can't believe I'm 28!  This was the only picture we took that day, but I had a great day.  Rem had to work so my friend, Bekah had me over for a yummy french toast breakfast and then I stayed over pretty much all day and we just did our digital scrapbooking.  It was a lot of fun!  Then when I got home Rem surprised me with the above: flowers, a sweet letter, and an iphone cover and itunes card to go with my new iphone that I got in the mail that day!  I was so excited!  Then we dropped Paxton off with his Aunt Kelsey and Uncle Randy and Rem and I went out to dinner and a movie.  What a great day!

 

 On the Monday before Halloween my Grandma had her annual HALLOWEEN PARTY.  Most everyone dressed up in costume, even my Grandma did this year!

                     Sydney, Natalie, Alex and Lizzie                            My Grandma                                    

                                   Erika & Ben                                           Me & Jamie

Jamie and I dressed up like Kangaroo's with little Joey's in our pouches since we are both pregnant.



                                                                            

                          The Munnerlyn Family                                       Jamie & Dan

Paxton was our cute little Diego and we were all his animals that he rescued.

 

Loving FALL time!

 We went over to a friends house and the boys had a blast playing in the leaves.

 

And finally.... HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

 It was so much fun taking Paxton out Trick or Treating!  He was so excited to go get candy from everyone.  At first he had a hard time giving candy away to other kids so we had to sit down for a talk.  He was such a pro walking to all the houses, he could've gone all night long!

He loved dressing up as Diego and he got tons of comments on what a cute Diego he made!

 Grandma helped organize the candy.  Paxton was obsessed with the candy, but within a week forgot about it and wasn't asking for it everyday.

 

We loved having Grandpa and Grandma over for dinner and Trick or Treating.  They just adore and love spending time with Paxton!

2 and a half

I wrote this post back in September when Pax was 2 and a half, but I didn't finish it.  So now I'm finally finishing it and getting back to blogging (hopefully).  Between holidays, pregnancy and then running into problems with blogger saying my memory is full and I couldn't upload anymore pictures... I'm way behind. 

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

-When we listen to his Disney CD in the car he only like certain songs so he use to whine and scream for me to change it so I taught him to say 'No Thank you'.  So now he says 'No Hank you' and he'll keep repeating it if I don't change the song right away, it's so cute.

-We just put him in a big boy bed yesterday!  He did great for nap time, fell asleep pretty quick and took a nice long nap.  Then when he woke up, he did NOT want to get out of bed.  I finally had to pull him out for dinner time and he was not happy.  Then when it came to bed time he was so excited to go to bed that he climbed right in.  We had to pull him out to brush teeth and say prayers, which prayers he ended up in the bed, he just couldn't wait!  He struggled falling asleep for a little bit, but then he was fine the rest of the night.  **And now currently he still loves sleeping in his bed and doesn't get out of it until we come get him.  For Christmas he is going to get even a bigger boy bed, a twin sized bed!**

-He loves to play make believe with his toys, especially his animal toys.  He always wants one of us to play with him and make the animals talk to eachother.  After a while this gets quite boring, but it's a lot of fun to see what he is going to say. 

-Paxton is such a BOY!  I had no idea raising a boy would be like this, but he loves to tackle, push, hit.  He loves to play the bad guy and says things like 'I will hit you and squish you'.  He'll talk in a low scratchy voice.  When he's playing make believe with his toys at times he will be so mean with them.  I hope he's not treating other kids like this in nursery.

-He has learned a couple of church songs:  I Love to See the Temple & Whenever I Hear the Song of a Bird.  He knows a bunch of other fun songs like:  ABC's, 3 Little Monkeys, Isty Bitsy Spider, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Row Row Row your Boat, and he sings along with many more.  I just taught him a Halloween song:  I'm a Mean Old Witch.  And he sings along with his Disney songs we listen to in the car.  It surprises me how much of the words he knows.

-He is so social and will talk to anyone.  It's really cute the conversations he has with other people.  He's great at talking to people on the phone, it amazes me how well he can have a conversation with them.

-He is always making us laugh.  The things he says, I need to be better at writing them down.  Even little phrases like "of course"  "I'm cool" and randomly saying to me or other people "you're beautiful" "you're the best" "you're my best friend".  It's funny the phrases they pick up from us, he'll say to me "Mom, you drive me crazy" haha I totally say that too him!

 Here he is playing make believe that he is on a boat.  He scoots it all around the kitchen and family room.

the funny things kids say...

At church yesterday during Sacrament Meeting, I took Paxton in the Mother's lounge.  As we were in there, one of my friends came in to feed her baby. 

Paxton asked her, "Where's your baby?"

 So my friend opened up the blanket some so Paxton could see her. 

Paxton then replied, "She's eating you?"

 Ha ha ha, we were laughing so hard!  I guess at some point I'll have some explaining to do.

St. George

We went to St. George last week and had a blast!  We just needed a little get away, so it was perfect that Rem had fall break.

 

We visited the Temple.

 We went and saw the movie, Hotel Translyvania.  It was really cute, Paxton even liked it and didn't get scared.  (Nothing was too scary)

 We should have bought the large popcorn because that's what keeps him in his seat the best.  The popcorn ran out too fast.  Then he was wearing the popcorn bucket on his head pretty much the rest of the movie and said that he was in a marching band.

 We climbed on Dixie Rock, Paxton just loved being able to climb.

 We played at a really fun park.

Later that day Jamie and Dan joined us in St. George.  And it also started to rain, we were bummed out because we had tickets to go to Aladdin at Tuacahn that night.  The rain was off and on so we were hopeful, but no luck, they cancelled the show :(  So instead we had some friends over to hangout and play games.

 

 We went to the Wild Life Museum on a rainy day.  Paxton's favorite thing is animals, so he loved looking at and pointing out all the animals.  Some of them kind of scared him, we had to remind him that they were all fake.  It was pretty cool to see the museum, I couldn't believe how many animals were in there and most of them were shot by one guy.

 

 We enjoyed the water on our last day.  We were glad that it warmed up.  I couldn't believe how much Paxton was loving that splash pad.  Usually he is more afraid of the water getting in his face so he stays more clear of the water, but this time he was running right through and getting soaked!  I think everyone around was watching Paxton.  He was just running, screaming and laughing!

 

Silver Lake

I had been wanting to go up the mountains to see the beautiful colors on the trees.  I was disappointed at first because everything looked like it was dying already, but as we went further up the mountain we got to see the beautiful yellow trees.

 

Paxton was so excited to go up the mountain, he kept naming off all the animals we might see up there... ducks, elk, deer, moose, chipmunks, even chinchilla's!  (I guess Go Diego Go says chinchilla's live in the mountains??)

 

'Grandma Peggy' or 'Chuck-a-Rama Grandma' came with us.

Paxton loved climbing on the rocks, it was hard to get him to keep walking.

 

It was such a beautiful day!  I love walking around there.  Paxton even made some new friends, he loves saying hi to everyone that passes by.

Catch-up

Hot Air Balloons

Back in August, Paxton and I woke up early to go see the Sandy City hot air balloons take off.  I try to go every year, we make muffins and juice and walk over to the park.  It was so fun to see all the balloons get blown up and take off.  Not all of took off this year because it was a little bit windy.  We always see lots of neighbors there, it's a lot of fun!

Heber

Paxton's aunt Liana lives in Heber so we spent the day there with her, her baby Keladry and her neice, Andi.  We went to lunch at the train place (they are eating on the train) then back to Liana's parents house for naps and afterwards, swimming!  We had a good time, it was fun to go see all the horses too!

Liana and I

Keladry

 

Twinners

Dan and Jamie showed up on Sunday to hang out and Jamie and I were twinners.  I don't know if I've said anything, but Jamie is pregnant too!  She is due in January, I'm so excited for her and it will be so fun to be pregnant together!

 



They took Paxton for a golf cart ride, his favorite!