10 months old

Our baby is growing up! 

 Here are some things he is doing at this age...

*Gives me a cheesy smile for the camera, what a goofy kid!

*Signs 'milk', 'more' & 'all done'.  We are working on 'drink', 'please', 'night night' & 'food'.  This picture he is signing 'milk' with both hands.

*Gives kisses. He use to put his forehead on your lips but now he goes in for the kill, slobber and all...YUM. But it is so stinkin' cute!

*He is always wanting to read books, he now knows how to say 'moo' when he sees a cow, except he says 'mmmmm'.

*He says 'dah' and sometimes 'dad' when he sees Lilo and occasionally when he sees other dogs.

*Not too interested in walking.  He will do it along the furniture, but when you grab his hands to help him, he usually will try and get down to crawl.  He will walk a little bit with his walker.

*He is laughing tons more!  And is always making us laugh :)

*He loves to dance and does so whenever he hears music or if Rem and I sing to him.

*For a little bit he stopped waving 'hello' and 'goodbye', but now he does it all the time... when Dad gets home from work, when I get him up from a nap, when I walk into the room with him and more.

*I gave him his first full haircut a couple of weeks ago and he did pretty good.

*It's hard to tell this boy 'no' cuz when you do he just shakes his head no :)  So then we will say 'uh uh' and he will mimic us.

*Sleeps 11-12 hours at night & 2 two hour naps.  He usually wants a third nap around 4:30, but we are trying to keep him up because he has just started to wake up during the night and by not letting him take that third nap has helped him sleep through the night.

*Still loves his baby food- all kinds.  Is getting the hang of his sippy cup.  And has now stood up in his high chair, now it's time to start buckling him in.

LOVE THIS BOY more and more everyday!!

engagement

We are excited to announce that my sister Jamie is engaged to Dan!!

As Jamie likes to put it, they were engaged the night before 1-1-11 :)  They had a fun night out to dinner and ice skating at the Gallivan Center then made a stop at the Salt Lake library where a dozen roses was waiting for her on the bridge and he proposed!!  Then Remi, my Mom, Trevor & Sandee and Erika were all there to congratulate them.  Sadly Paxton and I were at home sick and in bed.

We are so excited for them, they will be married on May 13!!

Christmas morning

Paxton wakes up and is ready to eat (this is like most mornings).

'I'M HUNGRY, FEED ME NOW!!!!'

'Yes this is what I want'

'It's about time!'

Haha, silly little boy.  When he is hungry he will let you know!!!

Then it was time to wake everyone else up.  Paxton was PRO at this!  Who wouldn't want to be woken up by this cute little boy?! He was all smiles after his belly was full.  Then we all had to get a picture on the stairs, it's a tradition.

Then it was time to open presents.

Paxton got this 'walker' to help him learn to walk.  He likes more to play with the stuff on the front of it rather than actually walking with it.

Paxton LOVES books and he LOVES music, so we got him an Elmo book that plays music.  It's one of his favorites (and Lilo's too).

Christmas was alot of fun this year with Paxton, even though he didn't really know what was going on.  It was hard to get him to open his presents because there was so much paper and boxes every where that he just wanted to crawl around in it all.

This one was from Grandma (to stay at Grandma's) good thing because we got ALOT of toys at our house.

This one was from Grandpa.

Even Lilo got a present and she opened it up all by herself.

Remember that present to Paxton from Grandpa... this entertained the big kids for several hours. They switched the track up several times and had BYU and UofU car wars with the blue and red cars.  It was funny to watch them get in to it :)

And one more toy that we waited to open until after his morning nap.  Could we say spoiled?

Remi and I got spoiled too with mostly money, now we need to figure out how we want to spend it :)  We had a great Christmas spending time with family and especially with Paxton!

Christmas Eve X 3

First Stop:  At 11 am we went to Remi's parents house for lunch and presents.

Paxton got this fun toy from Grandma Sorenson.  Some of the other kids wanted to play it with him.  (Lilo LOVES this toy- it's hilarious).

He got this toy from his cousin Tyson.  It is the cutest toy ever!  You can connect it to the computer and program it to say their name and some of the things they like.  So it says "Hi Paxton"  and it sings different songs, it's so cute.  Paxton likes to dance to the music it plays.

With the adults we did a gift card exchange and played the stealing game.  I got the home depot card and Rem got the Victoria Secrets card, it was pretty funny.  I was excited to switch cards but then his got stolen by his brother ;) and Rem ended up with an itunes card.

Second Stop: We went to Remi's grandma's house.  It was a full house with all his cousins! 

Great Grandma Hughes loves to hold Paxton!

We dressed Paxton up as a little shepard for the nativity.

The girl in the blue played Mary, she went right up to Paxton and pulled off both of his socks!  It was so funny!

Paxton didn't mind one bit.

Claire as the cute little angel.

From Great Grandma, Paxton got these awesome cars that he likes to make the noise a car makes whenever he plays with them.  And he got some cute socks.

Third Stop:  We went to my Grandma's house with all of my cousins.  We had dinner and shared some service experiences and exchanged gifts.

Paxton got a new outfit from Great Grandma (not pictured).

And we brought the gift that he got from his birthmom, Ciara... these cute Christmas jammies.  Thanks Ciara, they are adorable!

Paxton was so warn-out at this point, it was way past his bedtime and he did not want to get in his jammies let alone have his picture taken in them.  This face just cracks me up!  But we did manage to get one smile out of him (below).

Every Christmas Eve we get new jammies and it's so fun to get all cozy warm, ready to go home and into bed.  Now that I'm older and married, Rem and I don't get jammies anymore, but it sure is fun to give them to Paxton.

Cute boys in their new jammies.

It was a long day, but we had a ton of fun!  After all the parties were over, we drove home to pack up our stuff, get Lilo and head to my parents house to sleep over.

Family Christmas Party

On the Sunday before Christmas we celebrated with my Mom's side of the family.  Paxton got to hangout with cute Maya.  We had a delicious dinner that Paxton was loving.  Then with the cousins we do a $5 gift exchange- I got a $5 gift card to the movies and Rem got SpiderMan 3.

Then we each get a gift from my grandma. Paxton got two new books to read.  He loves looking at books and especially likes to turn the pages.

Cute little reindeer bums :)