La Nieve

Jaxon has a love/hate relationship with snow. We bought him snow pants thinking he'd love to romp around and throw it up in the air and try to eat it. You know, like normal children. But he's not a big fan. He'll poke and prod, but he'll never walk into it on his own, and when I put him in it he's crawling back to the sidewalk. Yes, crawling, since he maintains no balance on the snow.

Yet as soon as we're inside he cries and begs to go outside again.

As a result, we've only "played" in the snow a couple times this winter. He seems fascinated by the stuff but doesn't actually like to be in it. (This video was taken a couple months ago.)

Maybe we should move to California. We're looking forward to spending some time there this spring when we take Jaxon on his first trip to Disneyland! Until then, looks like we'll just have to wait out the snow.

(Heartily enjoying the distraction of graham crackers and juice...)

Christmas 2012

We had a fantastic Christmas this year. Over the week we spent time with both families and enjoyed conversing with everyone, usually over delicious food, too. :) But even before all the family festivities started, we were so lucky to host a Christmas Eve breakfast with our close friends, most of whom now live out of state and don't get to see very often. They were in town to spend the holidays with their families here in Utah and we're so grateful they all made time to see "the gang".

It's funny to see how the group is growing with the kids popping into the picture!

It was also fun to see Jaxon a little more involved in the unwrapping of presents. His attention span was still a little short, but next year will be even better.

We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!

Staying Warm

I usually like to post more often than I recently have, but Blogger's now enforcing this photo limit and I've been trying to find a way around having to pay for more storage. But that aside, there really hasn't been anything happening to blog about anyway. :) Lately, we've mostly spent our days inside cuddling up to stay warm.

When we get stir-crazy, we take trips to "la biblioteca." We go multiple times a week just to get out! Jaxon loves going to story-time (singing and puppet show included) and to climb all their "escaleras". He'll sign "biblioteca" at random times throughout the day, so either he's asking to go or is just thinking about it.

We've also been able to spend time with friends. I'm so lucky to have close friends who have babies in the same age range as Jaxon. Play-dates are as much of a treat to me as they are to him!

Can't wait for Christmas!

Goodbye Fall, Hello Winter!

This morning we woke up to snow.

Hard to imagine it was 70 degrees yesterday! I guess that's Utah for you. We heard we were in for our first winter storm this weekend, so we took advantage of the warm weather this week by going to the park every day. Yesterday was the last time we'd be able to go before it snowed, so I brought our camera. Remember, these were taken just yesterday! Unbelievable.

(It was so warm, we didn't even need jackets!)

Jaxon has learned to climb up slides and once he reaches the top he slides down backwards on his tummy. He loves it!

To help us transition to winter, we had warm and delicious soup and rolls for lunch today. It's sad to see fall go, but we look forward to enjoying the many perks of winter.

Halloween 2012

Even though Jaxon is still to young to go trick-or-treating (maybe next year), we still found a costume for him and had a wonderful Halloween.

In the morning, we went to the library for a special Halloween-themed story time, and for dinner we had yummy chili dogs and homemade root beer! My family would always make homemade root beer on Halloween growing up, so I thought I'd continue the tradition. Although Jaxon didn't drink any, he was still fascinated by the dry ice, which is really the best part about homemade rootbeer. :)

It was also the first time he had ever had a hot dog! He practically ate the whole thing- bun, chili and all. I'm telling you, he eats like a monster. Happy Halloween!

Here Comes Trouble

This kid is into everything these days. I turn my back for two seconds and...

Jaxon's playing in the flour. He even ate a handful of it before I could reach him. I guess I have no one to blame but myself. Today (when he was all too quiet...) I found he had gotten into the vaseline and had not only spread it all over his clothes and carpet, but also eating it. I would've taken a picture, but I decided to panic and call poison control instead. Luckily we're okay. :)

Speaking of trouble, Jaxon is also walking! His whole walking-thing was very gradual, and is still a working progress. He still prefers crawling long distances like from room to room. But he'll definitely walk between pieces of furniture and other random times. Not really the typical "Come to daddy/mommy!" thing, but we'll take it. :)

Pumpkinland 2012

 My friend and I kind of started a tradition of taking our boys to Pumpkinland every fall. Our boys were only a couple months old the last time we went, so I was excited to see how Jaxon would do this time.

They had fun climbing over pumpkins and getting licked by goats. I think it's safe to say they had a more fun this year than last year. :) Can't wait till next year (if we're still around, that is!)!

Big pumpkin!