Catching Up

First things first ~ Congratulations to my baby brother for being Homecoming Royalty! I can't believe he's a senior this year.

It's been a bit since I've updated on Jax and his development, etc.

~As of last week he was 37 inches tall and weighs 35 pounds ~ he's all legs and no butt.

~He's coming to school with me again this year, and is pretty proud that he has his own "packpack."

~He likes anything to do with wheels, water, and balls. Recently, he's especially a huge fan of trains. He's constantly talking about engines (as in train, not car like Josh does...though I'm sure that'll come).

~He's starting to ask a lot of questions. Mostly "what" questions, and not "why"

~ Loves to help with projects

~Plays pretend a lot and some of the things that he acts out make me laugh. He's got quite the imagination

~ Is a huge creature of habit. He's back into a phase of liking to rock and cuddle for a couple minutes before his afternoon nap. After nap, he likes snack and cartoons. Before pajamas, he asks Josh and I if we went to watch a "moomie" and cuddle.

~Loves to laugh so hard he can hardly breathe. Which usually results in Josh and I laughing just as hard.

~ His favorite foods are chicken nuggets, french fries, pizza, oranges, graham crackers, and pudding. He is NOT a fan of any meats other than chicken unless they're on a pizza. He will eat anything as long as it's on a pizza crust (this includes any vegetable also). He will not eat chicken unless it's in nugget format.

~ We're coming along with potty training. This kid seriously has a bladder of steel though. He can run around naked from the waist down all day, with the exception of nap, and still be dry.

In just a couple weeks, he will be 2 and a half years old.

Honkin' Haulin' Trucks

Every year, during West Fest, the parks & rec sets up an event with a basically anything you can drive where kids can climb in, on, and around all these vehicles. We forgot about it last year, but this year we went and Jaxon was in HEAVEN. Trucks, tractors, cop cars, wee-woos (known to you and me as ambulances and fire trucks), school buses, etc. All there and just waiting for Jax to climb in them to honk their horns. He was more into looking at them than getting in them, until we got to the school bus. That he just climbed right on and acted like he owned the thing. Josh took him on the fire truck and that was pretty cool for him too, there were lots of buttons and levers for him to touch and look at. After we had looked at everything, we waited in line and got Jax his very own driver's license. The girl in front of us was 11 years old, and she was convinced it was the real deal and she was actually going to get to drive home. Pretty funny.

These are the stickers he got. He was very concerned that we were going to lose them or that they'd blow away since it was a little windy. Daddy and Jax on a wee-woo!

Josh said that Jax kept asking the guy on the fire truck "What's it do? " They spent a few minutes up there while Jax made friends with the fireman.

Trying to wait patiently for a turn on the fire truckDriving school bus.

Checking out the controls for a ginormous crane.

So this is Jaxon at the END of his barrel train ride. Pretty similar to the picture below from the beginning of the ride.

In the tractor with Daddy. Not such a fan and definately NOT ok with touching things yet.

Back to the Zoo

We were back in Lakeville over Labor Day weekend and Kate, Cody, and Keegan were there also, so we playdated at the MN Zoo. It was kind of cool out, so there was no playing in the splash pad, but we successfully wore the kids out anyways.

Petting sharks and stingrays

I knew we brought these guys along for a reason! :)

Last summer, when we brought Jax we made him sit on the pig and last time we came he was asleep and so sitting on the pig was required this time. He and Keegan both thought it was a bad idea and pretty much jumped off the second I took this picture.

I love the way the one goat is looking at Jax and he's totally oblivious.

Keegan made goat friends, too.

Afternoon in the Park

The end of August (ya know... a month ago... oof, I'm behind) we went on an adventure to the park for a bit. Jax ran like crazy and had a great time and then we rented a bike and cruised around for a bit. Jax thought the bike was the coolest thing ever, and kept telling us to go faster. Josh joked about how we should jump the speed bumps, and we sorta did over one and the first thing out of Jax's mouth was "Go faster! Do it again!" We are in trouble when he's the driver, I think.

He was determined to climb this ladder by himself. He did it a few times, but that didn't make me feel any better about him refusing to let Josh help him.

Last summer, around the same time, we were at this park and Jax couldn't walk up steps on his own yet. He spent most of our time last year practicing going up and down the steps by one of the slides. This year, he could run up and down them. He grows too fast.