Fall Fun

Miss Freyja has a busy end of the month set up for her! The above picture was taken Oct 21st when we headed out to Holland Farms Peanut Farm, they also have a pumpkin patch and a ton of sunflowers. Holland Farms is about 20min past mom's house so we left Jaxon with mom and Ed after we went grocery shopping and Bugg and I headed out there for some fall fun. After roaming the pumpkin patch and getting lost in the maze of sunflowers we went on THE LONGEST hayride ever!!! We ate peanuts straight out of the field (very earthy tasting!), I got a bowl of their cajun flavored boiled and man were they good!!

Jaxon turned 10wks old on Oct 26th!!! My baby is now in the double digits...how depressing, he's getting too big too fast dangit!! One day last week he went to bed at 830pm and didn't get up til 5am to nurse then went back to sleep til 7am, this kid LOVES his sleep!! October 18th was his 2month check up, he was 12.3lbs and 24in long putting him in the 75th percentile. He stays awake much longer now, he still cries a ton during the day especially on weekdays when in order to get stuff done I have to lay him down and not able to carry/hold him every second of the day. My little man just graduated to size 2 diapers and 3-6month clothing...theres just no slowing him down!

Monday, Oct 25th we went to the fair as a family. I wasn't positive Freyja would ride anything but it was worth a try. Dora and Diego (cartoon characters) were scheduled to be there that night so we figured that would be a good night to take her, we had free admission tickets so that made it even more enticing!! Dora and Diego ended up having a line literally a mile long so we just bought ride tickets and had fun that way. We bought a sheet of 22 tickets (rides cost 3-5 tickets yet inevitably they give you some funky number of tickets so that you have some left over or have to buy more to use them all) and the girl in the booth wasn't paying any attention and ended up giving us 44 tickets instead :) So we spent our "freebies" by all going on the ferris wheel, it was Davids first time on ferris wheel and Freyja and Jaxon's first fair rides ever. (More pictures are in the Picasa album) Freyja rode a handful of rides, most of them by herself but there was one that she really wanted to ride that she had to go with us and that was the "Kite Flyer", you lay on your belly and get strapped in and fly around in circles. She loved this one so much she had to go twice, I went the first time with her and nearly had a nervous breakdown...not from the ride but from the fear of what if she started to fall off, how could I save her. David went the second time after laughing at me for my "irrational fear" but after getting up there he knew what I meant :) I wore Jaxon while we walked around, he received TONS of smiles and compliments! He stayed awake almost the entire time, he loved the lights and sounds and did his little "marching" thing the majority of the time he was in the wrap because he was so excited and wanted out to play too! Poor guy gave up the fight just as we left the fair and fell asleep in the wrap...only to wake up in the car and cry the ENTIRE way home because he was wet,hungry and over tired. We finally got home around 8pm, comforted Jaxon, fixed Freyja a grilled turkey and cheese, read a couple of bedtime stories which she barely made it through and we were all in bed and asleep by 930pm!

Next on our agenda is a bunch of Halloweenie stuff, costume parties and trick or treating!! Stay tuned and next week I'll elaborate on our Halloweening and post costume pictures!! Love to you all :)

Ghouls and Boils (Girls and boys)

No, she's not choking him! She's trying to hold his little wobbly head up long enough for me to take the shot...and then of course she gets this wild hair and shoots up WAAAAAAY over the top of him and says CHEESE as I cut her head off...but its still a cute shot! And just a small sampling of her love for him. Before he was born and I was oooober pregnant we went past an Indian Restaurant and I made the innocent comment that we should eat there and maybe the heat of the food would "smoke" him out. Well this poor child since then EVERY time we pass the restaurant she says "mama, we can't smoke Jaxon!" Today she took it even farther as to explay WHY we can't smoke Jaxon, apparently in 3yr old logic "we can't smoke Jaxon, he's a people and we don't eat people! We only eat meat!!" At least I dont have to worry about her eating her little brother anytime soon :)

Freyja news...potty training is still going... When we're out, theres no accidents... then we come home and oh man does her laundry pile up in just one day! And on top of potty training accidents the poor kid has had an accident prone week and the bad news is, its only Tuesday... Saturday we went to a birthday party for DJ's twins, they just turned 8. The party was at the beach, it was our first trip out there since the spill and honestly you can't really tell we had one! Well, a handful of steps out of the car she topples off the sidewalk and gets a huge scrape on her knee, luckily the rest of the party went well. Yesterday she was a walking disaster! She wore too small of shoes and wore blisters on her heels, missed her swing and landed butt/back first in the dirt and to add insult to injury the swing smacked her on the bridge of her nose between the eyes and left a little bloody spot. THEN she fell out of bed last night!  I swear I'm not killing my kid, she just has my clutz gene! Bad news...she'll never outgrow it, good news...she'll live...I hope!

Jaxon is 7wks old today!!! I wish I could take a picture of where he currently is...I'm on the couch in the den with the laptop in my lap and he is laying across my arms as I type. He's big on being touched, as long as my hands are for the most part on him he's happy. Its a good thing I'm home with him all the time!! He's starting to focus alot more, he's starting to smile finally, his neck is getting stronger, he coo's constantly, he still loves sleeping almost more than eating and is growing like a little weed! His next check up is the 18th of this month, I will update with stats then :)

We had a MAJOR upset last week. I was making some room on our picture drive and burning some backups when the drive up and died on us. At first we thought the worst and thought we'd lost ALL pictures, documents, programs, etc that we had stored since 2003 (and back to 1997 for me) but luckily after a couple of days of tearing Davids office apart our losses boil down to the last 3years of his tinkering with some programming (he hasn't done alot since he's been busy working), I lost ALL of my music and only a handful of pictures which unfortunitely included Jax's birth and anything from August 16th to September 25th...luckily those items are on Picasa so they are not gone for good and all of my other pictures that predate August 16th have been saved on my fathers system so he will be sending copies back to me. Just goes to show you should not trust your life to a computer... I will burning cd's on a monthly basis now of all albums so that I never lose them again!

This concludes this note...I'll be back mid month when Jax has his check up and will catch you up on the latest "kids say the darnedest things" from my darling daughter!