family pix 2011

Jaxon's 3 year pix

taken by my awesome bro Jarod =)

Happy Birthday Jaxon!!!

Jaxon loves to do things his own way starting with switching to breech before he was born so he could be born via c section! He was born at 2:11 pm 3 years ago today! I love this kid more than I could ever explain. He wasn't really planned but oh, we could never imagine our family without him. He is my cuddle bug and my fireball. And he needs a haircut! We had blue birthday pancakes this morning and Jaxon got a bike. So far he doesn't want to get on it. But I know he will when he's ready. I took him to Walgreen's to spend his money from Grandma and Grandpa Stanford while Kyla was in therapy. He was so cute in the store... choosing one thing and then putting it back for something else and then something else several times until he finally settled on a Thomas lego set. He is busy in his room playing with it now. Tonight we are getting Chik-fil-A and heading to a park for dinner. Happy Birthday Jaxon!!!

Jaxon's Birthday Cake

Yesterday we had Jaxon's birthday cake over at Grandma and Grandpa's house. I made him a train cake and it was a lot of fun. He was spoiled with lots of fun toys from the family. Thanks so much! Here he is playing with Kaden....

Jaxon and his cake with all the cousins...

so cute! He was covering his eyes while Travis lit the candles.

Jaxon was pretty happy with his cake :)

busy busy

Life is busy but good! Kyla was the start student this week, she has been waiting all year! She showed her poster and got to bring in a toy to show, and be the line leader. We sold our Durango on Tuesday night. And Wednesday we bought a 2002 Dodge Grand Caravan Sport. We really love it!! I have always been anti minivan. Someday I want to get a crossover. But for now, we are loving the van.

prez weekend

Maelie has been doing a report at school on woolly monkeys, she made this home project all by herself and on Friday she is giving an oral report!

Yesterday was a great day off! We went to a movie, tool Chili's to a park, and then the kids had fun with shaving cream!!! Maelie jumped right in. Kyla almost cried at the thought of getting her fingers messy but she was soon way into it. Jaxon never really got convinced that this was fun.





Kyla playing dressup and the kids enjoying their new stuffed animals our neighbor gave them.

Vday weekend

Today Maelie had crazy hair day so I did an 80's do! :) On Monday morning we had pink heart pancakes with pink whipped cream and strawberries!

Saturday I bought Jaxon some potty training bribery. He went Saturday night and chose the WalMart semi truck, he went Sunday morning and got to choose a car. I was pretty excited. And then he had 2 accidents and now he wants nothing to do with it. I don't know if we should take a break and just wait for him to ask for another car or put away all his other cars so he really wants a car!

Jonas' mom sent us some old flannel board stories and the kids love them!

Friday night we went on our Vday date. We went hiking at South Mountain and then we went to Cheesecake Factory. It was awesome!

supermom

Yesterday was a really bad day. I was so overwhelmed and feeling really down. I kinda lost it as we were driving home from dance and was crying. Kyla asked me why I was crying and I just said, "I'm not feeling like a very good Mom. I wish I could be a supermom." And Kyla said, "Tomorrow you will be a supermom." She made me laugh.

life and more life

Maelie with her new book from book orders and Kyla with her cowboy hat she made at preschool last week. She doesn't like cowgirls, only cowboys. :)

Life has been pretty same ol' same ol'... but that's not necessarily a bad thing. I just realized I hadn't blogged in over a week and these were the only 2 pix on my camera. We have been doing good. Maelie is doing great in school. She is still going strong with piano lessons, she's almost done with the primer level book, and will be moving on to level 1 soon. Since her dance class dissolved, we moved to a different dance class. Both girls are together now since Kyla is 5. They get a 1/2 hour of each jazz, tap, and gym. They had a lot of fun at their first time last week. Maelie has also started Spanish club at school and is having fun with that. Kyla is also doing really well in preschool. Sometimes she complains about it being long (which makes me worry about all day kindergarten) but she always comes home happy. I had an appt for her today in Scottsdale at the developmental pediatrician's office and she also met with a child psychologist. She did a cognitive evaluation with her and it turns out Kyla is a little smarty pants. This makes the dev. ped. think that she has Asperger's instead off PDD-NOS. Before she turns 6, she will do an in-depth autism evaluation and find out for sure where she is at. But for now, she is keeping her at the at risk for autism diagnosis so that she can keep all of her services. Anyway, Jaxon has also been doing well. He has been sick with a cough but seems to be getting a little better. He had an OT evaluation recently and seem to have the same sensory issues as Kyla, which is probably why he doesn't eat much. So hopefully he will get a regular OT soon. Right now he only has speech and is doing great with that. We played wallyball last weekend with my family and that was fun! We are going on a date Friday! Woohoo! We are thinking about getting a puppy, but mostly we are just thinking. :) I have to teach this week, but I only have to teach once this month, since we have stake conference at the end of the month! Sad, what makes me happy. :)