Pumpkin patch!

Last weekend we took Jaxson to the pumpkin patch!  He was so excited.   A lot of the things at the pumpkin patch are a little too big for him, but he had a great time anyway.  This was our first year traveling up to Walter's and we will learn next year to 1) get their earlier 2) bring a wagon for Jaxson AND the pumpkins! 3) do not let Jaxson wear any white!

Coming out of the slide with Grandpa!

Following Daddy through the maze!

I'll have to get some pictures from my Mom with Jaxson and I jumping on the air pillow, it was so fun!

Launching pumpkins with Daddy.

In the corn maze with Daddy

Jaxson is on the back of the car, but it was funny to watch Daddy pedal with his knees up to his chest!

Slide off a hay bale!

Jaxson's pumpkin which we carved into a "Jacknlaternd" yesterday!

Jaxson wouldn't even stick his hand in the pumpkins.  He said, "dirty momm, washa hands!"

Jaxson turns 2!!

Last weekend my little boy turned into a toddler!  He is officially 2 years old!  In some ways he has always seemed a little older to me with his advanced vocabulary and direction following skills along with him being 98% potty trained, but the official birthday is such a big milestone and such a final ending to the baby stage!  It made me a little sad and gave me a bit of *BABY FEVER!*  Not sure how ready we are to tackle that new stage yet, but there is a small little itch!
I'll let you enjoy the pictures.  We had a Mickey Mouse birthday party since Jaxson LOVES Mickey!  We asked for no presents this year since we figured he'd be more excited about all the decorations this year anyway and we collected funds to buy him what we like to call the "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse"  We got him a big wooden swing set for the backyard that will hopefully last him (and his potential brothers and/or sisters) a very long time!

52" Mickey Mouse Balloon

The Mickey Mouse cake!  I think it turned out pretty good!

Jaxson seeing his Mickey balloons!

This face is what he makes when you ask him to smile!

Mickey hat and his new lawn chair!  He LOVES that chair!

Trying to find out how the musical card works!

Uncle Dustin and Jax

Here is a small photo of the "Clubhouse"  Thanks for all who made it possible.  We can't wait to get the yard ready and get it put up sometime next spring for him to play on!  It even has a cute little picnic table that he can sit at!  We will enjoy it for years to come!

Jaxson gets his pictures taken tomorrow in his Fall mini-session by this lovely lady.  She took our family pics earlier this year and I can't wait to see the new ones!   I'll get them posted as soon as I get them and if you watch her blog you could see a preview, but if you don't see Jax you will see more of her other amazing work!

A BIG BOY NOW!

We have such a big boy in our house now!  He will be 2 in two weeks!
We started potty training Labor Day Weekend.  We used a 3 day potty training method which basically said..."Throw away the diapers for good!"  We have no more diapers in our house at all!  Our little guy has been such a trooper!  He stays dry now most of the day on his own and even #2's in the potty most of the time.  We have not mastered the art of staying dry at night yet, but hey...He isn't even 2 yet!  I am so proud of my big boy and there isn't anything cuter than seeing him running around in all his little underwear!

Car underwear.."Lock up your daughters" T-shirt, Rain boots, and a feather duster!  SO ADORABLE!

In these pictures he has on Wall-E underwear, his rain boots and one of those eye masks for sleeping on...doesn't it look like a little coconut bra or something....What a silly boy!

Car underwear with a broom....seeing a trend here...the kid LOVES to help clean.  Grandma even got him his very own, Jaxson sized broom.

In these...he tried to put on his pull-up by himself...OH MY!  But those baby buns are so cute!

This last weekend we converted Jaxson's crib to a toddler bed...He is growing up too fast!  He slept really well in it over the weekend.  This morning he came up to the top of the stairs looking for us about 10 til 7.  So cute to be awaken by baby  big boy kisses.

Stay tuned in a couple of weeks for our "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse" Birthday Party!!

We are joining funds together to get him an outdoor play yard for his gift!  Can't wait to pick it out.

What Jaxson is up to...

I read so many blogs and most of them give the cutest updates on what their kids are doing lately.  I have been dying to do one for Jaxson, but haven't sat down to do it.  He is such a bright and loving kid *I am a little biased*, but of course I want to show him off to all of you.

Here are some of my favorite things that you do now (at 22 months)

1.  You LOVE Mickey Mouse!  You have grown especially fond of him lately!  That is even going to be the theme of your 2nd birthday party!  You love to watch him on TV and you sing all the songs and dance around the living room.  You even have your very own stuffed Mickey Mouse that accompanies you just about everywhere, but especially to bed!
2.  You say Please and Thank-you better than most adults I know and most of the time you say Your Welcome before anyone else can.  Even when you bring me something you say..."Tank-you Mommy"
3.  You love to help Mommy!  You put everyone's shoes on the landing of the stairs and ANY piece of trash you find you give straight to Mommy or take it to the trash!  You also LOVE to put clothes down the laundry shoot for me.  Laundy, you'll say as you rush off to throw it in and then you sit and look in and name every piece of clothing you can see..."mommy shirt", "daddy sock", etc.
4.  You are learning to use your potty pretty well!  Right now we just take you when you need changed or something and you sit and go pee-pee.  We let you "fush it" and then you get a candy and a "pee-pee sticker" for your efforts.  You don't tell us when you have to go yet, but you will tell us if you don't.  Last weekend at Grammy's house you told me you were "pooping", but it was too late!  You are really trying though!
5.  You have such a big vocabulary of both spoken words and signed words!  Your sign language impresses me so much and your ability to remember names of people is amazing too!  Sometimes things come out of your mouth that I have no idea how you ever learned it!  You are starting to put together 3-4 word sentences.  You also know most of your animals and their sounds and love to count to 3, especially when you can say 1-2-3 JUMP and spin in a circle!
6.  Your sense of humor is growing everyday!  One day Daddy said, "Jaxson stinks" when you were dirty and your turned it around on him and said, "Daddy stinks!"  How funny that you would come up with your own come back!  Now we have plenty of games of Daddy stinks, Mommy crazy and Jaxson silly!
7.  You are such a loving little boy!  You give the best hugs and kisses and you aren't afraid to give them to just about anybody!  You also say, "Love you, Mommy" or anybody else that you might be saying bye to at the time.  I love cuddling with you on the couch before Daddy takes you to bed at night.
8.  We are just starting to see a little bit of strange behavior from you.  You have always been such a well-behaved and polite child, but you are learning to start to test your boundaries a little.  We don't seem to have too much of a problem yet and we have been able to let you know that we don't like that behavior.  I hope that we can keep it in check as we start to approach 2 years.
9.  You are pretty much obsessed with Daddy mowing the lawn or "mow mow" as you call it.  You could stand at the door and watch him the whole time he is out there just repeating..."Daddy mow mow, Daddy mow mow!"  You talk about "Daddy's mow mow shoes - porch" even when we are away from home.  You must admire the lawn as much as you talk about it every time we walk outside or you hear a lawn mower!
10.  Anytime someone gets out of their chair you run as fast as you can and scream "My Chair!"  It is fun to try to race you across the room and (let you win) try to beat you to the chair!  You climb up there and laugh and get under Mommy's blanket and settle in just like home.
11.  You have such diversified interests!  You love music and you sing and dance to it all the time, but you love Base-a-ball and Shootball (football)  Last night while watching football you would try to do what the players were doing, like "RUN"  "GO"  "Tackle" (which sometimes turned in to tickle) "ah-boom" (fall down) "MISS" while you ran all over the living room throwing any kind of ball you could find and rolling all over the floor!  SO FUNNY
12.  You LOVE shoes!  You love to have your shoes on and if you don't you will put on Mommy's shoes.  You like flip-flops and will steal them from the girls at daycare so you can wear them.  You wear your rain boots around the house or mismatched shoes...you take mommy's shoes off her feet just to wear them or "shoes up" put them away for me.
13.  You are starting to really narrate what you see...everything from "Mommy shoes on"  "Daddy shirt on"  "Mommy shower"  "Laundy"  "Mommy cooking"  "Daddy dishes"  All the time!  You seem to know what is happening even when no one tells you they are going to take a shower for example even before they get in there!


Our little Jaxson is just growing up so fast!  I love watching him learn so much everyday!

Jaxson Kale Wheeler
10/10/2008

One of my very favorites

Jaxson - 1 year

Getting SO big!

Such a little grown up!

Swimming, swimming, swimming and the FAIR!

Jaxson has been doing so much swimming lately!  We swam in the baby pool in our front yard...

We swam in the public pool for toddler swim lessons!

He even learned to jump off the side!  As you can see here, many times, it was before Mommy expected him to jump!

And then we swam in Grandma's new pool!  He learned so much in this year between this pool and his swim lessons!  He will put the back of his head in the water now or try to float on his back which he was always scared to do before!  But, having my Mom's pool just made him want to get down in the water at the public pool even when he couldn't always reach the bottom!

"Floating" with Grandpa"

Jaxson also had his first year at the fair that he could ride the rides!  My parents took him down last year because Ryan and I were in Vegas.  He was only big enough for a few rides, but he LOVED them!

We even let him ride the roller coaster.  He had a blast and his smile got bigger everytime they went around, but it scared the crap out of me!  He only rode it once...I think we'll save that one for next year.

Jaxson loved all the animals at the fair too!

We are headed out to Fort Scott to Grammy's house tonight and then Ryan and I are leaving Jaxson there for the weekend to see some friends of ours in Arkansas!  I am so looking forward to a weekend away!