Family day

Since Hayden was injured we decided to keep it simple on our family day over spring break. We decided to check out Legoland Chicago. A very cool afternoon thing to do. A bit expensive but Tim and Hayden are Lego nuts so it was worth it!


This is the replica of Chicago they have... It's amazing with the details they have in it.


Navy Pier
The Jungle Expedition.

Jaxson checking out the tour guides.
Hayden and Tim were very happy :-D
Mommy and Hayden with Haggard from Harry Potter.
Darth Vader and my men.
ROAR.... thus why Hayden is holding he ears. :)

Jax got in on the action too.


Hello Mr. President!
Hayden playing with his Lego set once we got home.

Finally

as you can see we are up and running. The picture upload is fixed, as it's going to get. My camera is properly set now...and should of been since Oct if I would of noticed the function marked "picture sequence"
DOH!

So we should be back up to normal now and sharing pictures and stories of the kids and our happenings.

Only took 6 years . . .

for Hayden to land himself in the ER.
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Hayden and Jax were playing with a toy that was Hayden's when he was a baby...when all of s sudden he screamed and was holding his finger. Tim and I both looked at it and it was already swollen twice it's normal size and turning purple and black before our eyes. We both knew this was not good. So I took him for his very first ER visit. He was very brave and patient until we got in the room. As you can see below he was a little freaked.
After some calming down, and a red Popsicle later... he was much better. The nurses were great here. It's the top kids ER in Illinois.

3 hours, 3 x-rays, 1 Popsicle, and a dozen books read... we come to find out he broke his pinkie finger. They call it a complex buckle fracture. He's not hurting... he can bend it and move it so we're good there. He's out of karate for a week or two and thank goodness we are between soccer seasons. It threw a hiccup into spring break plans but nothing too major. He's on the mend with his cool green splint that he tells me smells like carrots. :)
I'm sure this is not the last time he will see the inside of the ER if he is anything like his Uncle John. :-D

Indoor Soccer

This 2009 indoor season has come to a close. The Orange team did very very well. I think our record was 5-1-2. That's win-tie-losses. The last game was Hayden's best for he scored 2 goals all on his own and the team won 8-0. Hayden improved so much this season. He has the right idea and some of the skills down. The Coaches were the best! Thanks Coach Laurie and Coach Lance!!They had a party where everyone got their trophies. At the rate he is going we're going to have to build him another shelf. :) We can't wait for Spring outdoor to start in just a few weeks with Tim coaching again.

I wanna play too...

Muskrat Love

Okay so Tim tells me one night last week that there was a woodchuck in the yard digging while him and Hayden were out in the yard. My Dad saw it as well when he playing with Hayden earlier.
That was weird I thought.... since Hayden is so loud I thought he would scare it away. Tim said it just kept on digging. He even got a nice picture of it.
Turns out this thing was not a woodchuck but a muskrat and it was STUCK in the fence. The digging was it trying it's hardest to claw its way out .
So the next night when I took a look at it the poor thing was not moving any longer. (Bad sign) I called my Dad over with his heavy cutters and he freed the poor thing. But it was too late. The muskrat had already gone to the swap in the sky.

And people call this town the city when we have wildlife like this in our yard.

Allstar

This is Allstar. . . the bear Jax has chosen for his own special friend. He can not sleep without it, relax without it, and if it falls (ie thrown) out of bed at night he can't fall back to sleep.
and of course I can't find another one like it since it was bought over a year ago. Now I know what my friend Sharon went through with Faith and her pink elephant.

Check out that moon!

This was taken with my new zoom lens one night when I got home from work. It was just so amazing and bright. A little blurry but that zoom lens is heavy! :D

I'm hoping to perfect my photography skills at the Nikon class I'm taking in 3 weeks. I can't wait to see what my camera can really do.

Messy Messy boy!

This is what happens when you give him Mama's meatballs and spaghetti. :)Only a face who would love? Me of course!

60° in February

It was awesome!!! We got both the boys outside and played and let Hayden ride his bike for the first time this season. Of course when we want warm weather, like over spring break it's only 40°.Hayden playing flatball with Jax... well Hayden was playing Jax was just taking the ball and running for dear life!
Hayden on his bike... we're hoping to get the training wheels off this year.
Jaxson helping Tim sweep the driveway.

an afternoon with my boy

While Jax was sleeping one day Hayden and I decided to set up every Star Wars Galactic Hero he had....minus the ships. Took us about 30 min and the pics are the result of that afternoon playing.

still delay-ing

We're having a photo upload problem that seems easily fixed if there were enough hours in the day to fix it :)
I promise we'll be back up and posting as soon as I get the cute pictures off my camera.

Excuse a delay...

if you notice a lag in posts for the next week or so it's only because we (I mean Tim) is in the process of moving over our files to our new member of the family :)

Let's hope it goes smoothly. We've already discovered a hidden "My Pictures" file that the 4 foot wonder must of copied back in 2006. So 4 entire years of photos have been in duplicate on the pc. No wonder it was running slow and had little space left. But a happy note there was a file that I thought he deleted in it. Not everything but most of it. Small favors. :-)

13 Months Old

13 months old... I don't know how much longer I will be taking the Bear photos but since I did this month I figured I might as well post it.

This month has been a good month for Jax. He's learning how to communicate better with us. He's consistently using 5 or so signs and saying about 5 words. (more, milk, please, cookie, bye-bye) and saying Mama, Dada, lamp, Nana, Den for Hayden. He's pointing at everything and wanting to know what everything is. He's also showing his frustration already. I thought tempers don't start till at least 15-18 months but Jax is ahead of the curve. He's picking up bad habits as well... hitting and biting. Our sweet little baby is showing his streak :)

One thing we can count on is Jax eating anything we put in front of him. He's tried so many new foods this month including, milk, kiwi, Lima beans, tomatoes, cantaloupe, french toast, fish, and meatloaf. There isn't a thing this kid won't eat :) We've also gotten rid of most of the bottles. He still gets a one before bed but that is more to relax him than anything. We're also in the process of weaning him off the bink. We made the mistake with Hayden and let him hang onto his... well that lasted till he was 3. Never again. As of right now the bink never leaves his bed. So far so good.

Jaxson has also sprouted 2 new teeth making it a total of 7, so far. I can see the 8th one working it's way in this month. His sleep has improved because of it. When those 2 teeth were coming in, he was up 1-3 times a night, again. But nothing as bad as his 9th month. :)

I didn't weigh him so this was just a general check in. He's learning and growing is such cute and wonderful ways.

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

The celebrated Dr. Seuss's birthday yesterday in class by making Cat in the Hat hats and reading some of his more popular books.