8 Months

I love this cute little man so much. Everyday is so much fun with him. Jax is 8 months old now and doing so much. One of his favorite toys is still Patyon food container, other favorites include any box that he can get his hands on and the patio door.

Yesterday we spent at least a good 20 minutes hanging out at the door watching the snow fall and the cold wind blow. Jax just had a blast giving the door lots and lots of kisses.

Brent and I decided since Jaxon's hair has filled in pretty nicely that we meaning I would let it grow out for a while to see what it will look like. I have been giving him a haircut every month for the last 6 months, and every time I took at least a good half inch of hair off. Let me just say that I didn't think it would be this hard for me, but everyday I see all the little hairs that I have to brush behind his ears and it drives me crazy, also it is getting a little too long on top to try and style it. At least I thought so, but Jax and Daddy think that it is fun to do it for church.

Jaxon is really doing great, this last month he has started to clap his hands, which is so adorable. He will clap and then look at you with the biggest smile just waiting for your approval. He also loves to give mom big slobbery kisses on the cheeks. He loves to get into trouble too, he will sneak off down the hallway to try and pull books off the bookshelf, or try and sneak into the bathroom or office if I forget to close the doors. As I mentioned before he really likes boxes especially big ones that he can push and walk with all over the house. This last week I also decided to start trying to get him to sleep through the night. I was getting up with him about once a night still but I decided to let him calm himself back to sleep. So far it has worked pretty well, two of the five nights he has slept straight through the night without waking up. The other three nights he has waken up once each night and will cry for 5-30 minutes and then is asleep for the rest of the night. It is going a lot better than I thought it was going to, and I am handling it much better than I expected. I hate hearing Jax cry, I always feel so bad so the first night when he cried for 30 min. it was a little difficult for me but it is getting better. Brent continues to work really hard in school and Jaxon and I are just having fun hanging out at home together.

Trying Something New

This is how we've had our TV set up ever since we got married and it has worked well until the last couple of months. As you can see the DVDs were right in Jaxon's reach, which didn't bother me, but his constant need to pull himself up and play with the DVD player and TV, and trying to crawl behind it to play with all of the cords is what drove me crazy. I was getting his fingers out of the VCR part of the DVD player and taking him away from all of the cords in back at least a few dozen times a day. So I have been looking for a new TV stand that was wider so it would reach the wall that way he couldn't get behind it, and something taller so he wasn't trying to hit the TV anymore, and something a bit more sturdy. This cart was a little wobbly, I was getting nervous that the TV was going to fall over. I also needed the new stand to be pretty cheap. Well after lots of searching I wasn't able to find anything so instead I decided to take a dresser that we already had that we weren't really using right now and refinish it and use it for the TV. I was a little nervous to stain the dresser because I've never stained anything before, but I think it turned out ok.

Jax loves to watch football!!

I forgot to get a picture of the dresser before, but this is a nightstand that went with it, so it looked like this...

Now it looks like this. I wasn't sure if I would like it or not but I think I do, plus now it matches with the rest of our furniture in our livingroom. We left the old hardware on it for now but that can be easily changed. I love that now Jaxon can't reach the TV or the DVD player and all the DVDs are put safely away in the drawers for now anyway, I'm sure it won't be long until he figures out how to open them, but I think I'm ok with that. I also redid our kitchen chairs but I'm not sure if I'm going to do another coat of stain on them or not so I haven't moved them back into the house yet. I'll post those pictures when I'm all finished.

Tough Guy

These days Jaxon is all over the place and pulling himself up on everything. He is walking along side the furniture and loves to push boxes and containers around the house as he uses them to help him walk. Well with all this comes many falls, lucky for me Jax is a pretty tough guy. For the most part he just needs a hug and a kiss from mom and he is off again, but the other day he had his first big fall. He was playing at our patio door and his hands slipped and I thought he had just bumped his head a little. Well I ran over and picked him up and gave him his hug and kiss and then the screams really started (which is not like Jax) so I was telling him he was ok, while I was giving him a hug then when I pulled him away to get a good look that's when I saw that Jaxon had blood running all down the side of his face. It took a while to get cleaned up and the bleeding to slow down enough to see just how bad it was. In the end all he needed was a band-aid, binky, his blanket and mom to hold him for a while. I have to admit that when I first saw all the blood on his face I was pretty freaked out, it really amazes me how much blood such a small cut can produce. After about a half hour or so of cuddling with mom he was back to his usual self and ready to play.