More pictures

Here are a few more pictures that Janelle took the other day. Did I mention that she did such a good job?!?

Pictures

Yesterday my wonderful friend Janelle took our family pictures, we went to memory grove downtown, it was such a pretty day and she did such a good job! I knew they would be good because Janelle is very creative! I can definately say this is the most fun we have ever had getting our pictures taken. I guess it helps to have your best friend take them. We were way overdue for family pictures. I have taken the kids to have there pictures taken but we haven't had a family picture taken since Ella was born...15 months ago!! Thankfully Janelle was very patient with the kids when they were less than cooperative. Jaxson thought it was pretty cool to have his "Banelle" taking our pictures, she even took some of him being silly which was the highlight of the whole event for him! I haven't seen all of them yet, but the ones that I have seen are so good, they are exactly what I wanted and the kids look so cute in them. Now we will have cute christmas cards to send to everyone all thanks to Janelle!!

Janelle, is there anything you cant do??? I didn't think so.

I will post more when I get them.

So brave

Jaxson had a little bit of an accident on thursday afternoon, im sure if he knew I was writing about this right now he would roll his eyes and say "MOM im fine!" which is what he tells me everytime I talk about his accident. Apparently he is over it mommy however is NOT over it.

Jaxson was showing me how he is learning to cut shapes out of paper, and how his teacher taught him how to cut on the line. He was using "safety scissors" which in my opinion are not very "safe" I had been sitting right there with him watching him cut out the shapes, we had just had a big long talk about being very careful with the scissors and only cutting the paper. I walked away for 30 seconds (no exaggeration) when I heard a horrible scream, I came running into the room to find Jaxson's mouth full of blood. I grabbed a towel and tried to stop some of the bleeding so that I could find the source of the bleeding. It was his tongue!! He had somehow cut the left side of his tongue with the scissors. I picked up the phone to call someone to come and sit with Ella so that I could take Jaxson to the ER. I called Nick and told him what had happened and he said that he was leaving work and would meet us at the ER. While I was waiting for my dad to come over to be with Ella, I was holding Jaxson trying to comfort him, he was so upset. He looked at me with huge tears in his eyes and said "Mama is dis real? Did I really cut my tongue?" This broke my heart! Mommy's dont ever want to see their babies in pain. He kept asking me if he was going to have to get a shot and stitches. The whole way to the ER he was crying saying he didn't want to have a shot!

When the doctor looked at it he said that it would definately need some stitches and we decided that it would be better to give Jax some medicine to relax him, and so that he wouldn't really remember much. Unfortunately this medicine had to be given in his thigh. This did not please Jaxson that he was going to have a shot, and it took several of us to hold him down so the nurse could give him the shot. Within a few minutes the medicine started to work, at this point I lost it and started crying, it was so sad to watch what the medicine did to him. His eyes started darting back and forth and he started breathing weird. But fortunately he had no idea what was going on. In order for them to pull the tongue out to stitch it, they had to put a stitch through the middle of his tongue so that they could pull on the string and pull his tongue out of his mouth. As if seeing my little boy's tongue split open wasn't bad enough, I had to watch them put a string through the middle of it and pull on it like it was a puppet on a string. HORRIBLE!! I stood right next to his head while they were stitching him so that I could rub his cheek and comfort him, even though he was on a different planet at this point, it still made me feel better knowing I was there for him. Part of me wanted to look away while they were stitching his tongue and part of me wanted to watch to make sure they were being careful with my baby.

I was relieved when the stitches were done, we had to stay there until the medicine had fully worn off so that they could monitor him. When he was starting to come out of it, he looked and Nick and I and said that we looked like robots and that he wanted his real mommy and daddy. I was just holding him telling him that mommy was right there. Once the medicine wore off he decided that we did not look like robots and we were his real parents after all. His tongue is healing really well and he is doing much better! He was so brave through the whole thing, I think he was much braver than me! However I dont think he will be using scissors anytime soon. He ended up with 7 stitches in his tongue! You cant really see it that well in this picture, but Jax thought it would be cool to take a picture of it.

Silly girl

Ella has these pink crocs that her Papa George and Grandma Bonnie gave her before she was born, and they finally fit her now. As soon as she woke up yesterday she spotted them and wanted them on with her jammies, she had them on the whole time she was eating and kept lifting up her feet so that I could see her pretty shoes. After she got done with breakfast I had to take her jammies off because she had smeared them with bananas, obviously in order to take off the jammies I had to take the shoes off, needless to say this did not please the princess! She started kicking and screaming! Little did she know that as soon as the smeared jammies were off she was going to get her shoes back, but have you ever tried reasoning with a 15 month old pissed off princess?? It doesn't work! Once I finally got her pinned down long enough to take the jammies off and replace the shoes, she stopped flipping out. Imagine that!! She grinned at me and then she was off!! Here are some pictures of Ella's adventures with her new favorite shoes.

Santa's elves

The other day we were out running some errands and Jaxson started talking about Christmas and Santa's elves. He is rather fascinated with santa and his elves this year, whenever he is having a hard time minding his daddy and I we tell him that santa's elves are watching. When we were out driving he was asking as many questions about santa as he could possible think of, one of his questions was "Mom, how come we cant see Santa's elves?" As I started to explain to him why we couldn't see them he came up with his own conclusion... "Mom, can we not see Santa's elves because dey are NAKED?!" I about drove the car off the side of the road because I was laughing so hard, and because that was NOT something I expected him to say! I explained the real reason we cant see them, and that we shouldn't talk about people being naked. Fortunately at this point we had to go into a store and the subject was dropped.

Later that day Jax was having LESS than perfect behavior, and in the middle of his temper tantrum he stopped and looked at me with this serious face and said "mom I really hope santa's elves cant see me right now." I asked him why and he said "cause im not having very good behavior right now." I told him that he should just quit acting like that and then it wouldn't matter if the elves were watching. He thought about this for a minute and then said "NO! I WANT TO KEEP ACTING LIKE DIS BECAUSE I SLEEPED ON DA WRONG SIDE OF DA BED!!"

Leaves

Yesterday we decided that it was time to rake some of the endless amount of leaves in our yard, I say some because it is NOT possible to rake the entire yard in one day with kids. As soon as we would get some of them raked into a pile, this is what Jaxson would do...

Not to mention the fact that we had only been outside for about 20 minutes when Jaxson said he wanted a "crabby patty" for lunch, for those of you who have ever seen spongebob, you know what im talking about. Jaxsons crabby patty was turkey, mayo, and pickles on a hamburger bun. Of course he had to make sure that he had enough food in him to make his muscles big so that he could help rake the leaves...or run through them as fast as he could. I think he was doing whatever he could to make sure that the leaves did not stay in nice little piles. Then miss Ella decided it was funny to keep taking her hat off of her head and throw it on the ground, and then point at it and cry like she had NO idea how it had gotten there! Her hat wasn't the only thing she was throwing on the ground as fast as she could, she also thought that her lunch belonged there too. Of course everytime her hat came off either Nick or I would have to stop raking and put the hat back on her head because it was cold, did I mention that she would also take her mittens off and throw them on the ground as well? Now do you see why it is not possible to rake all of the leaves in one day??? Good thing the kids are so cute!

Yay!!!

Today Ella and Jaxson were playing in the family room, actually Jax was trying to see how much he could bug his sister, or how loud he could make her scream. Either one. I was talking to Jaxson and telling him to leave his sister alone when I looked over at Ella and she was standing up in the middle of the room all by herself. When Jaxson and I started clapping and telling her how big she was, she got a huge grin on her face, and of course instantly fell down because she was so excited. But she got herself right back up! When I held out my hands she took several steps toward me, and kept doing the same to her brother. Jax looked at me after she had taken the first few steps and started wiping his eyes and told me that he had happy tears because he was so proud of his baby sister! Apparently he had forgotten all about bugging the crap out of her! When I got out the camera Ella really started showing off, a couple of times she would stand herself up so fast that she would lose her balance and instantly fall back down, but her big brother was right there next to her telling her that she could do it!