Dax

Back on October 12th Dax decided to rollover two times in a row. Has he rolled over since? No! Could it be because he is gaining weight so fast that rolling over just is TOO DANG HARD? Possibly! At his 4 month check up, September 30th, he weighed in at 18lbs 3oz. About two weeks later he got his first ear infection on October 16th and when I took him in to the doctor he weighed 19lbs 3oz. Ten days after that, at his checkup to see if the ear infection cleared up, he weighed in at 20lbs 3.5oz. Each time all his clothes and diaper were off. As Shawn pointed out, if he keeps up this pace he is going to weigh at least 52lbs by the time he is a year. Regardless of that nonsense, my little chunky monkey is doing well and I love every little chunky part of him. He is so cuddly and loves his momma. He is quite the talker. He talks my ear off when nobody is around. He is so much fun.

He is just about to rollover here.
Take a close look. Can you see the little drip of slobber? My little Dax is the slobberiest little guy I have ever seen.

On October 23rd Dax sat up all by himself for quite awhile. And when I mean sat up by himself, I mean he didn't just rest on his big belly. He actually played and caught himself from falling. He still falls most of the time, but he is well on his way to independence.

He is very proud of himself.

And just because he is a little cutie, I had to include this last picture. I love this bumbo seat. He sits on the counter with me while I clean the kitchen or cook dinner. He also likes to look at himself in the mirror when I get ready in the morning.

The Rock Ranch

It just might become a tradition. Last year we went to The Rock Ranch and liked it so much that we decided to go back again this year.

The Rock Ranch is a pumpkin patch with lots and lots of fun stuff to do. This year we went when there was a little craft show and the kids each got a marshmellow gun.


We went with our good friends the Hunters. Here they are with Shawn, Dax and Jayde on the back of this pedal car, bike thing.

Fox is now big enough to ride his own.

Of course we had to get the cow ride in.

Here is a glimpse of how big Dax is getting. Just check out those legs.

One of the highlights is the corn box. The kids could spend hours in there if we let them. Who would have guessed that it is one of the favorite things to do at the ranch.

Here they are gearing up for the train ride that never happened. Just as we were waiting to go on our ride they found that the train wasn't working anymore.

Is it just me, or do I have some pretty tough kids?!! I know I am probably just a proud mom, especially to my cowboy friends, but check out Fox and Jayde. They both got on a mechanical bull and had fun. They got bucked off and everything. Fox even went for a second round.

They got to pick their own pumpkins.

It was so fun, we stayed until it was dark.

I need to catch up

I have been lagging behind on my posts lately. I don't know why, but I don't seem to find enough time to get on my computer. So I am going to try to get in a few make up posts. We went to a Braves game the first part of this month wondering why we even tried.

It started out great. Fox and Jayde were sitting in their seats snacking, Dax was happy, mom and dad were happy, and then the first inning got over. Dax was done in the second inning, Fox and Jayde were done in the third inning, and because of all this, Dad was done in the fourth inning. By the time the fifth inning came along I was kind of laughing to myself as I looked at Shawn and how miserable he seemed and said to him, do you want to go? We were out of there so fast it wasn't even funny. So that is it for the Braves this year.

Squirrel Entertainment

Saturday night started out with a few of us girls getting together for dinner. It is always nice to get out of the house and visit with my girlfriends. After dinner we went to the women's broadcast for conference at the church. Not many women were there, but we had quite the disruption, or what I would like to call entertainment. A squirrel got into the chapel and climbed up the curtain. Bro. Phillips tried to catch it with a long pole with a net on the end, but to no avail, the squirrel got away. Some thought it ran out of the chapel, but I believe it got uplifted and edified as it probably sat in it's own pew listening to all the talks given by our wonderful church leaders. I don't have the best video, but here is a glimps of the event.

It's All About The Dodgers!!!

Last Tuesday, September 15, I picked Fox up from school and rushed him to the airport so that he could take off on a special trip with his dad to see the Dodgers in LA. He was so excited he could hardly get to sleep at the hotel. Remember it is a 3 hour time difference, so about 11:30pm GA time he finally went to sleep.

The next day they were off to see the big game.

Saw this cool Dodger firetruck and had to have a picture...

Or two.

Must have gotten there so early they were the only ones there?!

Got spoiled rotten...

And loved every minute of it.

And just had a great time with his dad.

Even though it was a little hot.

Then they rushed back to the airport from the game and got home at 1:30am. Just in time to sleep for a few hours and then go to school that morning.

Jayde's haircut

This morning I decided to give Jayde her 2nd haircut. As much as I love her hair growing long, I decided a haircut would do her hair some good. Here she is just before.

Then I cut 4 1/2 inches off.

Because we were focused on her hair, we decided to fix it up and curl it.

Here is a side view.And just because she is so cute, I had to put these last 2 pictures on here.

Jayde

I know, I am on a blogging role today, but Jayde cracks me up lately. She came down stairs from playing in her room looking like this and very seriously told me she was ready to go to work. When I asked her if I could get a picture of her she got on the couch to pose for me.

Yesterday she was playing with all these stuffed animals. I wasn't paying attention to her until I finally realized she was taking all of them to the potty, one at a time and over and over again, and wiping their behinds with toilet paper and flushing the toilet after each one.

It is a good thing we are not on restricted water usage anymore, and I was able to salvage a little bit of toilet paper that was left in the bathroom.