Zoo with my parents

My parents came to visit for 2 days and we went to the zoo, to the splash park, out to eat, on walks. Here are some pictures from the zoo.

Paxton saw the giraffes licking wood poles so he decided to try it out on the fence. Also, Pax and my mom could have watched the monkeys for forever. They loved watching them.

Caleb standing

Caleb has been crawling for 2 months now and has been pulling himself up on things for almost a month now. Here he is using me to stand up after playing in water with Paxton. (None of Paxton since he was in his birthday suit).

I have lots to catch up on

We have had lots of fun this summer. We went out to Colorado for a family reunion up in the mountains. It was fun to spend time with cousins, sisters, mom & dad, grandparents, etc. I love being around family. Todd even let it spill that he would be open to the idea of moving to Colorado (which probably wouldn't happen for years but it still makes me excited)! Todd has a history of altitude sickness while in CO, but the past 2 times has been fine!

We did lots of fun things like playgrounds, boating, horseback riding, riding the alpine slide, rodeo, swimming, bike riding, shopping, talking, eating awesome food and just hanging out! It makes me wish that everyday could be like that.

I took like 500 pictures while we were there and haven't really gone through any of them so I'm just going to throw a couple of them up for now. It really is too much work for me to go through them right now. So there's like 5. I'll do more later.

Guess who's...

(pretty much) potty trained!

Funny dance moves

27 seconds is his new move. No idea where he learned it from but it is pretty hilarious. It makes me laugh everytime I see it.

Fun

Paxton is playing with Caleb more and Caleb always smiles at him and thinks he is pretty dang cool.

Pax photoshoot

I found a cool place to take pictures today. These were some I took of Pax. He doesn't like to smile for the camera, and is super cheesy when he does.

Pax turns 2

I can't believe Paxton is two years old. Time really does fly and before we know it he will be driving.

Oh wait he already is driving. He calls this his bus. (BTW I got this for free off of craigslist. Besides the peeling stickers it's in excellent condition and even came with a cell phone.)

He had a fun birthday day. He woke up and got chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast. Then we went to Funtastic (indoor play place) and made a stop for french fries on the way home. He topped it off with some presents and cards and ice cream treats last night. We had a party while my parents were here 2 weekends ago. I still need to blog about that.

Paxton is so fun. He is talking more and can tell me what is going on most of the time. He loves playing outside, loves cars, motorcycles, buses, boats, all transportation. He is so nice to Caleb when he pays attention to him which isn't often. But when he does he goes right up to his face and says "Hi babyyyyy" and gives him a kiss while saying muah!

He tries to count and we know he can count to 3. He knows his colors sometimes. It's hard to tell if he knows them or if he's a really good guesser. For awhile everything was yellow, but he surprises me by pointing to things and saying blue or red and being correct. He likes to dance and loves music and instruments. He also likes to sing (I need to post a video). He has a very bad temper when his toys fall over or don't do what he wants them to do. He then screams and yells and throws them across the room, slams doors, hits walls, etc. And no he has not learned this from anyone in our family haha, but Todd used to do the same thing when he was a little boy too. I'm hoping he quickly outgrows this. He loves to be chased and really is just happy the majority of the time.

I love him so much and I'm so glad he's in our family. He is the best little two year old I could ask for. I look forward to all of the years we still have together.

Playing together

I asked Paxton if he would show Caleb a toy so he got lots of little toys and laid down to play with him. This doesn't happen that often so I love how I got this picture of them together.

Caleb thinks I'm awesome

Playing with water

Pax "helped" me clean his stroller with water and got himself soaked so I just let him continue playing with water. These first two are too funny not to include. He was upset because he wanted me to sit by him.

Smiles

This guy has been giving real big smiles for the past couple of days. It's so fun to watch. He also has been cooing for a couple of weeks now. I need to get it on video.

Pics of Pax

Every time I take a picture of Pax I can't believe how big he is getting. He turns 2 in less than a month!

I think it's so funny when he puts his hands in his pockets. He does it because Todd does.

Sweet dance moves Pax

Pax busted out these dance moves while watching American Idol last week. I love his arm punch and getting on his knees,

Advice

Anyone know how to get an almost 2 year old to stop screaming? He does a high pitch scream because he knows we don't like it and he thinks it's funny. It's getting really annoying. We have tried time outs, spanking (doesn't phase him), I will squeeze his leg (he cracked up because I guess he is ticklish), ignore him, pinch his foot (thinks it's ticklish)...he just laughs at anything we do and does it more. So if anyone has ideas I would appreciate them!