Roman and Church!

Roman absolutely loves and adores church. Really it's the nursery, but he is so cute about church. In the middle of the week he is always asking me if it is time to go to church yet. When I tell him no he gets upset and goes to his room where he chews on his blanket. He's goofy. So last week they asked me to help out in nursery. It was crazy.....lots of kids. Well at one point in the lesson we asked all the boys if they were going to be missionaries, and Roman stood up, put his hands on his hips and said "I'm gonna be a missionary". It was probably the cutest thing I've ever heard come out of his mouth, except for one evening when I was making dinner last week. I dished up his plate, put him in his chair, and then started to dish everyone else up. I looked over at him, and he had his arms folded with his eyes closed and said "Jesus, Food, Amen." I about died. It was the cutest thing ever. He knew that we were supposed to bless the food before dinner so he decided to do that. I love this age when they start learning how to pray, because they pray for everything.

Some other fabulous news......for those of you who don't know....my son Jaxon was born with urinary reflux to his right kidney at a grade 4. Grade 4 is the worst it gets. The reflux is where the urine goes back up into the kidney and doesn't all drain out. You can get really bad infections this way. He was put onto antibiotics for the first 6 months of his life...not including all the ones he had to take with his ear infections. Well then we found out that only 50% of doctors believe that they need to be on the antibiotics and the other 50% think that it is unnecessary. So we took him off. Needless to say he never got one infection, even though the doctors said that would be something we would struggle with since he had Grade 4. We went to the doctor on Friday the 25th of July for his check-up and he had completely grown out of it and it is gone, which means he won't have to have surgery. That was the best news I have recieved in quite a while with him and illness. Kids who have grade 4 don't normally grow out of it that fast, and we are extremely gratelful for the blessings that we have received and that now it is gone.

Jaxon's First Birthday Party!

+So Jaxon's birthday was quite a day. He was cranky all day! He took a nap right before his party and it made it worse. He would not let me out of his sight without crying, so that got a little annoying since I couldn't get much done. But he had fun once everyone left. I don't think that he liked all the commotion of everyone being there. It turned out to be a lot of fun, and he got a lot of fun new stuff. The new toys have kept him and his brother busy. Roman had a very hard time with Jaxon getting all the presents so he had to open a lot of them. Jaxon wasn't very interested in opening the presents so Roman opened most of them anyway. Jaxon of course being the cranky boy that he is hated his birthday cake and threw it all over the floor. He couldn't stand for it to be on his hands and it really made him mad. It was so funny. Watch the video and you will see what I mean.

My boys are all grown up!

It seems just yesterday that Jon and I were having Roman's first birthday party....and now we are getting ready to have his third and Jaxon's first. Time goes by so fast. Any of you who have children know this. You should cherish every moment of it, because it flies by. As soon as we know it they will be all grown up, moving out and on their way to college. I can't imagine it, but I know it is going to be that way. I remember it just like yesterday that I was a little girl with no worries and just playing with my friends. Now I worry all the time about my kids and that they are safe. I always told my mom that I wasn't going to be like her and worry all the time, but I think i'm actually 10 times worse, because now I worry about her. If she doesn't answer her phone after a certain amount of time, I think she is dead somewhere in a ditch. She used to always do that with me. It's funny how things change when you become a mom. You always think that your mom was crazy and way to protective, but then you realize they just don't want anything bad to happen to you. I'm such a worry-wart! Oh-well. I guess it's for the good in the long run to keep my kids safe.

In those pics above Roman is mowing the lawn, and of course Jaxon is just crawling or walking everywhere, and getting into everything. I can't keep him out of anything. He doesn't respond to the word no like Roman did. I would tell Roman no when he was this age and he would listen after about 3 times. Jaxon just doesn't listen. I think that he got the listening disorder from his dad. He just hears what might be useful to him or what he wants to hear. Maybe it's called hearingitis! If not i'm going to invent the disease called that.

Birthdays!

It has been forever since I've blogged. I've been so busy that I forgot about it. Update: In the last week Jaxon has started walking so much that I can't believe it. He will be 1 on Tuesday! I went and got all of his birthday presents the other day with Jon and I am so excited for him to open it. You know how you get so excited when your little for your birthday's, well it's way different when you have kids. It so much fun. I absolutely love birthdays, especially on their first birthday when they get to dig into their birthday cake.

As you can see in the picture above, Jaxon and his dad look nothing alike(if you can catch my sarcasm.) The only Jaxon has of me are the shape of his eyes. He is pretty much the exact clone of his dad. Everyone always says that it looks like someone just took Jon and shrunk him. I agree completely. Especially with Jaxon's attitude. He gets a little cranky now and then just like his daddy. Just today when he couldn't get the wall to move out of his way so he could play with his truck he started screaming at it. He did not get his patience from his mom.

Roman will be 3 next month and everyone thinks he's five. Our hometeacher came over tonight and thought he was close to five and I laughed. I said no he is going to be 3 next month. For those of you have been around Roman in person, you would no how extremely huge he is. He is probably going to be taller than me by the time he is 10!

So when we were at Grammy's(my mom) today Roman decided to make a tower at of his blocks, we called it the leaning tower of Roman! I'm so happy that he has gotten to the point where he is really starting to learn how to do everything. He is so cute about everything. He loves all of his toys. Even when I buy him a new 99 cent hot wheels, he looks at me and says, "mama, I love it"! I love him!