1st Christmas

I always love to look at old pictures of Andy and I at the stages that Paxton is in now and compare who he looks like. Here are pictures of each of us on our 1st Christmas!

Paxton * 2009Jalizabeth * 1981
Andy * 1977

Getting Ready for Christmas...

Early in December we decided to buy our first fake Christmas tree and get the house all set up for Christmas...of course we had quite a bit of help from this little guy!

He wanted to eat the ornaments! Tackle Santa!
And open the presents!
During the middle of December my friend Cathy got married in the SLC Temple. I always love to see the tree in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building.

Paxton also got to meet Santa for the first time this year. The first time he met Santa, at the Hamberlin Family Christmas Party, he was not super impressed and cried. I had my sister bring him to school to try again and this time he was pretty happy...could have been all the kids talking to him or maybe that this Santa had such a familiar voice (it was Andy's best friend Landon. He kept looking around like "I know this voice but where is Uncle Landon?")

Our Crazy Week

We have had a crazy week at our house!! 2 weeks ago our washer broke (totally my fault) but I am a freak when it comes to doing laundry and not being able to do it on my scheduled day was a little hard on me.

Then we get this...

We were a little unprepared for the first big snow storm of the year. We should have known it was going to hit us hard because we live so close to the canyon but we didn't. On Tuesday morning (after about 12 inches of snow) I could not get my car out of the driveway so Andy got to stay home from work with Paxton so that could go to work. Then on Friday I was so excited because our washer was getting fixed that morning but then we woke up to no water and frozen pipes. $200, 20 minutes, and a hole in the wall later we finally had water!
Luckily the week ended with the always entertaining Meyer Family Christmas Party! Here are some pictures from the big event!

The Prize Table...really a bunch of junk but the little kids LOVE it!

5 Months Old

Paxton turned 5 months old on Saturday...it is crazy how fast time flies by. He is currently weight in at 16 pounds (34%) and is 26 inches long (48%). He is growing up so fast!! Here are some pictures of us from the family Christmas party over the weekend and Pax and dad getting ready for church this morning!

During this past month Paxton has discovered some new things!

• His voice...I think that all the moaning and groaning from when he was sick has taught him to love the sounds of his own voice. Unfortunately now it just comes out in a high pitched whine/screech.
• His toes...he loves to play with his toes but can't quite get them up to his mouth yet.
• Sitting up...he is trying to learn to sit up. He has good balance but can't get up straight.
  
  We are so excited to be able to spend Christmas with our little guy...I'm sure he won't get that spoiled...

Rice Cereal

Against doctors orders (he told us to wait until 6 months) we decided to let Paxton have his first taste of rice cereal or formula by spoon as I like to call it. Needless to say he wasn't too impressed with the first taste (as you can see below) but he likes it more and more each time we let have some!!


Enjoy the video footage of the very first bite!! Paxton loves to watch this video of himself and licks and smacks his lips everytime we watch it!

"Happy" Thanksgiving

Well since my family was in Texas and it was Andy's family's off year we got to spend Thanksgiving together as a family of 3 this year. Since my laziness won over and I was not about to cook a whole Thanksgiving dinner for 2 people we decided to go to Golden Corral instead. Good plan...NOPE!! Not only did we not even dare take Paxton out of his car seat...
We had to wait in line to get a table with about 500 of Utah's finest and then by the time we got to eat what do you know...no turkey, no stuffing, no sweet potatoes, and no pie. We spent $30 to eat tacos, macaroni and cheese and some ice cream.
Although it wasn't the best Thanksgiving dinner ever at least we got to spend it together as a new family of 3 and for that we are forever grateful!!

SIDENOTE: Paxton is still sick...his nose is still stuffy at night and in the morning and now he has a deep cough. Our doctor is out until Monday...any suggestions?

The Enemy

We have a new enemy in our house...Poor Paxton is one sick little boy...I know he doesn't really look like it in this picture but believe me he is sick!! Stupid stuffy nose...I swear if we have to suck that thing out one more time we are going to go crazy!
I think that he doesn't mind it too much (besides the nose sucker) he does get extra baths, extra naps, extra attention, and gets to sleep in mom and dad's room again!
POOR BOY!!