The big 2-7

My birthday was earlier this month, and it was fabulous! Thanks to everyone who made it a great day.

The week before, I went to the glamorous city of Wendover for the Boyz II Men concert with one of my best friends, Jessie. Now, before you think we are crazy, I have to tell you why this was so awesome. Two weeks before my 13th birthday, all I wanted was tickets to Boyz II Men. Two of my friends and I (you know who you are) had our parents all talked into it, and someone's older sister or aunt or something was going to take us. Then at the last second our parents decided we just weren't ready for a concert like that. I WAS DEVASTATED! Flash forward 14 years, and a couple of months before my birthday, what do I hear on the radio? An advertisement for Boys II Men performing one week before my birthday in Wendover! So don't make fun of me, I waited a loooong time for that concert, and it was awesome.

Click here if you want to see my shaky video of them in all their mo-town glory:

On my birthday, Mark took me shopping (willingly!) and to lunch and the cheesecake factory, and even to get a pedicure. So fun, and so relaxing without kids. I felt spoiled. Then we took the boys to the park to feed the ducks and fly a kite, and we ended the night watching a movie with Jaxson in our PJ's. I love birthdays!!!

CATCHING UP

We haven't been that busy the last couple of weeks, just lazy I think. Too lazy to blog anyway. I thought I didn't have anything to post, but it turned into a marathon long one. If you don't have time to look at it all, I would recommend skipping straight to the video of Jaxson vacuuming his face. Here is what we have been up to...

Wyatt has FINALLY been eating better.

We are giving him anything we can to fatten him up....

Jaxson told us last week that his piggy bank was "All fulled up", so he got to cash it in and buy a toy he has coveted for the last few weeks everytime we go to Walmart.

20 bucks for a Transformer that doesn't even transform into anything - crappy! But he loves it.

For fun, we have been amusing ourselves at home by riding around in laundry baskets, jumping on the bed with cousins (you know, the usual stuff)

Not to mention doing this...

And that...

I have also been busy working out in the garage turning this

into that...

The end!

Say hello to my little friend...

Wyatt just went in for a checkup, and he is off-the-charts small. Like, line up 100 babies, and he isn't even a part of the line. Not a big shocker, because we see him next to babies his age all the time, and he is obviously small for his age. I didn't realize how tiny he is though - he hasn't gained any weight in the last 5 months. He's 14 months old and barely 18 lbs. Jaxson has always been on the small side, and Mark and I are obviously not joining any basketball teams anytime soon, but even for us he is too small. They told us to start giving him pediasure, and they'll check him again in a month to see if he is doing better.


Here is the deal -he eats, and he isn't very picky. He just won't eat very much at a time. He is still drinking bottles of whole milk, but that apparently is just not doing the trick. So here is my question to all of you mom's out there - what high calorie foods do your kid's love? Any ideas you have will be appreciated!

VIRUS

We have had non-stop fun in the form of fevers, runny noses, and coughs at our house. I swear, with little kids, the SECOND they get better from one thing, they pick another thing up. And give it to eachother. And then to me. Luckily, Mark is a freak of nature and hardly ever gets sick. He will get the same cold I have had for two weeks and it only affects him for a day.

The computer has been sick, too. Somehow it got (another) virus, this time from an email attachment I think. It was one that was designed to scare you into buying some bogus anti-virus software, which I was totally trying to buy (because it really, really looked like windows was telling me to buy it! I fell for it). Luckily for me, my computer (as a safety thing?) wouldn't let me on the internet, so I couldn't purchase the bogus software. Take that, stupid virus!! These make me so mad because seriously, who is sitting around creating these crappy viruses just to ruin other people's lives for the heck of it?! WHO?! I wish I knew.

Anyway, sick and computer-less, this is what we've been doing in our spare time:

Enjoying a movie (Star Wars this week) in his "hut".

Devastated because after tearing the hut down 4 or

5 times he finally got locked out of the room...

Wishing you all good health from our house to yours!

3-year-old Logic

Today, around 1:30...

Me: Jaxson, it's nap time - go in the bathroom and go potty.

**Jaxson leaves the room and comes back in**

Me: Are you ready for your nap?

Jaxson: But mommy, I don't need a nap today. I was lookin' in the mirror and my eyes aren't tired!

How do you argue with that?!

California road trip by the NuMbeRs

4 Number of times we had do emergency-pull overs on the freeway so Jaxson could go potty on the side of the road. This was in addition to stopping at a bunch of gas stations along the way. That kid's bladder is the size of a peanut.

3 hours of inconsolable sobbing were heard in our car after we realized we had left Jaxson's beloved blankie and teddy bears at My Grandma's house in Mesquite (5 hours away from where we were at that point).

70 degrees and sunny, all weekend long. Sigh.

6 dollars were spent on Jaxson's chicken nuggets at Disneyland. He fell asleep at the restaurant and never even ate them.

10 people staying in a two room condo in Dana Point -it was so much fun having everyone together and Jaxson is now so bored at home with just me and Wyatt to entertain him all day.

2 naps were taken by Wyatt at Disneyland - miracle of all miracles! This baby never sleeps if there is something interesting going on around him. We were so stressed out about taking him and being those parents you see at places like that with a screaming, miserable baby and he turned out to be an absolute angel!

3 times we rode Buzz Lightyear's astro blaster ride, and 3 times Jaxson was in complete awe. He is at such a fun age to go there because everything is totally real to him.

0 tantrums were thrown the whole trip. Okay, that isn't completely true. The KIDS threw zero tantrums. I threw a minor one the night we got there over milk.

12 hours there ... 12 hours back

Jaxson and his two heroes

The Buzz Lightyear ride. Taking out the evil emporer Zurg is serious business, as you can see.

I love the look on his face in this one!

The reason we took this quick trip was to see Mark's Grandma & Grandpa Bell who are both ill. It was great to see them and spend a little bit of time with them, and introduce them to our boys in person (so far they have just seen pictures).

We stayed in a condo in Dana Point with Cami, Brett and their 3 kids, and Rob. It was so fun to get to spend a day at Disneyland with cousins - who were almost more fun to watch than our own kids!

McKay (he's 5) while eating lunch at Disneyland: "This is the best day of my whole life. Even better than Christmas!"

We also just hung out and spent Saturday at the beach playing in the sand and wiggling our toes in the water. Some of the braver (crazier) people with us went boogie boarding...in the ocean...in the middle of January.

Wait for it....

and then run for your life!!!

Cousins at the beach

Two very crazy, very cold guys (Cami got in, too)

Wyatt soaking up the sun

The joyous reunion.

It felt so nice to get away from everything, even just for a few days. We had so much fun with our boys and it really reminded Mark and I both of how blessed we are. Sorry for the marathon post, but I wanted to make sure we'll remember it all!

Merrrrrry Christmas (late is better than never!)

Jax and the big man

Wyatt just found out he's on the naughty list...

The ninja turtle obsession continues.

The two reasons this was one of the funnest Christmas' ever!