AN UPDATE ON JAXON

Jaxon has been showing quite an interest in the "big boy" potty lately so I took him to pick out his very own potty. He went with the Elmo line and has been very pleased with his decision! He spent an entire day, LITERALLY, on the potty and I thought he was going to train himself. The very next day though, he showed hardly any interest in it, LOL, this is very typical of Jaxon of course. Since I am not going to start training him until he turns three anyway, between now and then it's pretty much just a free-for-all for him. I am planning on converting his crib into a toddler bed sometime in the next few weeks and I am optimistic that he will conform to the new arrangement pretty easily. My little baby is turning into a little boy and proving to be quite the charmer and comedic these days!


It will not be long before the time will come to start school with Jaxon, after all two years will easily fly by. As a sort of test run, I am going to start over the next 6 months trying to establish more of a preschool routine throughout the week. This will allow me plenty of time to get used to sticking to an itinerary and figuring out what will work best for our family. I would be lying if I said I wasn't nervous about taking on such a commitment but I am thrilled to be able to dedicate such time into my children and I love that I will be able to work with each according to their individual learning styles. I wouldn't be able to do this if not for Jason working so hard in order for me to stay home with our children and I feel blessed to be given this opportunity!


AN UPDATE ON JILLIAN

Jillian is getting so big and really starting to show some personality! She has discovered her voice and loves to talk at high volumes while playing with her feet. She also loves sitting in her Bumbo seat and watching me do the dishes. She has FINALLY decided that MAYBE she will let me out of the house once in a while, so I have been taking Jaxon and her to the park almost everyday and the weather has been just perfect for it too!



We are sad to say that she is still having an intolerance to soy and cows milk. Her doctor had me add soy back into my diet for two weeks and than to retest her. Unfortunately the results show that her system is still not able to digest the proteins properly so I went off soy products again and will continue with the diet for another couple of months until we try again. The good news is that she was not fussy at all and never seemed uncomfortable. I am hopeful that by the time she turns one things will work themselves out.


Jillian will be getting her ears pierced this Friday. I think Jason is more excited about this than anyone. MamaG is just glad someone in this family is finally getting some diamond earrings...hint, hint, honey!!


AN UPDATE ON ME AND JASON

...Speaking of my husband, he deserves some props. Jason has been working so incredibly hard the last few months and it is greatly paying off. He and his team have done so many great things for their company. His market share for luxury brand is the highest in the Southern region United States and he reduced inventory cost by half , which with the economy the way it is, this is an extraordinary achievement!


Be fore-warned...my wonderful husband spoiled me with the new camera that I wanted and so I have been a picture taking fool the last couple of weeks and I have lots of pics that I want to share! I enjoy this so much that one day I would like to take some classes and make photography a hobby.


Finally, I hope that the start of your 2009 is heading in the direction that you all wish for it to be. Thank you for taking the time to read my blogs, I hope you enjoy them!!

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$5 day at the zoo

Sunday, January 11th, turned out to be quite an adventure for all involved. Jason and I decided to break free from our shell and finally venture out for an excursion to the zoo with Jaxon. Thank you for my mother, being the brave soul that she is, staying home with Jillian for over 5 hours. You see, Jaxon and Jillian are very different in two ways...she pretty much refuses to take a bottle and she is ALL ABOUT HER MAMA!! With Jaxon, I could have left for three days and return only for him to pretty much run the other way, luckily he is not like that at all any more or else I would be very sad. But Jillian doesn't like for me to be our of her site for more than a few minutes and she will let everyone know she is not happy. We lucked out in that my mom was able to get her to take a bottle but Jillian cried 4 out of the 5 hours that my mom was with her. Funny, she was all smiles once I returned home...


Things were not much sunnier on mine and Jason's side of town that day. Luck would have it that the day we decided to go to the zoo also happened to be $5 day, yup, only five dollars to get in the door and EVERYONE came to the zoo that day. It took us over an hour and a panic attack from Jason for us to get less that a half mile. Once we got finally got in the door though, things started smoothing out for us and we had a pretty good time. Jaxon rode on a roller coaster, per his request, but decided it wasn't really for him. He and I went on a camel ride and he was able to feed a giraffe. All in all it was a good afternoon with Jaxon. I know he enjoyed not taking second fiddle to Jillian for once and we enjoyed our one-on-one time with him.

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