Catching up and time for reflecting

Its been almost a month and I have alot to catch up on.  Jaxon has been growing too fast for us and learning lots of things.  He is so smart.  He is constantly teaching us.  Usually I can't get our dinner ready for us to all sit down at the same time because Jaxon is whiny and ready to eat.  I will heat up his dinner and let him start eating while I get our dinner ready.  We will pray with Jaxon before he starts eating.  Then Brian and I will sit down and eat.  Jaxon will move his plate from his tray to our dinner table and wants to pray with us for our food.  He will reach for our hands and hold our hands to pray. He is quiet and will put his fingers on his eyes- to close his eyes and he will bow his head.  It is the sweetest thing.  Then at night we usually read him a story from his Bible and pray with him before he goes to bed. There are times that Brian or I will just pray with him and put him to bed because its late or we are just tired and don't take the time to read to him.  Well he is quick to say "Bible" and then how can we say no to that.

At BSF (bible study fellowship) he has learned so much this year and I am so thankful that we decided to go.  Jaxon has learned the B-I-B-L-E song, although all he says is B-I-B-I and his teachers tell me that he loves to sign and dance.

I think Jaxon has gone through a growth spurt lately and I'm getting spoiled.  He will sleep in  sometimes until 9am.  He will play and then he will nap at 1pm and sometimes will nap 3-4 hours.  Then Brian gets home and they will play and then he's ready for bed sometimes 2 hours later. Then he will still sleep for 12+ hours.

Here lately he wears me out and he can be so clingy and whiny and I feel like I can't get anything done.  He is so busy and gets into everything.  He throws tantrums when he doesn't get his way. I usually can't wait for naptime to come for him or even bedtime.  I read an article that was circulating on Facebook.  Are you wishing away what someone else is missing?? Sometimes I wish I was in a different season of life when Jaxon was a little older and wasn't so dependent.  But I know once I get there I am going to wish he was little again.  So just a reminder I need to enjoy where I am because it goes by so fast and before I know it he will b in college and be out of the house.  Enjoy him wanting to hold my hand, saying MaMa, holding him and cuddle time while he is still little, etc...

We had some fun playdates with his buddy Andrew.  Jaxon loves Andrew's fun ride on train set.

On Martin Luther King Monday we decided to take Jaxon to the doctor.  He had been running a fever off and on and just not acting himself.  Turns out he had a double ear infection and sinus infection. He started feeling so much better after he started the meds.  We were supposed to go visit my parents the next weekend so I wanted to make sure he was feeling better.

Jaxon loves to repeat words we say so we practice and try to teach him new things.  Sometimes he will say new words with out us prompting him.  One day he held something for me while we were walking down the stairs and I said thank you Jaxon and he repeated thank you- only he pronounced it "tink you" So sweet.

More photos of Jaxon having fun outside.