CoNgRaTulAtIoNs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When Jaxon was 2 years old (well before he was 2) I noticed that he only said 3 words - at that age on average a child should be able to say 20 - 50 or some big number like that.

Since then he has been in speech therapy - minus one year that I felt was a waste so we stopped taking him, the place was 20 min away the traffic to get their was terrible and the teacher was not all that impressive and only made him work on him speech if he felt like it (waste of time!)

when he started Kinder last year he got the most amazing speech teacher. She was able to get him into the Scottish Right House ( the place developed by the monks:) - we were told that if we continued with the therapy as aggressively has we had been that by the time he was in 4th grade he should be caught up. At first I was so sad that it would take that long - but when I look back for me 4th grade was so very long ago, so

I knew it would be fine:)

He graduated at the center at the end of the summer because of how well he had progressed - His first grade teacher was unaware of any speech issues and was kind of shocked that he was on the speech list:)

He graduated from speech last week - he is all caught up! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and they said 4th grade, he only need until 1st - he is amazing

I did it:)

So, you wonder what it is that i did - Well, I sewed up the face of Jaxons stuffed animal:) ME! I did it all by my self. Now I know some of you are thinking that this in not really a big deal - but trust me, for me it is:)

Jaxon was given his bear "Budge" from Grandma Rozzy on the day that he was born (sorry no pictures of it from then). He has since loved his bear and takes it almost everywhere with him:)

- this is the best picture of Budge that I could find.

A few years ago Budge had a slight accident and was drop from the couch on to the floor at my parents house (in the mid of the night). Their dog thought that meant Budge was a toy for him and kinda tore his face a bit. Uncle Bryan felt really bad about this a attempted to sew his face back on:) he did an ok job - it held for like 2 years (the thread was blue). The other night the sewing job my brother had givin the bear decided that it had fulfilled its job and was time to give it up - so the holes came back. This made Jax very sad and so I decided to try and "fix" it. I got my little dollar store sewing kit (that I had never used) and for the first time since I was like 5 I threaded a needle. I sewed up his face:) It is not the most beautiful job - But now Jax has his budge back and is happy that mom fixed it:)

You just will have to imagine the before picture - his nose was straight.

Moles.....

Yuck, moles..........nasty little things. I went to the Doc. last week to have a couple "looked" at. So I showed him these two moles that I was concerned about (he was not), a different one (near the one I felt needed examining) caught his eye and he asked if I had others that looked like that one. Well I had 2 more (that I know of - I cant see everywhere on me:) and he felt that they needed to be removed right then. So he numbed me up and sliced them off with a razor blade - I never knew that having moles removed could hurt, and the cutting part did not, the days that have followed have been some sore ones. I actually called in to work the following day because it hurt to stand up straight (I had some on my stomach) and I had not slept well that first night ( I had one on my back, so how do you sleep?).

It's been just over a week and they are still sore (when will it end?!)

k'nex and Dancing!

I hope Christmas was wonderful for all - I am sad that the holidays are over but happy to return to our usual "normal" life. I hope everyone enjoyed them:)

We got the kids this k'nex roller coaster. I did not realize how many pieces it came with and that we needed hours to put it together - so on Christmas eve Dan and I were up until like 3 am putting it together (ok so by like 1 I was not really helping anymore and Dan was really putting it together alone.) We were unable to finish that night so Dan spent another 1 or 2 hours on it the next morning.

Each kid got a new game for the Wii - Kadrey got "Just Dance 2" Jaxon "Donkeykong country returns". They love them - it drives me crazy they argue about whose game they are going to play ALWAYS. Kadrey took her game over to Grandma and Grandpas house the other day everyone had a good time. Kadrey was excited that she had something that the big kids had fun with too -

Tangled:)

Such a cute movie - We went and saw it on Christmas Eve. We went to the early show and this time Dan got to go with us!!! Ya!! The kids seemed to enjoy this one more then HP I think maybe it was a bit more entertaining for them - I only had to leave one time to take Jax potty:) We had a lot of fun, its a really fun movie.

Also just so that you all know. Jax earned this movie - he stayed on green (card) for the whole month of December and the end of November. Which means that he was good at school:) If you stay on green that means that the Teacher did not have to get after him enough times to make him pull a card (that means you are getting a warning, then you lose recess time, and finally you lose a whole recess). Now I am sure that she had to get after him probably a lot, but he did it. He set his own goal and was able to achieve it. When he first told me that he was earning Tangled (about 3 wks ago) I laughed - he gets to pick the reward, but I have to pay for it?!?. I was talking to a teacher at my school and she told me that if he has picked a reasonable reward and is working toward it all on his own then I should probably honer it - she was right, so I did. The movie was cute and I am so proud of him:)

Christmas Trees!

We got our Christmas tree up and decorated finally. We try to do it the weekend after Thanksgiving, but not this year:) Poor Jaxon was starting to think that we were not going to have a tree this year. Dan says that the tree has turned out better this year then it has for the past few years - I always think its cute, the kids are the decorators.

We also went to the cemetery today and decorated Kourtneys tree. I am so excited to have her spot festive and cheery.

our thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!!!

Yesterday the kids and I got to go and see the new Harry Potter movie. Sadly Dan had to sleep because he has been working some crazy long hours this week (thanks to walmart) so he did not get to go with us. We went with most of my family and Dans cousin. We had a lot of fun.

Then we ate lots and lots and played board games. It was just a nice relaxing day!