Switched at the playground?

Is this the same child?? Did I mention that Kennedy calls him "Nanux"?

Locked Out!

Well - as most of you know...I feel like I have triplets most days! A 1 year old, a puppy and a 5 month old. WHEW! Yesterday, as I was taking the puppy out to "potty"...I heard the door behind me slam shut..and then click. Kennedy had locked the door with me outside!!! This was Right before Jaxen's bottle time, and he was fussing...I was trying to take the dog out before the bottle so we wouldn't have an accident. The next few minutes were spent coaching Kennedy how to unlock the door....BUT...it didn't work. I was trying to tell a 1 year old to "turn the knob" -turn the "clicky thing". UGH. I think after a few minutes of that - she realized what she had done. She started WAILING...sooo upset. I could hear Jaxen crying as well. NICE. I had no cellphone or anything! I ran across the street to our neighbor, ROM's, house. He wasn't answering the door - despite my vigourous knocks and rings of the doorbell. After what seemed like an eternity - he came to the door...obviously I had woken him up. :) When I started telling him the story - the tears for me came. I couldnt help it when I started to think of my 2 children stuck in the house crying....
Rom said he was going to run upstairs to get his shoes - and help me out. I think he must have taken a shower - b/c his hair was wet, he had changed his clothes, and put his contacts in...geez!!! We went over to our house -and he cut the screen and got the window open and I crawled right inside. (It was a little disheartening that it was so easy...) :)
Needless to say - we are going to make a spare key - TODAY! :) Ooo...and let me just say for the record...that I called my mother crying - and she gave me wonderful sympathy...and then she proceeded to tell me that I had done the VERY SAME THING to her right before I turned 2 in Arizona!! haha... Emily...this reminds me of the similar "powder story".... :)

Terrible Two's??

With the "terrible two's" just 2 weeks away - I am a little anxious about how this is all going to go. Yesterday - I was sitting on the couch feeding Jaxen...and I heard the toilet flush followed by yelping...
I rush in there to find Vegas in the toilet (put there by Kennedy) - and she had flushed! Talk about a full-body swirlie!! haha!
Now please tell me - HOW are you supposed to dicipline after this? I can't control my laughter!! I don't necessarily think the two's will be terrible...but FUN FILLED FOR SURE!! :)

Like Mother ... like son?!

Jaxen started sucking his thumb today! He had it in all night...not sure if this is a new thing that will stick or just a fluke!? He usually has his hand in his mouth - and it's all raw and red...poor guy! He's teething sooo bad lately...so maybe his thumb just felt the least painful in his mouth?! Either way - it was pretty cute! :)

Santa "swung" by early at our house

So...we knew we wanted to get the kids a swingset for Christmas...but the weather has been GREAT at home and the thought of spending 5 hours in the freezing cold to put this together wasn't exactly on Jon's top 10 list!!! He worked his tail off most of Saturday - and the finished product was a great swing set and one VERY happy little girl!!!

Tribute to Jaxen...

I know he will kill me for this later...but I had too!!!!! Don't you just want to kiss his little cheeks!??!!? :)

"Clicky Shoes"

Kennedy is fortunate enough to be cousin #6 in the cousin line as far as females go...so we get the benefit of "the sacks" everytime we go home! (Thanks Mark!)
Last month when we went to Ohio...we were given 3 giant trashbags FULL of clothes. I passed some along - but the biggest hit were the 2 pairs of "clicky shoes". Kennedy wears them all around the house. It's also a DAILY fight to put on real shoes when we go somewhere!! She always wants to wear these silly shoes! :) I love that she is such a "girl". :)