Growing Up!

Caiden loves to dress up as Batman! This is is costume from last year and this picture was taken last week when the weather outside was about 90 degrees! I have managed to keep the outfit off of him for most of the summer, but sometimes it is not worth the fight-if he wants to be hot that is ok with me! So he came in the other day and leaned up the wall like this trying to play all tough! Stinkin cracks me up!

So I failed to mention on my last post that Jayson started fire school. Not the best timing, but how could I tell him no after I just spent the last three years in school. Here in Utah, you have to have your EMT certification and your firefighter certifications before they let you be part time (volunteer) on a department. So the first week went something like this...I worked from 2-10 on Mon, Tues and Thursday-Jayson had school on Mon and Wed from 6-10. My mom watched the boys on Monday night while we were both gone-Thanks Mom!!-We saw each other on Friday night and Saturday night for a few hours and then I worked sun from 2-10 after going to church in the morning. Then the next week wasn't as bad, but this is going to be rough! That's ok he'll be done in June so no big deal! Doesn't he look cute with my boys hanging all over him in his EMT uniform!

Yesterday was Caiden's first day of preschool! He was so very excited to start school and have something to do in the mornings! He loves to learn and I know he'll do great. He wasn't very excited to let me take this picture, but I forced him to let me anyways. He is suppossed to be holding a bear, but refused to take one of the many he has because he "just loves this mouse so much". They are learning about bears this month I guess. He says he learned the leader song and then he played outside-that is a pretty good report coming from my child!

On top of starting school yesterday, I decided it was time to get rid of the training wheels on Caiden's bike so last night when Jayson was gone to school, I got out the tools and took them off. After only a few minutes of practice, I let go and he was sailing! Both of us were so excited! He practiced last night for about an hour and a half until it was time for bed. First thing this morning he wanted to go out and ride it some more! He got out ther about 7:30 and didn't get off his bike until almost 10:30! He can start and stop really well today-he looks like he's been riding a two-wheeler for weeks! This morning he kept saying, "I am so proud of myself!" Funny kid.

August fun

The month of August was really fun for us! We celebrated our anniversary, we got to go on two campouts with our family and Paxton got his two first teeth! Paxton can now pull himself up to knee level, sit by himself, and he is still doing the army crawl (not because he can't crawl up on his knees, but because it is much faster for him to be down on his belly-silly kid). Caiden is getting very excited for pre-school to start tomorrow! We got to go buy two new outfits for school this past week-he now wears a size 5/6. He looks stinkin huge to me!

This is a picture of Jayson pulling Caiden and Paxton around on a blanket. Fun for everyone!!

Paxton crawling through the table-he does this several times a day usually. Most of the time he can manage to get out without hurting himself!

One day, our neighbor Brock came over with all his nerf guns. He and Caiden had a great time playing with them and when Jayson got home he wanted in on the action too! I was in my bathroom and I was called out very innocently by Jayson and this is what I saw waiting to attack me! They pelted me with bullets before I could jump back into the safety of my bathroom-they all thought that was pretty funny! As you can see from the picture above, even Paxton wanted to play!

My co-worker Kristi has a pool at her apartment and she invited us over for a swim one day. We really liked cooling off and Paxton loved to kick his little feet in the cool water too! She was so nice to take this picture for us. We are going to miss having her and her husband here-he is in the military and they are being transfered to Illinois.