Enjoying my hot cup of Starbucks Christmas blend and Kellen and I are adding this years new additions to our beautiful tree. He recognizes the figures on this ornament right away and begins singing 'Jesus Loves Me'... This will be my favorite ornament of the year; not to mention what a wonderful way to start Thanksgiving day!
#ByThisWeKnowLove
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As you can see here we opted to give his golden locks a recent cut. Hair cuts bring on way too many comments about how grown up they look or how big they are getting.. Seeing as how this is my only baby I am not a fan of these comments! yes, yes, they must grow up, i get it. lets not talk about it.
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He loves his Momma's macaroni n cheese and will still eat about anything as long as it is dipped in ranch.. he calls ketchup sausa and his mimi and lily has him mixing all the sauces up together.. no idea. ha
he pronounces worm = warm and girl is still grill... my personal favorite is how he says the character 'Woody' from Toy Story.. he pronounces it 'hoyty'. this entertains me and I have him say it over and over..melts my heart!
Since we traded our suv for the car we havent replaced his tv (yet) and so my iPhone has become his mode of amusement for the car rides.. A few weeks back he heard Jon telling me that he really liked the song 'Hard To Love' when it came on the radio.. well he picked it up as his favorite song and requests to watch it on video on my phone every day.. The best part about this is that he knows all of the words and sings along with such intentment and realness.... 'harbin love harbin love, dont make it eeeeasy.' oh how these little words captivate my heart! :)
If anyone asks him how old he is he tells them 'six' .. and then giggles like he thinks he has really pulled a fast one on them and they are believing he is six years old.. hilarious. i always follow it up with he's two.. and then he will add the 'im two and a half'.. its important to get that half in there!
This week at my moms he had a close call. he was helping his Mimi do yard work and the rake somehow came back and gashed him over his eye.. my mom said blood was going everywhere and she didnt know if it needed stitches or not.. i ended up meeting them at the doctors office to have the doctor look at it.. its a pretty wide gash that will leave a scar but the doc said he didnt need stitches. I was relieved and thankful to God that it was as minor as it turned out to be. Like I've said before, knowing the amount of times I had to get stitches and visit the E.R. as a kid and hearing about all of Jon's close calls and experiences with stitches and broken bones I am a Momma that lives in alert mode anytime something like this comes up.
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On Jaxson's latest visit we opted to get some Christmas card pictures.. Our cards this year have Jon and the boys on them because I preferred to take the pics rather than be in them.. I showed the cards to Jon and he says 'they are good...if i were a single parent.'... haha
Surely by now everyone we send a card to knows I take the pics, but next year I will get back on the card!
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Jaxson at age 7 is one of the reasons Kellen thinks he is 6. Kellen adores Jax and there is clearly an older brother/ little brother pestering relationship going on. perfectly normal. but Kellen is also very generous with Jaxson and defends him to the end. In the middle of Jaxson being annoyed by having a 'little brother' we try to remind him that Kellen is a pretty sweet and giving little brother. He will give Jaxson the last bite of anything he has and will share drinks with him when Jax has slurped his all down.. Once we remind Jax of these things you can see the wheels spinning and he realizes its not as bad as he makes it out to be. This week they were playing a game and Jax says 'kellen, im really sorry for all the mean things ive done to you.' and kellen replies 'thats ok Jax' .. and they just continued playing their game together.. brothers. sigh
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Rogers square is a good spot for shots if you can manage through the other 95 people there with oversized cameras.. My favorite was the lady waving around her 1500 dollar flash.. in the middle of the day!! sigh.. Jon's fave was the lady that followed us around from spot to spot. At what point do you stop smiling to be nice and start asking for reimbursement for the FREE lesson ?!! :)
good stuff
Never the less,
Jon and I got some laughs out of him saying we had a snaggle tooth and a wild Indian while attempting pictures.
ALL kids go through their stages , don't they.. and gremlin teeth or not they are still so handsome in their own right.. Love to see these boys laugh
Talk about three smiles that light up a room!
...and Shelly made this precious scarf for Kellen. Too stinkin cute. This will really add some color to winter pics when we get all that snow this year (wishful thinking).. love love love the boy scarf.
Thankful for my little family and thankful for our big hopes and dreams. Things in life do not always go as planned and I've learned that there is a reason that they dont.. It's so much bigger and better and way more important things can come along.
Happy Thanksgiving
