Ouch!!!

Well Jaxon received his first good bruise this evening. He's had bumps before, I mean this child is active. He's bump his head on the bed, toys, etc. When that happens there's a red mark that goes away in 20-30 mins. Usually no crying either. Tonight however, we had not just a red mark. We had tears, red mark, knot, and now bruise! : )

He was playing on the floor with Brett's mom and kept reaching for the coffee table. He finally made his way over close enough where he could pull up onto his knees. He played for a while banging on the table and tried grabbing things. The problem came when he was getting back onto the floor. He pushed himself back away from the table and fell forward when reaching for the floor. In the process he hit his face on the edge of the table, leaving behind a nice little bruise. Surprisingly he didn't cry for too long. We went into the kitchen and put a cold teething toy on it while he watched the dogs out the window.

My heart broke when it happened but I was super proud of my little man. He's so tough!

First Aggie Game!

This past Saturday we took Jaxon to his first Aggie game at Kyle Field.  He was so excited before the game, flirted with the ladies that sat behind us during the game, napped during the 3rd quarter and woke up to see the Aggies beat the Vandals from Idaho.  He did fantastic and gets to go this next weekend to see the Aggies beat the OSU Cowboys!  Here are a few pictures from Saturday.

 

Eating lunch and Koppe Bridge

My new Aggie outfit

 

Getting ready to go to the game
SOOO excited!

3rd quarter snooze

Time to baby proof!

In the last couple days Jaxon's mobility has increased tremendously.  We no longer can set him down on the floor to play and expect to find him in the same position 10 seconds later.  We haven't fully mastered crawling but we can scoot all over the floor.  He uses his feet and arm underneath him to push off.  It is almost an army man crawl.  We had just mastered sitting independently and now he's ready for bigger and better things.  I'm not so sure mom and dad are ready for that just yet.  There is A LOT of baby proofing that needs to be done before he has free rein of the house.  It is so hard to believe that my little boy is 6 months old already and sitting by himself and about to be crawling.  Where has the time gone?

Baptism

OK so I know I'm a little late at getting this done and really there's no good excuse because this doesn't take that much of my time.  I guess I've just been lazy.  :)   On August 7th we had Jaxon baptised at St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church.  He did a fantastic job during the church service and when it was time for the baptism, let's just say he paid attention to every word the pastor said.  You will see in the pictures that he is a very good listener and he knows when someone is talking to/about him.  I hope the good listening continues when he gets older.  Something tells me he probably won't. 

Jaxon gazing at Pastor Fenton as he speaks

Jaxon being introduced to the congregation

Jaxon and his Sponsors
Uncle Blake and Aunt Sarah

 

4 Month and Family Pics

A few weeks ago we had 4 month pictures taken of Jaxon along with our first professional family pictures. Our friend Robyn did a wonderful job on them. I am so excited to share some of our favorites with you.

Rolling over!

We knew it was coming soon b/c Jaxon loves to sleep on his belly.  The night of July 1st I had gone in to check on him about 2:00 when I let the dogs out to use the restroom.  When I put him to bed I laid him on his back, however when I went to check on him he was on his belly.  I asked Brett if he had put him on his belly and he said no.  The next night the same thing happened.  We figured he was rolling over himself but we had yet to see this actually happen.  I had him laying on the floor the other day and within 2 minutes he had rolled to his belly.  I rolled him back over and grabbed the video camera to see if he would do it again.  My luck he wouldn't because anytime we pull a camera out he quits whatever it was we were trying to film.  Not this time.  Right on cue he rolled over to his belly and them gave me a huge grin.  It was almost as if he knew what he had done and was super proud of himself.  Here is the video of him rolling over.



Swimming

Since it has been so hot this summer the best relief is to go swimming.  Luckily my parents have a pool in their neighborhood where we can go swimming.  We have been several times this summer and it is wonderful.  We went over to my parents for July 4th and we were the only one at the pool.  I'm not sure how we lucked out on that but it was very nice.  Here are a few pictures from our swimming trips.



Ready for the pool