Jaxon's best friend...Ava

Jax has his first little best friend and they are so cute together...well most of the time. They are becoming more like brother and sister and they fight like it sometimes...then they have these sweet moments together just like brother and sister. They are great little friends. She keeps in his place by "mothering" him and she is girly yet is ok getting dirty. She is such a sweet little girl and he loves her. His whole face lights up when he sees her. She is his best friend..."Aya".

Pool and Projects...

About a month ago Jax and I bought 3 little planters. (However as you can see in the first picture there are only two. He dropped one the day after we painted it.) We brought them home and painted them. We then took a trip to Wal-Mart, I let him pick out some flower seeds and we got some soil and went home to plant them. Also while we were there we got a strawberry plant. Now I have a "black thumb". I have killed literally every plant I have ever had. My poor husband has bought me 2 separate orchid plants and both have died. So I really stink at gardening, but I really wanted to try and grow something with Jax this spring/summer. So far so good. We have gotten 2 strawberries off our little plant and our African Daises are sprouting. We will see how long they all live before the inevitable happens....I kill them.

A few weeks ago I could no longer resist, I had to let him swim and do water play. The water was so cold, it only slowed him down a little. Since then we have not gotten the pool out again, but we have played in the sprinkler and water buckets.

The Zoo with MiMi

Jax and I picked up my mom at the airport on Thursday and we headed to the zoo. Jax had so much fun and so did Mimi and I.

Jax and Mimi rode a camel.

We fed the birds. Then I sat in the "juice" that you feed them, someone spilled some the bench, and I had a yellow line on the back of my shorts the rest of the day.


This gorilla was amazing! He sat there like he was posing, while everyone stared and took pictures, it was so neat. Jax was yelling, "gorilla mommy, gorilla, oOOooOO. (that is what a gorilla says.)
There was this mean and wild much older boy also playing in the fountains and he knocked Jax over and literally rolled over on top of him. Then did it to 2 other little boys. And the boys parents were no where to be found. It took everything inside to not grab that child and make him take me to his parents.

Play-dough.

We have been staying busy here in the Garrett house. Jax is such an active boy. Always wanting to do something and anything. Which is making me grateful for my days as a daycare teacher. Because as he gets older I am able to do more fun and creative things with him that I learned as a teacher. Although play-dough is nothing original or exciting to most, he loved it. This was the first time we did it together. He got a play-dough set for Christmas and I just never got it out. The one time he did it with my mom he tried to eat it, so I wanted to make sure he would not eat it again. Well he didn't try to eat it and he loved it so it was a great activity for both of us to to be a little creative.

Milestones..

So we are coming up on MAJOR milestones as my little boy is getting bigger. He is now in a big boy bed, or as he calls it his big boy hockey bed. He seems to be rolling with the change where I am struggling. I took his apart his crib this morning and became teary eyed as I remembered watching them set it up, for the first time, while I sat and watched in amazement, with my huge belly. I remember thinking so vividly on that day that a big boy bed was so far away, well not anymore. I had so many questions about the boy I was carrying inside me on that day and now some are answered and some remain. I can't wait to see him continue to grow. He truly is such an amazing little boy. Next potty training...

Pictures will come soon, I am also redoing his room and it is a work in progress.

Random...

Jax is so funny! He has been all about pillows and blankets lately. He has just started carrying a blanket and his big (M)Ickey Mouse around (He calls it Ickey). One of his favorite things to do is pretend to sleep. He "snores" and breaths heavy to sound like he is sleeping. However when he "snores" he sounds like he is hacking up a hair ball. It is hilarious!

This is one of his favorite books. Well he loves this whole series of books. He goes thru the whole book does all the animal sounds or he points out the letters.