Ever since Daddy went back to school this has become our daily tradition.

Each morning as Tim get’s himself ready Jaxon goes through his little check list with him.

“Got helmet Daddy?”

“Got gloves Daddy?”

“Got keys Daddy?”

“Got wallet Daddy?”

The list goes on, right until Jaxon is satisfied that Daddy is in fact ready to leave the house.

Then we always make sure we go out and wave good bye. We wait until Daddy is out of the street and not a moment sooner will Jaxon let me start to walk inside.

When Daddy is coming home we can hear him from anywhere in the house. In this big shrill voice Jaxon will scream at me with bright eyes “Daddy’s come home!!!” and he rushes to the garage door to welcome him in.

Jaxon and I are extremely proud of Daddy, who is almost done with exam’s for his first semester back at Uni. It’s not been easy. In fact, there have been days where I honestly thought Tim wouldn’t be going back. But he stuck it out and I’m so proud of him.

Here is Jaxon, making an attempt at hiding.

He may need some lesson’s no?

Originally, when I first went to get the camera, it was because Jaxon was rolling around rapped up in that blanket and Dookie was jumping all over him trying to lick him. I thought Jaxon might just pop from all the laughing.

But as is the norm with kids and animals, all action stopped the moment I moved. I still  managed to get something funny though.

If you listen closely as I start to crack up, Jaxon has said “UhOh”

http://www.vimeo.com/4874193

I’ve started leaving Jaxon’s bedroom door open over night. I don’t know why I started this, but once he’s asleep and just before Tim and I go to bed I sneak in and leave the door open just enough to see in.

Now in the mornings…this is what happens. Jaxon loves his new found morning freedom and has started getting up earlier and earlier just to do this. If Tim is in bed too he gives one of his “spare ducks” to Tim and one to me. Then he jumps all over us until he can get right in between us and hide under the covers.

I’ve made up a ridiculously long video of Jaxon and his obsession with Tim’s bike.

Well, that was what it started out as. Then I watched the clip and just didn’t want to cut it short. So you can watch the first minute or so and stop it if you like. OR, you can just watch it all and go “awwwwww” all the way through.

As I just said in my previous post, Jaxon is overly obsessed with Tim’s new bike. He really could have cared less about the green one but this red one must do it for him or something.

So now when Tim come’s or goes on the bike Jaxon runs to the front window to watch yelling out “Um um um” and if we open the garage door he rushes in there yelling out then too.If he see’s a photo of it he goes wacko too.

So this video shows it a little bit. But then this afternoon when I was transferring it across to vimeo Jaxon saw it and went even more berzerk! So I’ll add a video a bit later of the real “going crazy” and not the “I really should be in bed crazy”

Jaxon has just had a “Mummy Cut” in this video. I gave him a hair cut about three hours before this. Ever since his first cut, on the 11th of November 2007 (I don’t know why I remember that all the time) the hairdressers have been screwing up his hair. There would be cut marks through it where they had just chopped a straight line. The fringe would be crooked or there’d be really obvious short and long bits at the back. They could really screw it up. So I figured that if anyone was going to screw up my son’s chances of getting laid then it should be me and I’ve been giving him mummy cuts ever since. I do a pretty good job.

Watch this space…

I’ve never been big on video games so when Jaxon was just a few weeks old his Nanny and Poppy bought our household (cough cough, Tim) one of those XBOX things. They probably didn’t know it at the time, but I was really angry about it!

So this visit when they bought us a Wii thingee and a Wii Fit I was a little hesitant about it. I’d heard from all over that it’s heaps of fun. But maybe, just maybe, I thought those people were “geeks” and that me being a non video game playing kind of person would probably still think it sucked.

The main reason I really don’t like video games is that they’re not interactive. While one person plays the other watches and while one has fun the other sits and waits for their turn. Silently wishing that the other player would roll over and die so they didn’t have to share.

But that was 24 hours ago. Right this minute I say, RUN…don’t walk, to the nearest store and get yourself a Wii!!!

OMG the laughter! The fun! The heart rate! At one point I think Tim might have fainted. Right between when he caught his third hula hoop and got hit in the head by a flying shoe. It seriously ranks up there with one of the funniest things I have ever seen. And so much fun!

And as Jaxon is about to demonstrate, it’s interactive. Because not only do I want to beat Tim’s ass to a pulp in ten pin bowling, but I also want to see HIM making a fool out of himself too.

So anyone who doesn’t have one and has never intended to have video games in their home. Take it from someone whose last experience with video games was Atari’s Space Invader’s back in 1983…Wii is the bomb!

Go get one, you wont regret the purchase for a second!

As the days go by I will have more to say about this Wii thing and the In-Law visit. Stay Tuned!!

This is a project I have been working on for days. We’ve had the web cam operating for three days now trying to get just 24 hours. But the first night we had it on, the program that sequences the photo’s shut down and didn’t make my movie for me. The second morning the power went out and we didn’t get the sunrise. Then half way through day two Jaxon clicked my mouse and turned the web cam off. It’s taken a lot of work to get all of this put together.

I’ve cut a lot out. Time’s when we’re in the loungeroom or the back yard or the back of the house have been cut out because nothing is happening. The sunrise went for a lot longer and there was a bigger gap between when Tim left for work and I get up. This would have been about 20 minutes worth if I hadn’t.

I hope you enjoy it. This is approximately 20,000 photo’s. The web cam took a shot every three seconds.

Here are some things you might want to look out for.

• oo.oo 4am Sunrise

• 0.46  Tim up for work, Dude has been let out.

• 1.38  Tim leaves for work.

• 1.41  I get up

• 1.49  Jaxon gets up

• 2.33 I make a phone call to the manufacturer of Jaxon’s new bed for new parts to be delivered because I broke it. But thats a story for Tim’s blog.

• 4.39 Jaxon is put in his cot and I fix the hole’s Dude put in the blow up truck. Vacuum and mop too.

• 6.08 Jaxon and Dude are playing ball

• 6.27  Jaxon starts wrapping himself in the hall carpet behind me.

• 7.04  I go to clean the en suite bathroom, Jaxon takes advantage.I assure you, he’s safe.

• 7.16  Jaxon falls over running because he is wet from the table. Tears.

• 7.21  Dude joins Jaxon in carpet wrapping fun.

• 8.16  Jaxon is down for a nap. He slept for three hours.

• 8.30  MB I’m emailing back and forth with you!

• 8.51  I go for a nap.

• 8.52  Jaxon wakes up, dinner starts.

• 9.08  Jaxon is in the bath, Tim has hurt his back at work and is in bed.

• 9.17  someone weird is at the door (another story all together!) and I wake Tim up to watch Jaxon      while I help.

• 9.43  Tim has blown up a swim ring that is WAY too big for Jaxon. It’s just a toy for now.

• 10.11 I have no pants on

• 10.15 We go to the pool. I’ve cut a LOT of Dude out but thought you should see what they do while we’re gone!

• 10.52 We return, Jaxon has a bath. Yes, two baths.

• 11.01 Jaxon is put to bed. A lot has been cut out of here too. I was making the MRI montage and stayed up WAY too late for my own good.

• 11.13 Dude is annoying the crap out of me. He has jumped on my lap, bitten my foot and climbed the computer desk.

• 11.21 We go to bed. The night before we had sex and you got to see my afterglow. But Tim had to go and hurt his back!

Other things you didn’t get to see.

• Dude being run down by Jaxon. Over and Over.

• Mexxi attacking Dude

• Tim doing his elevator impression over in the kitchen

• Me pinching Tim’s nipple and the chase that ensued. Then the scared cat who busted the blow up truck.Dude ran UP the wall and along the truck, but none of the photo’s showed it.

• Me parading naked in the dark while the front light was on.

• Me picking my nose.

• Jaxon and I playing catch with Tim.

• There are a few marital snogs that happen that you will miss because they happen so quickly. Tim also made a habit of groping my boobs, see if you can spot that!

• Jaxon really did have two baths. The first was because Tim hurt his back so I didn’t think we would go to the pool. But then we did so we had to bath Jaxon again.

We just got sent the disc with all of Jaxon’s MRI and CT scan’s on them. I’ve spent hours and hours sorting through them (401 images) so that they’re in order so you had better watch it and you had better like it!!

A lot of people are saying that they don’t really know what they’re looking at. The reality is that Tim and I don’t really know what we’re looking at but we do know what we’re meant to be looking at. I’ll try to explain it with still shots of what you’re looking at.

These one’s here are the MRI. They have taken a body shot of Jaxon every 2mm’s from his back right to his front. Through these one’s you get to see his lungs, his brain, his muscles and most of his organs.

Through these one’s they have taken a body slice shot from his head right down to his waist every 2mm. You get to see through his head and then in to his neck. The circle on the bottom is through the center of his spine. There are two categories here, the other has the white line along the bottom. On those one’s I assume that they’re looking at the nerves running through the spine to see where and how Jaxon’s arm is damaged and if the neck is in danger of pinching nerves or paralyzing him. You see as they move down through his chest where you see his lungs which are black with white veins running through them. Another thing that was noted the other day was that his right lung is much smaller than his left, you can clearly see his lungs in these. You see the kidney’s and if you’re clued in on them you see his intestines.

These one’s here is Jaxon being built from his left side to his right side. You see it starts at his arm where you only get to see his shoulder. Then it moves through his arm and in to his chest. In the shot above you can see his lungs and the start of the bone structure of his spine.

These one’s are the CT scan. They show bones and cartilage. I think everyone gets these. These show why Jaxon’s neck is on an angle and also why nothing can really be done about it. When it comes down to it these is just one mass of bone that it is one way or another connected to another.

This one here shows clearly how his right side is underdeveloped. I think it’s his shoulder bone, that you can see is much smaller and shorter on one said than it is on the other.

There are also two lot’s of photo’s where a white halo is moving away or in to the photo. If you look closely, you’ll see that it’s the oxygen tube down his throat having it’s photo taken. Or, Jaxon was blowing bubbles.