I just don’t know why I don’t post more often. I have so much to say. So many changes to our lives to report. And yet, I just can’t find the motivation to sit down and report them to you. Yet.

The biggest thing, would have to be the changes in Jaxon. Where once we had to report his physical abilities changing and growing…now we have his mental abilities changing and growing.

He really is becoming a little man. And he talks SO MUCH!

I mean…the boy NEVER shuts up.

There are so many things that he says these days that it get’s a bit hard to come here and write about just one thing. Without boring everyone with the simple details that make it all fit together.

Like the other day when Jaxon was sitting on the couch with Daddy and out of the blue asked “Sleep well Daddy?” and Daddy replies “Yeah I did. What about you Jaxon?” and Jaxon just nodded. He acted as if this was an every day kind of thing. To be having a back and forth with his Dad. But really, it was new to us and amazing!

I really should just get off my ass and come here to report this stuff more often. So I don’t forget about it in years to come. And I really should tell you about all of the other things happening in our lives too…like….nah. You can wait

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We went to see my Dad last week for a couple of days. He and I were busy out in the garage building things when I spotted this very cool tugboat shaped jar. Immediately I thought…FISH TANK!!

We bought Jaxon two gold fish. He has named them various things over the last few days. Memo (Nemo) seems to stick, but the other fish get’s delegated a different name each time we ask him. It’s been called “Daddy” and “Dago” (Diego) and “Dori”.

I’ll let you know when he’s settled on one name

Jaxon had his first Easter Egg Hunt at Nanny’s. I don’t know that he got it this year, though he was excited about finding eggs. I think next year with him will be a blast!

OK, OK. So I haven’t posted for AGES! And now my many fans are starting to notice. You should see the bags upon bags of hate mail we’re getting every day. You’d think the world was coming to an end. People should just learn to live without me

So you can rest easy knowing that I am in fact starting to feel a little like posting again. And to warm you in to my many words of wisdom and dribble I thought I’d share a few photo’s and perhaps a video or two of the last month or so when I’ve not bothered coming here to let you know I wiped my ass.

I did my first paid photo shoot for a friends family. It turned out OK, and it certainly taught me how hard it is to get four people (two of which were not so good at taking directions) to look at the camera at the same time.

I took Jaxon to a local skate park, just for shits and giggles. He had a ball climbing up and down hill’s.

I asked Jaxon what he wanted to do one day and this is what he wanted to do.

We spent a good hour of our morning looking through junk mail.

Jaxon fell in love with DORA!! Our friend works for the place that is doing the nation wide tour of Dora.

Jaxon and I went to the Silver Circus. He wasn’t that impressed until the Ball of Death came out. He thought the motor bike rider was Daddy

If you look just to the right of the “H” in the photo with the NO SMOKING sign in it, you’ll see Jaxon’s head popping out from behind the chairs. This was his way of spending the half hour intermission.

Testing….testing…one, two and three.

Yes, it seems the blog is still working. Perhaps it’s me that’s broken?

We’re finding that with this parenting thing we have peaks and troughs with who has dominance in the family. Mostly it’s us. But every now and then Jaxon up’s the antes and it takes a week or two to figure out how to deal with it.

So the last week he’s totally had it over us. But tonight I think we finally got it back (for now)

He didn’t eat his dinner. And he didn’t ask to leave the table. And normally, he might get away with that and maybe even get some kind of snack later on if he was hungry.

But tonight, we made a point. He got sent to his room twice. Preferring to play with Mack and Lightning McQueen than sit at the table with us.

In the end, he didn’t eat his dinner. But we made it very clear that after dinner there would be nothing else. And if he got hungry, then we would reheat his dinner for him.

I locked the fridge, I shut the pantry door. But two hours later when he found a bag of tiny teddies somewhere and wanted them I refused. I reheated his dinner.

He ate it.

Control. Bring it on Jaxon!