Getting into the Christmas Spirit - 10 weeks!!

I just love my "RUDOLPH"
I want Santa to be with me all the time!!!

Here we go again with "Dress Up" time!!!

My "1st" trip to Starbucks!! Love all the people and music!!

"MOM...I hate this hat...it itches!!!"

Well I NEVER thought we were going to get ALL the Christmas decorations up this year with "little man" it our lives BUT.....we succeeded!!!!!!!!!

Ross put up all the lights on the house while we strolled in the stroller and then it was time for me to do the "detail" Christmas lights....SO...the plan was to run out there when Jaxton takes his 2 hour nap around lunch time as he always does in his swing listening Mozart!! And what do you know...Mother Nature decides to send us strong enough winds that day to keep making the power go "OFF" and "ON" about a 100 times...now remember that Jaxton LOVES listening to his Mozart CD...so what happened??? He woke up EVERY TIME the power went off because he was missing his Mozart!! Geez!!! Needless to say we finally got it done!!!

So Ross left for New Jersey this whole last week for training and I was determined that Jaxton and I would get the house feeling like Christmas so when he returned it would be all done and put us all in the spirit!! LONG story short ( with more wind and power outages over the next few days)....we got the WHOLE house decorated, the tree decorated and we even went SHOPPING for a few new things!!! Jaxton I must say was a real TROOPER!! He is just mesmerized by all the lights and decorations that he doesn't even need toys!!!!

I ordered him a Santa blankie for him and I thought he might be scared of it...BUT he actually just stares at his face FOREVER and smiles when I say ( in a Santa voice!) " HoHoHo...Merry Christmas!!!" Then I was at HEB and they had a reindeer that says HOHOHO too and sings Jingle Bells and he loves that too!!! Hopefully when he meets the REAL Santa he will smile and love him too....to be continued !!!

This week Jaxton has been holding his head up more by himself....even though he hates tummy time!!! He even can stand for about 5-10 seconds with help of course...those strong legs from kicking them ALL THE TIME will hopefully get him going soon!!!

He sucks on his hand to the point where he tries to fit the entire thing in his mouth!!! But it does keep him occupied when we are shopping and he can't keep his pacifier in!!

This week he has finally figured out how to bite the nipple on his bottle...GLAD I AM NOT BREASTFEEDING ANYMORE!!!! He helps hold the bottle tightly now and pulls it out when he needs a break and pushes it back in when he is ready to eat again....amazing how fast they learn these things!!!

I bought him some books and have started to read to him thinking there is no way he would sit still long enough for me to even read him the title BUT WHAT WOULD YOU KNOW...he actually pays attention and looks intently at the pictures!!!

Last BUT DEFINITELY NOT LEAST, he has been sleeping pretty good lately and last night I couldn't believe it when he started to make loud noises after 5 hours of sleeping straight AND THEN HE WENT BACK TO SLEEP FOR ANOTHER HOUR!!!! Maybe we will make it to that light at the end of the tunnel!!!!