My 1st Trip to Galveston to see the Beach!!

Wow... I love the Beach!!
What is this stuff underneath me??

My fingers are sinking!!!

Oooohhhh....I can pick this stuff up!!

What is out there???

What did you say Mommy??? Look up??

Oh my goodness....where is this water coming from???

More gritty stuff!!

Mommy...where did my legs go???

My 1st sea shell!!!

It came from way out there???

My footprints !!!

This is so much fun!! I don't want to ever leave!!!

The San Luis Pool

Cabanas available for $300 a day...better include a pool side massage!!

Lounge area

Where we had our cocktails !!

Aw man.... they are fresh out of my formula...guess I'll just have water on the rocks!!!

Where are my shades???

Much Better!! Let's go crusin' !

That was a great Nap....now let's PLAY!!!!

Heading to dinner...he's so enthralled with water...can't keep his eyes off of it !!

Bed Time!!

Bath Time !!!

Mommy...I'm waiting very patiently for you to get my dinner ready....

Grammy....a little more to the left....awwww...right there!!!

Which one is my bed so I can start jumping???!!!!

Okay...let me guess what you want Mommy for breakfast...coffee with creamer and Splenda!

I like this float too...my very own play yard in the pool!!!

What a life...breakfast in bed with my favorite cartoons to watch!!

What Mommy??? I'm being really good and staying on the blankets to play!!

Grammy...you sing better than Mommy...keep going!!!

Lots of water for Jaxton to see !!

Rain Forest Cafe Adventure River Ride

I Love You Too !!

All the Oak Trees died from the Hurricane ):

Someone's house was here this time last year ):

My new Jeep!!! Where do I fill er' up???

This is great to watch my cartoon's in!! Comfy!!

Hi Mommy!!!

Dada....LOOK...I'm a bull rider !!!

MaMa & DaDa took me to where MaMa went into labor with me....Lupe Tortilla's!!

Sleepy time on MaMa & DaDa's bed

We spent all week working on crawling at class and at home and FINALLY we have FORWARD MOTION!!! It happenend while Jaxton & I were in Galveston with my Mom ( Grammy ) for a couple of days. I guess all the new surroundings made him really want to explore. He is definitely not a Pro yet but this is BIG progress!!

Ever since he had his 9th month check-up ( about 2 weeks ago ) I have been trying to fulfill the Dr's orders and give him more formula ( like 32 oz a day) BUT it had gotten to a point where Jaxton was denying ANY FOOD...obviously he was so full from ALL the formula! So I called a very reliable friend (Aubrey) who has a baby boy the same age and she confirmed that was WAY TOO MUCH and that the WHO Organization says around 16 oz a day and no more than 24 oz a day is what they really need since we are trying to move them onto a food diet than merely just a formula diet. SO I tried to rework his routine and what would you know....he has started to eat his meals again and take his formula after them but just not as much!! Am I happy now or what???!!!! Back to some freaky colored MOMO's again!!

Ross left Friday for San Antonio to play golf all weekend with some of his guy friends and Jaxton & I left on Sunday to go to Galveston with my Mom for a few days. It had been awhile since my Mom and I had some girl time together ( you have to realize before I got married that we did ALOT together) so this was very special to us. We arrived down at Galveston on Sunday afternoon and checked into the San Luis hotel which by the price you should know it is really nice so you expect things to be highclass and all...BUT this day there was a FRAT party at the pool/H2O Bar which lasted until at least 10 pm that night!! And just to let you know we had a room that overlooked the pool so you know we were NOT HAPPY with all the Michael Jackson Lyrics being boomed out until late night with these people who were NOT even PAYING to stay here!! Thank goodness we decided we were doing the pool thing on Monday and Tuesday anyways because it was so much quieter the next couple of days and relaxing!!

We headed down to the Strand on Sunday and we AMAZED at how few shops were actually open and TOTALLY SHOCKED by all the dead oak trees lining all the beatiful old streets down there...come to find out the salt water from the Hurricane had killed them....very EERIE!! Needless to say we didn't stay long down there. We headed to dinner at Marios's and ate some good Italian food and then headed back to the hotel to chill out.

We all woke up at Jaxton's rise and shine time of 6:30 am and ate and then headed to the beach for his 1st time. It was a perfect time to go down there because NO ONE was there yet and the beach was freshly scraped and most importantly it was COOLER!! I couldn't believe how much Jaxton actually liked the saltwater and the sand! He was ready to leap out into the great big ocean! He just kept rubbing the sand between all his fingers and just up until now he had never mouthed many things BUT he was able to get a few grains of sand into his chompers before I whisked his hand away!! The rest of the day we played at the pool. We all got dressed and Jaxton was in total need of a nap so while he slept in the truck Mom and I drove down the coast to look at what devastation was still left from the Hurricane....and there still was even after almost 10 months later...kinda depressing and sad!! SO we hurried off to Willie G's and enjoyed some good seafood BUT after Jaxton ate ALL his dinner I gave him some Puffs to munch on and what would you know??>>>> he got one stuck right in the middle of his tongue and he thought he was choking so he decided to throw-up ALL his food and the Puff at the table!!! Thank goodness I caught most of it and had a change of clothes with us...poor little guy!! No more PUFFS for him...they are just too little!! We left dinner and headed to the Rain Forest Cafe Adventure Ride which was pretty cool. You get in a big raft that has seats in it which floats on a pathway of water through the rain forest where all the animals are roaring and hissing and lots of jungle noises! Jaxton loved it but the 5 year old boy that was in our raft with us was crying the whole time...poor kid!!! We headed back to the hotel after raiding the gift shop and we sat out by the pool to enjoy the pleasant evening. Jaxton entertained us with some dance moves to the Michael Jackson music they were STILL PLAYING!

We had worn Jaxton out so much already he slept until 7:30 am on Tuesday morning!! We had breakfast in bed and then we headed back to the pool for a couple more hours until Jaxton was eagerly ready to take his morning nap!! So I headed back to the room to put him down and shouldn't of left my MOM alone because when she came back to the room she had fresh bruising on her left hand and I am sure on her buttocks too!! She slipped coming out of the pool and apparently she had not been the only one that happened to in that particular place...geez!!

Jaxton kept snoozing while we packed up all our Sheesh...which was definitely more than we came with and then we headed back home....all the while thinking how quick the time had flown and wishing we were away for a few more days!!!