baby boy has a name

Jaxon Allen.

We will call him Jax. I couldn't bring myself to name our son just Jax, so Jaxon it is. And Allen is my dads middle name, and we like my dad so that's where Allen came from. :) (Dad we are 95% sure that's how you spell Allen, if it's wrong let us know so we can change it!)

easy and yummy

This has become my new favorite "go to" meal. It is beyond easy and now that I know we like it I try to have the mango salsa in our fridge at all times. It's really nice that it makes enough for 2 meals.

feels like spring

After having kids that were so sick it was a relief to send them outside to get some fresh air. I am really looking forward to this summer, I think we are going to live in our backyard!

painter judah

My Mom and Grandpa painted Cohen & Baby Boy's room for us last week. Judah was talking for days about painting Cohen's room. He was a great helper.


The blue that you see is on the top half of the room and the bottom half is a dark brown. We also got new carpet in there. We are still waiting on a trim piece and I'm hoping to find a dresser and some other things at Ikea this weekend, so I will wait to post pictures of the finished room.

on the mend

Our past 3 weeks have been filled with illness. We've been to the doctors 7 times between all of us, one ER room visit for croup, one overnighter in labor and delivery for dehydration, we've cleaned up more puke and poo than anyone ever should have to, been the recipients of many meals (thank you everyone!), done too many loads of laundry that after dried just ended up stacked on the dinning room table, we had our first case of pink-eye, and spent we too much time worrying about how much our kids are wetting their diapers. What a few weeks it has been. But I think we are finally better.

I'll be playing catch up on my blog this week because I have a bunch of pictures to share from between illnesses. Plus we have finally decided on baby boy's name so look for that this week too. :)

project boy

A few nights ago Judah helped Justin install a new faucet in our bathroom. He was a great helper! These pictures aren't the best because our bathroom is small and the angle was bad, but I had to document the occasion!

painting is fun

Has anyone made homemade finger paints? I found several recipes and thought I'd give it a try. Then when Cohen decides to eat it, it won't be such a big deal!

memories

Last night on the way home from NightChurch Judah said, "Look, look, there's Santa!". (Maybe some leftover decorations? I'm actually not sure where he saw Santa.)

Then he continued on with this story:
"At Christmastime Judah go see Santa and Santa give Judah a bell. Then we have hot chocolate and cookies. The Caboose. Then Judah and dad go in the caboose and look out the window. Then we see houses. Then we get off the train and and wave bye bye to Santa and the train goes bye bye. Then Judah stands on the red caboose (it was actually blue...but that's okay!) and mom takes Judah's picture."

That kid has a good memory. He's a motormouth, but that was the longest continuous thought he's ever had.

We were thinking about not doing the Polar Express ride this year, but I guess we will have to re-think that. It obviously made an impression on him!

watch out soccer world

Judah starts Daddy & Me soccer on Thursday! On Friday we went to Wembley's in Olympia and got shin guards, socks, and a soccer ball. Judah is really excited!

Cohen is a pretty good kicker too.

I like having boys. :)
(not that girls can't play sports...but boys are fun!)