Family Day

On Valentine's Day we had an early Family Day celebration with my Robinson's side of the family. We decided that we would go to my cousin Christa's place and have a pot luck and an afternoon full of outside fun. Christa's husband Brent built us up a little hill with the snow from their yard. Not a big one, just a perfect one for what we needed. Brent had a snowmobile, so he would take the kids around their farm on it in shifts, and they all had a blast. Jaxon of course opted out of the snowmobile ride, as we can recall what happened only a few weeks ago.

After the outside fun was had, we headed inside to do a craft with the kids. While they were outside I took a picture of them all on top of the hill, and ran into town to get it developed for the picture frames that they made.

It was so nice to be able to get together with all of my family, some were not able to make it to Christmas, so it was nice to see them. My grandma was SOOO happy that we did it too.

2010 Winter Olympics

Well, tonight is the opening ceremonies for the 2010 Winter Olympics. I have never sat down and watch the opening, or the closing for that matter, or the games, but I think that since they are being held in our country the patriotic thing to do would be to watch them.
I always love Olympic time. During Olympic time you are never bored because there is always something on tv to watch. I never take interest in a cross country ski race any other time of the year, but there is just something about cheering on your nation in the Olympics.
Jaxon was born during the summer games in 2008. It was a perfect time to be up all night with a baby, and be cooped in a hospital room. Since they were in China, Curt and I would be able to watch the events live, in the middle of the night. I think that it was my saving grace to keep me from going mad having Curt be occupied with watching them, and not bothering me because he was bored. We when home from the hospital it was great entertainment for those middle of the night feeding as well.
We always said that when we have our next child it would be perfect timing if we could schedule it around the Olympics again, so we don't get too bored in our hospital room. Well, I guess we missed this Olympics...we will have to wait for another 2.5 years to hit up the next summer games!!!
NOTE: for all of you people who are asking us when our next child is coming along....here is your answer, Summer of 2012....hehehe!!!

Girls Night OUT

Last night we had a girls night out with a dinner and movie. We do this whenever one of us has a birthday, and it varies from outing to outing what we do. We were out to celebrate 2 birthdays last night, Cara and Beckie's, so we made it a royal affair and went to the show and out to dinner to a new restaurant in Waterloo.
We went to see the new movie Dear John, a Nicholas Spark novel that has just been made into a move, and starred the dreamy Channing Tatum. I did not mind at all sitting in the theater for 2 hours staring at him on the big screen....HE IS HOT!!! The movie was really good. A definite pull on the heart stings movie, that left your makeup smeared from the tears running down your face. This book will know be on my to read list this summer on holidays.
For dinner we went to a new restaurant that just opened at the mall in Waterloo, Oliver & Bonacini. It was fabulous. Everyone enjoyed their meal, and the restaurant was gorgeous. The service was a bit slow, but we went after our movie, so we were not in any hurry to be anywhere, except home in our bed.
Anyways, when we were watching the previews there were lots of good movies showed....a new Nicolas Sparks one called Last Song and J.Lo one The Back Up Plan. Hopefully by the end of March one of these new ones will be out and we will plan another night to the movies for my birthday!!!

Children's Museum

This Saturday was Curt's last full Saturday off before he is required to work until the end of tax season. We thought that we better make the most of our 'family time' and do something fun with Jaxon. I had talked to a friend a few weeks ago as to things that she was doing with her little girl to put in the winter months, and she had mentioned about the Children's Museum in Kitchener.
Jaxon loved it!!! He is still too small to take in a lot of the exhibits that they have there for the kids, but what he could take in her loved. He loved the big blocks that him and he dad could build something. He likes to play with his lego at home with his dad, but he especially loved the big ones that they had there.There was an area specially designated to infant play, and there were tanks in there that bubbled, and mats that if you stepped on played music. There was a hut that you could crawl through, and him and his dad spend a lot of time trying to catch each other through it.Jaxon 's favourite part of the museum had to be the pin wall. I am sure that everyone readying this post has at some point in their life played with one of these small boards, but this was a life sized one. you could put your body image in it, or just your face, or hand, or just whatever you wanted. Jaxon really like to watch others do their body image in it, and then run over and push it all back for them...little shit. There was a little girl that really did not like Jaxon for this specific reason. Oh well, that is what you get for being a hog with the pin board little girl...hehehe. Just joking...it was a good sharing lesson for my little angle.This is defiantly a place that we will be visiting again. Not somewhere you can go to over and over, but someplace that might be an annual visit.

First Ride

Last week Jaxon got an invitation to go over to his Grandma and Grandpa's because his Grandpa wanted to take him out for a snowmobile ride. I asked him when I got off the phone with Sid if he wanted to, and he was so excited. He was actually still in his PJ's when i asked him, and he wanted to go right away.
We got him dressed for the day, and his snow suit on and away we went. When we got him over there, and were getting his helmet on him, and attitude changed a little, and was not quite sure what he was getting into.
It took us about 15 minutes to get him ready to get out for his ride around the field, and they only made it to the edge of the property. Jaxon was not at all interested in sitting on the seat of the snowmobile, or evening being on it for that matter. It was a whole 2 minutes of fun, for the amount of time it took to get ready to go.
We got him off the machine, and settled down and then all he wanted to do was stand at the front window and look out at the snowmobile.
I guess this year it is better from afar, but I am sure that one of these years soon he will be begging his Grandpa for a ride on his snowmobile!!!

Happy Birthday Hadleigh

Well, the kiddies are all growing up, and Miss Hadleigh, the oldest of the bunch, had her 2nd birthday on Sunday.

Saturday night we went over to celebrate with her, and give her her gift. The poor girl did not get to open her gift though, she did have 2 others in there with her to help her open them. She was very good about sharing the pulling of the paper off the present, and even let the others look and play with the gift too.All Hadleigh wanted for her birthday was a 'Pooh' cake, and she got her wish. Cara made a Whinnie the Pooh cake for her, as well as some cupcakes. They were really good, and she had lots of candles to blow out between the cake and the cupcakes.Happy Birthday Hadleigh!!!

Play Day

A couple of weeks ago we had some of Jaxon's friends over on a Saturday afternoon for some craft play. A week or two before that we made a trip to the dollar store and got a bin full craft supplies for Jaxon for us to occupy him for the winter months. The kid's dad's were getting together that day to play, so we thought it would be a perfect opportunity for the kids to get together as well.
I spend the early afternoon making some homemade playdoe for them, and getting stuff set up for when the arrived. We had to make it later on in the afternoon so that they could all have their naps so they would not be cranky.
The table was set up, and all the supplies were out. We stripped them down to the bare necessities (i.e. diaper's) and let them go at it.
They seemed to really like the finger panting. All three of them created some masterpieces that us mom's were so proud of.After finger panting Jaxon's attention was off into the boy's room where they were playing the Wii. Jazlin and Hadleigh could have gone all day if we would have let them, but it did come time to have dinner, so we had to clear everything up off the table so we could eat.
The craft play day was a huge success, and all the kids really seemed to enjoy themselves. I think that this was maybe the first of many of these days to come in our lives!!!

Happy Birthday Cara

Cleaning OUT the Bugs

Since before Christmas Jaxon and I have just been not feeling ourselves and a little under the weather. During the first week of the new year I spent some time cleaning everything really good, washing our sheets, and trying to get rid of any bad bugs we had. Well, my efforts were swept under the mat a couple of weeks ago when we both got sick again. This time it was not a 'cold', or the flu, just a pesky cough and runny nose.
Finally after over a week of us having it I decided that we need to go to the doctors and see what was going on. For myself, nothing seemed to be prominent. It was just something that had to run its course. I was prescribed an inhaler to help with my wheezing at night, but other then that they could not do anything for me.
As for my little guy, it seemed that he had a double ear infection. How could I have missed that? What kind of a mother am I? I could not believe that I took him to the doctors with no incling that that is was it could be? Of course after the fact, my mom did let me know that on Wednesday he was pulling on his years quite a bit. I did know that he was not himself. Very cranky, and just not feeling up to par. He did not have a fever either.
Anyways, we got him some medicine and I have a totally different boy on my hands this week!!!
We all seem to be on the mend again, and I am hoping this week to get our bugs washed out again, in hopes that they will never return.

Happy New Year

New Year's Eve was spend this year as a kid friendly even at our friends Ryan and Nicole. We kind of left it late planning this year, so when we decided to just do a house party we all agreed that it might be a little difficult to get a babysitter for the kids with it being such late notice, and New Year's Eve to boot.
All the kids were ready for bed around their normal times, and just went down, but not my little monkey. Not only did he was to stay up late, but he wanted to ring in the new year. There was no incling that Jaxon was tired until we got him home (which was still around 1:30) and laid his head down on his pillow. As soon as that happened, he was out!!!

The evening was spend watching the Canada Junior game, as well as a fierce competition of guys -vs- girls of American Idol on the Wii. The girls of course kicked the guys buts with our singing capabilities.

Hope you all had a wonderful New Year, and all the best to you and yours in 2010!!!!

A VERY Busy December

Again, another holiday season has come and gone, and all are left are the wonderful memories of it all. December was a time spent with family and friends, and not having to work for the most part of it. I still had some holidays to use up before the end of the year, and since we did not get a new manager at our office until the end of November, I had to get them used up before the end of the year. I only had to work a whopping 9 days in total for the month of December, and it was blissful. Coming back this week has been a little hard though and Jaxon was non too pleased when I had to walk out the door on Monday morning. He has maybe grown a little attached to his mommy over the past month, and did not want to let me come back to work. I really did not want to come back to work either, but if we want to keep up with the Jones's, momma must put the bread on the table.

The first of our gathers was with the Omands on December 6th. Jaxon was able to play with all of his cousin's for the afternoon, and got his first taste of the present thing.

The next week was the beginning of my first stretch of holidays. I was off this Jaxon on the Thursday and the Friday of this week, and we got hit with our first taste of winter. I left work on Wednesday evening with no snow on the ground, and woke up to cancellations and road closures. These 2 days were spend in the house getting ready for Christmas with some baking, all though we did manage to get out and shovel the driveway for Curt before he made it home from work.

On the weekend we went to Kitchener with Sid and Lois so they could do some Christmas shopping for Curt. On his wish list this year was a new suite and a new hockey helmet. Jaxon had fun in the Hockey Life, and I got a taste of what my future might hold. Jaxon better start saving his pennies know if he things that some day he would like to play hockey. The equipment they have out there is ridiculous!!! and from the way his father is enthralled in sports....I am sure that there is doubt that we will have a little sports player on our hands.

We had a gathering with Curt's grandma's side of the family on the 12th of December as well. Santa Claus himself made an appearance at this gather, and Jaxon was non too pleased. As soon as the big guy in red showed up, Jaxon looked around for the most familiar face, which was his grandpa Sid's, and spend that time that he was there on grandpa's lap.

Curt and I were both on holidays for the next week and the time was spent preparing for the big day. There was holiday baking done, present wrapping, preparation for our friends gather, and a quick trip to the dentist. On the Tuesday morning Curt was having a shower and Jaxon was playing around in the bathroom and fell and hit his mouth off the bath tub. As a result the little man chipped his 2 front teeth, and we had to make our first trip to the dentist so we could make sure there was no damage done. We got a good report, and know we just have to live with the chipped teeth for the next 5-7 years until his permanent ones come in.

Although Jaxon was not a big fan of Santa Claus in person, he loved to look at pictures of him, watch him on tv, and whenever you would ask him what Santa Claus said he would promptly respond to you with a big HOHOHO!!!

On the Friday night before Christmas we had some our friends in for a gather. Santa must of heard about our party, and decided to make an appearance, and even brought some gifts for all of the kids. We had 2 kids there, Hadleigh (23 months), Jazlin (9 months), Remmi (5) and Jaxon.....so we had 3 screaming kids, and one that was just amazed!!! Jaxon did not sit on his lap, and certainly would not have anything to do with Santa, until he made his way to the floor to play with him and his new toy. After that, he did not mind him, but certainly they were not best friends. Maybe next year!!!

Curt and I both had to return to work for the 4 days before Christmas, so we kind of got back into the swing of things.

Christmas eve was spent at mom and dad's with us doing our Christmas the night before. My dad had to work on Christmas day, so we had dinner and did presents the night before. We all spend the night there, so my mom did not have to wake up alone on Christmas day, so Jaxon made sure to tell him that in his letter that he wrote to him. He got his milk and cookies let out for him as well.and when we woke up in the morning there were two bites of the cookie for Jaxon to finish up, and a note to thank him!!!After we read his note, and got everyone else up and ready to open presents we made our way down stairs to find that Jaxon must have been a very good boy for the year, because there was a very big pile awaiting him!!! Him and his aunty Cara managed to get them all opened, and he loved them all.After we got our gifts opened we had brunch and then had to make our way over to Curt's parents for our Christmas with them.

(Sorry, no pictures of this because as the day went on, the worse I started to feel. By the end of the day I was down and out. I ended up having a full blown sinus infection with one monstrosity of a head cold to go along with it!!!)

The next day we headed to Toronto to have our Strachan Christmas with my dad's side of the family. Jaxon is the only little one at these gathers, so he got a lot of attention, which was nice, because I still was not feeling very well, and did not have the patients to give him all my attention.

The last of our gathers was with my mom's family on the Sunday after Christmas. It seemed very low key this year as there was quite a few people that were not able to make it this year. Jaxon got to play with all of his cousin's, with the next one being 3. This was the even of the season that I realized just how much by baby was growing up. He is at the stage in life that he is just a little sponge. Everything that is said/done around him he totally picks up on. We really have to start watching was we say/do around this house of ours. With him being around his older cousins, they were playing hide-and-go-see, and the next thing we look over and Jaxon was hiding between a cabinet and the wall. It took me a minute to realize what he was doing, but then realized that he was trying to hide from the other kids. What a little whip. I keeps me hopping each and every day.

Curt and I were both off the the remainder of 2009 and it was so nice to have to time to unwind. The days that we had off before Christmas was so busy, and did not seem too much like a holiday. These days we slept in, lounged around home, and had not plans. It was nice to be able to do that to recoup from the holiday season.

Happening of November

Since I am not quite sure where the last couple month of the year have gone, I am going to have to try to tell the happenings of them in pictures.....

Jaxon wrote his letter to Santa this year.and he mailed it off to the big man in Red!!!We took in the annual Listowel Santa Claus parade...a huge disappointment this year!!!And we met Santa for the first time this year. Jaxon was not too sure about him, but did not cry. He sure would not sit on his knee though. We were lucky to have him on the side of me that Santa was on.

Who is this guy Mommy???

we were not too sure about the big guy in red this year!!!

Trick-Or-Treat

For Halloween this year, Jaxon was a monkey. Very appropriate, as I call him my little monkey all the time.

We got started on our trick-or-treating a little later then planned, as Curt was in a golf tournament that day, and it ran a little later then expected.

By the time the night was over, Jax had quite the little bag full of goodies. He was wired because every time he received anything he felt that he needed to have a little of the treat.

(good thing he brushed his teeth before we left(pictured above), with all that candy that he ate)

Our first house we met up with Jaxon's friends Jazlin and Hadleigh.

Hadleigh was a monkey just like Jaxon.

LOOK OUT, MONKEY BEHIND THE WHEEL!!!!

My Little Monster

Well, my little monster did not get a good report from the babysitter last week. On Thursday night when I got home from work Curt had to tell me that Jaxon was a bad boy at the sitters that day. He was pulling Leah (a new little girl that has just started full time last week) and he was biting Jan (the sitter). Well I guess him and his dad had a little talk on the way home from Jan's house and then I had to tell him how disappointed I was to hear that he was not being a good little boy.
I guess our words to him did not mean anything, because when I call on Friday to ask Jan something she told me that he had been spending a lot of time in time out for the day. He was still misbehaving on Friday, so she was trying a new tactic with him.
We tried to continue to do the time out (or something of the same nature for a 1 year old) with him through the weekend when something he did deserved him to have a time out. He only had to have it a few times, but it does not seem to be working. Friday night I spent almost an hour with him because he would not leave the dog dish alone. I would put him on time out for 2 min, and then we would discuss the situation. He would then proceed to get off my knee, look at me, and then go directly to the dog dish and play with the food.
I think we could have a long road a head of us with this little guy. He always knows that he is doing something that his not suppose to because either he will give you a kiss before he does it, or he looks to make sure that you see him and you are going to give him a reaction.
I ya ya...parenting is hard job!!!!

Happy Birthday Riley!!!

Yesterday we had a 1st Birthday party for Jaxon's friend Riley.

We had a wedding on Saturday, so yesterday was a little tough to go to party where there were about 15 kids running around yelling and playing. Thank god it was only for 2 hours, and we got through it.

It was a very nice party, with lots of friends and family there. The party was at Riley grandma and grandpa's house, and good thing they have a big house, because there must have been at least 40 people there.

Riley and her cousins are a little spoiled by their grandma and grandpa, and have some wonderful toys there to play with. Jaxon was lucky enough to take a ride in a little red Corvette. I hope he enjoyed it, because that is probably as close as he will ever get to driving one again!!!