Happy Heart Day!

My Little Heartbreaker!

I made Jaxin heart-shaped pancakes.

He thought they were extra yummy!

Nana & Pop-pop brought over Jaxin's Valentine's card & this balloon, which he went crazy over. He loooooves playing with balloons.

Jason got me these flowers (even though I told him not to get me anything)...how sweet.

I bought flowers and made 2 arrangements; one for Nana and one for Aunt Mi-mi, from Jaxin. Not to boast too much, but I think they turned out beautiful! I let Jaxin paint picture frame mattes to match his vday picture, which we also gave to Nana & Pop-pop and Aunt Mi-mi (this idea I stole from my sister, as I received a framed picture of Piper for Christmas in which she had let Piper paint the matte). Nana also got a coffee mug that said I "heart" (an actual heart) my Nana...which she absolutely loved. I also made chocolate covered strawberries for everyone, and I sampled one and decided I must make some for myself...sooooo yummy! I didn't get a picture of Jaxin in his outfit yesterday, but he looked so cute! He had on his red & white striped long-sleeved button down shirt underneath a short-sleeve gray t-shirt that had a red heart with feet and arms stretched out...on the heart it read, "My Mom loves me this much", paired with his levi's and red socks. I wish I had gotten a picture, because he looked like a little stud-muffin! Hehe :) All in all, it was a good Valentine's Day. Hope yours was enjoyable!

All Things Bouncy

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We went to Family Bounce Night at Bounce U last night. I've been wanting to take him for a long time now, but we can only go on Wed. nights, and something always seemed to come up. He was so excited the whole way there because for some reason, he thought we were going to Chuck E. Cheese....which he kept saying over and over. Once we were inside the bounce room, he looked around and then quickly grabbed Nana's hand. Then we coaxed him over to one of the "obstacle courses" and Jason got inside and I put Jaxin in and climbed in myself. He freaked out and started screaming and crying. Not so great...thought it was going to be a short trip. So we just let him run around on the floor and play with all the soccer balls and footballs for a while. I took him over to the huge slide and let him watch the other kids and he thought that was great. But when I tried to take him up there, he got scared again. Finally, he let Daddy take him up and they slid down several times together. I went a couple times with him, and he even went twice with a little girl that was there and they held hands the whole way down. It was so cute. :) He absolutely loved the slide and really enjoyed the boxing ring as well. He didn't want to leave, but he was definitely worn out! He slept very well last night! :) I'm hoping that Jason, Nana & Aunt Mimi can take him during the week to one of the "Pre-school Playdates" while I'm at work. And, I'm seriously thinking about having his birthday party there.

Silly Sock Puppet

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Baby Got Back

Jaxin's first pair of Levi's...What a cute bubble butt he has!

C is for Cookie

We took Jaxin to get his hair cut today at Snip-It's. He just had his hair cut roughly 2 weeks ago. Daddy & Nana took him then and he didn't get much hair at all cut off. It grows so quickly, so today I decided I wanted it shorter than normal. I think it turned out really cute. The lady used clippers and scissors on him and he was VERY good today. It's hit or miss with him these days. But he was a trooper, especially since we had a 45 minute wait!

As a reward I gave him 3 cookies. But these weren't any ordinary cookies. Yesterday, Aunt Mimi brought over Girl Scout cookies for both Daddy & Jaxin. That's right....Jaxin got his very own box of Girl Scout cookies! They are now called "shortbread" cookies, but when I was a Girl Scout they were called Trefoils. I honestly don't like that they changed the name of some of the cookies! Once loved Tagalongs are now called Peanut Butter Patties, while Samoas have adapted the name Carmel Delites. I researched and found that the names vary depending on the area. In Detroit, Michigan, the original names are used. How odd! My favorites are Thin Mints and Samoas. I'll admit, that I gave Jaxin a small bite of a Thin Mint and he looooved it! Imagine that! :)

These beloved shortbread cookies were once Jaxin's Great-Grandpa Gordon Smelser's favorite of all the Girl Scout Cookies. When I was a little girl he used to tell me that he wouldn't order them unless they had his initials on them, G.S. At one time, they actually did have G.S. on the cookies, but I'm not sure when they stopped doing that.

Jaxin was even so nice as to share with his Cookie Monster. How cute is that!

More Presents

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Angels Among Us

~In Our Hearts~

We thought of you with love today,

But that is nothing new.

We thought about you yesterday,

And days before that too.

We think of you in silence,

We often speak your name.

Now all we have are memories,

And your picture in a frame.

Your memory is our keepsake,

With which we'll never part.

God has you in his keeping,

We have you in our hearts.

I put a picture of my Mom and angel wings in Jaxin's room last week and pointed it out to him and explained that this was Mommy's mommy and that she lives in Heaven. I told him she was his other grandma; his other "nana". While I was at work the other day, Jason was changing Jaxin's diaper and Jaxin pointed up to the picture and said, "Nana". Awwww. It's so sad that Mom can't be here to do all the things that grandmas do. To read him books and tell him stories and do arts and crafts with him...which she loved doing too. She would've been so thrilled to spend time with both Jaxin and Piper. I know she's watching over them and smiling.