Oh Boy!

Here's a little story about Jaxon.

Once upon a time there was a sweet, fun, happy little guy who loved to take long naps and was content to play by himself all day long (unlike a certain sibling of his). Then one day he discovered the toilet and everything changed. Okay, not really, he's still sweet, fun and happy. He still takes long naps and plays by himself. Problem is: he likes to play by himself in the toilet. The other day he unrolled an entire roll of toilet paper all over the bathroom. Not 4 hours later, he threw an entire roll of toilet paper into the upstairs toilet, along with a plastic hot dog bun. Then the VERY NEXT DAY he threw my hairbrush into the toilet and that same afternoon he threw my sunglasses in the toilet. Now I know that these four instances so close together might beg the question: "well why doesn't she just shut the door." The answer: I DO shut the door. However, a certain sibling of his (the same sibling who won't nap or play alone) does not remember to shut the door. No matter how many times I remind said sibling. And so we have toilet issues. Nasty. But, as you can see from the above photo, he's really proud of all his handy work. It's hard to get upset with him when he makes a face like that!

Here is another example of Jaxon's handywork. The kid is pretty much a walking mess, even when Madison does remember to shut the bathroom door he still finds ways to spread joy around the house.

I thought this was so sweet. The neighbor nextdoor was mowing his lawn and Jaxon stood at the window for a good 20 minutes watching him. He was completely intrigued. He kept turning to me and saying something in his special little lanugage and then turning back to the window. I've never seen anything keep him so occupied for so long. Except toilet paper, of course.

Last Friday night we went jetskiing with some friends of ours.  The weather was gorgeous, the lake was calm, and, except for the bugs, the picnic area was perfect.  Jaxon loved the jetski.  Chris said he just sat back chillin' the whole time.

Madi spent the evening chasing boys.  I'm sure that's pretty much going to be the theme of most of her life.  

And this slide was super fun!  Look at how big it is.  They just don't make 'em that big anymore.  I have to say I think I enjoyed going down the slide more than Madi did!

Major blog identity confusion

Oh man.  I'm sure people have just stopped trying to read our blog as obviously we really can't figure out which one we want to use.  We've got blog identity issues.  Seriously.  The thing is we have a Mac.  I love that we have a Mac.  But blogging on blogger with a mac is sometimes a pain because the orientation of the pictures doesn't always register.  Not a big deal, but then we got MobileMe and that allows us to have a MacBlog.  So we figure, everything on Mac is super cool and easy to use, why not just do the MacBlog.  Wrong.  It is fun to blog with the Mac because it's so much easier to add pictures.  However, it's a lot more difficult to format and change and add "followers".  And,  I'll be honest, I'm sure if I spent a few weeks really working on it, MacBlogs could be a lot cooler than blogger, but I've been using blogger for 3 years.  And you know what they say "You can't teach an old dog new tricks."  I'm stuck in my ways.  I've got blogger figured out.  I'm used to the format of Blogger.  I did give it a diligent try last night.  I cleared my evening and sat down, with my computer-savvy husband, to figure out the MacBlog.  We were making some headway, and I thought "okay this just might work."  Then it "unexpectedly shut down" and we lost everything we had been working on.  So we called it quits with the MacBlog and we're back to blogger.

Anyway, to make a long story short we're back on blogger and we're staying with blogger.  The end.  Sorry to make it so difficult :)