The Jorgensen Journal: October 2010

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Jaxon's 1st birthday

12 months

Jaxon had a great 1st birthday, although he didn't eat any cake!

Thank goodness for big brothers who love to open presents!!

For those that follow my blog, you must know by now that it's definitely NOT chronological. My goal was to blog their birthday's in order, which is why Jayce's was posted recently, so I could add these next two birthdays... (I would have his other two birthdays, but I'm still trying to consolidate all pics onto one computer, and his first two years aren't on this computer yet.)

Jaeden's 3rd birthday

Jaeden's 4th birthday

Jaeden's 5th birthday

The boys love Star Wars, and discuss it nonstop!!! They were both excited about the party, and everyone came dressed as their favorite character...The boys played several games, conquered a Jedi training course, and did countless Light-saber battles. Overall, it was a blast. Besides the R2D2 cake, they enjoyed light saber pretzels and Yoda Soda (sprite and lime sherbert).

Obi Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader

Princess Leia and the boys

Jaeden on the Jedi training course

Darth Maul stopped by for a battle

Jaxon woke up for the 2nd half of the party and joined in as General Grievous

Jaeden got several star wars guns for his birthday and dressed up as a Storm Trooper.

Friday, October 15, 2010

May 2010

After we got back from San Diego, Jorgy and G came to visit.

Jayce with a real cake. He picked out all the candles - from previous bdays - firetrucks, pirates, and the #1.

The boys with their Grandpas.

Jayce and G, while opening gifts.

New dress-up clothes from Grandma Junie. The boys love dressing up, but we hate that they call their dress-up clothes "dresses." In a house with 3 boys, there are very few dresses. They don't seem to hear the difference between dress and dress-up!!

Jayce's 3rd bday 5-14-10

We celebrated Jayce's 3rd birthday while in San Diego. We went to IHOP for breakfast, and Jayce loved being sung to by the waiters, and of course the free ice cream for breakfast was also a hit!! Jaeden keeps asking when we're going back to San Diego, and recently he asked Jayce if he wanted to celebrate every birthday in San Diego, which Jayce said "Yes!" What fun it would be if we could celebrate every birthday in San Diego. Jayce has always been Mr. Independent; thankfully he was second or we'd still be doing everything for Jaeden. Jaeden didn't want to do anything for himself until he saw his little brother doing things without help - getting dressed, eating, etc.

This is how Jayce frequently looked after getting himself dressed - all backwards. He's improved greatly in the last 5 months!!

Jayce picked all the activities on his birthday - We of course started with LegoLand...

Shooting water guns...

Jousting, made of Legos, and of course the ride...

Couldn't forget a favorite ride, with the grumpy old troll from 3 Billy Goats Gruff...His favorite book..

And driving a boat, before we headed to the beach.

We only went to the beach once while there, but I thought it was rather cold. (Jaeden with his splint)

Jayce freezing after getting his feet a little wet, as seen above I was too cold to be in just my swimsuit.

Jayce's yummy birthday cake!!

And the day ended with presents, still some of their favorite - StarWars lego minifigures.

Monday, October 4, 2010

SeaWorld San Diego

The boys loved, loved, loved SeaWorld, but not has much as LegoLand. They enjoyed seeing some of their favorite animals.

Our first stop was the dolphins. Unfortunately, there wasn't a dolphin show when we were there :(

Daddy and the boys at the sting ray pond.

Waiting to see Shamu and friends!

Jaeden and Jayce still talk about Shamu. All killer whales are Shamu according to Jaeden. We sat at the top of the splash zone and got a little wet. Jayce did NOT like getting splashed!! But I think he got a little salt water in his mouth??

Our usual mode of travel, in front of the flamingos.

Jayce's favorite animal is the sea lion, and he was so excited to feed them some fish. They both used the feeders as well as threw fish over. Jayce was hilarious because when he threw his fish over the sea lion dove into the water to get it. Jayce thought he killed the sea lion, and kept talking about killing the sea lion. We just laughed as usual.

Jaeden throwing his fish, the sea lion actually caught it!! (and didn't die in the water :))

They had a large play area the boys loved!! They ran forever on these bridges.

Sweet Jaxon - 6 months, and he's now about to celebrate his 1st birthday!!

The comical Sea Lion show. Jayce's favorite, and where our camera took it's final picture!

Unfortunately, the day ended with Jaeden falling off of something while playing in the kid area and breaking his left arm. When he fell he screamed, "I broke my arm." Fortunately, it was a minimal break, and we were able to find someone the next morning to splint his arm, so we could enjoy the rest of our vacation!

The rest of our San Diego Trip (May 2010)

So, for those that actually follow our blog... do you remember I was able to blog the first day of our trip thanks to all 3 boys sleeping at the same time for over one hour!! Which of course is to never happen again. Well, there are many reasons that I never finished...our camera broke on our way out there and died 2 days later. Shortly after the demise of our ancient camera (6 years old, which is ancient for digital cameras), we had our first broken bone - Jaeden's arm. Then, Jayce turned three and we were on our way back home. Life happens, (our computer broke and needed replacing), and summers are soooooo much busier. I've done good remembering to post each month for Jaxon. So, in short what's been happening...

Our second day in San Diego was spent at the condo - relaxing. Just outside our door was a castle like playground, that the boys loved!!! There was also a swimming pool, but I thought it was freezing. The highs were around 75, and we had been use to 95+ weather.