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.

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.

 Enjoying the playground.

 2 doors down from our condo was the activity center.  The boys love air hockey!  They practiced some fooseball, and attempted ping pong!

There were large flower fields right next to where we stayed.

Jaxon's 11 months...

and he's finally started walking!!  As mentioned in last months post, I had predicted he would be walking before 11 months.  He's been taking 3-5 steps alone for almost a month, but I was getting worried my prediction wouldn't come true.  However, on Monday he finally really "let go" and started walking!!  He's doing great now.  He's still not really saying anything. I think he tries to say or sign "down" which we say for getting out of the high chair when he's all done eating. He still loves to say Da and occasionally will say Ma.
So far, Jaxon was the last one to move/crawl and the first one to walk.  Jayce took his first solo steps 4 days before he turned 11 months, Jax started walking 4 days before he turned 11 months!!

Jaeden pulled out their chairs so "They could watch the cars go by."

My thought was are you 4 or 74?

Jaxon's 10 months!!

Wow, I can't believe how fast he is growing up.  Jaxon is into everything these days.  He can stand alone, but if he realizes he's not holding on to something he instantly sits down or reaches for something to hold. He's taken one or two steps without holding on.  I assume he'll be walking everywhere before he's 11 months.  He crawls, but does not have the speed the other two had when crawling.  He started signing 'more' over the last month, which has helped to decrease his insistent screaming, which was his first method of communicating 'want' or 'need' something.  My ears greatly appreciate his ability to sign.  He's still a super happy baby and loves to play with his brothers. He also loves to give kisses. Jaxon is loved by his brothers. Jaeden still says frequently "I want to keep Jaxon."  I always tell him Jaxon's not going anywhere. I never posted Jaxon's stats from his 9 month visit.  He was 30" still 95% for height and 20 lbs 2 oz.  He's finally slimming down some - 40% for weight.

Jaxon's first visit to the mall playground since being mobile - so much fun!!

Fun in the sun!!

The second group of bruises from Jaxon insisting that my shoulder was for teething!!  The first bruise was much worse. I'm just glad his teething has slowed a bit.

"I Like to Look for Rainbows"

Last week, we had my cousin Whitney come stay with us for 5 days.  The boys (including Joel)  had a blast.  They love having a friend to play with, and Joel loves having someone else to play video games with, since I will only play for a few minutes.  On our drive home from dropping Whitney off, my mom and I saw 2 rainbows!  It was an amazing sight, and reminded me of one of my favorite Primary songs.  It's very hard to see but the second rainbow arcs above the obvious one, and you can maybe see it in the first picture.

I guess we didn't get out the camera while Whit was here, except at Chuck E Cheese. She's in the black shirt, Zach, Jayce, Jaeden and grandma Junie are all helping to win the game.

Jaxon and I were there too!!  He loved this little car - inside and out!

When regular fighting gets to easy....

Every evening the boys love to wrestle and play-fight.  Last week they decided things were getting too easy, and they needed a challenge.  Not really, but this is how they decided to go at it...

It was pretty comical!