It's a lot, but it's been awhile

I have to apologize, I have been away from the blogging scene for the longest time yet. I have started training someone at work and I can't seem to get away to get any blogging done. I used to give John and Beth a hard time for not blogging more often but it is really hard when you don't have a place of business where you get paid, to be blogging!

Let me see if I can bring us up to date...

This big man is growing up so fast. We have hit seven months and still going strong. Gauge has 4 teeth coming in all at once at the top of his mouth. He doesn't belly-ache about it at all, but it looks pretty painful. He is sitting up now, sooo close to scooting around and he rolls EVERYWHERE! I didn't ever think that we could have a better child than Paxton was. So mellow and so happy all of the time, but I really think that this child might be better. He is all smiles and lately he makes a lot of noise! Ryan can get him laughing so hard that you have to laugh yourself because his laugh is so funny. He does a million things with his lips too. He can spit any way possible. In fact he gets really excited and when he gets to a point that he can't get any more excited then he is, he lets out a huge, pbpbppbpbp, and vibrates those cute lips. He doesn't stop smiling and he makes me so happy. It doesn't seem to matter how tired or even down I might be at some point, when I walk into a room and Gauge looks up at me and smiles, its all better!

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Paxton is such a good boy. He has turned into my little pal. When you have your kids you get this little window before maybe 3 months old, when you can cuddle with your kid. Mostly because they don't know any better. At about 3 months they start realizing they can move on their own so they start rolling over and feeling the feet and toes and spitting and flexing tummy muscles to get around. After that there isn't a whole lot of cuddling. Thre is way too much going on. It could be the TV, learning to crawl, learning to walk, a new toy...ANYTHING and you just realize that unless they are sick, there isn't going to be a whole lot of snuggling.

Well my friends, that ends! My beautiful 2 and a half year old loves to cuddle with me. He tells me -I love you- all day long. He sits on my lap if I am sitting somewhere, he tries to hug me ALL of the time, he loves me to sing him to sleep and he wants to go to work with me so that he can stay where I am. He treats me like I am so special in his life. I know, duh, I am the mom...but I love that Paxton and I are close! Right now Pax is my big helper. He helps me with Gauge. If I am sleeping from work the night before and I don't hear Gauge starting to get upset, Pax will come and get me. He gets me diapers and he even tries to feed Gauge now. His interests have changed a bit. Forever they were Motorcycles and Fire trucks, which are still cool obviously, but now he is HUGE into horses and Spider-man. Yeah, the kid loves Spider-man. I don't know how either because I have never watched it with him. He just knows that spiderman is cool and because of that, we have Spider-man toys, snacks and now Spider-man band-aids. Horses became one of the top things lately and now he always pretends he is riding a horse, or he is a horse, or of course, that Spider-man is riding a horse...its classic! He still rides his bike by himself, he can swing on a swing himself, but is still learning to pedal the swing, he runs everywhere and another big thing is saying HI to everyone he see's. Even the really strange, I hope he doesn't notice me type of guy out there. He just loves greeting those guys and giving them a chance to come over and talk. Then he tells me every time, mommy I said hi, "Yes Paxton, its always nice to be kind" I reply...

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Here are some pictures of the two boys from the last little bit:

Ryan couldn't believe I put him in this outfit. The sweats were cute, I just couldn't find his shoes fast enough, so I grabbed these...we laughed so hard when we saw this pic!