Dancing with Santa

Grandma had to hold his hand, too!

Grandma came over today to eat lunch and watch Pax so I could get the car packed for our trip to Charleston. We decided to work on desensitizing him with Santa, and it worked! By the end of our little session, he was holding hands and dancing with Santa!! Yay!!!!

Pee-Pee in the Potty

No pictures-to which many of you are probably thankful, but Pax has been pee-pee-ing in the potty since Thursday night when we got home from playing with the big boys. I don't mean that he's ONLY going in the potty; he still has a wet diaper and all; but we're working on it!

We have been putting him on the potty since before Thanksgiving, but he hadn't gone at all. We then bought a little potty seat, and I sat him on it when we got home Thursday. He even tried to put the seat on the toilet himself! As soon as he sat up there, he immediately went! I screamed because I was so excited! I think he thought I was upset and he'd done something wrong. I then started clapping and cheering, and he got really excited! He got a little bit on the toilet seat, so I gave him so toilet paper to wipe it up. Now, anytime he goes, he wants to wipe. Hahaha! He also has not been allowed to flush the toilet until he actually had something to flush. So, he instantly turned around to try and flush it. He was excited to finally get to do this! It's the little things for him, huh?!

When he was with Brad yesterday, he went 4 times in the potty! I really thought it was just a fluke, but he then continued to go today! At one point, he even told me, "pee-pee," and we ran to the potty, took off his diaper, and there he went! Yay!!! I'm so excited he's starting to understand this concept!!

Dinner and "Dights"

Me holding Pax and Douglass Charles

Mick and Sadie Jane

Charlotte and Alison

Anna and Brody

Steph-I told you I would put this one on here! Heehee!

Cute face, Micah!:-)

Suzie and Sadie Jane

Scared to death! He's a little monkey clinging to me!

Look at that face!

Look at THAT face, too!

He's a little more calm, but check out those eyes watching Santa Cow!

Cheese!

All the girls with Santa Cow--Sadie Jane is smiling, too!

The girls + Pax (see below for the explanation about him being wimpy)

Micah "hugging" Pax

Trying to get all three boys to look--Good job, Micah!

Pax saying his favorite phrase, "I know!" at the top of his lungs!

Micah at Nana and Pops' with all the pretty lights

Jayden in front of the choo-choo

Pax watching the reindeer ride the moving see saw

Micah with one of the ball he pulled off the tree

The two big boys dancing to the music from this tree, and Pax trying to be like them!

Jayden and Pax petting the "neigh"

He loved the rocking horse

Here's the best one of the three boys at the house

We met several friends at Chick-fil-A for dinner and to see Santa Cow: Steph and Mick, Anna and Jason, Alison and Doug, all their kids, Suzie, Mom, and Adam. We kind of took over CFA when we got there! It was fun to be around so many friends!

Pax had been getting better with Santa, but the whole Santa Cow thing threw him off! He was scared to death of him! As he got closer and closer, he kept saying, "No, Momma, No!" In fact, you can see in the GIRLS' picture that I'm holding Pax. Yes, he snuck in an all girls picture. He was watching us, and freaking out because I was close to Santa Cow. I guess he thought the cow was going to hurt me or something!

After dinner, we headed to Mick's parents' house to look at their "dights," as Pax calls them. They have a ton of lights and their yard is decorated to a "T!" Pax, Jayden, and Micah had so much fun running in and out of all the decorations. They even have a Christmas tree that plays music. The boys loved the tree, and after every song, Pax would clap and say, "Yay!" Pretty cute!

I'm about to brag on him, so feel free to skip to the next paragraph! I have to say that I'm really proud of Paxton. He is a year younger than Jayden and Micah, and just wants to be like the big boys. He would follow them around trying to do what they were doing. It was cute until the boys started hitting one of the reindeer. Paxton hit it one time and immediately looked at me. I told him no, and to come to me. Believe it or not, he did! I was so proud of him! He and I then went to look at the choo-choo while the big boys were disciplined. I am sure there will come a day when he doesn't listen like he did tonight, but I am just thankful that he does...for now anyway!

Nana and Pops weren't at home, but opened their home to us and set up an entire spread for us anyway, complete with hot chocolate, sippy cups, orange slices, raisins, and animal crackers! Pax carried around the box of raisins and ate the entire box by the time we left! It was so sweet of them to do all this for us! We had such a great time, and are thankful for the entire evening!

Christmas-palooza

Loving his Uncle

Watching Santa from afar

Look at how hard he's gripping my arm!

Pax did better than last night!

Mesmerized by the Pink Pig

Waiting to ride the Pink Pig

On the ride!

Uncle Adam's legs were too long to ride!

Here we go!

Our tree

Cheesing in front of our Christmas tree!

Holding the football from Santa last night

"Handsome like Daddy"

I had an early out today, and got to leave school at 1:00. So, we planned an afternoon of fun! I wanted to take Pax to a different Santa than last year, so we drove to Lenox Mall to see him. Grandma and Uncle Adam got to go with us, so we had a really fun afternoon! I had to be in the picture with Pax and Santa, but he was at least sitting on his knee, and wasn't too panicky.

While we were there, we also rode on the Pink Pig. We did it last year, too, and the line was extremely long. We were lucky today, and only had to wait 1/2 the time! Pax was so serious, and was very focused on our train ride. When it was over, he didn't want to get off!

I finally got Pax in front of our decorated tree tonight so I could get a picture. It was kind of hard, because it sits between the front window and dining room table, not leaving much room to take a picture. Please notice his adorable Christmas pajamas, too! I just love them!