Holidays

For Thanksgiving we went to my parents house and ate lots of yummy food. That night my mom and I went and stayed at Des and Mike's house to go shopping. At 10 pm Des, I and Mike went out shopping till 1 am. We got a few hours of sleep and mom, Des and I got up at 5:30 am and went shopping again. Shane brought us Axel in the afternoon so he could go to work. He is such a good little shopping buddy.
On Saturday, Shane and I celebrated our 7th anniversary while my parents watched Axel. We went to the last Hunger Games movie and out to eat at Panda Express.

Christmas was so much fun this year with Axel. He loves to tear paper up in little pieces. Shane and I did our Christmas early with Axel on Wednesday night. Shane had got him a little basketball hoop and put a new net on it and got a mini basketball. Axel absolutely loves it.

We spent Christmas Eve with my family and the kids got to open a few gifts. The grand kids all got big pillows to open. Axel got a giraffe that he loves to lay on and pat. They also got some new jammies to sleep in. We decorated cookies and ate lots of food and sweets. My parents were nice and let Axel sleep in their room while Shane and I slept downstairs.
Christmas morning we woke up about 8 and got the kids up. We waited for Mike to get there from working the night before to open presents and have breakfast. Axel got a block train, little tablet, clothes and more. He is a spoiled boy, but we sure love him to pieces. 

Later that day we got ready and packed up all our things to get ready to go to Utah to celebrate with Shane's side. We slept at Shane's sister Mandys house with almost everyone there. We played games, had dinner and hung out. Axel did fall down a flight of stairs that scared both he and I.
On Saturday we woke up and had breakfast and got ready. We got to the church around noon and were there until 9 pm. We had appetizers, dip and dinner there. Axel loved to be in the gym with the older kids and play basketball. He kept saying all day, ball ball and would walk right in there.
It was good to be able to spend time with both sides of the family.

16 & 17 Months

At 16 months old Axel is showing more and more of his adorable, spunky personality. We love to watch him grow and change and learn. He is picking up on stuff so fast now. He likes to hold the phone to his ear and says hello (heyo), he likes to close the fridge and doors, he knows where his toes, nose (no), bum bum (grabs his pee pee) and eye. He loves to poke at other peoples eye and nose too. He is becoming quite the little copy cat. He points at everything and says whats that. He does great with following commands like go get me a book to read, come here, bring me a ball. He likes to brush his teeth and knock on doors/windows. When we go bye bye he brings me his shoes (soo) and coat (co). He likes to feed himself with fork/spoon and drink from a cup. He goes to the fridge when he is hungry or thirsty. He loves his blankie and packs it everywhere and he loves to sing. Some of his favorite songs are Old MacDonald (he loves to sing eieio), and once there was a snowman.

At 17 months he is doing a lot of the same things. He is so smart and catches on so fast. He is up to about 25 words now. He has learned cookie (cooocoo) and cracker (caker) and noodle (noonle). He loves to play with a bowl (bow) and spoon and play eat. He is so much fun and is a little tornado! He loves to watch Mickey Mouse and repeats when they say. "oh toodle" and loves to sing and dance to the end song, Hot Dog.