The Maples Little Monster

Jayden's 3rd Birthday

2011-05-11T10:41:00.000-07:00

I can't believe my little BABY is 3 years old. He has grown up so fast. It seems like yesterday it was Easter Sunday and I was holding that new born Angle in my arms. Now he has already learned how to roll his eyes and give Mommy attitude! But at night and early in the morning he still lets me hold him like a baby and rock him.

We kicked off his birthday at school with the "Celebration of Life Ceremony" (private Montessori school don't have birthdays or sugar) Jayden was happy just to be the center of attention! We brought cupcakes for the class that my very talented girlfriend made with grass on top and soccer balls but of course since we broke the schools no sugar rule they scraped all the icing off. But none of the kids seemed to mind!

Jayden is about to walk around the sun with the world 3 times to show he is 3 years old.

Serving Cupcakes

Eating Cupecakes with Jayden and his class. (all the kids fought over who would get to sit next to Jayden is is LOVED by his class mates.

This year Jayden has been to several parities with bounce houses. So for his birthday all he wanted was a bounce house and to ride the train! So we did two different train rides for his birthday to two different restaurants and then we had his BOUNCE house party at Aunt Stephies house. Those boys jumped for 3 hours without stopping! I think he had a GREAT 3rd birthday. Now all I have to figure out is how to top it for 4th!

Jayden on the train

Mommy and Jayden on the Train

Daddy and Jayden on the Train

GiGi and Ra-paw on the train

Buying our Train tickets

Getting Happy Birthday sung to him at Babes (Jaydens favorite place to eat ...other than the dreaded Mc Donalds)

Jayden's Birthday Party Spread

The Soccer Cake (he LOVES playing soccer)

Bouncing with GiGi before the party started!

Bouncing with cousin Macy

Blowing out his candles

Hugging Pretty little Kennedy

Opening his presents (Macy likes to help with this every year, I think she was disapointed this year that he could handle it on his own)!

Checking out his new toys with his Buddy Logan (my mom's Best-ie Betty's grandson)

Diving back into the bounce house with Abram and Devin (my friend Carlos' boys)

My girl friend from highschool Aspen (Kennedy is her pretty little girl)

Bouncing with Braeden, and Kennedy

My best-ie Brittney (her son is Braeden)

Cousins

2011-03-04T13:13:00.000-08:00

At the end of February we went to Baton Rouge for my Cousin Gina's baby shower for Cullen and for my other Cousin Kathryn's little girl Noa's baptism. We had such a great time because not only do I get to see all my girl cousins but Jayden got to see his favorite person in the world his 2nd cousin Thomas. The boys are like two peas in a pod, they absolutely LOVE to play together.

While all the girls were at Gina's shower Jayden and Thomas went with Chris, Ra-paw, and Uncle Dan to the zoo. They had a blast! The favorite part of the zoo was climbing on things (not sure if they noticed the animals or not) ha ha. All I know is when they returned the grownups were very very tired and the boys were still running around the house! **of coarse there are no pics at the zoo because we sent the men**

I think the best part of the weekend was watching the boys in Church. I had this great idea that I would walk Jayden and Thomas to the front of the church for the children's lesson. Well 1st thing Jayden started pushing his older boy in the back, and then he looked over at Thomas and got Thomas to start pushing the kid too. (Such a bully) After the they grew tired of angering this poor kid Thomas noticed there were steps to the alter that went all the way across the front of the church. He tapped Jayden and they started scooting all the way across the front of the church. Meanwhile there are hundreds of people watching them and the kids sermon is still in progress. Finally they got close enough that David was able to grab them and pull them back into the pew. We very quickly ducked out of the rest of the service. Soooo embarrassed!

Thomas and Jayden (Lord help us if they ever live near each other)!

All the girl cousins on my moms side (except Cynthia)

Mardi Gras

2011-03-04T12:46:00.000-08:00

Jayden has really enjoyed the Mardi gras traditions this year. He regularly runs around the house draped in beads! And he asks me if he can eat king cake all the time (he does not understand why we don't have it at the house ALWAYS)! He has enjoyed King cake 4 different times in the last month at different families houses and events. He gets very very upset if he does not get the baby (he thinks he has to Won-ded every thing (translation win everything). He has even helped me with my mardi gras wreath making (or at least he thinks he is helping)ha ha! Jayden has grown up to be such a smart, athletic, very sweet and loving little boy.

Jayden showing off all the beads he is wearing. We had to take this picture 3 times before he approved it. After each shot he would say, "let me see" and then proceed to tell me if it is ok or to re-do it.

This is the latest King cake we had for Ami's (Mimi's) birthday I was not sure who wanted the baby more Keegan (14), Macy (7), or Jayden.

Kissing his Daddy (what a little lover)

Putting Mardi Gras beads on Pebbles (she is such a sweet patient dog)

Getting a big Kiss from Hailey after he put beads on her (against her will, but she was a good sport)

The Arm

2010-12-13T10:52:00.000-08:00

As always this is my busy crazy time of year with work and you add a very busy active 2.5 year old and its that much crazier! This year Jayden decided to spice things up a notch and break his arm!.....

Chris was having a boys weekend with friends at the Nascar races and so Jayden and I went over to our very good friends Mike and Britney's house for dinner and to let the boys play (They have a son Braden who is 1 little more than a year older than Jayden) Anyway so the boys were playing and Britney and I decided to run to the store and get dinner. So we left Mike with the boys (this was the 1st mistake you should never let boys outnumber the adults) So as boys do they were playing rough and jumping on the bed, after they were warned and threatened by Mike for the 10th time not to jump on the bed it happened. Jayden fell off and broke his arm. Mike not being able to drive and hold Jayden called 911 and then called Brittney. Well Brittney trying to to freak me out was saying Kristin we need to go and I kept telling her just a minute I'm checking out. After she said this a few times and me not moving very fast she finally said JAYDEN BROKE HIS ARM. Well that got my attention, I threw my stuff at the poor lady at the register and flew out the door to the car. WE raced home and beat the ambulance there and poor little Jayden has sitting on the sofa holding his arm white as a ghost (more so than normal) he was not crying but saying over and over my arm is broke. At this point the paramedics got there wrapped the arm up so the could not see the bone poking out the side of his arm and we rushed to the ER at Children's Medical. They were an amazing staff who were so good with Jayden and pretty quickly gave him some drugs were he thought everything was funny. We had to wait 6 hours before they could set and cast the arm because he had eaten and when your that little they put you under to set broken bones. Finally about midnight we were leaving the hospital with a temp cast on his arm and an appointment to go in a few days later and get a new cast. (Jayden wanted a blue cast like Thomas the train).

Needless to say that goes on my top 5 worst nights ever! But we survived and its been almost 5 weeks with the cast. It has not slowed Jayden down one little bit. But bath time sure is fun, it because a 3 person job (Jayden in tub, Chris holding the arm with a towel and bag over it while I scrub Jayden as fast as possible. I have gotten vary good at this after about 30 times! It will be Christmas early for all of us this Thurs. when the cast comes off!

Haloween Party and Trick or Treating

2010-11-03T09:17:00.000-07:00

This year Jayden was so excited for Halloween, he decided early on that he wanted to be spiderman! We went to the store to get the costume and he tried on "Black Spiderman" he looked in the mirror and decided he looked cool and refused to take it off! Needless to say we bought it (did not really have any other choice)ha ha!

We went to Jayden's school Halloween Party Friday night (they always do such a great job). Jayden was really excited to show off his costume to his friends...that is untill an older kid walking down the hallway said to Jayden, "ewwww your black spiderman he's bad"! You could see the look of horror on Jaydens face, I thought Chris was going to deck the little kid. I quickly said black spiderman is cool and gave the kid my best evil eye and he said, "yeah he's cool"! The rest of the night was a lot of fun Jayden went from room to room playing all the games and watching the big kids (he LOVES BIG boys).

Sunday night I took Jayden trick or treating he wanted to pratcice before we went out so he made me stand inside while he knocked on our front door and said Trick or Treat and I then had to say, "oh wow black spiderman you look cool" and then give him candy. He would say thank you and I had to close the door and we would start all over!!! After the tenth time I said I think your ready let's go....we got to about the 5th house and he said, "I'm tired lets go to Ra-Paws". By this time I was more than happy to be finished. We then went to GiGi and Ra-Paws where Jayden got to hand out candy to the other kids (he loved this part the most). The kids would come to the door and Jayden would go, "what do you say"? and if they did not say trick or treat he refused to give them any candy! It was pretty funny!

Jayden making a Halloween necklace

Black Spiderman Jayden with Vampire Mommy and Daddy

Pumpkin Ra-Paw and Black Spiderman

Playing Haloween Golf (can you tell he has been practicing with Ra-Paw)

His Spider ring prize (they don't allow candy at Montesorri school) boo!!!

Making a Pumpkin mask

Playing Musical (sugar free) cake walk

I finally had to get the teacher to rig the game so Jaydens chair number would get called he played for a long time and Jayden was getting frustrated (he is use to winning)

Ra-Paw, GiGi, Black Spiderman and MawMaw

Jayden Tick or Treating at our house!

Eating his candy after trick or treating (no wonder he wanted to go to Ra-Paws)

MawMaws and PawPaws House

2010-10-15T11:41:00.000-07:00

Jaydens favorite place to go play is at MawMaw and PawPaws house. He LOVES their backyard because he can run and play. His favorite is to throw things into the fish pond (I know how much MawMaw loves this too)ha ha!

This past trip to MawMaws backyard was interesting....I was standing there taking picture after picture of Jayden, then (as I always do) I was flipping threw them on the camera to see how they turned out and I noticed something in the bottom of the screen.... it looked like a rat! So I ran over to the pond and sure enough there was a big dead rat right next to Jaydens foot. I tried not to freak out since Jayden had not noticed yet. I grabbed Jayden (who by the way was not happy about me interrupting his play time) and I began yelling for PawPaw to come get it! About that time little miss PERFECT MawMaw yells, "throw it in the neighbors yard Ken". I was appalled that came out of my sweet little grandmaws mouth! I think she might have some issues with her next door neighbor!

Don't be fooled by the sweet looking little old lady holding Jayden she throws dead animals in the neighbors yard!

Notice the bottom of the picture next to the stone...a big dead rat!

Family Photo Shoot

2010-10-14T13:25:00.001-07:00

Ra-Paw has been telling Jayden about his Aunt Jaclyn coming to visit him for months now. To the point that Jayden will, "God Bless" her in his prayers every night even though he had not met her yet!

So when Jayden and I went to the airport to pick up Aunt Jaclyn, Jayden was very excited! And while Aunt Jaclyn and Mr. Chris were here Jayden was in heaven he LOVED both of them (to the point where they might be 2nd guessing having kids)haha!
Since they have been gone Jayden has asked, "wheres Aunt Jaclyn and Chris" several DOZEN times!

While we had all 4 kids plus Jayden in the same city, state, and country at the same time (Which has not happened in at least 13 years)we decided to take family pictures. I (Kristin) desided for some dumb reason to take on the task of coordinating date, time and outfits for 9 people to take pictures. I know that does not sound hard but believe me it was, it really really was! But I have to say it might have had the easy part that poor poor photographer. I will tell you compaired to Uncle Stephen, Jayden was easy to photograph!!!!

See the results of a very LONG hour.....

Ra-Paw, Mom, and Jayden (Mom is holding onto Jayden for dear life, but at least 2 out of 3 are smiling)

Jayden was soooo over taking pictures by the time we got to this one! He has on his best "trouble" look.

The 4 kids plus Jayden (As long as Jayden could be next to Aunt Jaclyn he was ok)

Please don't eighter one of you smile!

This is the whole reason for the photo shoot and it was sooooo difficult to get this picture taken. Due to Stephen being .....well himself. So this is the winning picture! I like to call it Turtle pooking his head out! And yes Jaclyn is laying ontop of Stephen....long story!

If this picture does not capture Jayden's personality nothing does!

The whole family!!! This was an act of God to get everyone looking at the camera at the same time!

Geaux Tigers

2010-09-16T13:21:00.001-07:00

Geaux Tigers!

For the 1st LSU football game we had a little family party our house to kick off the new season! Jayden thought the party was for him of course! It was a great time, Jayden LOVES to play with his two UNCLES! Although, he still does not really understand that he is little. The boys were teaching Jayden how to catch and throw the football. And then one of them had the bright idea to throw the football on the ground and yell fumble and they all DIVE to get it. I had to quickly end this game (in the middle of my livingroom) before everything got broken!

But it was a blast as always! I am very blessed to have such an awesome family!

Roller Skates

2010-09-14T12:35:00.000-07:00

Thank you Gigi for the roller skates for the 2 YEAR OLD! Now we know why Tregre did not have teeth at this age! ha ha

Jayden was soooo excited about his new roller skates he had on his spiderman helmet, spidy elbow pads and spidy knee pads he was ready to go!....that is untill Gigi let him go and he realized he could not do it then he wanted Gigi to hold on to him at all times!

Getting dressed to go roller skate 20 min....Time on roller skates 5 minutes ....pictures of Jayden and Gigi both trying not to fall PRICELESS!

Summer 2010 Beach Vaca

2010-08-09T13:01:00.000-07:00

Beach Vacation 2010

Jayden had so much fun this summer at the beach! It amazing how much he has changed since we went last summer. He was full on energy and went strong for the entire 7 days and when he did crash he did it wherever he was at that moment!

Jayden loved playing in the sand and jumping the waves, but his favorite part I think was the water park! When everyone went deep sea fishing Jayden and I went to the water park for some mommy and son time. So much for that Jayden decided that he was a big kid and would go down all the tall slides and he did NOT want me to go with him he wanted to do it by himself! Luckly I made friends with the life guards and they would give me the thumbs up when he reached the top and a tumbs up then he got to the bottom of the slide!

Jayden and Mommy at the condo pool

Fell asleep at the water park

Being a ham in the condo!

Jayden and Mommy at the Dolphin show

Man on a mission

Ridding daddy so he could see the show better

Dolphins

He was so excited

Mommy and me

GQ

Jayden and Daddy

Jayden and Mommy

Mommy and Daddy

Taking Off....lead the way Jayden

Family Photo

So cute

Jayden and Uncle Tregre in the big hole uncle Dug

Daddy and Jayden out in the ocean

Cheese

Daddy, Undle Tregre, Aunt Orange

Dig Daddy Dig

What a little stud

Mommy and Jayden in the water (this is as far as mommy goes)

On a mission

Jaydens 1st Organized Swim class

2010-06-11T13:16:00.000-07:00

Jayden had his 1st organized swim class this week, Chris did it with him. There was just one little tiny problem.....the water park with all the slides was right next to the pool and Jayden could not possibly focus when the slides were calling his name (he might be a little A.D.D. like his mommy). Everytime the teacher instructed the parents to put the kids on the side of the pool so they could jump in Jayden would take off running to the water park. After the 3rd time he took off running his daddy gave up and we finished the 30 min. class at the water park! ......Maybe we will learn to swim next year! ha ha

Spring Trip to BR and Mothers Day and Pool Time

2010-06-01T12:07:00.000-07:00

We made a quick trip to Baton Rouge over Mothers Day so that I could set up our product at a new store (Royal Standard BR). While we were in town we visited Big Daddy and let Jayden see his train world he has set up in his game room! Jayden thought it was like the greatest thing he ever saw (much like Tregre when he was a little boy). We also made a trip to see Mike the Tiger, Jayden kept saying, "Wake up Kitty" it was too cute!

On the way home Chris, Jayden and I stopped in Shreveport and got a hotel hor Mothers Day, we swam at the hotel and then went to the river walk for dinner and a ride on the Choo choo train aka Trolly. We then had to go back the next day and ride the train again before we could go home. Jayden was slightly obsessed with riding back and forth along the shopping center in the train!

The rest of the pictures are of our 1st day this summer out by our pool. We were so afraid of Jayden getting burned we might have over done it with the sun screen and protective wear. But he looked so cool!

Jayden and Cousin Thomas April 2010

2010-06-01T11:42:00.000-07:00

Cousin Kathryn and Thomas came to visit over there spring break! The boys had an absolute blast! We took them to the Zoo one day and made it through the 1st exhibit before both of them had complete melt downs! We later learned that the 1st exhibit should take 20min to walk through we took 2 hours. The boys were much more interested in climbing on the statues than the animals.

The highlight of the visit for the boys was Maw Maw and Paw Paws back yard they chased each other for hours and hours. I think their great grandparents were warn out just watching them! They contiunously trampled through Maw Maws plants and we could see her crindge each time as she smiled and said its ok they will grow back. But the next day she had put a fence around her flowers (I dont think it was really ok! ha ha)

The boys have soooo much fun together we wish Kathryn, Thomas and David lived closer! Jayden asked, "Where Thomas go"? for about a week after they left.

Jayden's 2nd Birthday

2010-06-01T10:59:00.001-07:00

Happy 2nd Birthday Jayden

3/23/2010

For Jaydens 2nd Birthday we had a Thomas the Train family party! It was a lot of fun because all 3 sets of Grandparents were able to be there and his Aunt Stephie, Uncle Bob and cousins Macy and Keegan. Jayden had a blast (as he does any time he is the center of attention)! His Aunt Stephie and Uncle Bob gave him a 4 wheeler and he was VERY excited about that! He also got a ton of Thomas the train stuff including a bunch of engines and swim shorts.

Easter

2010-04-05T13:15:00.000-07:00

Easter Arpil 4th 2010

Easter is special for several reasons at our house...obviously because it is the day that Christ had Risen! But also because 2 years ago on Easter Sunday at 3:14am my little Easter bunny Jayden Ryan Maples was born!

Jayden had a blast at Easter this year. It was the 1st Easter he could really hunt for Eggs and he had a blast. We went to Maw Maw and Paw Paws church for the egg hunt on Sat. and Jayden was so funny he was very selective on the eggs he choose for his basket! And he got the GOLDEN EGG!

On Sunday we had another Egg hunt at our house and the Watts/ Maples/ Furrate family joined us. Jayden and Macy went crazy hunting eggs in the house. We then all went to Fellowship for Easter service followed by a huge feast of food for 21 of my family members (Maples, Shirleys, Furrates, Watts, Thomas)! It was sooo much fun! I am the happiest when I am surrounded by my family!!!

Jayden and his 2nd cousins in Baton Rouge

2010-03-27T07:24:00.001-07:00

Jayden with his 2nd cousins in Baton Rouge! All the kids had a blast! And Jayden really took a liking to Ryan (I think he wanted to keep him)!

Snow Day!!

2010-02-15T10:16:00.000-08:00

It Snowed in Dallas and this time "real snow" we got somewhere around what the news called 10-12 inches. In our yard it looked more like 4 inches. But anyway it was enough to call off school for 2 days. We all had a blast and built Jaydens 1st snowman! And truth be known this was my 1st of what I would call a real snow man not an ice man!

Jayden LOVED the snow but did not care so much for the 8 layers of clothing I made him put on. I was being a little bit of an overprotective mom, I did not want him to get sick! So anyway we had fun and so did the dogs they were pouncing around like deer (except for Pebbles she was not real happy about her paws being cold she tip toed in the snow.

Christmas Pictures

2010-02-05T13:34:00.000-08:00

Hello Family and friends sorry this blog is sooooo late. Most of you know how hard I have been working and how much I have been traveling with the new company. Anyway here are our pictures from Jaydens 2nd Christmas! It was a wonderful day!

Thomas the Train

2009-12-22T08:04:00.001-08:00

Thomas Thomas Thomas!!! AHHHH

Two weeks ago Chris (hubby), Stephanie (sis-n-law) and I were in New Orleans at a holiday show selling our fragrance line, while we were gone my Mom and Ralph kept Jayden (thank you both for this he had a great time). BUT this is where the trouble began!!!!!.....

Since Jayden has fallen in love with the train that goes around our Christmas tree my mom thought it would be a good idea to introduce Jayden to Thomas the Train and the videos! Well it was a huge hit! Jayden Loved the Thomas video and anything that remotely looks or sounds like a train. He loved the movie so much that after Jayden wore out the 1st video (and Ra-Paw and GiGi could quote the whole thing) Ra-paw went to the store and bought $65 more dollars worth of Thomas videos. This has now become such a huge obsession that now when I get Jayden out of his crib in the morning the first words he says are no longer those beautiful words that bring tears to my eyes, "hi Mommy"! Oh no the first thing he says in the morning is, "Where Thomas"? (This also brings tears to my eyes just not tears of joy)!!! So we go downstairs and lay him in our bed and start the Thomas video and we eat breakfast in bed while he watches Thomas. I know your thinking this is silly but a few crumbs in bed sure beats a screaming, crying all out temper tantrum!

In addition, our bed time routine now consists of walking around the house saying night night to "ALL" the Thomas engines and friends and the train that goes around the tree, the Thomas video etc. This can be quite a process some nights.....And thanks to my wonderful parents we no longer can even ride in the car without having a Thomas video playing on the car TV. I now dream in Thomas the train! Thank you GiGi and Ra-Paw we are now buying even more Thomas things for Christmas due to my child's complete OBSESSION that you created!

Advise to other parents out there beware of Thomas the train!

And a special thanks to Uncle Tregre and Aunt Andrea for taking Jayden to see the train exhibit at the mall yesterday....Jayden did his best to tell me all about it when I got home! I cant wait to see the picture

Thomas train tracks....

Jayden driving a train into poor Hailey

Watching the Thomas video on TV one last night before bedtime!

Sitting on a train at the mall....there was no way he was going to let us leave without him sitting on the train!

Christmas at the Maples

2009-12-07T10:34:00.000-08:00

Jayden is Loving all the Christmas decorations!!! He has two favorites the train that goes around the tree and the singing squirrel that Maw Maw gave him last year (he was too little to enjoy it). Its really funny the Squirrel sing "I'm getting nothing for Christmas, Mommy and Daddy are Mad, I'm getting nothing for Christmas, Cuz I aint been nothing but BAD!" Jayden dances around the room to it and then at the end yells BAD! I have already replaced the batteries once he plays it sooooo much!

As for the Train he wants whoever is in the house to sit in the chair by the tree and watch it with him over and over. When the train stops he yells AGAIN AGAIN! We finally told him the train is sleeping he is ok with this and will walk away for a little while!

Jayden also loves the lights and the GLASS balls I have on the tree....My beautiful tree is starting to look lop sided because slowly I am having to move all the balls up high!

Coloring

2009-11-24T10:39:00.000-08:00

Jayden has recently dicovered coloring. He has been making "master pieces" at school a lot lately and will bring them home and insist they be hung on the fridge!....My beautiful black shinny fridge! The fridge with the double doors and the pullout freezer. the Fridge that took me months to convience Chris to let me buy because is was so expensive. That fridge is now COVERED in Jayden's, "master pieces"! None of these master pieces look like anything but non the less he is proud of them so there they hang all over the fridge.

My favorite master piece of all of them is JAYDEN! Let me explain: He was coloring at home last weekend and I must have blinked because the next thing I knew my little man became the master piece, he was covered in blue! Apparently the new "safe" crayons are messy so I had a little smurf boy his face was very blue! Did not seem to bother him at all he just posed as I took his picture.

Trick or Treat

2009-11-02T11:20:00.000-08:00

This weekend was Halloween and Jayden was a Cowboy.
He was so stinkin cute,"and he knew it".

We started off at Aunt Steph-ies and took pictures with cousin Lauren before Homecoming. Then Jayden begged Aunt Steph to ride the bike (he thinks he is a big kid and wants to ride just like his cousin Macy).....

We then continued on to Poppa and CiCi's house and where we went to a neighborhood Halloween block party. Jayden was so cute he stared at these pretty girls for a long time, went after a dog and then he painted a cookie ate it and was ready to go!....

Next stop trick-or-treating at Gi Gi and Ra-Paw's and some other neighbors. Jayden LOVED to beat on the door but when people answered he ran away! He did not really get the concept of putting the candy in the bucket, he wanted to eat each piece right away or at least hold the chocolate mess in his hand!!

Needless to say we had a very FULL Halloween afternoon and evening. Jayden crashed by 7:30pm and slept-in the next morning (7:30am is sleeping late at our house)ha!

Halloween at School

2009-10-30T13:39:00.000-07:00

Thursday Night Jayden's school had a Halloween festival so all the kids dressed up. WOW I had know idea that people spent soooo much money on costumes. Granted he goes to Montessori school with rich kids but these kids are 18 month to 6 yrs in age and had hair extensions, face paint, make-up and very elaborate costumes! Jayden walked from room to room and stared at all the big kids (he is the youngest at the school right now).

Then he decided he was going to be in charge of the "toss the bean bag game" and stood in the middle of the game and delegated the bean bag to different kids. The funny thing was he can only say a handful of words but all the kids did what he wanted! A BORN LEADER or maybe just bossy like his mom! ha

Jayden gathering all the bean bags and then letting the teacher know he would be running this game from now on

Little princess girl with the hair piece.....................Dorky kid in costume (Jayden staired at him for a long time) and one of like 50 fairies

My Little Monster is 19 months old

2009-10-22T09:53:00.000-07:00

Hello Friend and Family

It's hard to believe Jayden is 19 months old tomorrow! It seems like yesterday I was very round and counting the minutes to his arrival and the return of my old body (I am still waiting on my old body to come back)Ha ha!

Jayden is a wild child (I am told much like I was). He never stops running, climbing, or jumping off of things. He has developed his own little personality with attitude and everything. We have discovered over the course of his 19 months of life Jayden in NOT a morning baby he needs a lot of time to slowly wake up. A few days ago I had him laying in my bed drinking his morning milk as usual and I was standing over him Singing the good morning song. For those of you not raised in my family the good morning song goes like this "Good Morning to you, Good Morning to you, Good Morning dear Jayden Good Morning to you" (to the turn of happy birthday)....so I was on the 3rd Good Morning when Jayden sat up in bed, opened his eyes, pulled the cup out his mouth while putting his finger to his lips and said, "SHHHH" then closed his eyes and layed back down with his milk......I was so upset he no longer wanted me to sing. Chris on the other hand thought this was so funny almost wet his pants laughing so hard! Needless to say my baby is growing up!

Jayden one morning when he was NOT happy to be awakened. This particular day he did not "shhhhh" me instead he threatened to hit me with his bat (hence why I still have a plastic bat on the top of my fridge)

Jayden on the "MOVE" the child does not walk anywhere he bounces or runs. This is Jayden testing out his Halloween costume he IS the horse!