Hangin In There!

Wow!  Once again I have really been neglecting this blog!  Since I posted last Jadon celebrated b-day number two, we went to Philly for Jadon's surgery (Visit Jadon's Journey HERE to see more on that), and we threw my sister a great bridal shower!

I have had a few phone calls this week asking after Jadon and how he is doing!  People are concerned that our dear sweet toddler is miserable and uncomfortable.  With that huge cast on you would think that he is miserable. Let me reassure you, like I did them, that our toddler is soldiering through this most recent challenge just like everything that has come before.  He is playing, happy, and adapting.  Me....I would be whining, complaining, and being a big baby.  Not Jadon.  Here are some pics of some recent play times to prove to you that we still have a very happy boy.

Stacking cups

Using his feet since he can't use Righty.

Enjoying one of his b-day gifts.  This is a Joey magnetic dress up doll that come with cowboy, superhero, police, and firefighters clothes to dress him up with. 

Love that face......"Hmm...does that look right" is what I imagine him thinking.

See...looks pretty happy right?

Looks like a pretty typical day of play right?  I will be back to post some of the pics from Jadon's birthday party later! 

What We Did This Weekend....

We had a pretty good weekend. We started out our Saturday by just lounging around the house. Well...Jadon anyway. While I did some cleaning around the house Jadon was busy coloring. Coloring is one of his favorite activities right now.

He was also busy reading. I guess Jadon wanted to see what the book looked like upside down.

The rest of our Saturday was a little crazy.  Grandma Cindy went with Jadon and I to run a bunch of errands that I needed to get done. 

I don't feel like today was very productive.  We had another slow, lazy morning.  Just playing and talking to Daddy.  Then finally this afternoon I decided to trying making pj pants.  I have never made pants before so this was a first.  I used THIS tutorial and pattern created by Dana from the blog MADE for her Celebrate The Boys Series.  They were very easy to make but I wish the waist was a little bit higher so I am going to try something different tomorrow when I make another pair. 

Jadon was loving the Sesame Street fabric.  I had to try them on him before I sewed the elastic in the waist and I could not get him to take them off after that.  I had to wrestle them off of him.  When they were finally done I put them on him to get a pic.  It took me about 20 pictures before I finally got a somewhat decent one.  Apparently putting on these pants made him want to run! 

Day 1 Done!

After a good nights sleep...even without our Daddy here. 

Jadon awoke in a pretty good mood.  He has had some issues with sharing lately but today Jadon and John played together with these stacking cups for a very long time.  Working together!  It was so cute.  I guess they were feeling the love on this Valentine's Day.

Then the night ended with homemade mac n' cheese (courtesy of The Pioneer Woman) and peas.  One of Jadon's favorite meals as you can tell from this happy face and almost empty plate.

After dinner Jadon enjoyed one of the suckers that Daddy gave him for Valentine's day.  Where is the picture?  None of them would turn out.  The child was enjoying his sucker so much he could not sit still.  I tried several times to snap a picture and they all turned out blurry.  

We tried to video chat with Matt tonight.  I was unsuccessful. Something was wrong on my end and he could not make out my voice very well.  We did get it to work on Shelby's laptop though so we all took turns saying hi.  Then Shelby and I closed the evening by watching The Proposal.  Great movie!  

Happy Valentine's Day!

He Remembered!

Matt is in Brazil now.  Last I heard from him this morning he was not to his hotel quite yet.  Hopefully he is by now though!

I got a text this morning saying to check the cabinet above the basement stairs.  There we found this:

This is what Matt always does on Valentine's Day.  He gets us all chocolates.  Well...last year Jadon was too little for chocolates so he got him a stuffed monkey.  This year Jadon got heart shaped suckers because his Daddy knew that he would LOVE those!  We started giving Jadon suckers during our Walmart marathon grocery shopping trips to keep him happy.  He loves suckers and now expects them in any store we go to.  We have created a monster!

Valentine's Day was the day that Matt and I had our very first date 17 years ago now!!  Wow!  What a fun ride it has been!  Going to miss him for the next two weeks!