Jaxton Jeffrey Turns 3!

The day after Halloween Jaxton turned 3! Having a baby the day after Halloween seemed like a good idea when I was pregnant and wanting my baby out, but now that he's big and realizes it's his birthday it's hard. I feel like Halloween day is birthday prep. But thats ok! He's worth it!
He woke up on his birthday in a GREAT mood, which we were all thankful for! 

He picked donuts for his birthday breakfast and of course picked the biggest one they had and did nothing but eat the frosting off of it. 

We decided to go to the fair to celebrate his day. Lucas stayed home with Laura and the kids (and had just as much fun as we did). Jaxton spent the first part of the trip there cranky. Hypoglycemia is rough sometimes and he is an up and down roller coaster because of it. But eventually he ate some real food- french fries, turkey leg, blooming onion and strawberry lemonade. 

It was kind of a perfect day being overcast and we had a great time. 

On our way home Jaxton fell right asleep which is good because then we got a flat tire. But there were so many good things about getting that flat tire then- Lucas wasn't with us and crying, jaxton was asleep and not whining, Patrick was driving instead of me alone with the boys, we were right next to an offramp and as soon as we pulled off we found an emptry parking lot that was shady, it wasn't a blow out so we didn't lose control, and our spare was in good shape. It was really the best kind of a bad situation. 

Later that night we had a birthday dinner (pizza and crazy bread!) and invited my side of the family over. 

He is REALLY into Pete the Cat right now- its a childrens book that we read about 5 times a day, so I made him a Pete the Cat cake. He was pretty happy with it and I love making my kids happy. 

Then the next day, Sunday he had another birthday party with Patrick's side of the family. He's going through this phase where he doesn't like showing you that he is smiling and gets embarrassed when he is happy, so this is the face he made when opening up his presents and saying thank you to people. 

That night he enjoyed playing with his new toys and his new pajamas! 

The next day was another big day for him and he started preschool! He qualifies for the same preschool that Preston goes to because of his speech delay. He goes Mon, Tues, Thursday from 9:15-12:20 and has the same teacher that Preston has which is GREAT since we have spent a lot of time at school functions for Preston so Jaxton is familiar with the class and teachers. He was pretty excited to go, and I was nervous he would cry after I left him since he's so emotional and VERY attached to me (seriously he wont even let someone else open the bathroom door for him but me) but his teacher said he did great! No tears! He was cranky when he got home- overstimulated. But today he was just as excited to go, and he got on the bus with no issues. I think this is going to be very good for him. Preschool helped Preston grow so much and come out of his shell and I'm praying it does the same thing for Jaxton. 

Oh JaJa. You are a handful but you are OUR handful and we love you so much!