SMILE!!!

Today is picture day at school. I bought two shirts yesterday for the boys. I wanted a solid, dark button up shirt for their pictures. Anyway, went to Target and bought two dark blue shirts. When the boys got home from school, Dylan looked at his shirt and wasn't very pleased. I told him he would look good in it but he wasn't buying it!!! I cut their hair last night and told them to put on their shirts. Dylan put his on, put his glasses on and then looked in the mirror and smiled!! I said, "TOLD YOU IT WOULD LOOK GOOD!!"

Now, Jaxon was all worried about his smile (think that is my fault!) First of all he has another loose tooth. Top left! I told him to just leave it alone and we would take it out AFTER pictures. He was OK with that. Then he started practicing his smile. He kept saying, "How does this look Mommy?", with his top and bottom teeth touching and his tongue pushing through his spaces!!! I told him to just close his mouth and smile. Don't make your teeth touch. He kept trying and couldn't get it. This morning he woke up and was practicing and then said, "Mommy, you mean for me to put my back teeth behind my front teeth?" I had to laugh!! He then had his smile perfected and was ready for his picture!!

The Next Greg Maddux

Dylan is playing in a fall baseball league after taking the summer off. He has been playing baseball since he was four years old. I think he was throwing a baseball before he could walk. This was his first year to pitch. I knew he was accurate but had no idea he would do so well. Now, of course, I am Mommy and my Dyl Pickle can do NO WRONG but he really did surprise me and many others!. Watch out Major Leagues, here comes Dyl Pickle Cross!!!

I'm Sorey Dylan

Dylan came to me with this last night. He said, "Mommy, did you see what Jaxon wrote to me?" He then told me why Jax was "sorey". Dylan said that Jaxon was mad and tried to hit him with a drum stick. Dylan locked his bedroom door and wouldn't let Jax in. Jaxon then wrote this note and tried to slide it under the door but it wouldn't go so he asked Dylan if he could give him the note. Dylan let him in and read the note. Dylan accepted Jax's apology and they hugged!

Jaxon......

So here we go again. I received an email from Jaxon's teacher today. Here it is:

Jaxon came up to me at lunch, crying. He said he missed his mommy. Then he said he missed you b/c he didn’t know where you were. Then he said something about Trey tricking him…something about the date on the milk carton, but I couldn’t make sense of it. I told him I’d send you an email and maybe you could write him back. We’re having inside recess now. He’s playing with Legos, happy as can be! J

I am thinking this dramatic display of emotion all as to do with the fact that Trey did trick him. Jaxon hates to be tricked and it really makes him mad. And like his Mommy, he starts crying when he is mad. And then he probably got embarrassed because he got tricked and then he started crying. SO then he needed his Mommy!!!!

Rainy Sunday Afternoon

Who said that a rainy Sunday afternoon had to be spent in the house? As soon as we got home from church, Jaxon ran out the front door and got on his bike. It wasn't long before the rain started pouring down. Next thing we know Dylan stops watching football and joins Jax out in the rain. They rode their bikes up and down the road. To be honest, it looked so fun that I had the urge to get on a bike and join them. As I type I actually regret not joining them.

Mommy I gave you your FATNESS...

This could only come from Jaxon...... I was sitting by the pool today and Jaxon came to join me. Not sure what brought this up but he said, " Mommy, I don't think this but do you think you need to loose some weight?" I just looked at him and said, "Do you think I do?' He said, "You are beautiful Mommy but your legs kinda got fatness in them and I know that me and Dylan gave you the fatness!" All I could do was laugh. I told him, "No baby, you didn't give me my fatness in my legs, Mommy has had that since she was in the 8th grade but you did give me my fatness in my belly!!!" He said, "But that's OK right?" I said, "More than OK!!!"

My boy is now a man!

My Dyl Pickle is now a man. He mowed his first yard!!! I started mowing the grass Sunday after church. I called Dylan over and taught him how to push the mower and turn it around. We mowed the rest of the front yard together then I let him do it all by himself. He was so proud but asked when he could mow with the riding lawn mower!

Conviction of a child's heart!

I had to share this story. Jaxon came to me around 8:15 last night and started to cry. I asked him what was wrong, already knowing that he was about to make a confession about something. God convicts his little heart at the funniest times. Anyway, he starting crying really hard and what I got out of it was he was down the street playing with some friends this past weekend. He had to go to the bathroom really bad and decide to just use it outside. Well one of the boys told him to stop and when he turned towards that boy, he "got him wet". The boy told him he was going to tell on him and Jaxon promised him he would never pee on him again!!! Now this is Jaxon's side of the story - Knowing him like I do, he could have "intentionally" got his friend wet! Either way, I told him it was OK. He laid on me and was asleep within 10 minutes. It was too funny.