everyone hail to the pumpkin king

today is halloween! i LOVE halloween it is my favorite holiday. and its even better now that i have a kid, i get to dress him up and eat all his candy! and if i feel like it, i can dress up too. i just won't get any candy for myself...i have to steal it from my own baby. this year, paxton was a skunk and he was just the cutest skunk around! this is actually his second halloween, but the first one he didn't care about much besides boobs since he was so young. this year he kinda got the idea, he held his bucket and was amazed when it started filling up with candy. he loves lollipops, so as soon as he got one he dug it out and tried to eat it thru the wrapper. well, he eventually got it off and was then walking around with a tootsie pop in one hand and his bucket and my hand in the other. we didn't do the actual trick or treating where you go house to house, we did trunk or treat at the church parking lot (half the town was there anyway) everyone kept saying he was an adorable little skunk. i wore one of lloyd's old DCUs, lisa wore an old BDU, ben was superman and bryan was a swordsman. james, i wish you coulda been here for it but you will be next year, and then pax will be more into it. anyway, here's a pic or two and there's more on myspace.

pizza face

its been too long since i posted. that's mainly because not much excitiment occurs around here...unless you count chasing my one year old and digging out drool covered objects of unknown origins from between his teeth. he really is a sweetheart tho. he does something new almost every day and it never ceases to amaze me. he is also in his climbing phase, he loves to climb on the couches and the chair i'm sitting in, and climbs on bryan every chance he gets. he also walks around with his hand in his diaper. i dress him in onesies all day so he can't get to it but most of his jammies are two-piece. today was a hungry day, pax had two pieces of pizza, minus the crust. i took a few shots of his pizza covered face, here's one of them.

i think he looks like you james. he has your smile. we love you and miss you!

kitchen faucets and bloody lips

today was interesting. we had out first major biff-it, paxton was palying on the couch and suddenly ended up in the floor crying. this isn't the first time he's fallen off this couch but it is the first time he cried about it, so i picked him up and held him for a bit. when he pulled away from my shirt i noticed there was blood all over it and all over his face. i couldn't find where it was bleeding from exactly, i think its under his top lip where his teeth meet the gums and lip right in the middle. but he is ok, no more bleeding and i think he has all the teeth he's still sprouting. kinda hard to tell when the number of teeth change every day.

dad and i bought sink faucet for the kitchen yesterday for mom, since the old one was showering whoever turned it on. so since dad can't bend over too well too many times, i got the honor of installing everything under the sink. it took two trips to Ace but we got it! first we had to buy thread tape. when i asked where it was the guy working there looked at me like i was stupid and asked if it was for electricity, when i told him it was for plumbing he informed me there was no such thing. i said yes, its white. goes on threads on pipes and such. then he said OH you mean thread seal tape. thank-you, sir, for looking at me like i don't know what i'm talking about, when in reality i know your job better than you do. anyway. we got back home and discovered that we have four pipes with female ends and no way to connect them without some sort of male adapter. back to Ace, where another guy looks at me like i'm an idiot when i explain what i want. i had to demonstrate to this one what i needed. back home, we thread taped everything and connected females to males to females (these pipes are having a threesome) and ta-da! no leaks! everything works! i didn't even get hot and cold pipes mixed up! in this picture, paxton has decided to be of help by holding the screwdriver for me. (i put some more pics up on myspace) well james, i hope this tickles you. you have taught your wife much, including how to install a kitchen faucet simply by showing me what thread tape is. and how to give the evil eye to males that know everything in hardware stores. we love you and miss you.

maples

yesterday we decided to hike out to see a little grove of maples that are changing for fall. pax had a blast. he got to run around and pick things up and throw them, like sticks and rocks and leaves. i think he was just excited to be outside. i've noticed he is happy outside, maybe we have a future outdoorsman. could be fun. i bet he'll like boy scouts. but anyway, we went out there and took a few family pics (with what family we have here, we're missing james, lloyd, angie and cory) i think paxton cooperated for one then decided he had better things to do like pick up sticks and try to escape. anyway, here's some of the pics we took. there's more up on myspace. love you james, wish you were here with us.

miles

well, i thought i was doing good. while i still lived in hawaii i ran occasionally, and i've made a goal to run here. in hawaii i can run about a mile without stopping, even if i get a little slow in the end. a hawaiian mile does not equal a heber mile! i guess oah'u is about sea level...well the elevation here is 6500 feet. not much oxygen in the air here. i lasted almost half a mile before i needed to throw up. i have a feeling the 32oz of dr. pepper earlier didn't help much either. but i do believe that after i reach my goal of three miles here, i will be able to run even further when i get back to hawaii! i have six months to do this. keep me on it everyone!

in the house here we have a wood stove. i've been a little worried about paxton with it, he hasn't managed to burn himself yet but i'm sure he will. he tapped it once while it was hot and it must've startled him because he cried bloody murder, but there was no burn. now i believe my boy is a smart little thing, but he keeps running back to the stove and hitting it. most of the time its cold, but eventually the weather's gonna be cold enough that it will be going constantly instead of just in the mornings. he did manage to get into a little soot this morning, you can see it on his nose.

and this is the first fire i've built in years!

anyway i'm done for now. sorry honey i haven't posted in a few days, i'll try to be better at it. i love you james!

back to heber

well, we made it to heber safely. the flight was long and horrible. paxton slept maybe three hours (out of 5 andahalf hours) of the flight. the rest of the time he whined, then cried, then screamed and threw things until the lady in front of me gave him a lollipop. that shut him up. since james left he's gone into his separation anxiety stage, every time i walk out of his sight he cries and pitches a fit. that with his molars all coming in makes for a cranky toddler. he doesn't always cry, but it sure seems like it sometimes. he had a better day today than yesterday, until dinnertime. he had to cry himself out tonight before he went to sleep. i hate to let him do that but he won't be consoled. he throws his sippy cup away, pushes me away if i try to hold him, and runs back to his bed if i let him go. motrin, tylenol and orajel are going to be part of the bedtime routine til that last molar pops thru.

not only do i have a cranky baby, my poor hubby is sick. he has a cold and a toothache and his neck hurts. but the man won't buy tylenol! i want to take care of him so bad, but if i buy him tylenol by the time it gets there he'll be feeling fine. i guess he's so used to me taking care of him when he gets sick that he's forgotten how to buy his own medicine. i try to take care of him the best i can and i worry about him gone. can't help it, i love him too much. he doesn't know how much i do love him and he prolly never will. i guess i'll just have to show him every day. alright, done with the mushy. (i miss james. can you tell?)

i started a blanket for james. i have 5 rows done in half double. its wider than i am tall so its gonna take a while.

this is a video of me tickling paxton. its the second time around, the first time was more belly laugh but lisa doesn't know how to push a button, apparently.