Sunshine and Rainboots

What a GORGEOUS weekend! We had lots and lots of sunshine and spent every waking moment outside. Jaxton is such a busy explorer it is so much fun to follow him around as he checks everything out. Not only how things work but mine or Robies reaction to what he is doing. He gets a little sideways grin on his face when he knows he is doing something sneaky (the same look his dad gets :)

Coloring with Aunt Sid before she heads off to her first weekend of training for the Army National Guard.

Oh his boots! Let me tell you when YaYa first bought these for him and tried to put them on he screamed and kicked and would not have any of it. When I tried we put one on and I started singing a made up on the spot song about his boots and he started dancing. This kid LOVES to dance. Any music or tune or anything said in a sing-song voice he starts to dance.

By the time I got both boots on we sang and danced for close to thirty minutes.Then he would not take them off. He threw a fit when I pulled them off to put his pj's on. Needless to say he wore them all weekend.

Dad brought home a skid steer to level out the front parking area and get rid of the potholes.

Jaxton stood there and watched the whole time.

Having a little after nap snack with Dad

(check out that hair)

You can't see in this picture but he is wearing overall shorts with his boots :)

His Dad was not happy with my outfit choice, said he looked like a little hick

Because it was so nice we had to make our own puddles to splash in and put those boots to the test.

Of course he got carried away and fell down, got water in his boots and spend the rest of the day squishing when he walked.

A Sandbox & A Lid

Jaxton is obsessed with sand and dirt and rocks and bark from the play grounds. He loves to throw it, dig in it and eat it. He is a boy.

So we built him a sandbox.

We knew he it was going to need a lid, you know between the Montana weather (read rain and snow), the dog and the neighborhood cats we figured it would get pretty nasty pretty fast.

Robie built a nice lid with hinges and I made some paint for it. I say made because I made chalkboard paint so he can draw on the inside and out to his hearts content. Well, once he gets over eating the chalk whenever you give him some.

I have mixed feeling about the paint. You need 2Tbs of UNsanded grout for every cup of paint. The smallest bag of grout I could find was 10lbs, that's a lot of grout. They sell chalkboard paint is a few colors but it was quite expensive for a very little amount. So I sucked it up and bought the grout and mixed it with some leftover outdoor deck/fence paint we had hoping it would withstand the rain a little better. The grout was a bit hard to mix with the paint and there were a few lumps that I fished out (and some I left) but I works and we can draw on it. I just hope that it stands up to the rain.

Anyhoo now the good part, cute pictures of Little Man

Hockey

Jaxton LOVES watching hockey. TV does not hold his attention long but he will sit down for a few minutes to watch hockey and cartoons, then he is back up playing hockey. Robie got him a hockey stick for Christmas and he plays with that more than any other toy. He will hit anything he can around the living room floor ball, cars, dog toys/ bones, shoes or anything else small enough for him to move.

I took this picture while he was sitting on the floor watching a hockey game they day we came home early because he was puking