DJ Turned 3!!!

So hard to believe that my baby is 3 years old! Even though people still think he's older then he really is. I always loved the surprised faces I got when they found out DJ was only 2!! ha ha! He is a very tall boy!

DJ was born on November 14, 2008 at 12:18am. He came 2 weeks early, luckily, and weighed in at 9lbs even. We were so excited to welcome him into our family!

I asked DJ what kind of cake he wanted and he told me "vrrmmm". So car cake it was! He was so excited and wanted to help me, as did his sisters too. So I had a lot of help. I baked the cakes and then froze them so they'd be easier to work with. I did this on Friday, Nov 11. We ended up going to Great Falls for 2 nights, just to have a little family time. It was fun, but a little crazy too. Abbi ended up reacting to the hot tub (we think) and throwing up through out the night and breaking out in a HUGE rash all over her body. It was on her face, right down to her toes. She was miserable. I got her some benadryl, and benadryl cream. It knocked her right out, but it worked. She was fine by Saturday afternoon. Still a little groggy, but no more rashes or upset tummies. Sheesh, not fun!

The girls swimming around in the big pool and Richard and DJ in the hot tub.

DJ got more comfortable with the pool and would swim back and forth all by himself with his life jacket on. He did so good!

Anyways, we got back Sunday afternoon and I decided to go ahead and make his cake, so it would be ready for Monday. All the kids came and watched. It was fun to make. Not very fancy but DJ loved it, and that's what matters. I bought 3 new cars from the movie Cars 2, to put on his cake. We also put Mcqueen on too.  If anyone came into the house, he'd grab their hand and pull them to the fridge, open it and say up. Then he'd show them his cake. He did this a few times!

Helpful kids licking the beaters clean! Their favorite job!

The finished product of DJ's cake!

Monday morning he woke up and we wished him a Happy Birthday. The girls sang it a few times. He was one happy boy! Big smiles, and he kept saying, "Yup, ah me!" His Aunt Shelley called him and sang him Happy Birthday. He smiled the whole time and then did a little giggle at the end. He then said, "Tank tuuuu.", and gave her a kiss. It was so cute!

Monday's are busy, so we went about our day and got the girls to school and picked them up again. Cleaned the house and then took the girls to dance lessons. Got supper ready to go and went picked up the girls. Then started cooking and waited till Richard's parents got here and we ate. Then once my parents and Megan got here they ate after us and then we had cake and ice cream. Oh for his supper, I made him his favorite, which is spaghetti, garlic bread and broccoli (he loves broccoli), and we drank pop juice, which is all my kids favorite! He ate a good supper.

We sang him happy birthday, and he beamed the whole time.Then he blew those 3 candles out! Then we dished out the cake and ice cream. DJ loved it and ate his cake and ice cream and had seconds too. It was driving his sisters crazy, because they wanted him to open his presents. But he wanted nothing to do with it, till he was done eating!

Look at that big smile. Everyone was singing to him and he loved it!

Blowing out the candles with a little help from Cadence.

Then we had him sit down and Cadence brought him his first present. He opened it, with the help of his sisters. Cadence was going crazy holding her self back. She just wanted to tear that paper off, while DJ was taking his time! He got some cars, and a shirt and some tools from his sisters. He had to have his dad and grandpa Paxman open everything. Then DJ was carefully lining everything up before he was ready to open the next present. Cadence saw what he was doing so she quickly grabbed all his new toys and lined them up fast. DJ looked at her and then his toys and was then ready to open the next present. It was so funny! He got a popper gun from his Grandma and Grandpa Spencer. He loves it and takes it with him everywhere! He got a car mat from his Grandma and Grandpa Paxman. Then we got him a Little people racing ramp. He loved it. He had us set it up and he played with it after the girls went to bed too. He has to have the car mat set up and then the ramp set up beside it. Before he went to bed he had to park all his cars in the parking spots on the mat. He cracks me up! It's fun to see him get so excited! It was a fun day!

Opening his present from his sisters.

Opening the gun he got from his Grandma and pa Spencer. Notice his cars and tools nicely lined up beside him!

DJ playing with his ramp. He loves it and plays with it every day!

Parking his cars before he goes to bed!

It's so weird to think that DJ is 3. I decided to right a little list about him:
- DJ loves to play with his cars, everyday. Sometimes he'll play by himself for hours. It's fun to watch him. Other times he'll want me to play with him.
- No longer takes an afternoon nap:( Once in a blue moon he will but most of the time not.

I walked into his room and found him asleep. He had refused to have a nap and was watching a movie and having a snack!

- Can be very stubborn about what he wants. Drives me crazy sometimes..... good thing I love him!
- Is a big tease with his sisters. Knows what buttons to push to get them going!
- Goes to speech once a week with GiGi (that's what he calls his speech therapist).
- Works so hard to say different words and gets so excited when he says a new word. So cute to watch.
-  Has been surprising us with more and more new words.
- Loves spending the morning with just his mom. Has been a lot of fun to spend time with just us. I don't get much done around the house but we do have fun!
- Loves to go for rides with his Grandpa Paxman in the big truck.
- Loves animals of any kind. Was even brave enough to go for a horse ride and loved it!
- Absolutely loves his sand box. Would spend hours and hours outside playing in the sand. He makes up his own little world.
- Is very independent. He'll figure things out and climb up on the counters to get a cup for a drink by himself. He's a funny boy!

He climbed up on the garbage can to drink his chocolate milk!

- Would much rather be outside then inside. So happy we have grass now so we can play out in the snow without getting all muddy!
- Always has to categorize anything into the "daddy, mom, and baby". For example if there's a big truck, pick-up and car, then it would be daddy, mom and baby. He does it with EVERYTHING. That's what he usually does when we are driving.
- Loves to tell me what things are the color "booo"(blue).
- Has to wrestle somebody at least once a day. Doesn't matter who it is, he loves to wrestle.

He's doing his karate moves on our new trampoline! He would entertain himself doing this for a while!

- DJ LOVES his chocolate milk. We are slowly getting him off of it. He has it once maybe twice a day now. Way better then before. He can't say it but he knew the sign for it. He'd run his finger down his cheek (means brown) and squeeze his hands together (meaning milk). He knew that sign good!
- DJ is a fun loving boy! Loves to play with his sisters. He is usually the puppy or papa when they play pretend! So cute!

DJ is a sweet little boy and we love him so much! I can't believe he is actually 3 years old. Richard put it in perspective when he said, "If you think about it this little boy was living with his Father in Heaven 3 years ago." It's kind of a cool thing to think about. He's such a sweetie pie! We love you DJ! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

Halloween!

A little late, but here is what we did on Halloween this year. Oh as a side note today is DJ's BIRTHDAY!!! So crazy to think my baby is 3! So I will, of course, do a post on his birthday soon! But back to Halloween. I'm seriously not a Halloween kind of person. Some people go all out, but not at our house! Sure we carve pumpkins, and the kids get dressed up, but that's about it. Oh on one day I did make some sugar cookie dough and let the kids go at it. It was a new recipe I was trying out....not a good idea. They tasted awful. But they sure had fun making them. Then the kids had fun licking icing off the cookies! Because the icing was delicious, the cookies not so much! Oh well, I tried!


The kids were so excited to help carve out the pumpkins. They all insisted that the pumpkins couldn't be too scary. We had two pumpkins so I did one and Richard the other. Under the direction of our kids, of course! They had to clean out the pumpkins. They did very good. It was funny to watch! Sadly, I didn't get a picture of the finished product, for some crazy reason. But I did get some of them cleaning the pumpkins out. They were so excited to put the flashlights in and check them out in the dark. Our neighbours across the road saw us putting them out and came out on their deck and told the kids they loved their pumpkins. Well that made their night!

Brianna and Cadence worked together to clean out the pumpkin. After Cadence got over being grossed out she went crazy cleaning it out!!

DJ and Abbi worked together and cleaned out their pumpkin. They were a good team!

The Saturday before Halloween my kids were invited over to their friends house for a Halloween party. Again, they were all so excited. DJ would NOT get dressed up, but he wanted to go. So he went as a party pooper!! ha ha! The girls dressed up and away we went. They ran around and played and had a fun time.

On Monday morning, it was a little crazy getting the girls all ready for school. But we made it. Abbi went as a ladybug, Brianna was a witch and Cadence was a kitty cat! They had a fun Halloween party at school and were very excited to come home and tell me all about it.

After lunch we got them dressed up again, with DJ too, and ran back to the school for the Halloween parade. Each grade paraded around the gym for everyone to see. It was fun to see the girls do it and watch them see all the other costumes. There were some cute dogs dressed up too. It was fun!

My cute kids all ready to go to the Halloween parade!

Abbi wanted to look like a lady bug by crouching low on the floor. So everyone had to copy her!

There's Brianna in the Halloween parade!

Abbi and Cadence with their teacher Mrs. Cook!

Abbi, Cadence and Brianna sitting on the floor watching the rest of the parade.

We came home and got the girls ready for dance lessons. This whole day was a little crazy and we were busy all day. Cadence started complaining about her stomach, but I didn't take her too seriously. We both layed down and rested for a bit. She said she was ok and I took her. I ended up staying in the lobby and she came out once. But she wanted to go back in and dance. They were dressed up for dance too. We came home and within minutes Cadence was crying about her tummy so I grabbed a big bowl and gave it to her and layed her down on her bed with a movie. I was just giving her the bowl when she proceeded to throw up and I was able to catch it in the bowl. The poor girl was so sick. She threw up 3 times. So needless to say she did not go trick or treating. Which she was very sad about. But I took her bag and got candy for her for later.

So I took Abbi, Brianna and DJ. DJ was so excited. I told my kids to always remember to say, "Thank you" after getting something. So they did. By the 5th or 6th house I heard DJ yell, "TANK UUUUU". I was shocked! He said thank you and I've been trying to get him to say it for a LONG TIME. Now he says it all the time. What a silly boy! Abbi was done by the 8th house, which isn't normal. So we finished the street and on the way home did a few more stops, then called it good. The girls were exhausted and didn't even try to eat any candy, they went straight to bed. Which should of been a sign for me. Because they both woke up throwing up that night too. So we had 3 throwing up 5yr olds. NOT FUN! It was a crazy, stinky night. We had that washer and dryer going all night. Luckily Richard stayed home on Tuesday to help me out with the sick kids.

Abbi, DJ and Brianna with their bags full after going trick or treating. Oh notice Brianna's change of costume. We lost her witch outfit between dance lessons and supper (about 45mins). It was gone, we looked everywhere. So she became a pirate. Luckily she was happy with that!

DJ was fine. We were trying to put him to bed and kept catching him sneaking candy into his bed. He was in heaven! Luckily he didn't get sick. The poor girls had the flu. I had agreed to drive the school bus for someone in Raymond for Tues and Wed. It worked out with Richard staying home. We had a fun Halloween but ended up sick! Oh well! So that was our crazy Halloween!

Visiting Morton's Ranch!

Richard's Aunt Karen and Uncle Everett Morton live on a ranch out by Del Bonita. She's always told us that we are more then welcome to come visit and ride horses if we want. My kids have been bugging me so much lately to ride horses. So we went out a couple of Friday's ago. Megan came with us, and my kids were SO EXCITED!!!

We got there and Julie, Richard's cousin, was saddling up so she could practise roping. Megan rode a horse around and helped push the calves back into the pen. The kids and I watched. They were pretty fascinated with watching the calf run and Julie roping it. I was too, she was really good. As we were standing against the corral fence, I was holding DJ. All of the sudden DJ screamed and was flailing his arms everywhere. I felt something grab my shirt. I looked up and a crazy cat had jumped off the fence and landed on DJ's head. The cat then reached down with it's claws and grabbed my shirt. I was having a hard time getting it off DJ's head. Of course he was freaking out. I finally was able to throw it off. Crazy cat. It happened again where it landed on my shoulder. I hate cats, especially when they're jumping on me. DJ kept calling it a monster, he'd shake his head and yell, "MO (meaning no) aarrrrrrr (meaning monster)!"

DJ was kind of ok with holding a kitten. He just didn't like it when the kitty got stuck to him!

My 3 cute girls watching what was going on.

My 4 cute kids.

DJ has to copy anything his sisters do!

Julie roping a calf.

After Julie finished practising Megan started giving the girls each a ride with her. It was perfect. Cadence was a little hesitant at first but then she didn't want to get off. DJ even asked me to ride the horse. I was shocked. So I lifted him up to Megan and he was so happy. If you remember last time we tried to put him on a horse he was screaming. Not this time, he was a happy little "YEEHAW", as DJ says cowboy! The girls then had a turn riding the horse by themselves, as I led them. They also rode all together. They seriously didn't want it to end, they had a blast! They would of stayed there all day long it we would of let them! It was so much fun. Thank-you Aunt Karen and Julie for letting us ride you horses, oh and Uncle Everett! The girls still talk about it and want to come again.

Aunt Megan with Cadence on the horse, Dude.

Aunt Megan with Abbi. She was pretty happy!

Brianna was the first brave one to sit behind Aunt Megan. She loves horses!

DJ was so happy and proud of himself. He had a huge grin on the whole time he and Aunt Megan rode around. So dang cute!

Aunt Megan with Cadence and Abbi. By now they didn't want off the horse!

DJ being a "true boy" and playing in the dirt and dry poop! At one point I caught him rolling around in the ground, and piling up the stuff and making a big pile. Oh yummy!

My girls on the horse together. Love how Cadence is clamping Brianna's arms down!

We had to say bye to the kittens! Cadence's big happy smile!

Abbi loved carrying these two kittens around!

It was a very fun afternoon. We tired DJ out though. On the way home he crashed. There was no waking him up!