Slacking

Sorry we've been absent lately. Softball is finally under way (today was our first practice), and I have just been spending any spare time with Jaxon because I know our schedules are about to change. Infact our time together tonight was spent with her asleep on me while I watched Grey's Anatomy. And it is amazing that she stayed asleep because I was bawling. And if you know me, it is a very rare thing to just see me cry any during movies or TV shows. Jaxon has just brought out the softie in me...and man that softie came out tonight.

I won't share what the episode was about because I don't want to give anything away for those of you who DVR shows and watch them late. But OH MY GOSH, it's heart breaking and every time I saw a seen with Miranda Bailey I could not stop the tears.

Anyway, I don't really have any new fun pictures of my girl, but Ashley took some great shots of us in Smithville and this one is a fave...Jaxon's so funny (really look at her sense of humor...she's thinking of a joke right now...she just can't voice it yet).

OH! and Jaxon is now 6 months old. Seriously, that's nuts, seriously (I'm still in Grey's mode).

We are back!!

Well we are back and trying to settle down from all of the excitement that we just experienced. Jaxon's first Christmas was great...and now we are trying to find space to put all of the toys she got from Santa!! Here are a few pictures of her and first Christmas/New Year's. Captions added of course...

Here we are in our first Christams dress and our big red bow...she was so cute at church.

Blurry picture...she just had a cute face on.
This is her "oh my goodness...look at all my presents" face. And how can we tell if she likes the toy or not?
Well, she eats it. This is her eating Pablo (Backyardigan).
This is her eating a pizza teether.
Here she is eating her baby doll.
And Elmo...what do we think about Elmo?
We are thinking about liking him...

And now we have eatin' him...you judge by her face...do you think she likes him? If she is anything like I was, she will be scared to death of him and every other Sesame Street character (don't ask).
Here she is enjoying her Dora soccer ball (eating it of course).
Playing her piano...I'm sure she'd eat it if she could get up to it.
Trying to go to sleep from all the excitement (eating her fingers of course).
Here are her 3 cousins on the Doty side in their Christmas jommies.

Playing with her Maracas (she'll eat it later).

And now onto our New Year's Eve. I would like you to meet our french daughter Fifi.

Why I dressed her in this hat, I dunno...it was just the funniest thing.
Here is Fifi and her uncle Michael in his crazy New Year's hat.
Like every woman on New Year's who loses their top...
And after a long night of partying what do we do...we throw our leg up over our toys and crash.

What else happened over the holidays...we said our first sentence. "Oom boof, oom baba-dada." Which means, "I love my dada." Or that she pooped on him...she makes the "oom boof" sound when she does that.

Tis' the Season

Merry Christmas from the Doty Family!!! We will be way too busy to keep you informed on Jaxon's first holiday season...so signing off for a week or so.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Thuper Exthiting Thursday???

I don't have anything to say about Jaxon except that she is totally excited about Christmas (or I am for her). She really seems to be getting over her first cold...especially since she handed it over to me (YAY!!)

On the other hand, this is a fun video of one of my friends a few years ago...I would love to see if she could still do this. I was going to put this video on "Wordless Wednesday" because it always leaves me speechless...however the computer and I did not see eye to eye yesterday. Anyway without further ado...here is Kellianne!! And I have no idea why this video is sideways...it's just going to be one battle that I am not having with my computer.

A Little Girl and Her Daddy.

My husband is home on a Sunday afternoon. Which means two things...one, that Abilene High lost yesterday to Pflugerville in an incredible game. It went into overtime...and I really thought they were going to pull out another nailbiter. I stayed home again with Jaxon because she has the sniffles still, but we listened to it on the radio, which I think induces more stress than being at the game. The announcers would fumble more than the kids playing..."Pflugerville fumbled, AND THE EAGLES RECOVER...oh wait, no the Panthers recover their own ball..." seriously this was said maybe 3 times...I wanted to wring the guy's neck...toying with my emotions and all. Anyway...the other thing that him being home is that everyone here is so happy. Right now everyone is taking a nap on their daddy...Jaxon, Petey, and Tex. Mitch will now dive right into basketball...and hopefully have another great season of sports!

Christmas is now only 9 days away and Jaxon is so excited. We just had a fun weekend with Mitchell's ole roomate from the good ole days and his wife (Cowboy and Amanda)...They were here for graduation and we tried talking them into having kids ALL weekend long. Jaxon will need someone to play with sometime soon...Danni, I think you and Bryboy can get to work on this too!

Jaxon got to go meet Santa a few days ago...and of course was the sweetest thing EVER! She smiled...laughed and pulled on Santa's beard. Well I'm leaving you will pictures of a little girl and her father...fighting over the remote.

Oh and he's not asleep...

A couple years ago I picked up a habit of reading. But really only fun books: Harry Potter, Narnia, DaVinci Code etc... you know books that keep you on the edge of your seat but are completely fiction. Well I just picked up my first book sense I finished the last installment of Potter (sad day). It is called "The Child Called 'It.'" It is about a boy who was severly abused by his mother. While the author gives his childhood testimony, all I wanted to do was hold Jaxon. I can't imagine a mother or a father doing the things to their child that this author went through. Yes, it is a true account of this man's life, and there are 2 other books that coincide with the first. All I have read is the first and it never answers the questions of why or what made the mother snap...or why the father never took him away...I know this is all very vague to those of you who haven't read the book...but he has brothers, had a normal childhood for his first 5 years, and then one day his mother coined him the slave of the family...she poisoned him, stabbed him, placed him over the stove, starved him, and yet he still had the will to fight through everything and live.

And all the while I'm reading this, Jaxon is laying in my arms, and I am crying about the first time I may have to be stern with her or spank her...or what if by some unfortunate circumstance she is around a person who abuses her in another way. All these thoughts flood my mind of what I will do to the person who may harm my daughter.

I guess these are the thoughts of just about every parent...it's a love I do not know how to describe, but it's something you can feel while reading this book.

Thank God 4 YouTube

I know I have already blogged today...but I feel that everyone of you need to see my charming husband in action. I mean on the gym floor for the Abilene High Pep Rally. If any of you have ever seen "Evolution of Dance," a video from YouTube, that is where this is inspired from. If you haven't seen it, then you need to watch that one first from YouTube. If you have enjoy the AHS teachers and coaches. If you need help finding Mitch...he is one of the coaches who is doing the Robot...and towards the end dancing. Through most of the video you can see him bouncing up and down in the back left part of the screen. Enjoy...cuz I sure did!

Now I couldn't ever figure out how to put a Youtube video on here...so here is the direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YluMRU2wAl8