Special delivery!!

Jax in a box!!

(haha...get it? Not a Jack in the box!)

Jackpot!

...and the little Jaxpot is not amused!

We went to a place called Monkey Joes and they had arcade games. I hit the "jackpot" and won all of these tickets.
Someone was extra crabby and was not amused. Even when he got a ball as a prize.
He SAYS ball now. He is getting too big, too fast!!

Thoughts on babies...and wittle dog

My cousin Kimmie, who is 6 years younger than I am had a baby last night.
Please don't expect a picture of a squishy faced newborn here to ooh and aah over because I don't have one. Probably never will. His name is Donovan and he is pretty OK as far as being cute. He will get cuter, they always do. Newborns just aren't cute.
I know she's my cousin but they have never lived near by or anything, but honestly, I was way more excited when my best friends had babies. When Jax, Avery and Kimber were born I was all insane and shit. I'll probably never meet this baby.

Anyway. The reason I'm writing this is because of my mother. This is her first great-nephew (grand-nephew?) and I'm turning 30 this year and I'm all divorce-pants and she has no grand kids and she knows I want babies and blah blah blah.
She told my sister that she didn't tell me about ol' Donovan because she didn't want me to be sad or upset. Say whaaaaaaat??
First of all. It's 2013. I knew a long time ago, because they did a super cute Facebook announcement photo

Secondly...I don't want a baby right now. I can barely take care of myself! I have a wittle dog. And he's OK. But I'm pretty excited that sometimes...he can go in a crate!

And lastly, any time I want...and I mean ANY time...I can have a baby, like BOOM! Jax can appear for an hour or two, or a week! Gioia and Matt are always glad to share his loud, smack you in the back of the head with a toy car, kiss you with food in his mouth, say bleshyouuu when you sneeze self!! We love our little monkey, and love that he can go home at the end of the weekend too!!

So...by all means. If you are having a baby, I am SO excited for you! Like, dance around the kitchen floor, swinging my crazy dog behind me, excited...but give me a few years. I'll make my own someday...and it will be epic!

A Jax breakfast at Mouse House

I like to start Jax out with a  healthy breakfast, even on mornings when he doesn't let me make him eggs or pancakes or anything. (His latest phase is growling and shaking his chair and demanding to be put in it, leaving me NO time to make anything)

So this particular morning I gave him a 1/2 a banana (which he eventually finished,) a cut up fruit leather and some shredded Cheddar cheese. He ate all of this in about five minutes.

This is a really hard age, because you want to feed them WELL ...but at the same time, its hard to keep them FULL.

Well...I was out of ideas this morning. He had eaten a man sized portion of lasagna the night before, and I was out of cereal and all of his normal go-tos.

Then this happened:

Hey, you only get to stay with your EmWay once and a while, right ;)

What to feed a toddler?

 

You might ask yourself how I got such a happy toddler on this particular day. Truth be told, I didn't. He was seriously angry pants at me most of the morning. And then he got hungry. Jax has gotten to an age where when he is hungry, he means now...not in 5 minutes when you can warm it up, and certainly not in 30 minutes when you can actually make him something nutritious...NOW.

I'm learning. 

So the night before he was to come over this time, I stayed up and made him homemade mac N cheese. I LOOOVE mac N Cheese, and Chris hates it, because he is a weirdo. Anyway, I love with Jackson comes over because its an excuse to make it, so I did.

So I'm boiling my pasta, and I'm thinking, which is rare...so I thought I'd listen to what I was thinking.
And I'm thinking, this kid LOVES Mac N Cheese! I would eat ANYTHING I mixed in with it!.

 Leftover turkey meatballs! Yes! That goes perfect with Mac N Cheese!

Peas? Yes! Perfect!

Squash! Yes...well I was pushing my limits here. He ate them, but started to pick the squash out. I think if I had peeled it first, he would have never known!

So, that's my attempt at getting an entire, mostly healthy meal into a 17 month old.

He ate 2 and 1/2 bowl fulls without coming up for air, so I guess I did something right!

Happy 10th, big guy!

What on Earth could make a 10 year old react like this??
(LOVE Aron's face, and Jax trying to "help")

Emway even gets a hug...in front of his friends!

Oh yes...this is happening this winter in the Komar basement! All SIX FEET of it!
I'm not really sure who is more excited about it. Aron or his dad, Chris, Wes, Daniel, etc?
Staying up until all hours of the night DOES come in handy sometimes. I ran into an amazing deal on this thing at 3am online that I would never be able to get any other time/place!
Happiest of birthdays to my FAVORITE ten year old! Where does the time go? Didn't you JUST turn TWO??

To the window....

..to the wall!

Just in case you didn't get enough Lil' Jon from my post about our ten month anniversary...Monx wanted to bust out some Jammie time rapping.

Fail

Dear guy walking down 234,
You shouldn't slouch your jeans down a foot to show your boxers wile walking down a Main Street.
Especially when wearing skinny jeans.
Never ever ever when wearing skinny jeans.
Pull your pants up,
Buy a belt,
Get a bigger size,
I don't even know...
But just stop.
Thanks,
Me, Oscar and Jax trying to go to Michael's on a Wednesday morning.