Cap'n Jaxon's 1st Birthday

Today is Jaxon's first birthday. To celebrate, we threw him a Pirate themed party. We sent out invitations that said "you Arrrr invited," and had pirate booty to give out as party favors. We also had this pirate face cutout that the party guests could put their faces in and get their picture taken. Here is a picture of Captain Jaxon.Jaxon's first mate Tim gets his picture taken.Amanda as a pirate

Jaxon wanted to help get things ready for the party. He he is helping Tim put some pop in the cooler. He wanted to check every can for quality by shaking it before it was put in the cooler.
Here Jaxon is trying to open his presents. He was a little bit more interested in his presents this time around than he was at Christmas time. Here he is opening one of his presents from the Miller family.
Benson is helping Jaxon unwrap the present. I think Benson was a little more excited to open the present than Jaxon was.
Here are a few of the presents that Jaxon got for his birthday. He got a cool sports center where he can practice his basketball, football and baseball skills

Here are some cars that Jaxon got. He really likes the SUV.

Jaxon also got a whole bunch of goodies. The cars and treats were gifts that we bought with some money sent from Jaxon's Great Grandma and Great Aunt from Cranbrook.
Here is Jaxon's cake. X marks the spot to the pirate treasure. The gold bars surrounding the cake were little cakes for the guests to eat and take home
Jaxon looked a little bit scared when we were presenting his cake to him. He didn't know how to blow out the candle, so Amanda helped him.
Jaxon hasn't been feeling too well the last few days, so I don't think he had too much of an appetite for cake. He did scoop off a lot of frosting from the top and managed to get it all over him.
But after a while, Jaxon had had enough cake and was ready for something else. Here he is fighting back the tears waiting to get cleaned up and taken out of his high chair.
It was a pretty rough day fighting with the cold that he had, but Jaxon had a lot of well wishers that came to visit him. We want to thank all those that came to Jaxon's party today, and those that sent their wishes to him and weren't able to be here today. Especially we want to thank Grandma and Grandpa Pisko, Mel and Hayden, Jay and Brenda, Amanda and Autum, Duncan, Katrina, Mac, Benson, Bailey, Grandpa Nelson, Kris, Leah and Dave, and everyone that couldn't be here that wished they could. It's been a great year for Jaxon, and I'm sure if he could talk he would tell you all that he loves you.

Jaxon in the Tub and Cooking

Don't let the title of today's post fool you, Jaxon doesn't cook while he is in the bathtub. Instead he plays in the bathtub and pretends to cook when he is out of the bathtub.

Jaxon enjoys playing in the bathtub with all of his bath toys. Here he is with a few of his many tub toys.
One of Jaxon's favorite things to do was to get into the cupboards in the kitchen and pull out the pots and pans (that is, he used to like to do that until we finally got the cupboard locks on the cupboard doors to keep him out.) I think he wanted to be like all the chefs on the cooking shows he would watch with Amanda, because he would occasionally take his toys and put them in the pots and pans and pretend he was cooking.
It looks like Jaxon wants to make an omelet with that dinosaur egg that's sitting on the ground.

Can I have a snack before I go home?

Getting ready to leave Ottawa and come back to Calgary, Jaxon decided to raid Grandma's fridge one last time to grab a snack before he left. Since Grandma's fridge probably has 3 times as much food in it as ours does, it took Jaxon a while to decide what he wanted to eat.
At first he grabbed a can of icing, but decided that there was probably too much sugar in it...

...So he finally settled on some mustard. The shape of the container closely resembles his bottle, so he probably thought there would be something tasty inside.

Furry Pillow

Jaxon found this nice soft furry pillow at Grandma's house and had fun attacking it and burying his face in it.

Little Fishie

Jaxon's Aunt Rachel and her boyfriend Michael were excited to get to take Jaxon swimming. Michael is a swimming instructor and does classes with moms and tots at the swimming pool. Here is Rachel with Jaxon getting ready to go into the water for the first time. Jaxon looks a little bit hesitant (no, that creepy looking guy in the picture isn't Michael... I don't know who that is)

Here is Michael, Rachel and Jaxon going down the slide. I think Jaxon liked the water because he could drink it.

Jaxon playing with one of the pool balls. I've never been to this swimming pool, but that waterslide in the background there looks pretty fun!

Rachel teaching Jaxon the breaststroke.

Jaxon and Amanda getting out of the pool and ready to go home. Charlene bough Jaxon this nifty housecoat to wear when he got out of the pool. It has a tail and spikes on the back and makes him look like a dinosaur.

Clean up the dishes

One thing Jaxon liked to do was watch Grandma wash the dishes. Here he looks very intrigued as he sits on his booster seat.

Not content to just sit by and watch while other people do work, Jaxon offered to help Grandma clean some dishes. He he sits on the edge of the sink and prepares to scrub some dishes with his feet.

"Look, I'm helping clean the dishes!"

Baby Mozart

Jaxon had a fun time exploring Grandma's piano while in Ottawa. He actually started to play a little tune (mostly it was just banging on the keys) Here are a few pictures of him sitting at the keys composing a song.

Booster Seat

We figured that while Amanda and Jaxon were in Ottawa, there was probably no reason why Charlene would need to buy a High Chair for Jaxon to sit in while they were eating dinner. So instead she picked him up a booster seat so he could sit up at the table and eat with everyone else. It appear at first he wasn't too keen on the idea.

But soon enough he cot comfortable with the seat and started to relax.

Here he has a big grin as he waits for some of Grandma's great home cooking to come for dinner.

Tupperware anyone?

Jaxon had a heyday in Ottawa with the Tupperware cupboard at Grandma's house... that's because she has about 10 times as much Tupperware as we do at home, so Jaxon was able to make a really big mess on Grandma's floor.

He's looking like he may have worn himself out in this picture.

Brush your teeth

We are teaching Jaxon to practice good oral hygiene, and he actually really likes to brush his teeth. Everyday after he gets out of the bathtub, if he doesn't get his toothbrush, he gets upset. At first he would just suck on the toothbrush, I think because the baby toothpaste probably tasted good. But now he will actually move the toothbrush back and forth in his mouth. He watches Amanda really closely and mimics the way that she brushes. He's such a little copycat.

Jaxon Scrapbooking

While in Ottawa, Jaxon wanted to help Amanda out with her scrapbooking projects. Here are a couple pictures of the two of them having fun doing crafts.

Jaxon had fun making a mess / helping