You don't like what they say, just close the door.

Last night, I was attempting to take a shower without Zion and he was determined to get in with me although he'd already had his bath. Manuel was in the bed room trying to convince Zion to come to him and play. He wasn't having it. "No, daddy, no baff! Mommy baff". After several failed attempts as persuasion, Zion got tired of Manuel trying to talk him into it, so he just closed the bathroom doors on him. I guess he figured, "dada's getting on my nerves, let's just close these, maybe he'll go away."

Selfless Love

Jayden and Zion have such a bond. Jayden really wanted a sibling before Zion was born and since there's such an age difference I thought by the time the baby got here and Jayden realized that it would take away from the attention and lavishing he got, he'd be ready to send him back. That has not been the case at all. Just the other night, Jayden went out to walk his dog and wherever Jayden goes Zion is not far behind. It was a frigid night and Zion apparently walked outside behind Jayden. By the time I noticed he wasn't in the house with me, I rushed outside because I knew he didn't have on a coat or shoes. I made it to the garage shouting Zion's name and around the corner with a lease in one hand and a baby on his hip Jayden shuffled into view. Jayden weighs about 40 lbs and Zion is pushin 30 lbs, but Jayden still carries him around like it's nothin. He had picked him up off the ground because he didn't have shoes on and Jayden took his own coat off and put it on Zion because Zion didn't have one. Now that's selfless love! What more could you ask for from your children?

We'll take two! What?

In May this year, Jayden got a Chocolate Lab for his birthday (Cocoa). This was the most defiante creature I had ever seen in my life! He would not do anything we commanded him to do, so instead of fighting the constant battle teaching him to potty outside, we decided to give in and make him an outside dog. When Jayden went to camp in July, Cocoa, got to hot and died.

We promised him that we would get him another puppy, but purposefully did not put a date on when. In all honesty, I was hoping he'd get over the dog thing. Long story short, Manuel has a friend who knew about Jayden's dog and had a lab who gave birth to 6 puppies 6 weeks ago. He mentioned to Manuel that he had them ready to go and wanted to give one to Jayden. I was very hesitant, so he brought the two black ones to our house for Jayden to choose one.

My sister and her boys are staying with us for a week or two and as did Jayden her boys guilted her into getting them a puppy as well, so I went from being completely resistant to a puppy to having two running around my house! How did this happen!

Two puppies (Zipper and Shaddow), one Min Pin (Shordee), one Bird (Blu), one 21 mo. old (Zion), one 3 year old (William), one 5 year old (Josiah), one 7 year old (Jayden), and 3 adults all under the same roof. I’m a saint I know! Oh yeah, I forgot the turtle (Toby)!

"Jayden Pack Pack"

This morning Manuel was getting the boys ready for the day and he told Jayden "Son, get your back pack and lets get ready to go." Zion walked around the corner into the living room and returned with Jayden's back pack and said "Jayden, Pack Pack, Pack Pack, Jayden". So sweet!

"Watch, Watch!"

A few days ago, I was in the bathroom ironing clothes and I heard Zion say "Jayden, watch, watch!", "Jayden, watch, watch!" then louder, "Jayden, watch, watch!" by this time I had made my way to the corner of the door just in time to see what Zion was trying to show Jayden, he was turning his sippy cup upside down and letting the juice seep out onto the carpet and getting the biggest kick out of it. It was just about the cutest thing I've seen in a while, but I did have to put a stop to it before we end up with ants or something (lol)!

"I DO"

Zion and Jayden are so sweet together. Jayden is so patient with his little brother and Zion is so demanding. Just the other day we were going out to run a few errands and Jayden decided to bring his game boy along. Zion was screaming bloody murder pointing at it, so Jayden positioned it so that Zion could see what he was doing. When is got close enough for Zion to reach it he snatched it away and said "I do Jayden, I do". Jayden just smiled and said "Mom look at his little chubby hands on the gameboy" and occupied himself with the music on his hand me down cell phone. I am truely blessed to have boys with such a big age gap but still love each other so dearly and show it everyday in their interaction with one another.

Pumpkin Carving and Hay Rides for EVERYONE

Manuel decided again this year to do a hay ride for all of Jayden's friends. We ended up with about 15 people including little boys and a few adults. Jayden and Zion had the time of their lives and they were the cutest two spookers around. Jayden was a NINJA and Zion was a PIRATE. Manuel and I were just proud, worn out parents. Before we took the hay ride, we carved a couple pumpkins. Zion was right in the thick of it. We could hardly use the knives because he sat right in the middle of the table and insisted on having his hand in each of the pumpkins right when we were ready to start the cutting. Babies!

Smarter than mom

This year Jayden is in the 2nd grade and it now up to 20 word/week spelling test. Many of them are what the school refers to as "sight" words, which mean that they can not be sounded out by traditonal methods. They must be memorized. Because of this we have to spend a great deal of time studing them and testing Jayden over them each day to insure he's prepared for Friday's spelling test. On Monday, October 13th, Jayden was about he normal routine of writing the words for the day and saying them out loud except, I noticed that he really wasn't paying much attention, he was just going through the motions. I asked him a few times to really think about what he was saying and writing so he would get the words right the first time and wouldn't have re-write the words again (as is our custom if he misspells a word). He didn't seem a bit concerned so I left him alone with the assignment and started getting things together for the next day. Several minutes later, Jayden came into the master bath room where I was ironing clothes and said "mom, I'm ready to take my test" rushed out of the room and returned to the notebook he had been writing in. I asked "do you need extra time to study?" "No, I'm ready" he said. This was completely uncharactoristic, normally I have to prod him to get the test over with. So, I walked into the room where he was shielding a piece of paper, suspicious as to what he was up to I said "let me see you paper", he reluctantly gave it to me and to my suprise he had written the words at the bottom of the paper lightly so that he could reference them during our mock spelling test. Needless to say, I gave him a lecture on CHEATING and how I wasn't born yesterday and every little trick he even thinks about trying I've already tried them with my parents and know what he's up to even before he's up to it most of the time. He think's he can outsmart me, I don't think so buddy.

"WEEEEEEEEE!"

I was in the bathroom trying to have a little bit of privacy and while I was doing my business, and lo and behold here comes Zion wanting to be right under me. I said "Zion, do play with bubba, momma will be right out" he refused, "no", I pleaded some more "Zion, let mommy use the bathroom, I'll be right out" and just a calmly as he said it the first time, he said "no". I said "Zion, do you want to go the naughty spot?" only then did he realize I ment business so he tried to divert my attention. "momma, momma, look, look, weeeee, weeeee!" Zion was grabbing hold of the toilet paper holder and swinging on it! "Boy you're going to rip that thing out of the wall with that 30lbs swinging on it" he said, "it fun, it fun!"

OMG, Jayden is still interested in girls!

Last night, I was watching a show on TV that I didn't think was appropriate for Jayden to watch so I had him go to my room and watch TV. After about 30 minutes of dead silence from the bedroom where he was watching TV, I decided go check out what he was watching. As I walked into the room, he changed the channel. I asked "what are you watching", he said "I'm looking for the Disney Channel" I said "what were you watching" he said "I don't know, nothing really" I said "Son, you know all I have to do it press the back button on the remote and it will take me to the last channel, so would you like to tell me what you were watching or would you like me to just figure it out on my own?" He swugged his shoulders, I took the remote and hit the "last" button. The channel went to the Dallas Cowboy Cheer leading Tryouts! I would even consider what they had on a bathing suite. I said "why were you watching this?" he said "I just wanted to see what they were doing." I said "why did you lie to me about it?" he said "I didn't lie, I didn't know what it was called." OMG, they are getting good at skirting the truth young these days.

Jayden's interested in girls!

OMG, my seven year old is starting to show an interest in girls. I picked him up from the sitters today and this is how the conversation went:

Jayden: "mom I asked Iquiria out to the school dance and she said no!"
Mom: "you asked someone out?"
J: "Yes Mom"
M: "why are you asking a girl to go to the school dance with you. You don't need anyone to go with you, are the other little boys asking girls to go?"
J: "Yes mom, most of them already have dates."
M: "why do you think she said no?"
J: " she just kind of mean like that"
M: "well, why did you ask this particular girl out, isn't there other girls you could ask?"
J: "I asked her because she's HOT MOM!"
M: long pause!!!!!!! "She's hhhhhhot?"
J: "yeah, she's hot"
M: "what does hot mean Jayden?"
J: "Mom, you don't know what hot means?"
M: "sure I know I just want to know what you think it means."
J: "it means she's really cute and has a rockin body."

End of conversation.......... ROCKIN BODY! OMG, what on earth am I going to do??????