Jaxton Update

Jaxton is growing up and turning into a big kid!  I just can't believe how much he has matured.  He has become more responsible, surprising me when he does things without being asked.  He is motivated in his academics and he is soo very smart when it comes to school, reading, writing, and math.  He loves to excel in academics.  Jaxton was on a small soccer league this summer.  Again it was mostly a skills clinic with small scrimmages amongst his own team.  He learned all sorts of skills and tricks with the ball and his soccer skills are definitely increasing.  I love to watch him play.  He has become a very confident player with determination to get the ball and shoot the ball and work at winning.  He loves the sport!

Jaxton is an artist.  He loves to color.  He loves to draw pictures and color them in and he loves to create designs with shapes and color.  He is very careful in his drawing and also very careful in his coloring in.  He is also always very confident and proud of his own work.  

Jaxton has begun losing his teeth!! They are falling out!!  He's lost 3, but has 3 more that are loose.  They seem to be all falling out at the same time!  He has been excited about the tooth fairy, but disappointed that she only brings him one dollar each time he puts a tooth under his pillow.  Silly boy!  One time he lost a tooth at school.  So he got sent to the nurse who gave him a special tooth treasure chest to keep his tooth safe in.  The tooth fairy opened up that treasure chest, took the treasure, and left him a dollar and the empty chest as a keepsake.  

Jaxton is a wonderful big brother.  He is wonderful with Dawson.  I can almost fully trust him with Dawson.  He loves to play with Dawson in Dawson's room.  He blocks the door with Dawson's crib and then builds his brother obstacle courses out of the cusions and throw pillows and toys in there.  Usually its a disaster when I have to put Dawson to bed, but he has been a trooper at cleaning up the obstacle course before Dawson goes to sleep.  Dawson loves spending time with Jaxton too.  Its very apparent that he is having fun when they play!  Jaxton is also wonderful with Kaylee.  Today he read her a story before her naptime.  He knew that she wouldn't be able to follow all the words very well, so he just told her the story by the pictures in her level of language.  It was awfully sweet.  He is so kind and good to his little brother and sister.  With Cooper, he loves to wrestle and play hard with Coop.  They love to play together.  Often still, their play will end in some kind of fight or problem.  But it is always short lived before they are off again.  The other day during a fight, I brought up a large daddy shirt.  I had each of them get inside it and share the head hole.  In the midst of their fight they were laughing again wondering what in the world I was doing to them.  I told them it was their "get-along shirt" and that they had to wear it until they were getting along again.  It took less than a minute before they were happy as ever and ready to play again.  I'm so glad they have one another!  Love you Jax!