Happy Birthday Jaxton

My big boy is eight. I can hardly believe it. Where has the time gone? Here are some fun things about Jaxton at eight years old:

1. Jaxton's favorite breakfast or anytime food is cereal. He would eat cereal for breakfast lunch and dinner if he could. 

2. Jaxton is our Lego man. Is favorite thing of all time is Legos.  We recently moved Dawson to sleep on the bottom bunk and Jaxton's room. Dawson's old room is gated off and it has become the official Lego room. It holds Jaxtons prized creations. He is very talented when it comes to building Legos.

3. Jaxton is taking piano lessons. He is very very musically talented. He has an ear for music that is amazing. He is brilliant at memorizing sequences of notes. He prefers memorizing over sight reading. But he is really good at site reading too. He has learned cords and is able to play both hands. He can tell which cords sound nice and which cords sound "mysterious."  With this talent he has made up several songs of his own using cords and Melody. If he keeps it up he will be a beautiful piano player. 

4. Jaxton dislikes haircuts the most out of anything in the world. He wanted his hair long this year and it grew longer than it ever has been.  He finally consented to cut it when Grandpa Routsong bribed him $10 if he would cut his hair.  

5. Jaxton Is a leader.  He is really good at organizing a group of kids and creating a project where everyone has a responsibility.  Someday this quality will serve him so well in his future job and in life.  

6. Jaxton is doing STEAM club after school (Science Technology Engineering Art & Mathmatics).  It is everything he loves.  They learn about science and during the 6 week program they build a robot as a group.  It's right up his ally.

7. Jaxton is a wonderful big brother.  He loves his younger siblings.  He is very good to Dawson who now sleeps on the bottom bunk underneath Jaxton.  Dawson has had a rough go and bedtime for a while, but knowing that his big brother is up there on top, that he's not alone, brings him comfort.  Once in a while I will come in to finish up bedtime with these two and find the big brother all copied up with the little brother and reading a book about Thomas the Train.  I'm so grateful for Jaxton and his love for his family.

8. Jaxtons closest friends these days include kids from his school classroom, Reid, Erickson, and David.  He's had play dates with these friends and they all are such good kids!  I'm so glad that Jaxton has a group of good friends that hopefully he will have throughout his school years.

9.  Jaxton has a confidence about him.  He is not worried what others will say or think.  He just is him.  If he wants to do something, he will, without needing followers or someone to copy.  He has no fear at new things.  He has courage in almost every situation.  Change is not scary for him, rather he finds it exciting.  He is always anxious for new beginnings, and he doesn't look back.  If we all could have the confidence and courage of this boy!!

10. Jaxton loves his baby:). He is capable and responsible enough to pick him up or carry him from one place to another.  I trust him.  I think it's wonderful for Jaxton to have the opportunity to love a baby and to care for him.  Little Nathan resembles Jaxton with his reddish hair.  I know that makes Jaxton proud:).  Little Nathan is a lucky baby brother.