cox family gossip

Keeping up with the Kiddos

I decided to keep a kind of journal for all the fun things that go on in our family.

* Sweet baby Corbin is growing up so fast he is the best little baby he loves me the most and isn't too happy with anyone else ahh I must admit I kinda loves this knowing when he gets older daddy will become more of a favorite then mommy who has all the rules and makes them eat healthy things to not just a bag of chips for dinner.

*Taygen knows his way around town it seems like everyday he's giving me driving directions to get to favorite places like target or grandma's and grandpa's house he starts saying right there and points which direction he wants me to turn so he can navigate his way there it's hard when thats not where we are going he gets pretty upset when I don't follow his instructions.

* Tay loves his daddy and trys to mimic him so he now walks over to me and gives me a little kiss then goes and gets into his cozy coupe and say bye bye seeya. He sees daddy do it and he wants to be just like daddy.

*Today I did my normal routine of losing it on one of our dogs because he is such a fatty and stole a piece of toast from Taygen I yelled at him and then dragged him over to put him in time out ( the laundry room ). Later that day after Taygen ate lunch and got out of his high chair my other dog takes it upon himself to jump up into the high chair and get all the last crumbs left in the highchair. I notice Taygen come over and yell at the dog and got him out of his chair which is normal procedure for Taygen. The next part was new, he then chased the dog around with quick yells and took him by the collar and preceded to drag him ( very slowly of course ) over to the laundry room to put him in time out. I said nothing just watched him and laughed as he tried about three times to succeed in actually getting him al the way to the laundry room and shutting the door. What a cutie!

*Taygens new favorite food is POPCORN. He loves it so much if he even spots the bowl I normally put it in he will cry with anticipation. I went and bought those mini bags of microwave popcorn which Taygen loves so much he will eat the entire bowl full.

*I think Taygen likes to hear me say thank you to him because he has started to bring me things all the time with this proud look on his face. The other day I was sitting on one couch and Tay took every pillow one by one off the other couch and carried them over to me, even the huge back pillows.

*Tay is so funny since he is older now so I have let him have a little toddler size pillow and blanket to sleep with in his bed which has him sleeping better ( thank goodness ) But even during the day he will climb into our bed lay his little head down on one of the pillows and tucks himself into the covers and just lay there and smile:)

*Tay is talking more and more he loves to say hi to everyone and then when you leave he says hi again and waves. I keep saying b.b.bye so he will hear the b but no he just likes to say hi for his bye too.

*Why is it kids find the nastiest things so amusing. Taygen has taken up gagging himself. We can't quite figure out what would be so entertaining with trying to make yourself throw up but Taygen thinks it is very enjoyable. Probably because every time he does it mommy and daddy start telling him yucky Taygen yucky. Which to Taygen translates to if mommy and daddy think it's gross that means it is super cool!

*I am enjoying the coolness of a vegas summer morning by coolness I mean 90 instead of 110 outside. Taygen was puttering around in the backyard and I was reading. Anyone who knows Taygen knows he loves to open and shut any door which was no different this morning. I look up from my book to see not only was he opening and shutting the door but he was transporting the sand from the sand box to the floor of the family room one shovel full at a time. Thats what I get for trying to read while Tay is playing.

*So this morning we did our usual and got Tay out of bed and put him in ours while we watched the latest on the ongoing Olympics. They were talking about the American women's win on the all around gymnastics and were showing highlights. Suddenly perfect timing to the TV showing the girls finish with their arms high in the air Taygen throws his arms up too with accomplishment on his face. Cj and I died laughing.

*Taygen is my little dancing machine anytime he hears music he either does his little skipping dance or puts his little hands up and bounce them around it is so adorable to watch what a little cutie.

*After a pretty long morning with a very energetic 17 month old I was trying to clean up a mess of something that had spilled in the fridge. Taygen of course thought he would entertain himself with smashing the door onto me a few 10 or 20 times. Then it got a little quite I looked up and found Taygen sitting on the floor, he had somehow taken a bottle of salad dressing and also somehow opened it up and poured it onto the floor and preceded to swirl it around with his hands and feet. Ah the joy of children:)

*After a long day I finally climbed into bed Cj had already fallen asleep when I heard what I thought was laughing coming from the baby monitor. I ignored it at first but then this little laughing voice came through the monitor again. This was odd because Taygen had been asleep for a while now. I crept into the room and Taygen was really laughing even though he was fast asleep. He must have been having a really funny dream.

*Taygen is finally talking!! Yeah! Of course all he is saying is awggie ( doggie ) he also is saying Hi. Every once in a while we will get a ma ma and da da. Yeah!

Monday, November 17, 2008

Drum Roll Please

Baby Number 2 is on IT"S way

We are very please to announce that we are adding a new addition to the family! We are all very excited well if Tay had any idea I bet he would be excited. Today was the big first ultrasound I waited to announce till now because I just don't always believe it till I see it. Of course as soon as we can announce whether we are having a he or she we will, until then we are still in the IT stage. Today the tech speculated it was a boy and then the doctor came in and speculated a girl. So we will have to wait some more weeks till we know for sure. Otherwise we are just enjoying the peace that comes with still only having one child as he sits next to me on the floor screaming because he can't stand it when I do anything else but hang out with him:)

Monday, November 3, 2008

Halloween Fun

We had a fun Halloween this year since Taygen understood more of what was actually going on. We had a little pre-halloween fun at Cj's parents ward trunk or treat which went really well so I knew the real show would go pretty well too.

This was our pre-halloween party I didn't even attempt to try and get Taygen into his real costume because I knew it was going to be a battle. So instead I let him wear some skeleton Pj's.

This is the real costume I loved and tried to get him to like. As you can tell from the above picture it was a hard sell. Even with candy as a bribe he was not having it.

So we ended up in this costume which has a odd story behind it. Cj;s mom had gotten it for us back in the day before children when the dogs were like your children and we used to buy them sweaters to wear outside in the winter snow. I thought it was so cute I kept it and when digging in a box to find my own halloween costume I came upon it. Tay actually would wear it without any fight so we gave in.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Pumpkin Patch

Today we went and visited a pumpkin patch here in vegas. Tay wasn't very interested in the rides put he did enjoy playing around on the pumpkins:)

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Wrapping up Summertime

Well summertime might be slowing down in vegas. We have had a few days that it threatened to finally start to cool down and then we jumped back up again to the nasty heat. Since is is starting to finally cool down in the evenings Taygen has definitely pushed more and more to go and play outside.

Taygen loves to kick around the ball I don't know maybe he is meant to be a great soccer star

Our other favorite thing to do is drag the dog around on the leash. Tay goes and gets the leash and brings it to me to put on the dog poor dog he is so nice he lets Tay just drag him around.

Sometimes outside isn't so fun this is Taygens I am not happy face

Monday, September 15, 2008

Happy Birthday Daddy

To celebrate Cj's birthday this year I planned a quick getaway for us. Grandma and Grandpa were nice enough to watch our suddenly sick child for a night while Cj and I got to enjoy a night to ourselves with a fancy dinner and stay at Red Rock Hotel. We had a great time as short as our little getaway was both of us said how nice it was to just have those moments together even still missing our little guy. Happy Birthday Daddy:)

Car Rides

Taygen is one of those children that unless completely entertained while having to ride around in the car he screams and screams which is something mommy learned about Tay when he was very young. To keep my sanity I insisted on having a dvd player in our next car which has become my lifesaver on long car trips or long days of running errands. Taygens favorite new thing is to listen to the headphones while his favorite show plays:)

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Cooling Off

We were able to make a little trip up to the mountains this past holiday weekend to enjoy the nice cool weather. When you have an 19 month old you start to really long for that good weather so that your little one can burn energy up outside exploring.

This was a perfect opportunity to bring Taygen's little 4-wheeler up so he could just drive around all over the place. Going back and forth across our family room doesn't really do it for him.

I know the outfit is a little ghetto but hey when in the mountains anything goes especially when your getting dirty so often mommy quickly runs out of clean things to wear.