Axel saying cheese!

I haven't updated my pictures in a while so here are a few new ones. Axel sure has learned how to smile for the camera! He is such a ham. Axel is working on two new teeth. That will be a total of 6 now! His smile is so cute with all those teeth. Do you like the splash guards that we use under his highchair? He loves throwing his food on the ground! (normally the dogs clean the floor up, but when they aren't around plastic works almost as good) At least his daddy always has plenty of extra plastic around the house!! My camera is kinda cruddy so some of the pictures didn't turn out the best:(

Duluth house

Here are some pictures of the house in Duluth. About a month ago we bought in on my brothers house in Duluth. So now we own 1/3 of a house in Duluth! (with my parent's and my brother) My brother had the house when he went to school up there but couldn't sell it so we bought in on it with him. The house is about 4 blocks away from the lake, 1 block from a park and 1 block from trails. I can't wait until it's nice out so we can explore Duluth more. It's so much fun there!! As you can tell they still have a lot of snow up there but things are starting to melt.

Sleeping in and enjoying the weekend.

Hey guys. It sure has been a busy month huh? At least the weather is getting nicer out and we can finally start going for walks again! Yeah!! Axel is doing well. he is starting to get two more teeth. (both on the top) So that will be a total of 6 teeth! He thinks he's ready to try a steak but I told him he would have to wait a little longer.

So I have to tell you a story about some amazing sleeping Axel did the other weekend. Brian and I went out with some friends last weekend (thanks Brady and Jackie) and Axel stayed with Grandma Rapp. We ended up picking Axel and bringing him home because it wasn't to late. So we went to bed thinking morning sure is going to come early. Well when I stretched out in bed the next morning slowly waking up I then woke up in a panic because I realized that Axel wasn't waking me up, I woke up by myself. I looked at Brian and asked him if he got up with Axel, which he said no, then I asked him what time it was. Brian informed me that it was noon!!! What? Noon? OMG!! I ran into Axel's room expecting I don't know what...but there he was crashed out in his bed with his feet up on the side rails. I had to call Grandma to see what time he went to bed. She told me that he was sound asleep at 8pm. Wow huh?! I couldn't believe it. Oh..and then he took a 3 hour nap that day and was back in bed by 8pm again. I thought that he was going to be at least 6 foot when he woke up the next day!! Talking about needing a nap huh? I wish he'd do that every weekend.
We went to Duluth last weekend and had a great time. We hung out at the house, had no dogs to take care of and got to spend the whole weekend with uncle James. We went out for Indian food, which Axel really liked! Otherwise we took naps on the couch and enjoyed the wonderful weather! It was a good weekend. I have some new pictures that I will try and post some time soon. hope all is well with every one.

The flu bug..

So every one in our house has finally gotten the flu bug. Yuck.. Axel was the first. We were on our way to visit some friends on Saturday evening, sitting at the gas station, when Axel threw up all over the truck. Luckily we were still in town so we went back home and sure enough more throwing up! (I thought for a moment it was his first happy meal coming back up) Axel got sick 6 or 7 times that night. All I could do was hold him over the sink and keep washing his blankets. Then the next morning while I was cleaning more of his blankets Axel was crying from the steps so I went to see what was up and.... he had a CODE BROWN on the stairs!! (which are carpet!!) Gross.. So I cleaned him up again, this time straight to the bath tub and tried to get to the stairs before my super helpful dogs did the job for me! Gross again!! Then Brian got sick on Sunday and I got sick on Monday. Brian and I seem fine now but for some reason Axel threw up again today? I hope this doesn't keep going. The family that pukes together....

Axel was supposed to start his new daycare this week, but he hasn't been able to yet because he's been sick. Yes, he is starting another daycare!! Yikes we have had some issues with daycare. To make it a long story short... Brian went to pick Axel up the other day and ended up picking him up early-like 2 hours early. Well when he got to daycare there was a lady who neither of us have met before watching the kids. Then she asked Brian "what kid is yours!!" She then called our daycare lady-where ever she was and asked what kid his was.!? So needless to say we didn't really feel all that great about the situation. When I called my daycare lady about it she was very defensive and got fired because of it! How many times had this no name lady watched my kid and I knew nothing about it?! Who else was there... to many questions to go through again... So now once again we were on the search for new daycare. But we luckily found one in Cannon Falls which I think will be good. I hope!! At least in Cannon there are a lot of family that can stop by when ever they want. But I'll miss being able to go get Axel early when I get off my night shifts. It sucks that some one else has to watch my guy during the day. I wish there was a better way.

Axel is starting to get pretty verbal. Here are his words so far. "what's that"-he says this one to every thing! "Mom", "daddy", "sock", "hey"-he doesn't say Hi he says Hey-to funny. He also kinda know "Jazzy"-our dog but it's not the clearest word yet. He loves to blow kisses and wave bye-bye also. These are a little more fun then the code browns all over my house!