Say Cheese!

Let me start this post by saying I have the most amazing photographer E V A H!!  Her name is Annette and she has recently opened a new studio in her house.  She has been our photographer since Caden was born, but she was at a different location.  She is a great person and she loves what she does.  Her prices are very affordable too. BONUS!  She takes her time and interacts with you while she is snapping away so she catches some great moments.  She is very open to any ideas that I bring and trys to capture exactly what I have in mind.  And I must say, it always turns out better than I imagined.  It does take us an hour to get to her studio, but it is in the town that Scottie's family lives in so we usually just visit with them after we are done. 

You can check out her webpage here, or you can check out LOTS more photos on her facebook profile (just search Net's Family Photography McMillian).

I just wanted to share a few of the pictures we have had taken since Jaxten was born. 

We had this same picture made when Caden was born.  I have 10x13's of both of them hanging in my bedroom.

I had been seeing several of these type with the baby in the net and

OH.MY.WORD.  Is this precious or what?!?

(This was taken right after he peed everywhere!)

This was a blanket and hat set that a dear lady from our old church made for me when I was pregnant with Caden.  For some reason we never had a picture made with Caden in it, but I think it's just adorable.  He looks like he's in a pea pod!

If you can enlarge this one, you will see milk coming out of the corner of his little mouth where he just finished eating!  I could just scoop him up with a spoon and eat him!

We also had Caden's picture made in a very similar pose.  I love newborn babies on a black background!  It just makes them pop right out of the picture at you!

Chillin' in the hammock!  Jenny's (a friend of mine) mom made these hammocks.  She made a tan one(pictured), a blue one and a pink one.  I think they are such a great prop!

I love this picture too, but I think I liked the outside shot a little better.  I love how relaxed he looks here though.

Yes, we do a lot of naked baby shots!  He looks like he's in a little nest here! 

This smile just melts my heart!!

(I got the poem from a picture on display at Tiny Toes Imaging where we had our 3D/4D ultrasound performed.)

This next one is my favorite of all time (so far anyway)   ;)

We plan to have this one made into a big canvas for the living room.  I wanted to capture all of his little baby parts and this turned out so much better than I had expected.  Everyone has commented about how pretty his lips are since the ultrasound pictures.  We also wanted to show the little dimple in his left ear that is just like his daddy.  We had to get that adorable little belly button and his hair (or lack thereof)!  I am in love with the picture of his feet with our wedding rings on his toes.  (If you'll notice how he is holding his toes on the foot with my ring on it, he has the big toe and pinky toe spread out with the other 3 in the middle together.  That is something that my mom, me and Caden can all do with our feet!)  The bottom right picture just cracks me up with his expression and that was about as much of a tushy picture as I wanted!

I can't wait to get this on my wall!

This last one is an idea that my husband had when I was pregnant with Caden but for one reason or another we never did it.  We were determined to do it this time and I'm so glad we did.  I think it is just precious to see me 'envisioning' my newborn baby while I'm looking at my pregnant belly!

Thank you so much Annette!!  You are the bestest ever!!

Jaxten is 5 months old!

Jaxten, you are 5 months old!

You are developing such a sweet personality and becoming a unique individual.  Here are some fun facts about you this month!


*You weigh 15lb 12.8oz (70 %), and are 25 1/2in long (73%). (July 22nd)

*You are wearing mostly 3-6mth clothes.  We still squeeze you in a few 0-3mth outfits and have had you swimming in a few 6mth ones!

*You were in a size 2 diaper, but we just finished our last pack so we went ahead and moved you to a size 3.  Your thighs are getting a little too big to squeeze in a 2!

*You are eating really well and growing big and strong.  You eat about 28-32oz of milk a day, mostly mommy's milk with about 6-10oz of formula.  You usually eat 5oz at a time.  We started rice cereal this month and you have gobbled it right up since the very first time! 

*You go to bed around 10:00pm and usually sleep until about 4:00-4:30am.  You still sleep in a bassinet in our room, but I have to admit I have been bad a few times and let you snuggle in the bed with me for a while.  I know it's wrong but it's so sweet!  When you wake up you nurse for a few minutes and then go right back to sleep until I have to wake you up at 7:30am to take you to Mimi's house.  You take several naps a day, but you are awake for hours at a time too.

*You figured out how to roll over from your back to your belly on July 8th!  Now every time we lay you down somewhere, it isn't 30 seconds until you've done flipped right over!  Gone are the days of you staying put!  Mimi said you rolled from your belly to your back on July 12th, but I haven't seen it yet.

*You grasped a toy on purpose and held on to it for the first time on July 14th.  I think it was a little teething ring or something. 

*Everyone still thinks you are teething because you are still knawing on fingers and anything you can get in your mouth and you are slobbering a whole lot.  But I think you just like to chew stuff because it's something new.

*You absolutely LOVE to take a bath!  Most of the time I just get in the big bath tub with you.  I think it's easier than getting out your little tub and filling it with water which will then be splashed all over the bathroom floor.  As soon as you hear the water start running your little eyes light up and you start smiling!

*You have started making the cutest face!  You suck your bottom lip in your mouth and it looks like an old man who forgot to put his teeth in. 

*You learned how to make a new noise.  It's like you are blowing a raspberry or blowing bubbles.  It is so cute! 

*You do not like to lean back at all anymore.  In your carseat, your swing, the bathtub, it doesn't matter where you are,  you want to sit up like a big boy!

*We went to the beach one day before you turned 5 months old!  We had a great time.  You loved being outside on the beach, but you weren't too sure about dipping your feet in the ocean water.  You didn't make a noise at first, but then you started to whine when we did it again.  When we were holding you down at the edge of the water, you wouldn't take your eyes off the water.  You watched the water roll in around our feet and then watched it go back out as if you were thinking "please mommy don't put me in that cold stuff"!

*You are such a good baby.  Since you've been born you've never cried in the middle of the night.  When you wake up to eat, you just grunt until I pick you up!  The only time you do cry is if you are in pain (gas), really hungry or really tired (you have quit crying in the car all the time now).  Sometimes you fuss if we leave the room or you can't see us!

It is such a blessing to have you and your brother in my life!  I can't even remember what filled my days before you two!

Random Caden Stuff!

Caden just cracks me up sometimes.  I figure I'd better record some of this because I don't want to forget these little "Caden-isms"!  I need to get the video camera out and record some too because I NEVER want to forget his little voice with his "cun-tray" accent!  Funny thing is I have no idea where he gets that country accent ;)

*Our dog, Pacey, has a....uummmm.....gas problem.  I mean he will run you out of the room!  So, Scottie started saying "Yuck Pacey, I can smell your butt".  Now anytime anything stinks....anywhere.....even if the dog is nowhere around, Caden yells out "Yuck, I can smell Pacey's butt"!

*There is a song on the radio (a stupid song) that says something like "rain makes corn, corn makes whiskey, whiskey makes my baby feel a little frisky".  Caden was walking through the house singing it the other day with a minor difference.  He was singing "rain makes corn, corn makes biscuits, biscuits make my baby feel a little frisky"!  I thought it was quite funny!  Then his dad heard him and started making up his own version.  Now they sing "rain makes corn, corn makes biscuits, biscuits make my baby feel a little jiggly".  Crazy boys!
*His favorite song right now is "Smile" by Uncle Kracker.  It's actually really cute.  His favorite part is where it says "you make me dance like a fool, forget how to breathe, shine like gold, buzz like a bee, just the thought of you can drive me wild, ooh you make me smile".  See, I told you it was cute!  Now just imagine a high-pitched little country twang on it and you've got Caden singing!

*He calls Jaxten "my baby".  Anytime someone asks him who he is he says "that's my baby Jaxten".  Or if we have a toy that is Jaxten's he says "that's my baby's toy".  He's such a great big brother!

*If you mention baseball or ask him what he wants to be when he grows up he'll say "I want to play baseball!  It's my dream!"  The kid already has a 'dream' at 4 years old!  Keep reaching Caden and don't ever let go of your dreams!

*My mom has a bad habit of getting aggravated at something and saying "Uggh, Lord Jesus".  So of course Caden has picked it up. 
(**Sidenote: Did you know that a 4 year olds ears have very special capabilities that allow them to hear all the words or phrases that you don't want repeated, but when you call their name or ask them to do something they can't hear a thing!)
Well, he was walking through the house the other day and something made him mad and he shouted "Lord Jesus!"  I said "Caden, we do not say that.  That is very ugly.  You need to say Oh man if you must shout something."  Before I could even get done speaking he said "mom...I was not talking to you, I was talking to Jesus!" and rolled his eyes and huffed and puffed off into the other room.

*Caden is now in the King's Kids program in our church and they learned a song several weeks ago that had the word "Hallelujah" in it.  Caden was just singing along and we kept wondering what he was saying.  Turns out he can't exactly say hallelujah.  He says "Halle-yu-lah"!  It is absolutely adorable though!

Out of the mouth of babes!

Something to chew on, (or maybe gum on!)

My little man Jaxten turned 4 months old July 6th.


Which in case you haven't realized yet


That is ONE THIRD OF A YEAR OLD!


OMW, I'll have a toddler before you know it.


Anyway, back to the matter at hand.  Little man has started watching us very intently while we eat.  He'll watch your fork move from the plate to your mouth and then stare you straight in the face.  He will then commence to drooling and chewing on his fingers.  Poor thing, all he gets is my milk which has no taste and formula which doesn't taste good.  So, I decided we would try some cardboard flakes rice cereal.  Just mix a little bit of the cereal with some of mommy's milk and you get a bowl of tasteless baby goodness I guess.


Yuummmmmm!  This is pretty good stuff mom! (I'm thinking yuck, gag a maggot!)

(I'll try to add a picture if/when I find them!)

Overall he did pretty well with it though.  I mixed it quite runny to begin with but I had to thicken it a little.  He opens his little mouth like a baby bird.  It's the cutest thing!  I can't wait to give him some baby food and stuff with flavor!  It's so exciting all over again.

Roley Poley Baby!

It's official.  When you put Jaxten down somewhere, there is a very good chance he won't be in that same place for long!  Thursday night we had him laying on our bed on his back and he flipped right over to his belly.  We were clapping and jumping and I'm sure he thought we had done lost our minds!  Then, my mom called me at work Monday and asked which way he was rolling.  When I told her it was from his back to his belly, she said "Well, he just rolled from his belly to his back". 


YAY!!!!!


(Dang, I missed it.)


I sure do hate to be at work instead of watching all the great things my little man is doing, but at the same time I'm very grateful to have a job in this world today.


And I have the smartest baby in the world!  At least he is to me!

Jaxten is 4 months old!

Jaxten, you are 4 months old!

You are learning so much and growing stronger everyday!  Here are some fun facts about you this month!

*We didn't go to the doctor this month but I imagine you are getting close to 15lb at least!

*You are still in a size 2 diaper! (For now!)

*You are wearing mostly 3-6mth clothes with a few 0-3mth still mixed in!

*You eat 4-5oz of mommy's milk and/or formula every 2-4 hours during the day.  We are going to start rice cereal very soon!  You watch us when we eat.  You follow the fork from our plate to our mouth and it's almost pitiful to see you open your little mouth like you want some too!  It's coming very soon though!

*You are a great sleeper!  You still sleep 6-8 hours at night and then go back to sleep for another 3 hours after you eat.  You take several naps during the day, but you are awake for up to 2 hours at a time in between naps!

*You have really started chewing on your fingers (and anything else you can get in your mouth)!  Everyone thinks you are teething but I'm not so sure.

*We went to hear The Rochesters sing this month.  It was your first time (the first of many)!  They are mommy and daddy's favorite bluegrass gospel group. (besides our own group of course)  ;)

*You have started staying with Tiffani, our pastor's daughter, on Friday's.  She loves to keep you.  She plays with you, sings to you and even naps with you.  She loves to give you a bath and spike your hair up afterward!  It's very cute!

*We all went to a Winston-Salem Dash baseball game July 2nd.  You did so good.  You were awake the whole time and never made a sound.  You were just watching everything that was going on. 

*At the end of the Dash game they had a fireworks show.  We were really nervous how you would react to the noise but it didn't phase you a bit!  In fact, you fell asleep halfway through!  We went to see fireworks again on July 4th and you did great.  This time you actually watched them.  You were completely mesmerized the whole time!

Happy 4th of July!

This year July 4th was on a Sunday, so we went somewhere great!!

To church!!

We were all decked out in our Red, White and Blue attire.  I thought we looked rather festive.  We had a wonderful service at church Sunday morning, and they cancelled the service for that night.  So we all went to main street in Lewisville where they have music and food and FiReWoRkS of course!!!  We had a great time.  I think it was quite possibly the best fireworks show I've ever seen!  Caden loved it and Jaxten even watched them. 

I don't have any pictures from that night, but here we are before we went to church.

(Really mad at my camera for taking blurry pictures lately)

My 3 boys :)

We hardly ever get pictures of all 4 of us together.  I need some kind of photo shop program so I can paste all 4 of us together!

They melt my heart!

~The only thing that could have made this day better would have been some campfire S'mores!~

****HaPpY 4th Ya'LL****