The Dexter's

7 Months!

It has been too long since I have updated.  Jax had his 6 month pedi appointment in February and here are his stats:

Height: 27 Inches (68% percentile)

Weight: 18.5 lbs (63% percentile)

Head: 44.5 centimeters

By now (one month later) he definitely feels like he is closer to 20 pounds!  He has started eating solids.  So far he has had bananas, carrot and, just tonight, a little bit of mashed potatoes.   He is still teething but no actual teeth yet.

Nothing else is new.  Jax got to meet his cousins (Garrett, Tyler and Jake) who were in town from Kansas.  We spent some time with the O'Connell's and the Mitchell's.  Also since the weather has started to get nice we have walked over to Bird Park numerous times.  We are really looking forward to the good weather.

I am hoping to get some pictures up to show progress on the house.  We have made some progress on the boy's bedroom and the kitchen. 

Here is another great picture taken by my friend Tanya (link to her website is on the left).

6 Months Old!

It is hard to believe that Jax is 6 months old today!  As everyone told me-- it does go by super fast! Here a picture of Jax this morning on his half birthday.

 

In other huge news my best friend Caitlin gave birth to her daughter Layla last night at 8:55pm.  It is so exciting that Jax and Layla will get to grow together and be friends!

We have made *some* progress on the house. I have some pictures below of Jax's room in progress. We are hoping to finish up today and then I will post more pictures.

Before

 

Before

In progress

 

In progress

 

Here are a few pictures taken by Tanya Maxham:

 

 

 

Thanks for reading!

Baby Its Cold Inside...

Monday morning was interesting.  We woke up to no heat. Luckily I was on vacation that day so Dex could do his thing and fix whatever the problem was.  We were only without for a few hours but it was chilly!  We have made some progress on the kitchen and the baby's room. As I said before we are investigating replacement windows because this house is drafty.  The master bedroom is the worst and is downright blustery lately.  But that is what you get with an old house. 

Here are some cute pictures of Jax taken by my good friend Tanya (her link is to the left if you need any pictures taken):

 

 

Thanks for reading!

Jax and the Jumperoo

Jax has definitely become more interactive recently. He loves to be in his exersaucer and jumperoo. The swing is a thing of the past.  Here is a video of Jax enjoying his Rainforest Jumperoo:

No real progress on the house to show. The electrical updates are done for now and we are looking into replacement windows.

Thanks for reading!

4 Month Pedi Appointment

Not too much to update on the house renovations.  We have an electrician coming over the next couple of weeks to update the electric service. I don't find it overly excited and you can be assured that I won't be taking any pictures of it.

In other news Jax had his 4 month pedi appointment.  He is actually closer to 4.5 months old but we had to reschedule his original 4 month pedi appointment due to one of the storms we had before Christmas.  His stats are as follows:

Height: 25.75 inches which is the 65th percentile

Weight: 16 pounds 12 ounces which is the 72nd percentile

Head Circumference is 44.5 centimeters (no percentile given)

He was just a peanut when he was born at 6 pounds 13 ounces and 21 inches long.  He is a growing boy! In that vein we discussed starting solid foods with the pedi. We feel that he has been giving us cues that he is ready; for example, he is interested in our food and is eating more periodically.  The pedi agreed and we are doing rice cereal on a spoon daily until 6 months.  At 6 months we will move him to real food (pureed, of course).  Dex is planning on doing homemade baby food using The Magic Bullet that I got him for Christmas and this website.  I am sure this will be an adventure you will be reading about on this blog in the future.

On Thursday night we did the first try of the rice cereal. It was fun -- Jax definitely knew what to do with the spoon!  I have a video that I am going to try and upload but for now here is one picture before we got started:

And here is another cute pic:

 

And one oldie but goodie

 

Thanks for reading!

The Holidays and Progress on the Kitchen

Happy 2009!

We had a great holiday and hope everyone else did too.  Jax had a great Christmas even though he doesn't understand the concept of presents.  At a minimum he did enjoy the crinkling wrapping paper!

Here are a few pictures:

I was on vacation for two weeks so Dex was able to make some progress on the kitchen,  We got the appliances in and had the wood floor refinished.  I am hoping that we can make some more progress in the next week and when I say "we" I mean Dex.  Here are some before and in progress pictures.

Excuse the massive mess -- that is what you get when you are living in the middle of a renovation. 

We still have to get the cabinets done, as well as the ceiling/lighting.  Dex is going to build a built-in drawer for garbage since we have a certain kitten who can't keep his nose out of the trash. The stone tile wall needs to be finished and the pot filler needs to be installed. Then there are a few odds and ends that I want to do.  

Currently we have the boys bedroom, our bedroom and the kitchen in progress.  

More pictures to come!

Thanks for reading!

Marie

2008 in Review

This blog is part of my New Years resolution.  Dex and I have had so many exciting things happen in 2008 and I wanted one place to record it all for our friends and family to see.  It will become pretty obvious to everyone if I don't keep this resolution so I am counting on you all to keep me honest.

2008 was a great year for Dex and I.  On August 21 at 11:30am we welcomed Jaxson Robert Dexter into the world.  He is my greatest accomplishment in life and we just love him to pieces.  Carlo is enjoying being a big brother and we can already tell that Jax is really going to look up to him as they grow together.

In other huge and important news we closed on our house the day before Thanksgiving. We are now located in East Walpole.  The house is a fixer upper and we are looking forward to making it our own.

 

This blog will mainly be about the boys as well as our progress on renovating the house. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I will enjoy writing it.

Happy New Year to all our family and friends.  Best wishes for 2009.

Dex, Marie, Carlo, Jax, Killer and Smokey Whiskers