This is Jaxon having fun at the EDC (Early Development Center) where he does physio and hydrotherapy.
I know he told me to leave him out of my blog, but I couldn't resist this! After this I think Tim might just move in to the basement so I can't catch him doing house wifey things!
We went to this place called Aquarscene. At every high tide the fish come in to get fed. It's VERY cool. We couldn't stay too long, because Jaxon was getting cranky. But apparently the longer you stay (about 3 hours) the more kinds of fish you get to see. I have NO idea what kind of fish these were anyway, except that there were salmon cat fish, milk fish and some sting rays as well.
We held Jaxon with his feet in the water and the fish came and rubbed up against him. I don't think he knew it was happening. The bread that they leave for us to feed the fish is old and stale. At one point a lady asked Jaxon if he was feeing the fishies...he wasn't. He was munching on the bread himself! Yuk.
The fish nibble on your finger's if you hold bread out for them. There are also tiny little fish at your feet nibbling on your toes! You can hear me a little bit making "OMG it's touching me" noises at some point during the clip. What a FREAKY feeling!
You've all seen the photo's of Jaxon holding (Mum holding, Jaxon patting) the baby crocodile. Well what you don't know is that I got to feed one! Not by hand of course, because I wasn't going to volunteer for THAT...the meat was on the end of a stick and rope!
This is not the clip of the crocodile I fed. The crocodile sitting in the pen next to the one that you see getting fed is the one I did. But Mum, in all of her technological ignorance, thought she was taking photo's and stopped filming right when he started to jump up so we missed it!
That noise you hear as she closes her mouth. The lady doing the tour said it was "caused by one tonne per square inch pressure, slammed shut at the speed of lightening"
Scary stuff, I'll stick to my chihuahua's and kitties!!!
This is obvisouly Jaxon playing Great Grandma's piano. She is the best player I have ever seen, but Jaxon come's a close second!
VIDEO's!!
This is at Howard Springs and these are barramundi. They were HUGE. The video I'm putting up doesn't show how big they really are! We couldn't at the time for reason's I don't understand, but this is a swimming place through some parts of the year.
This is how he did it. It also shows how he got down!
UPDATE: We JUSt learnt he can get up without the box!
So it's Easter Monday...but that doesn't matter.
Jaxon gave us a pretty impressive present! This is today, his first steps...even if they are assisted!
For anyone that has known us since Jaxon and I went to Riverton, you'll know that he has a bracheal plexis in his right arm. As well as torticollis in his neck. Basically during our c-section the doctor had to pull quite hard on his little body to get him out. They pulled the nerve's in that arm and he was 3 months old before anyone noticed that he wasn't using it.
(His neck came about because he was breach and grew with his head facing one way and his neck muscles grew short so he can't turn his head properly)
At that time we thought he may even have a mild form of palsy, luckily...this shows that he does not. We do physio twice a week at a place down at the local primary school...and physio up at the hospital every two weeks.
I've seen some minor progress over the past months but was THRILLED to see how he uses his arm in this little clip. It's so good to see that my hard work as a mother, taking him to and from physio and doing the nasty "Mummy you're hurting me" stretches at home are finally paying off.
Here is a MILD clip of what we have to do to Jaxon each day. We're meant to do these THREE times a day but only do it once. We're also meant to do ten reps, but don't.
It's just SO hard to have him cry like this because of something we're doing to him. It's even harder if I have to do it alone and it's all me doing the hurting. This is actually very mild as I said, he's normally much more upset than this.
I'd just like to say to Jaxon's physio...who would be very disappointed in me for not doing them all the time like she wants me too...that I'll wait until SHE has kids, and until SHE has to inflict this sort of pain on her own child. And to have her own child look into her eyes and be saying "you're hurting me Mummy" And then and only then can she judge me the way she does now. Oops, sorry. Can you tell I've had enough of physio's telling me what I have to do and saying "I understand it's hard, but you HAVE to do it"??? when they don't have kids and don't have to go through this on a daily basis?
This is Jaxon's new trick. He loves this box, and appears to LOVE music!
You can hear me in the back ground (singing and humming unfortunately) just waiting for tears and a sore head! But we got lucky.
Watch out for MB!
This is Jaxon at about two months old. I was desperately trying to get him to say hello. Back then that's all I was doing. Trying to get footage of him kooing for his grandparents.
Well, I just found this clip, so I haven't seen it since it was put away on file. I am just SO SO SO glad I have it. Tim, Jaxon and I were having such a rough trot way back then that even though we appreciated that we HAD a baby, I don't think we appreciated how adorable he was! Now I look back and just watch in amazement, because I don't remember those time's much anymore.
I'm glad I have these, because without them I have no really good memories of him being this young. I feel like I didn't fully appreciate what a miracle he was (you know, IS)
Bath time has always been pretty lame in our house. I'd put Jaxon in the bath. he'd splash around a bit and then I'd take him out to get dried off and dressed for bed.
But tonight, since I had the camera in the bath room trying to get a clip of Dude getting in with him...Jaxon put on a show.
And what a show it was. He is becoming quite the little character. Every single day he come's up with a new quirk, something new to tell me about. It's all very exciting.
This part of mother hood is MUCH more fun than the baby "baby" stage. That's not to say that I wouldn't love to have a baby "baby" all the time, and that when I'm down the street I don't go all gooey when I see a "fresh" baby (that's what Tim and I call them...fresh one's) I do I do!
Anyway here's Jaxon in the bath. I know I am going to hate this game very soon. But today was the first time he's done it and it was way way waaaaay cute. So it's ok. He's also only JUST started giggling like this. He used to sound sort of asthmatic so this one is nice!
