He's 13 weeks

Story time

Daddy and Mommy reading Dyan a story before bed

One of our favorite pics so far!!!

I weighed him yesterday (weighed myself without him and then with him and took difference) and he was 14.6 lbs!! wow! big boy. no wonder my right arm is looking bigger than my left, holding that big boy all of the time. hehe. I just wanted to share a few more pics. What a cutie.

video

This is the cutest video. Sorry I can't figure out how to turn it!! :) just have to tilt your head alittle. haha. sorry.

Doing good

One of the cute outfits that Rachel got him. (Mike was trying to get him to smile so he was kissing his belly, so that's my slobber, not his own! haha)

D in his cool car bouncer

Well things are going great with D man and the rest of the family. Dylan is just getting so big and learning so much! He has realized that his hands can grab things he wants and also he has started noticing his feet. He is doing great with playing by himself on his play mat, so I can actually have a few hours during the day some time to get some stuff done. Not all at once of course, but overrall. We think he is like 13 lbs or more by now. He's getting so big. He is outgrowing so much, I already had to pack a lot of clothes he can't wear anymore. It's kinda sad. :) We have SO much fun with him. Him and I play all day long and have the best time. He has started to get on somewhat of a schedule. He isn't much of a napper but if I"m laying with him, he will nap alittle bit. I hope that doesn't mess him up when he starts daycare. They are going to have their hands full if he never naps! :) But he will nap with me laying next to him a few times a day, which I Love to do. I just stare and kiss him the whole time, and will nap with him sometimes. I still just can't believe he's mine sometimes. He's just the sweetest thing, we are so in love with him. MIke has been really busy with school and work lately so he doesn't get a whole lot of time with him during the week. He feels like he doesn't get enough time with him. I can understand him feeling that way too. He comes home about 7, we eat dinner and then I put Dylan down about 8:30. So he only gets maybe a few hours with him each night. Plus a lot of times he has school work to do, so really only a few nights a week he gets those couple of hours. I feel bad for him and can't imagine missing him that much. I just want to cry everytime I think about having to leave him. I know that I need to find a job, but part of me is happy I haven't yet so I can still spend all day with him. I'm alittle worried that he is getting dependent on me though and has to be held by me and stuff. I mean of course it melts my heart when only I can make him stop crying, but I can't be with him 24/7 forever!

He is 13 weeks now and growing every day!! Grandma Becky and Aunt Rachel bought him THE CUTEST little outfits! Becky bought him like 4 or 5 outfits and then we got a package from Rachel the other day with another 4 or 5. I couldn't believe it. I already washed them all and we are so in love with these clothes. They did a great job picking them out. I"ll try and post some pics of them soon because they are just too cute not to share. Thanks again Becky and Rachel. I was just thinking I was going to have to get him so new clothes soon because he's outgrowing some and for when it gets colder. We went to Target and picked out a few the other day. I held up 2 and said which one and he grabbed one. hehe. so I bought it. I think he's just right handed though and does better with that hand with grabbing stuff. :) But I thought it was cute.

He is definitely more alert these days. He doesn't let us go out to eat as often as we used to when he was smaller. He cries alittle more in his car seat and doesn't sleep as much. But oh well, we have a good time picking up dinner and being at home anyways.

I have one good job lead but we aren't sure it's going to go through yet. My friend Delana set it up and has been the middle person between me and the ladies I interviewed with. I met with them a few weeks ago and they were really nice. I think the job would be a great opportunity for me, but it's 44 miles away!! I guess I didn't realize it was that far until Mike pointed it out to me. So I am really nervous about that drive, but I don't want to be picky and pass up a good opportunity. We even though about moving north because we both work north, so it makes sense. I guess it all just depends on if this job goes through. I have applied for like 10 more jobs in the past week and got one call back, but I don't think that one will go through either. It's a bit discouraging, but i"m hangin in there. Trying to stay positive and just enjoying everyday with D man.

well, that's all for now. Not a whole lot of exciting things going on. I'll try and keep up with this.

Jill

Getting better

At Grapefest

I'm really trying to get better about keeping this updated. It's hard with Dylan now, but I'm trying. I want to also do it because it will sortof give us something we can print out later and remember all of this. :) let's see what has happened lately. Well, I have a pretty promising job offer that my friend Delana has helped me find. It has really been hard finding something on my own. I keep up with every job I apply for and I have applied for like 5 or 6 jobs a week since Dylan was born. That's a lot of jobs. Yes, I had 3 interviews and that's great but no offers. I was getting pretty discouraged and then Delana mentioned that the advertising agency that the company she works for uses could possibly be hiring soon. So she forwarded my resume on and got me an interview. The interview went great! I loved the 2 women I met that would be above me I believe. The atmosphere of the company was quaint, it was a smaller company, about 40 people. It is for a project manager position. I have never been in that position before, so I'm not sure how much experience I have with it, but since I worked about Publicis, I'm hoping that will be enough. I'm really nervous about doing a good job and impressing them if it all works out. I just hope they don't think I have more experience than I do. I'll do whatever I need to do though. I'm sure it will be tough leaving Dylan, actually I KNOW it's going to be tough, but financially Mike and I just can't do it anymore with just his salary. It lasted us this long but we have been on a VERY tight budget and we are getting really sick of that. Oh and this job is 45 mins away WITHOUT traffic, so I'm really worried about that, but if I have to do it, I have to do it. I just have to make a certain amount now with daycare and gas, so I'm hoping they will pay what I need to make. Delana said we might meet sometime soon to discuss that, so I'm hoping it all works out.

We are headed to Austin YET AGAIN this weekend. :) I Love Austin but man it's hard packing up the entire house into a car with 3 dogs and a baby!! It's a challenge but some how we always figure it out. I try to pack it all better each time. We just have to bring so much for baby D. We are going to the Texas/Texas Tech game, I'm so excited!! It should be a good time. Mike's parents are watching D for several hours and then my parents will watch him while we are at the game. I hate to leave him for so long right now, but we have been looking forward to this game since I was pregnant. :) I just hope it's a good game and not a blow out.

We had A GREAT time last night. We went to Grapefest in Grapevine. It's a food and wine festival. I try to go to it every year because it's a lot of fun. The last time we went it was with my parents and it was a lot of fun. But my mom and I made the mistake of doing a wine tasting at 11:00am!!! It was WAY too early for that much wine. haha. But we stayed for a long time and had a great time. It was free on Thursday, plus we were headed out of town so I figured why not. We just knew it was going to pour on us, but it didn't. It actually felt amazing out!! I had a few small glasses of wine and Mike had a couple beers and we walked around, listened to some bands and just had a great time. Dylan was awesome! He got fussy a few times but he just wanted to be held. Plus he was starving!! I made him a bottle and he's still not sure about formula (we give him formula every now and then because I just don't produce enough to store it and it's WAY easier in situations like this). So he kinda spit it out for awhile but then finally took it. He's such a good boy. We had a blast with him though. Except when the band started I think it scared the poop out of him, literally! hehe. We were pretty far back so it wouldn't be too loud but it still scared him. He looked like a deer in headlights. poor thing. hehe. Anyways, it was a great night. I didn't go to bed until 1 though since I had to pump (oh the joys of breastfeeding) and then I woke up at 5:30am to feed him and could not go back to sleep. So I got up and started packing for the weekend. Now it's 8:30am and I'm sure it will hit me soon. :)

Everything else is going great here. Just so happy to be alive and healthy and have wonderful friends and family. Yes, I could ask to be rich or have the best job in the world or have a lot of materialistic things, but that's not what matters in life, it's just enjoying the one life you get and not sweaty petty things. (this is something I try and tell myself everyday, hehe).

Jill

Austin trip

We went to Austin this past weekend so Mike could help his dad build a greenhouse. We took Dylan swimming for the first time too. He didn't like it at first,but ended up enjoying it I think. :)


Grandma and Dylan

Dylan staring at cousin Parker.

Aunt Tiffany and Parker

Parker

Aunt Tiffany and Dylan

Mommy and Dylan

awwww

This is when he first got in

A little scary!! hehe He looks like he's going to eat daddy!!

Big pimp in his robe after his bath.

It's been awhile

My most favorite pic yet!!! What a doll!!

So happy...

Not so happy...hehe

He can finally see over the bjorn thing. We had it on him about 3 weeks ago and he couldn't even see over. He's growin!! Mike looks hispanic next to him! hehe

Erica and Dylan..

Love those lips..

Craig and grumpy Dylan

Aunt Tiffany and Dylan

Cousin Parker and Dylan

Sorry that I haven't updated this thing in awhile. Man, the days go so fast these days with Dylan now. He's definitely more alert now and doesn't sleep barely at all during the day, so it's hard for me to really get much done. If he does fall asleep, it's only for like 10 mins and I use that time to look for jobs mainly or I try and get some workout in. I love him being more alert though. He's so much fun right now. We play a lot but he also is pretty good about playing by himself alittle too. I try not to hold him all day so he doesn't get TOO high maintence. :) He has been sleeping pretty decent though. It's alittle tough some times to get him down for the night but once he's down, he's down! He will sleep for like 6 hours straight. We have been trying to put him to sleep about 8:30, that has worked some but he usually doesn't actually fall asleep until about 9:30 or 10. So we might try putting him to bed alittle earlier, I just feel bad putting him to sleep when it's still day light! :) So we are still working on the getting him to bed situation.

We went and visited our families last week. We were there for a week because Mike had to go to Houston for 2 weeks. So I went and stayed with my family for a week just so I wasn't here by myself for that long. It was alittle rough packing and everything by myself. Ok, it was a lot rough! I packed for like 2 days because I couldn't ever have enough time to do it all at once. Plus, he was up until 4:30am the night before we left. I was SO tired the next day but I was excited to get to Austin. So I had 3 dogs, a baby and a car load of stuff! I was filled to the rim in the truck. We had a great time there though. I tried to get him over to everyone's houses so everyone could have enough time with him. I think I did ok, but it was hard pleasing everyone. We spent a few nights/days over at Mike's parents house. They really enjoyed seeing him, they are so good with him. Then we spent a few nights at my parents house, then also at my sisters house. So i tried to spread it out pretty good. I also got my first night out since I got pregnant, so it's been like a year!!! It was fun, but I sure was missing Dylan. It was good for me though to have that break. Not that I really felt like I needed a break, but I'm sure it's healthy for me. Mike did great watching him all night. I didn't doubt that he would though, he's such a great dad. I tell ya, I had no idea what he was going to be like, I mean I knew he would be great, but you just never know. I'm not surprised, but he is an awesome father. He puts 150% into everything he does, including being a father to Dylan. He always wants to help and be around him, it's so great. He has changed more diapers than me I think! :) He's a big help and I'm so lucky and happy that he is this way. Dylan is so lucky and they are going to have so much fun together when he's alittle older. parenting is such an amazing experience. I still look at him almost everyday and can't believe he's mine. The strangest thing has been when I'm walking around with him and I see us both in the mirror, (he loves to look at himself in the mirror by the way, definitely Mike's kid). And I see me holding him and I'm like wow, this is my kid!! so it's still pretty crazy to me, but so awesome at the same time. Anyways, Austin was great!! We didn't really have anyone babysit though because we just felt it was alittle too soon for everyone. Just because he's pretty high maintence still and we didn't want anyone to have to deal with that yet. We will be back in Austin in like 3 weeks though and we are going to the Tech/Texas game so we are going to have someone babysit then. Also, when we go to Austin, that is our ONLY time to go out or do anything just us, so we kinda want to utilize it. Since here we are pretty much on our own. We got to see our families and stuff though so it was a good trip.

He had his last dr visit last week. We were so mixed about having his shots all at once or spacing them out. I was so torn, so she said, we can get all of his shots he's supposed to have today and then if you still want to space them out, we can still do that. So, I got all of the ones for that day, but I think from here on out, I'm going to space them out. He did pretty good, but he was pretty upset the rest of the day. I felt so bad for him. He cried most of the day and his legs looked alittle swollen where he got the shots. You could just tell he felt bad. he got a low grade temp and we gave him some tylenol. So pretty much all of Friday, we just cuddled and comforted him. Poor baby. He was 12lbs 9oz though! big boy! I knew my arm was hurting for a reason. He was also 24in! He has out grown the little onesies that he used to wear. They are now packed away. I can't believe it. When people said they grow up fast, they weren't lying.

Mike and I discussed when we should put Dylan in his crib in his room and we both said about 2 months maybe. Well, after Austin I got back and packed up his play yard where he sleeps now and put the angel care monitor in his crib too. I was so nervous about it, but this will allow us to run at night (the treadmill is in our room too), watch tv and not have to be so quiet everytime we go in the room since he's sleeping. Well Mike got home and at first was kinda like, why did you do that? he was like I don't know if I'm ready for this! :) So it was our first night and we were almost asleep when all of the sudden the angel care monitor goes off (this monitor senses if his there is no movement. So if his heart stops beating, if he stops breathing, etc.) We FLEW out of bed and I swear we pushed each other out of the way to get there fast enough. I mean I have never seen us run that fast! Mike picked him up and he's so sound asleep that we can't tell if he's breathing, Mike almost gave him mouth to mouth but when he put his lips to his, Dylan giggled. hehe. We were like OMG, heart attack!!! We aren't sure why it went off but holy cow, that was the scariest thing ever. Mike said, "i feel like I was running in slow motion". It was scary. So the rest of the night I woke up like every hour and went and made sure he was breathing. And the next night he was back in our room. hehe. We just aren't ready for it yet. I would say another month and we should be ready to try again. :)

We are still in debate about the daycare situation. I have a friend who has 3 little boys. She lives like 5 mins from me and 2 of her boys will be starting school so she is going to watch a few kids. She is a lot cheaper and so much more convienient. Of course these don't matter, it's whatever we feel more comfortable with and where he will be safer. I think he will be safe there and I feel ok about him being there, he won't get sick as much either without being around all of those kids. So we are pretty sure we are going to use her, but we are still discussing. It's also nice having a friend down the street too. We have hung out a few times.

I still haven't found a job. I'm getting really discouraged these days. I have applied for SO many jobs lately and have yet to hear anything. It sucks. I'm pretty bummed. The positive side of it is I get to spend my days with Dylan. That's very rewarding. It's going to be very hard to leave him, so I'm trying to enjoy my days with him. I really don't like the idea of someone else watching him a majority of the day, but I don't have much of a choice. We need me to find a job for financial reasons. I"m tired of being on such a budget and not being able to buy big things. Not that we NEED anything big right now, but there are just a lot of things I want and can't buy. So we are hoping I find something soon. Some good news though, Mike and I were looking at his classes that he has left and he should graduate by the end of next year!! That's so awesome!! We are pushing for that. So that's exciting. Slowly but surely, he will get there and we will throw the biggest party EVER!

well that's about it for now. Things are going great here. Loving my baby, loving my hubby..I have started working out really hard again this week so I have been feeling great too. So all I need is a job and life will be grand! :) but I tell myself everyday that I have my health, and that's all that matters to me. We all have our health and really that's all that matters in life. not money, not materialistic things, but our health. I really try not to sweat the little things too. You never know when life will end so we should enjoy it while it lasts. I am trying to remember that everyday.