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.