Wow, how time flies

So it's been over a month since I have posted anything. Wow, time does fly! Since I have started my new job, I barely have time for anything extra these days. I really need to get better about updating this so we will always have it as a memory. Let's see what's going on. I'll start with Dylan. OH man, I can't even begin to tell you how much fun I have with him these days. He is exactly 6 months today!! wow, 6 months already. He is sitting up great! He is sortof crawling. He scoots forward on his feet and hands more than crawl. hehe. But he gets to where he wants to be, so that counts! :) His eyes are still blue and his hair is getting blonder. We figured he would have blonde hair just because Mike and I both had blonde hair when we were younger. He says dada more than anything. But I hear it's easier to say than mama! :) I really did hear that. hehe. I don't think he knows that Mike is dada or what it means, he just says 'dadadadadadada'. He says mamamamama too but not as often. Umm he is SO active right now. You can't keep him still if he is sitting on your lap. He is always wanting to be moving around or playing or grabbing something. he sits up in the cart now at Target or wherever. We still put a blanket around him incase he falls, but he loves it. he is going to be walking in no time. He is still at Angela's during the day. It's going ok. We had a few instances that were a bit awkward, but everything is fine now. It's still a sortof trial thing. I mean she does a great job, but we just sortof wish we knew a bit more that was going on during the day. I'm sure he's fine though, but she knows that we will take him out if anything else happens to him. (he had a bruise on his leg from something). He has his 6 month check up on Monday. I am working from home that day just to spend the day with him since I didn't get any time off during the holidays. We might go do some shopping or something. We are still spacing out his shots, I'm happy that we decided to do that. It hasn't been much of an inconvienience at all either. D raked in the presents at Christmas. We are going to take my sisters advice and put the presents in the closet and take out 1 like every few weeks or month or something so he will have a new toy for awhile. That's about it on D. He's just the funnest baby ever. I have so much fun with him. I love being a mom. It's a blast. I just hope the next baby is as good as him.

I'm doing great. I really do like my new job. I am learning a lot and really like my team. I'm hoping to get a lot of experience out of this job. So far so good. Ummm I have officially stopped breast feeding and pumping and all of that. I did it exclusively until he was 3 months and then he got it a majority of the time until 4 months. I think I did like one bottle of formula at night and that was it on that last month. The 5th month, he had majority formula becuase I was back at work but he still did get about 10 oz a day of breast milk. Then about 2 or 3 weeks ago, we decided to stop it all together. We started him on solids. We have been making our own baby food lately. It's a lot healthier and it's a lot cheaper as well. he has liked everything so far that we have made. We have done sweet potatoes, green beans (which we don't do anymore because they make him so constipated!), apples and zucchini. He gets apples with some cereal in the mornings, then maybe some zucchini or sweet potatoes at lunch and then maybe some zucchini with some more ceral at dinner. He is doing great with it so far. We have also started him on a sippy cup with a tiny bit of water jsut to get him used to it. OK, I guess there is more to talk about with D. hehe. I guess I should have put all this up there. Oh well. umm not much else going on with me. Mike is doing great. He had been traveling a lot before the holidays but he's off now until Jan 4th. Lucky!! School is going great for him. He got a B and a C in his classes, which he was very happy about. He had some problems with one of the prof's. So he was just happy to be done. Him and I got to go out and have some fun while we were in Austin. We went dancing. We had a great time. Erica and my sister came and a few other people. We had a good time. I stayed up until 3am 2 different nights while we were there. man, I was worn out! I just can't do that anymore one night, much less 2!! I slept great the last night we were there though. I went to bed abuot 9 and slept in. It was nice. Mike, dad and Trey all went to the aTm game. Well, Mike just went on the roadtrip with them, but dad and trey went to the game. What a sucky game, but they had a good time atleast I think. Dylan slept in this morning. He started waking up about 5:15 which is about when he always wakes up, so i went and made his bottle and then got back in bed to wait for him to really wake up. I guess we both fell back asleep and I woke up at 6;15 and he was still sleeping! I have to throw the bottle out after an hour, so I had to wake him up to come eat so I didn't have to throw it out! hehe. sorry D. But since daddy was gone, he laid in bed on his side, ate and then we both slept for about another 45 mins. I just love the cuddle time with him. I am so content and just sooo happy.

Oh Christmas, we had a great Christmas with everyone. Our families always get us so much stuff. We are just so spoiled. We are so lucky to have such loving and wonderful families. It took us 2 cars to get home. I'm so glad we decided to do that, it would not have been pretty with one car. We took the dogs this time. We will probably try and board atleast 2 of them the next time or have someone come feed them for us. We just can't keep taking them all, it's just too much! Plus noone ever wants to watch Sam, so we have that issue too. We will figure it out though.

Well, I guess I have written enough. It's cold here and supposed to sleet and snow. We misssed all the snow on Christmas, so I hope we get to see more today or tomorrow morning. :)

Oh and we are taking one big vacation in June to Key west. Mike's family will be going at the same time. It's going to be lots of fun, I can't wait to get Dylan on the sand!! yeah!

Take care everyone. I promise i will be better about keeping this updated. I'll add some pics to it tonight if I can.

Love,
Jill