Update

Well, let's see what is new with us. Things are good here. Dylan is just as adorable as ever. We have a video of him standing on his own without holding on to anything. I really think he will be walking in no time. We just started feeding him brown rice. I pureed it and mixed it with veggies. :) I love trying new things with him. He has 2 teeth now. He's my white trash baby. haha. I am all nervous. I felt this really hard spot on one of his legs. He has gotten shots in both legs in that area, but it's only in one leg. I don't know why. He should have another dr apt coming up, so I'll see what it is. Mike isn't worried but I"m a worry wart so I'm all scared. I'm sure it's nothing but I still want to get it checked out.

We had a real estate agent come and look at the house and tell us what we could get for it and what things we need to fix before we take pics to sell it. Our plans are to sell the house and move to an apartment up north by work and have a daycare near there as well and get to spend another 3 hours with Dylan that we used to spend in traffic, with him!! Plus, living in an apartment will hopefully allow us to save for a new house in austin. Maybe we can save for the next year to build one in Austin. We can't wait to get back!!!

Things are good with Mike and I. He's having a hard time with one of his classes. He is thinkng about dropping but I'm pushing him as hard as I can to not and pass this class. I know he has it in him but he's letting this teacher get the best of him. I told him, if he fails him, I'M going to his office and give him a piece of my mind!! hehe. He's giving it his all though and that's all I can ask.

We have to buy a new a/c unit, that's very expensive!!! Plus our eletric bill was $430!!! because our heater has been messed up, then we have Dylan's surgery we have to pay for next week. It just seems like one thing after another. We will be ok, we have our health and each other, that's all I pray for every night. But, it would be nice not to have to worry about all of this financial stuff for once! :) Oh well though, we are used to money issue, it's all we know.

We are getting excited about Key west. We are in need of a vacation, bad!!! I just can't wait for Dylan to get his feet in the sand. I'm so excited for some r&r.

Well, I think that's it for now. :)

Gotta make mama happy

His first art work for our fridge that he did at daycare. :)

Sleepy after hanging out with mommy all day. Shopping and lunch and running errands.

So mom wants me to keep up with my blog better so I guess I better listen!! :)

let's see what is going on with us. I'll start with baby D. He is fabulous!! He is more fun every day. We can't get enough of him right now, especially since we only see him for such a short time during the week. We take it all in on the weekends. He has mastered crawling and pulling himself up. He isn't afraid of anything right now either, I guess he knows mommy will be there to catch him. Hopefully!! hehe. I think he is slowly starting to know who mommy and daddy are too. He still says da da da da a lot but now if I am walking away from him or something and he wants to be picked up, he will start fussing and say mama. So, it's pretty neat. He has been sick FOR FOREVER!!! Ear infection, sinus infection, you name it. We have tried antibiotic after antibiotic, his poor stomach. So now we have to result to tubes in his ears. It scares me knowing he will have to go under ,but I hear it's only for a short time and that it's totaly worth it because he will e much better. I sure hope so after what we are paying out of pocket!! and becuase he has been sick for so long. Funny story, last night because of all of the antibiotics, he pooped and it went up hs back, out of every place it could. It was horrible!! So i had him standing up on the bathroom counter while I undressed him. So i finally got him naked and then he peed all over me!!! I was like Dylan!! He just started cracking up. I couldn't help but laugh too, but I was like man, what a mess. So we got bathed and in our pj's alittle early. He's funny. ummm we are still making his baby food. It's really not that bad. Sundays are the only time it is very time consuming, that's when make it all. steam it, mash it, blend it, freeze it, etc. But it's worth it. I'm not sure how we will swing it in key west. We will more than likely take some baby food that one time. If there is a blender at the house, we can make most of it, but it's just too much and I don't think one week of baby food in a jar is going to hurt him. We will just see though. I'm sure Mike will go, no way, we are making it, so I'll just have him make it if he's that passionate about it. hehe.

I am doing great. Work is going great!! I love it except it's getting so busy. I don't have any time for personal stuff like I used to at my last job! hehe. it's ok though. I'm learning a lot and asking lots of questions. We have 2 months until key West, so I have been trying to work out more and get ready for a bathingsuit. I haven't worn a bathingsuit in 2 years I think. oh wait, I guess I wore one after D was born but it was not pretty. I'm really excited about the trip though. mike and I haven't had a vacation since our honeymoon 7 years ago! So we are going to try and have a blast on this one. After the plane ride, I'll be grrreat. I can't wait to get D's feet in the sand. I hope he's walking by then. :) If not, then i can't wait to get his knees in the sand. I wish parker was going, they would have sooo much fun together. Hopefully next trip.

Mike is great except he has been traveling like crazy!!! He is so tired of traveling so much. He is so close to finishing school and hopefully won't have to after that. We will see though. he keeps getting sick as well, i guess from Dylan and then from all of the traveling. I'm sure he misses D like crazy. I feel so bad for him.

This weekend we have a lot of stuff to do. We were supposed to go to drop Dylan off in Austin tomorrow and then head to either San Antonio or something but then we found out how much his surgery would be and decided we should be smart about it and not go. It was pretty disappointing but as long as he can get better, that's all that matters to us. Plus, we will be back in Austin on the 9th for the Austin 10K, we finally get to do it this year with everyone. Then we also have key West, so we will have plenty of babysitters there. hehe. We are planning one day/night just us, since this will be our last vacation until mike graduates that's for sure. It will e fun though.

Umm i think that's all going on with us. not a whole lot but seems like it to us!

Baby D and the fam

This is how mommy keeps getting sick!!!

Him in his new pimpin polo jacket.

My sweet happy baby

Tiff and Trey being silly posing like they are at prom.

Tippy and I

Before our Valentine's Day dinner.

Being goofy

Parker helping aunt Tiffany feed Dylan

Cousins playing

Mike Building our snowman

Well let's see what has gone on so far since I last wrote. Well, lets see we have been sick, sick, more sick, and then sicker!!! Ugh, I"m so sick of being sick! Ironically enough hehe. It all started when we went to a friends house and their son was sick but we didn't know it at the time. That is when he got RSV and it has just been bad ever since. Mike has been sick for about the last month and Dylan as well. I haven't been as sick, but just now got pink eye. It's so bad. My eye was swollen yesterday, it was just ridiculous. Today was a really bad day. I had to make it to the dr so that I could get better while Mike watched Dylan. Mike had to travel again this week! He has been traveling like crazy, he is so tired of traveling. He misses us so much when he travels. I feel so bad for him. But he had to go to school first so I was at home by myself with Dylan. I was so miserable because on top of my eye, my throat is sore and my nose is running. It's miserable and then Dylan is miserable too. He was crying all day long because he just felt so bad. So I took him to the dr again and she tried one of the last antibiotics to see if it works. She mentioned tubes if this doesn't work, I really hope it doesn't get to that. She said that he more than likely can't hear 100% and if it's like that for too long, it could possibly stunt his speech alittle. That scared us of course. So we are going to see if this works ok and then see what we need to do. I felt so bad for him.

Anyways, other than that, things are great. Dylan is sooo active right now and just so much fun. Mike and I fight over him so much! It's pretty funny. Luckily he is just so loved. We are so excited about our keywest trip. We are thinking he might be able to walk then, no pressure but it will be cool if he did and can walk in the sand and stuff. we are just so excited about the trip. Unfortunately it's not a whole family trip without april and tiff, trey and parker going, but it will still be fun.

we are in the process of trying to fix some things in our house. We just repainted the kitchen, the front door and fixed a few things that needed it. :) We aren't sure when we will have to end up selling and we don't want to have to do it all at the end. I hope it all comes together nicely.

Umm that's about it. We are all doing great. Mike and I are doing amazing. Just very much in love, we have gone through some ups and downs, but what couple hasn't. Lately though we just really have been doing great and we hope to continue going up. :) We truely are best friends.

I think that's it. :)

Love,

Jill

Snow day

Today was a snow day and I luckily got to work from home. Our sitter's son had tubes put in his ears today so I had to take off and be with D. We had such a good time today. Except when I had 2 conference calls and had to mute the whole time because he was playing with all of his toys that make soo much noise. I'm sure the vp's don't need to learn their abc's. hehe. Dylan is just so much fun. He is a handful crawling everywhere and getting into everything. He has 100 toys in the living room but he only wants the cords, shoes and papers laying around. I guess we need more baby proofing. :) It snowed sooo much today. I couldn't believe how much it snowed! It is still snowing now too!! 8 or 9 inches later! I put some pics on here too. I put D in it this morning. He crawled in it a bit but then face planted in it and then didn't like it much after that. :) The dogs on the other hand had a blast!! All in all, we had a great snow day today. I just love being a mom, baby D is the best baby and we just had the best time today. I wish I could have a snow dat at home with him everyday!! :)

A few new pics

Checking in

Hey There,
Well it's been alittle bit since I wrote but not as long as last time! :) Dylan is doing great. He is getting SO big. I just can't believe how big he is right now and how much fun he is. He is now pulling himself up!! It started over the weekend. Mike's parents were here and he just did it right infront of them. I was like he's never done that before!!! So they got to witness it for the first time. :) We had a blast with his parents here. THey came in Friday night and we went and ate dinner. We usually don't go out on Friday nights becuase there is a wait everywhere, but we decided to try it out anyways. We waited an hour so by the time we sat down, it was already an hour past his bed time. He was sooo cranky at dinner time. Poor thing was so dang tired. Then Saturday morning we had the carpet cleaning people come in. Our carpet was just gross and needed it. We try and do it as often as we can. It makes a difference, especially because Dylan has to crawl around on the floor. Anyways, so we had to leave and let the floors drive so we went and bought his new car seats and went to lunch. HIs new car seats were horrible to put in but we finally got it in my car. We still have to put them in Mike's!! We also got a new stroller for him. We were so tired of the bulky one we were using. Then saturday night Mike's parents watched D for us while we went out. We had such a good time. We went to PF Changs then to Sherlocks. It was a fun time!!

Dylan is great. He just finished his last round of shots until April. I'm sure he's happy about that. We also think the sickness is finally out of the house, knock on wood! :) That stuff was horrible, we never want that again! Or atleast not for awhile! I'm just glad MIke feels better too. He is traveling all this week, so hopefully that won't make him sick all over again.

I have attached some more pics of D. I'm trying to get better about this.
HOpe everyone is well, i'll try and keep this updated.

Jill