Jaydan might have a little bit of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder... he has the tendency to line things up in perfect rows...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
Summer 2009
eating his first dum dum sucker
at the beach in Seaside
playing at the Redmond Town Center bear fountainSummer has treated us well this year. We've been lucky enough to have gone to Chelan twice, Seaside and had some sunny days to play outside. Jaydan has been LOVING the warmer weather and has been a traveling trooper with our road trips.
Seaside was cool for the first couple days but Jaydan learned to appreciate walks on the beach. He enjoyed his first dum dum, lots of french fries, rides on the carousel and of course, the newness of sand. We had a great time with Dirk's family - Jaydan LOVES playing with his cousins!
More regular fun has been the local Duvall parks and some trips to Redmond Town Center to see the fountains. Jaydan loves the bears! We're looking forward to some more warm weather this week so that we can enjoy some more outdoor fun!!
Monday, August 10, 2009
Jaydan speaks!!
Okay, so he's been communicating rather well for a long time now but his words have been few and somewhat broken. Things like "daddy" and "pa" (for grandpa) have been around for awhile; "juice" and "please" are also well used. Jaydan FINALLY said "mom" at 17 months... I was beginning to wonder if would ever be uttered from his mouth. I must say that I am SO happy that he's finally calling me by some sort of name!
But, the biggest shocker for me was 2 days ago when he decided to throw out a very clear and distinct "dinosaur!" Threw me for a loop... at first I thought I was hearing things, hoping that I'd heard such a large word from my 18 month old. But, then it came again 3 additional times in the same day, "dinosaur!" followed by his signature stomping around. I LOVE IT!! Now that a 3 syllable word has made its way into the vocabulary, we're now working on reciting the alphabet.
Children are amazing.
But, the biggest shocker for me was 2 days ago when he decided to throw out a very clear and distinct "dinosaur!" Threw me for a loop... at first I thought I was hearing things, hoping that I'd heard such a large word from my 18 month old. But, then it came again 3 additional times in the same day, "dinosaur!" followed by his signature stomping around. I LOVE IT!! Now that a 3 syllable word has made its way into the vocabulary, we're now working on reciting the alphabet.
Children are amazing.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Family Update
Obviously I'm not the best at keeping up on the blog. ;)
A lot has happened in the last few months. Jaydan turned 1 back in February - kid is growing like a weed and, as of his 15 month appointment, he is in the 90 percentile for his height. In contrast to that, he is apparently in the 10 percentile for his weight. Skinny little boy. He is very active and LOVES the outdoors. We play outside almost every day now that that weather is nice. He's great fun and is communicating so much now. Not only does he still sign, but he is starting to speak more clearly and is good at conveying what he wants. He's amazing.
Dirk is still working hard at both PRO and Eastlake. We are still in our townhouse in Duvall and kicking along day by day. I'm looking at going back to work part time just to bring in a little extra too.
In the extended family... my mom had stomach surgery a few days after Jaydan's birthday. She seemed to recover well other than some nausea that required trial and error of several medications. Then, right when she seemed to be getting back into the swing of things, she was diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer. She had surgery for that on June 3 and is recovering well. She should be starting radiation therapy at the end of the month. All of her doctors are optimistic, telling her that, "if you're gonna have cancer, you've got the best kind." It's super small, super slow growing and they got it all out in surgery. As a family we're optimistic as well.
In the middle of trying to get my mom ready for surgery, we had some tough news about Dirk's cousin. He was in the hospital in a coma for about a week when the family decided it was time to let him go. Dirk went to Portland for the service while I stayed at my parents to help them. It was a crazy week for us.
Now it's summer and we're hoping to enjoy some sun time!! We headed to Chelan last weekend, courtesy of Bill and Linda, and had a BLAST. Jaydan did really well in the car and for the weekend overall. Our next venture will be back to Eastern WA for the 4th of July. My summer goal is to do a better job at this blog...
A lot has happened in the last few months. Jaydan turned 1 back in February - kid is growing like a weed and, as of his 15 month appointment, he is in the 90 percentile for his height. In contrast to that, he is apparently in the 10 percentile for his weight. Skinny little boy. He is very active and LOVES the outdoors. We play outside almost every day now that that weather is nice. He's great fun and is communicating so much now. Not only does he still sign, but he is starting to speak more clearly and is good at conveying what he wants. He's amazing.
Dirk is still working hard at both PRO and Eastlake. We are still in our townhouse in Duvall and kicking along day by day. I'm looking at going back to work part time just to bring in a little extra too.
In the extended family... my mom had stomach surgery a few days after Jaydan's birthday. She seemed to recover well other than some nausea that required trial and error of several medications. Then, right when she seemed to be getting back into the swing of things, she was diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer. She had surgery for that on June 3 and is recovering well. She should be starting radiation therapy at the end of the month. All of her doctors are optimistic, telling her that, "if you're gonna have cancer, you've got the best kind." It's super small, super slow growing and they got it all out in surgery. As a family we're optimistic as well.
In the middle of trying to get my mom ready for surgery, we had some tough news about Dirk's cousin. He was in the hospital in a coma for about a week when the family decided it was time to let him go. Dirk went to Portland for the service while I stayed at my parents to help them. It was a crazy week for us.
Now it's summer and we're hoping to enjoy some sun time!! We headed to Chelan last weekend, courtesy of Bill and Linda, and had a BLAST. Jaydan did really well in the car and for the weekend overall. Our next venture will be back to Eastern WA for the 4th of July. My summer goal is to do a better job at this blog...
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Belated 1st Birthday pics... well, a few anyway.
with cousin Evan
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Auntie Karly's Surprise Visit!!
bath time...
I'll get the cup tower!
YAY!!
What's for dinner?
Karly decided to show up on us a couple weeks ago! It was so fun... we were all at my parents hanging out watching American Idol and all of the sudden, the front door opened and in she walked! So sweet. While she was here she took some fun pics of the boo...
What's for dinner?
Karly decided to show up on us a couple weeks ago! It was so fun... we were all at my parents hanging out watching American Idol and all of the sudden, the front door opened and in she walked! So sweet. While she was here she took some fun pics of the boo...
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Big 1 year old!!
So my little J-bug turned 1 last week!! We had a small family party for him on Saturday - it was lots of fun. I still haven't taken the time to get all of my pictures up so those are going to have to come later... He got lots of great clothes - a request from mommy because he's grown out of all the shower gifts we received. I actually started packing them up in the garage - 2 1/2 bins full so far!! Ridiculous. But they're all in great shape so we'll be reusing.
Jaydan's birthday was Thursday 2/19 and mine was the next day. For my present, he started WALKING!! YAY!! He's so big and now he hardly seems to crawl at all. Crazy. He has new walking shoes and we're ready to keep watching him get more and more coordinated on his feet!
Jaydan's birthday was Thursday 2/19 and mine was the next day. For my present, he started WALKING!! YAY!! He's so big and now he hardly seems to crawl at all. Crazy. He has new walking shoes and we're ready to keep watching him get more and more coordinated on his feet!
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Party Planner
We've planned a small family party for Jaydan's first birthday. All I can say is W-O-W!! I had NO clue how expensive this little gathering would get!! My brother-in-law was kind enough to reaffirm that it only gets worse from here too. Lovely. But, I can say that even though it's been a little stressful (I tend to stress a little over things like this) it's been fun to plan at the same time. I actually took the time to make the invites and plan to make thank you's too. We have a jungle theme going - matches Jaydan's nursery decor. Our first choice of theme was Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends... unfortunately, there is NOTHING out there!! I looked at ways to make the invites and decorations for the party but it turned out to be much too large an undertaking for me. So, we have jungle animals.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Still a Sicky
So Jaydan's fever never got below 101 by Tuesday - he woke up Monday morning at 103.6 and Tuesday morning at 103.4 so I took him to the doctor. She looked him over and diagnosed him with Roseola. I know, what is that? Apparently it's a common childhood disease with a 103-104 fever which breaks abruptly and is followed by a red, splotchy rash. Ick. So I left the doctor feeling better about what was going on.
Wednesday evening got a little tricky though. He hadn't eaten well all day, nor had he been drinking. So, as a result of that he didn't have enough wet diapers for the day and I was stressed about him getting dehydrated. I called the nurse on call and she told me to take him to Children's after hours at the hospital. Talk about freaking me out. We got him there and he (inevitably) started acting better. Once we got him into the exam room under the flourescent lighting, we noticed some splotchiness on his face. YAY!!
So after all the stressing, it was Roseola after all. This morning he still had a low grade fever but we were told last night not to be too concerned if that happened. After his morning nap his temp was back to normal and now his rash is all over his belly, neck and face. He looks sick now but everything is going to be fine!!
Wednesday evening got a little tricky though. He hadn't eaten well all day, nor had he been drinking. So, as a result of that he didn't have enough wet diapers for the day and I was stressed about him getting dehydrated. I called the nurse on call and she told me to take him to Children's after hours at the hospital. Talk about freaking me out. We got him there and he (inevitably) started acting better. Once we got him into the exam room under the flourescent lighting, we noticed some splotchiness on his face. YAY!!
So after all the stressing, it was Roseola after all. This morning he still had a low grade fever but we were told last night not to be too concerned if that happened. After his morning nap his temp was back to normal and now his rash is all over his belly, neck and face. He looks sick now but everything is going to be fine!!
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Sicky
Poor baby... Jaydan is sick for the first time! I actually didn't feel well this morning so I decided to stay home from church. Jaydan acted fine except that he wouldn't eat well. But, after he got up from his morning nap he was very flushed and BURNING up. Poor kid had a 102.9 fever!! So I gave him Tylenol... tried to get him to eat some bland food (got some banana in him) and am continuing to push the fluids. I feel so bad!
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