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...
