A lot of things have happened since my last post. This update is basically for family. 

Some things that Dylan's been doing lately: 

We've been teaching him to Pray. He puts his hands together, usually until we're done. Still won't shut  his eyes but we may have had a break through tonight - I got him to shut his eyes while singing a song he likes. It's part of the actions. 

He says random words all the time.  "Yeah, nuh uh, Hot, Mama, Daaad, bye, hi and probably some more. The ONLY word he'll say on command is "Hot".

Tonight I asked him if he wanted me to sing and he put his hands together like he was praying and motioned yes. We usually start all our bedtime songs with "Jesus loves me" I'm wondering if he's associating Praying with Jesus and our songs about Him. I think so, but will probably take a little bit longer before I know for sure. 

Throwing - EVERYTHING- Since we've gotten Chloe (our puppy/dog) he has learned how to throw balls. He throws everything for her and then he throws everything just for the heck of it too. Which is somewhat a problem, especially when he's mad and throwing a tantrum. The other night we watched him pick up his cars and not want to walk over to clean them up so he threw them over into the basket. He made them all . I was shocked. 

We took him the other night to watch Bolt - his first movie in theaters. He sat through it all and LOVED it. We will def be doing this more often. Since then he's watched the trailer of Bolt on our Apple TV and he can't understand why we don't have it all. 

We decided it was time to cut his hair. :( So many people were commenting about how cute the little girls hair was. Even when he was wearing blue and shoes with skulls! 

He's also into lining up all of his little cars and toys. I snapped a couple pics of them the other night. 

(Nothing special, but I thought they were kind of unexpected.)

I'll get to the Christmas tree pictures soon...

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The Piano Man.

We're still here! I have just been busy. I'll make an effort to update soon.
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Bananas!

Mr. Independent. He's been wanting to try everything recently. He looks to us as if he's asking us to show him how to do whatever it is we're doing. We do then he spends the next hour trying to figure it out. I really need to take some pictures of him playing with his new favorite toy, his broom. With out hardwood floors I'm constantly sweeping, the other day when I was finished I gave into his request and I showed him how. He has been dragging my broom around ever since. So we went on a mission to find him one that's his size. Now he carries it around constantly. When he wakes up it's the first toy he runs to get. I'll try to get it on film this week.

However, I did manage to capture the first time I gave in and let him hold his banana. He's growing up so fast. It's KILLING me!




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Cousins

Dylan seems to grow leaps and bounds when he's around his cousins. He just instantly grows up. Here are some pictures of them eating breakfast while watching cartoons.



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My lil Cutie.

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Park With Mommy

Here's the slideshow! He really had a good time. I have more of him at the playground, I plan to add them a little later.



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My sweet Boy

I took Dylan to the park today. We had a great time and I plan to do this more often. He really enjoyed it. I'll post a slide show a little later. But I couldn't wait to post this. I need this for my wall!


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More pictures.

We went to the park on Friday with Aunt Cindi and Connor. It was Dylan's nap time so he was pretty quiet until right before we left for lunch. Here's a few pictures of the boys hanging out.

Grandma Marsha sent Dylan some wooden blocks for his Birthday. We let him open them early He's been playing with them nonstop since. I think he likes the bucket the best though. :)




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Dylan Turns One!

We had Dylan's birthday party on Saturday. Here's some pictures of the event. I didn't get a picture of when he was finished with the cake but I know people did and will get one posted soon. He wouldn't touch the cake at first. He wanted Daddy to hold the cupcake. We tried to let him use his hands but he insisted on using his fork. We plan on celebrating his b-day again on Tuesday, his actual birthday, so hopefully he'll be more open to using his hands.




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Daddy & Dylan hanging out

The other day I took Heidi's car to Carmax to get an appraisal. What a surprise - they don't offer you what it's actually worth. :) While we were waiting Dylan LOVED to playing in all the Jeep's in the showroom. He has so much fun pretending to drive like Daddy.

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Park

Another slideshow.



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This one too!

 

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New Camera!

I've been messing around with my new camera. I LOVE it. Although I haven't figured too much out yet. Here's a few pictures.

 

 

 

 

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Per request of Grandma

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California

Here's some pictures of our California trip. I've been meaning to post them but I keep doing other things. This wasn't intended for this purpose but they're CA pictures.



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