Not Much Going On

There hasn't been much going on these past few weeks. School has started again and after all the holidays we've just gotten back into our normal routine.

Dillon wants to know when it will be Christmas again, and not for the reason you might think. He wants to go to "night time school" again. A few evenings during December Dillon's preschool had a drop off time in the evening so parents could do some shopping or just enjoy the evening out. Dillon loved "night time school", as he calls it, because they had "really cool nighttime toys"and he got to eat dinner at school. They put out toys that he doesn't normally get to play with at school apparently they made an impression. So now he asks me every few days if it can be Christmas again. And when he sees a house with their lights still up he asks why they still have Christmas and if we can too! Such a funny boy!

Jason recently got his two bottom front teeth (again). He didn't sleep well for several nights and you could tell that his teeth were really hurting him. So we did our best to try and comfort him. Dillon never had any teething issues; the teeth just came right in with no problems. So even though Jason is number two I guess some things are still a first.

You can't see his teeth, but just thought this was a cute picture.

Jason LOVES to pull all the books off the bookshelf one by one.


Jason is also very close to taking a few steps. A few times he's taken steps while holding on to someone and then yesterday he took a step without holding onto anything. Although he had no idea he wasn't holding on to anything because he was concentrating on getting to something.

Jason and Dillon are playing very well together so far. As long as you can keep both of them occupied in a toy and not the each other. Both have pulled the other one down, at least so far it's been gently.

Here is Dillon in his Cars outfit that he got for Christmas and LOVES.

Pretty much every single day Dillon dresses himself in outfits that match. I guess this day he wanted to try something new.

Dillon really wants it to snow and who can blame him! I guess if you get dressed for the occasion maybe it will make it snow? Can you see his bottom lip sticking out? He wasn't happy that I told him that it wasn't snowing.

Jason is trying all kinds of food now and really likes everything! But then again we went though the same thing with Dillon and now he likes nothing!

Here he is eating blueberries.

Spaghetti - wish the picture show it better because he's got little noodles on his face.

9 Months

A few days after Christmas Jason turned 9 months old and is fully on the move now! He can crawl very fast, especially if there is something that he wants to get to. He can pull him self up no problem anywhere he wants. Which is a little nerve racking because I am just waiting for him to hit his chin on something or pull something over on him self. You can baby proof for ever and there are still things that get missed!

As you can see I had a hard time keeping Jason sitting in the chair for a picture!




I finally gave him a book and he stayed for a bit.


Then I was finally able to get one without the book!


Now it is time to also take pictures with Jason standing!


We had Jason's 9 month check up this past week. He weights 25.4 pounds (97th percentile) and is 30 3/4 inches long (95th percentile)! He is a big guy, but proportionate. I just had to look it up and Dillon was only 23 pounds at one year (no small guy either)!

Jason loves to "talk" and look at books, but so far he does not want you to read the books to him. He eats pretty much everything as long as it isn't green! He still loves sweet potatoes in any format and tends to scream very loud when you aren't feeding him fast enough. We are working on teaching him 'more' in sign language but it hasn't clicked yet.

Jason thinks Dillon is the greatest and they are always giggling when they are together and have already started wrestling...which is actually initiated by Jason sometimes!

Standing at the bottom of the stairs, he loves to stand at the gate and bounce and talk.

He loves to stand anywhere!



Here are a few pictures from Jason's 9 month photo shoot at Penny's. He is so cute!