Dillon and Jason's Blog

Oh Dillon, Dillon, Dillon

noreply@blogger.com (Dillon, Jason, Art and Joelle) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:30:00 +0000

I sent Dillon to the corner yesterday afternoon. It was quiet time (formerly known as nap time) and he kept opening his door and coming out of his room. His door has a squeak that hasn't been oiled yet and Jason tends to wake up very easily from this squeaking noise. So I had Dillon come to the basement and sit in the corner.

After a few minutes I asked him why he was in the corner, trying to drive my point home. He started to say "well my door makes this little squeak (said with hand jesters indicating how little the squeak is) and since daddy hasn't fixed it ...". I cut him off right there and told him that he can't blame other people when he's in trouble. I was surprised that he was trying to pass blame! Where does he learn this stuff? So I asked him again "do you know why you are in the corner?" and he said very matter-a-factly and very seriously "well, because you sent me here." I had to bit my lip until I got around the corner so I wouldn't laugh. I couldn't really argue with that answer! He can be so frustrating sometimes but gosh is he funny!

Walking Video

noreply@blogger.com (Dillon, Jason, Art and Joelle) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:30:00 +0000

I was able to get a little bit of video of Jason walking. You can also see him hiding from me. He loves this tent and crawls in and out of it all day long, usually as a game with Dillon.

11 Months!

noreply@blogger.com (Dillon, Jason, Art and Joelle) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:42:00 +0000

Jason is now 11 months old, can't believe he'll be a year in less than a month!! He has learned a lot of new things this past month. He can now walk for several steps at a time and walks really well just holding on to one of your fingers. He waves at you and can stand up from the ground.

He eats just about everything, except he still doesn't like peas (but who can blame him?). He still really likes sweet potatoes and bananas. Applesauce isn't horrible anymore and neither is apple juice. Jason now sleeps through the night from about 7 to 7! He takes usually 2 naps a day for at least an hour each.

Jason has his two front bottom teeth and one top front tooth. The second top tooth should come in any day. He has discovered his teeth and has been scraping them together; which I think is the worst sound in the world!

We haven't weighted him lately but I am sure he is just shy of 30 pounds! So we are happy he is almost walking as carrying him around is getting heavier and heavier!

No smile, but this was the only picture I got where Jason wasn't trying to move.

You can see his two bottom teeth in this picture.

I think he is done sitting in the chair!

He's getting so tall.

Walking!!!

Jason loves to play with Dillon.

Jason has discovered the rocking horse that Papa made for Dillon. He loves to ride it.

It actually happened...one of my kids fell asleep while they were eating!

Waving!

Jason always pulls everything off the shelves. In the play room I've pretty much given up putting the books back on the bookshelf.

When Jason is down crawling around on the floor upstairs the first thing he always goes is go straight to the hallway nightlight and pull it out. He crawls as fast as he possibly can because he knows that you are after him to stop him from pulling the light out.

Got A Yard!

noreply@blogger.com (Dillon, Jason, Art and Joelle) — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:22:00 +0000

We almost have a yard the boys can play in!!! The weather has been warm, sunny and dry so it was perfect to finish up the yard. Friday and Saturday Art and his friend EJ (Thank you, Thank you, Thank you EJ!) pretty much finished the yard and it is ready for grass!

Dillon had a blast with the piles of dirt and was covered head to toe in dirt by the end of the day - I should have taken a picture of the tub after his bath! By the end of the day he was calling him self 'dirt boy'!

We got several loads of dirt of the two days, here is the first one arriving.

EJ giving Dillon a ride on the Bobcat.

EJ and Art (he's back by the house moving more blocks) working hard!

We finally have parking again!

All finished!!!

Pictures of the Week

noreply@blogger.com (Dillon, Jason, Art and Joelle) — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:55:00 +0000

Not much has been going on lately but here are a few cute pictures I've taken lately.

Dillon is always such a good dresser, not sure what was going on with the pants this day.

Dillon was making lots of splashing sounds and was very busy in the bath tub, I peaked around the corner (Hard to be in two places at once these days!) and this is what I saw. Dillon had made a huge mound of bubbles!

Jason loves his big brother and always wants to be right by him. Which is make for more and more bumped heads these days! Oh, I can just see the wrestling that will happen!!

Everyone has to play with the door stopper at some point! Well Jason discovered it at Gram and Papa's house. I think I'll be chasing him away from that and the cat food! How do they always know the wrong thing to go for?

Getting to be such a big boy!

noreply@blogger.com (Dillon, Jason, Art and Joelle) — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:49:00 +0000

Dillon is becoming such a little boy now and learning so many new things. He is wanting to learn how to spell and write. He knows how to spell and write his name. He likes to ask what a word starts with so I always make the sound of the letter so he can tell me what letter the word starts with. The other day he spelled his name and then asked how to spell mommy. I said "what does mommy start with?" made the M sound and he said "M" and then he spelled it "M-I-L-L-O-N". His mind is always going! He's so cute!

Here is a copy of when he wrote his name sort of legibly for the first time. If you look closely you can make out all the letters.

Walking!

noreply@blogger.com (Dillon, Jason, Art and Joelle) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:23:00 +0000

Jason took his first steps today without holding on to anything!!! Of course I wasn't able to get it on camera but he was very proud of himself!

Parties, Parties, and more Parties

noreply@blogger.com (Dillon, Jason, Art and Joelle) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:12:00 +0000

Last week was Art's birthday as well as the twins first birthday! And this past Monday was Great Grandma's birthday. So needless to say Dillon was excited to share birthday cake with everyone!

We had Gram and Papa and Uncle Craig over for Art's birthday and just had a simple (yet somehow very loud) party at our house.

Jason was having lots of fun with Uncle Craig's hat.

Dillon helped open presents.

Later in the week we went over to Art's sisters house to celebrate the twins first birthday and have some more cake.

Dillon got to play with all his cousins which he loves doing!

Jason got to eat with his cousins.

This will be Jason in just a few weeks!! Can't believe it! Happy Birthday boys!!

10 Months Old!

noreply@blogger.com (Dillon, Jason, Art and Joelle) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:02:00 +0000

Jason is now 10 months old! This is such a fun age! Jason interacts with us and is so fun. He is trying to do to one nap during the day but half the time still takes two naps a day. He is actually very easy to put to bed most of the time, still waking up once during the night. But there are becoming more and more nights where he doesn't wake up at all, but then he is up for the day at 6:00 or 6:30! I am so not a morning person!!!

Of course need one with Dillon too! (Dillon had a run in with the end of our gate at the top of the stairs....so glad it wasn't as bad as it could have been!)

He loves to get down on the ground and crawl all over the place, and he is fast! He is still content to play by himself but likes it when we play with him too. For some reason Jason really likes to crawl with things in his hands. He will immediately go for a ball or block on the ground pick it up and then crawl the rest of the time with it in his hands.

Jason now has his bottom two front teeth! I think worst of the teething is over for now but know it will return soon.

Jason stands by himself now! He usually does it in his play pen when he is chewing on something or watching TV (yes I know he's not one yet, but dinner won't cook it self!). I don't think he realizes he standing but he has really good balance and rarely falls over. He also is cruising along the furniture and will walk a bit if we hold onto his hands. He will probably be taking his first steps soon. He tried the other day. He was standing at the coffee table and turned to walk towards Art without thinking for a second that he couldn't walk towards him. He promptly fell down but I am sure he'll try again very soon.

Boys and their remotes! Today I was fast forwarding something on the DVR with the remote and Jason quickly crawled to get his remote (without batteries), aimed it at the TV and started pushing buttons! He looked back and me when he figured out nothing was happening....what is is with guys and the TV?

Not Much Going On

noreply@blogger.com (Dillon, Jason, Art and Joelle) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:03:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Dillon, Jason, Art and Joelle) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:11:00 +0000

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!

Christmas

noreply@blogger.com (Dillon, Jason, Art and Joelle) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 04:31:00 +0000

We had a wonderful Christmas and it was so much fun to watch Dillon and Jason open their gifts. This year my aunt and uncle from California were up for the week, the first Christmas in a very long time we've spent together. It was so wonderful to have them here, but some how I didn't manage to get them in one picture.

Dillon handing daddy the star to put on the top of the tree.

We stared Christmas Eve eve off by decorating cookies. I started decorating sugar cookies for my parents neighbors when I was in grade school and even though I've moved and they've moved neither one of us have moved far so they still get cookies! Now Dillon helps me decorate the cookies in between "accidentally" getting frosting on his fingers.

We also went down to the waterfront to go through the park that was all decorated. It was very cold, but pretty. The boys liked the lights and these were pretty much the only Christmas lights they saw this year. A few weeks ago we went out to look at lights one evening and about 10 minutes into the drive Dillon fell asleep, and I mean dead asleep! Jason on the other hand started screaming and did so until we were about a mile from home. So this year the drive was a bust, maybe it will go better next year!

Christmas morning started early, just like every other morning in our house! Dillon had fun looking in his stocking to see what Santa brought.

He got a new Cars hat.

Santa also brought him a police helmet that he was very excited about and fifty million twisty ties later got to try out.

Jason enjoyed his stocking too.

Guess he knows what to do with cups!!

The boys in their Christmas jammies.

Jason really enjoyed the bows and paper...no need to get him any toys!

Dillon was very excited about his new Cars sweatsuit. He is so funny!

So happy!

Looks like a tornado hit!

Now we were off to Gram and Papa's for round two. There were stockings at Grams too!

I took Dillon shopping for Christmas presents for people and basically let him decide what to get (within reason because he wanted to Papa earrings and I vetoed that!) While we were walking around the store all of a sudden Dillon says "I want to get uncle Craig that!" I had so idea what he was talking about, so I pushed the cart in the direction that he pointed trying to figure out what he was talking about. Halfway across the store was the Christmas stuff and I figured out it was something there that he wanted to get. I had no idea what it was so I wandered in and out of the Christmas stuff and finally came upon a table that Dillon had pointed to. He wanted to get uncle Craig a Nutcracker, but he didn't know what they were or what they were called but that is what uncle Craig had to have. Knowing that uncle Craig probably has absolutely no Christmas decorations and that this was a funny thing for Dillon to pick out for him in the cart it went! Uncle Craig thought it was funny and it was indeed his first Christmas decoration. Now we'll have to see if he puts it out next year!

Jason again not so excited about the presents; the box and my shoes were much more fun!

Dillon trying out his new tool set from uncle Craig.

When uncle Craig was little he had a metal John Deere tractor that he and I both loved to ride. We road that tractor until the tires were bare! I didn't realize (but knowing my parents I should have) that it had been put in the barn for future use. So this year was the year that it got spiffed up (complete with lots of new parts that you can still order some 25 years later) and was given to Dillon (and I'm sure Jason too) for Christmas this year. Dillon thought it was pretty neat and hopped right on.

We finished off the day with dinner at my aunt and uncles house. Dillon, exhausted from the week, feel asleep in the car on the way there! Needless to say he had a very fun day and the next two days took naps!

Jason with Gram and Great Grandma.

Another Dillonism

noreply@blogger.com (Dillon, Jason, Art and Joelle) — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:05:00 +0000

Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas. We had a fun time and are exhausted, so much so Dillon finally took a nap today. I was very lazy today and haven't gotten the pictures out of the camera yet but will post some in the next few days. But I just had to post one of Dillon's comments from today so I don't forget it.

He was giving us a pitch on why he should watch a movie that we were saying no to. But then he said "why don't I watch a movie while you cook dinner. You know I am not very good at waiting so watching a movie would be a good idea, don't you think?" (this was said with his head slightly tilted). Art and I were so surprised by what a good pitch it was we didn't even know what to say other than laugh. I'm telling you we are in so much trouble in about 12 years!

Santa Pictures

noreply@blogger.com (Dillon, Jason, Art and Joelle) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 04:02:00 +0000

We went to see Santa at the mall on Friday. Dillon was in a great mood and excited to introduce Jason to Santa. He waited in line great and then when it was actually time to have the picture taken here is what he did. (I am in the picture because that was the only way he'd stand there - by me holding him. Don't think he was scared he was being a three year old!!)

Here is one that was taken right before the one above. Dillon didn't realize the picture was being taken and was actually smiling. As soon as he saw the flash go off he frowned; hence the picture above.

Jason thought Santa was very interesting and was happy as always.

House Builder

noreply@blogger.com (Dillon, Jason, Art and Joelle) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:48:00 +0000

Dillon and I built gingerbread house the other day. I wasn't so ambitious as to make the gingerbread myself, but Costco had a really cute kit that came with everything! Dillon had lots of fun and is very proud of his creation.

Getting started

"Look I've got frosting on my finger!"

The house is built and ready for candy! It was so hard for him to wait several hours for the frosting to dry before decorating!

Decorating...or tasting

All done! (By the way his shirt says: "Dear Santa, I can explain!")

Someone Was Tired

noreply@blogger.com (Dillon, Jason, Art and Joelle) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:47:00 +0000

Boys in Red

noreply@blogger.com (Dillon, Jason, Art and Joelle) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:29:00 +0000

Art wore a red sweatshirt the other day and when helping Dillon get dresses I suggested he wear his too. Then Art got Jason dressed in a red shirt. They all looked so cute!

Jason tries to climb over everything...including people!

He's Standing!

noreply@blogger.com (Dillon, Jason, Art and Joelle) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:36:00 +0000

It didn't take Jason long to figure out that he can pull himself up to standing. He did it last night for the first time. Of course I yelled excitedly which scared him and made him fall over, but he had a smile on his face because he was so proud of him self.

I want that toy....

And I'm going to get it....

Almost there....

Ah, got it!!!

But look I can reach all the way to the back of the chair!

Jason is crawling all over the place now and even tried to climb the stairs today....so got to get all the gate back out again!

Getting our Tree

noreply@blogger.com (Dillon, Jason, Art and Joelle) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:20:00 +0000

We went out a week or so ago and got our Christmas tree. It was a beautiful but cold day. We went early on a week day and pretty much had the place to ourselves.

We pulled up to an spot to park got out and got all ready to look for our tree (which took a bit of time since it was cold and there were two kids). When we were ready to go we decided to take a family picture by the tree right next to the car since everyone was in a good mood. Little did we know that it would actually be tree that we got! I don't think that will ever happen again.

Dillon had fun in the Nobel house which he called "a little restaurant". He enjoyed his warm apple cider.

Jason enjoyed the warm house too.

We each took turns carrying Jason in the backpack carrier...we had to trade off as he is so heavy!

Dillon enjoyed his candy cane which is a must to end the trip.

The boys making sure daddy got the tree up correctly.

Dillon putting his new ornament up. It is a John Deere tractor since that was the theme for his birthday party his year.

Jason checked out the tree and thought the ornaments were interesting.

Video of Crawling

noreply@blogger.com (Dillon, Jason, Art and Joelle) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:26:00 +0000

Here is a video of Jason crawling. Jason loves my Crocs and always goes right towards them when he sees them. So Dillon was being helpful and moved them out of the way, as well as anything else he didn't think Jason should touch.

8 Months

noreply@blogger.com (Dillon, Jason, Art and Joelle) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:17:00 +0000

And Jason is finally crawling!!! After several months of trying he is finally putting one hand in front of the other! He started crawling on Saturday and today tried to pull up to the foot stool. He is definitely on the move now!

Haven't weighed him recently but a few weeks ago he was 25 pounds, so I know he is more than that now!

He is enjoying all the new foods he is getting to try and really likes any finger food.

He is sleeping better during the night and most nights doesn't wake up at all.

All is all he is a pretty happy laid back baby!

Dillon entertaining Jason with funny faces.

Happy Thanksgiving

noreply@blogger.com (Dillon, Jason, Art and Joelle) — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:26:00 +0000

I hope all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. At Dillon's school they asked each of the children what they are thankful for and Dillon said he was thankful for playing. I asked him what else he was thankful for and he said "a happily ever after at the end of a story." Such a sweet boy!

We had a nice dinner with Gram and Papa and Uncle Craig.

Dillon didn't eat anything but pumpkin pie and whipped cream....at least the pumpkin is sort of nutritious!

Jason enjoyed his first Thanksgiving having turkey vegetable baby food.

It is hard to get a picture of the both of them and have them both smiling nicely for the camera. Of course the best picture turned out dark!

And they are done!

I've Been Lazy

noreply@blogger.com (Dillon, Jason, Art and Joelle) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:39:00 +0000

But the boys haven't been! No real excuse for not posting anything lately, just laziness. I figured I'm entitled every once in a while right?!

Dillon reading to daddy and Jason.

Daddy lounging with the boys.

Dillon helping with Jason's snack.

These past few weeks it has been very wet and windy so we haven't been venturing out much. Dillon and I did go to see if we could find some salmon swimming up the local streams. We did manage to see a few. Art and Dillon had gone several days earlier but it was raining so hard they didn't end up getting out of the car. It was so cold, but Dillon had fun seeing the salmon...once we finally saw some.

We have pets now! For the time being anyway. Art ended up with an ant farm as a gag gift and decided it would be fun for him and Dillon to watch the ants build tunnels. We sent off for the ants and Dillon asked every day when they'd arrive until they finally came. The first few days it was really fun to watch them build the tunnels but they haven't been as active lately. Now he wants a cat!

Uncle Craig came over to give Dillon a much needed hair cut. I normally take him to someone to have his hair cut but I thought why not have Uncle Craig do it because there was no way I was going to try to get Dillon to sit still for that long!! Dillon did great and was so excited that it was Uncle Craig who cut his hair.

Jason isn't crawling yet, but he does a great army crawl. He definitely has no problem getting around. He can sit up like a pro now and after he sits up he claps his hands, it is so cute! Obviously he's seen me do it a few times. He has also discovered the doors on our TV cabinet...which he opens and closes endlessly.

I've moved Jason to sitting up during his bath, which works well most of the time, except when he decides he wants to lay down. He is slippery little sucker!

Jason loved it when Art played the guitar for him....but got mad when he moved it far enough away that he couldn't touch it anymore. He definitely lets you know when he's not happy about you taking something away from him.

BOB and HOP

noreply@blogger.com (Dillon, Jason, Art and Joelle) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:54:00 +0000

You are probably thinking "strange title for a blog post", but there is meaning behind those two words. Dillon can spell and/or read both!
Dillon has been very interested in what letter words start with and how some words are spelled. So rather than just spell them out for him I figured I'd try to get him to sound them out to figure it out on his own. So far it has worked well. He wanted to know how to spell Bob and was so happy when he figured it out and has remembered it. Of course he'd figure out how to spell Bob before mom or dad!!
Today we were spelling words with magnets. I laid out H-O-P and he said "hop"! I was actually a little surprised that he knew the word out of context. We read the book Hop on Pop a lot and he knows the title of the book when he sees it, I'm assuming from the picture, but I didn't realize that he actually did know the word!

He's one smart cookie!!!

7 Months

noreply@blogger.com (Dillon, Jason, Art and Joelle) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:32:00 +0000

Yep, Jason is already 7 months old! And yet still no crawling! I thought for sure Jason would have figured it out by now but so far he only goes backwards. But don't let the fact that he isn't crawling fool you into thinking he doesn't move around....because he can get everywhere! He is really good at rolling, moving on his tummy, and his own version of the Army crawl. If he sees something he wants to get to he'll go for it, especially if it has buttons (i.e. the DVR and the remote)!

He has a very good appetite and is still growing fast; he is one heavy kid. I checked the other day and at 6 months he weighed as much as Dillon did at 8 months! We are moving through food and so far he has not spit anything back out. We've tried juice but he isn't really interested in it.

Jason is sleeping better now during the day, but we are still having problems with him waking up more than he needs to at night. I am hoping that either when he figures out crawling or his bottom teeth finally come in the sleeping will get better.
As you can see he doesn't stay put anymore!

Trying some plum, not really a fan.

This rairly happens anymore, but he fell asleep on his own while playing.

This finger sure tastes good Gram!

I see you down there!

Here is a video of Jason trying to get into forward motion. It's cute.