19 Months!!

Wow, my little guy is growing so fast. His vocabulary is growing every day, sometimes every hour. He can now say 2 words at once such as football & touchdown. When he says touchdown he throws his arms up in the air. We have his Papa to thank for the new words. His favorite show is Wonderpets and that is really the only show he will sit down and watch. We have been busy playing with all the new toys he got for Christmas but we are all definitely getting the winter blues. This week is warming up so hopefully we can get outside to play. Before Mike could get in 1 full week of work they cut back his hrs. but we are just thankful he has a job.
He is now 19 months old and we had to finally cave in and put tubes in his ears. His surgery is scheduled for tomorrow Friday the 15th @ 8:00a.m. Please keep Will in your prayers. I know this is a fairly routine surgery but there is nothing routine about sending you baby away to be operated on. He will be put under general anethesia and we should be home tomorrow afternoon. I will update as soon as I get a chance.

Christmas 2009

Snow time 2009

Best Laugh Ever!!!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!!

I am just a little late on this post but we have been really busy. Will and I were in Kansas from Christmas Eve until Sunday January 3rd. Mike made the trips back and forth for work. We had a great time and was able to enjoy some good quality time with the family. My little sister Sarah turned 30 yrs. old New Year's Day so I could not miss that one. Here are some pictures from Christmas morning. I have videos to post too but don't have time for that right now. We have also scheduled Will's surgery for this Friday the 15th.

18 Months & Tube Time

We finally had Will's 18 month check up today along with a re-check on last week's ear infection. Diagnosis is double ear infection and time to get tubes. Poor baby. He is amazingly in good spirits. Hopefully, the new antibiotic will kick it to the curb so we can enjoy Christmas. I will call tomorrow but it looks like we probably won't be doing anything till after the 1st of the year. I knew sooner or later we would end up with tubes. Will is doing just fine otherwise. His stats are as follows:
Weight 26lbs. (50%)
Length 35" (97%)
Head Circ. 46.8cm (25%)
We were going to do the H1N1 shot b/c they said they had it in stock. He got the regular flu shot back in Sept. and they did not have the baby H1N1 then. Then the nurse came and talked to me and told me that he would actually be getting the adult H1N1 and that the state had just approved it for babies. The reason why they have 2 different shots is because in the adult shot there is a specific ingredient that some people think can cause autism. The baby shots don't have that specific ingredient. I made a judgement call that we would not be getting that shot. I hope I made the right choice. If they do end up receiving the baby shots we will probably get one but until then we will keep our fingers crossed.
We had Parents as Teachers 2 weeks ago and he had high scores on his evaluation with her. He can say the following words: Mama, Dad, Papa, milk, cookie, gun (thanks to his dad), door, water, cheese, snow, tree, hot, night, ball, choo choo, more, chair, out, bye, down, bath, balloon (loon), bubble. He is just a ball of energy these days and his favorite new activity is jumping and dancing. I can't believe my baby is a year and a half.
In other news, Mike was called back to work last Thursday. YEAH!!! Hopefully, he is in it for the long stretch.

Santa Claus

Take 1

Take 2

Take 3 (at least I got him off my lap)

Can you tell these 3 are cousins? Will just loves his cousin Kali.