15 Months, SE and Nicole :-)

Declan had his 15 month check-up yesterday.  He was a trooper through his vaccines and his flu shot.  I was very glad to have Jason there with us!  Declan remains in the 50% for weight and height, and is still at the top of the curve in head circumference.  He has pretty much stayed consistent every visit.  Dr. Elliott said he was perfectly healthy and looking great.  He also asked about his language and was quite impressed where he was developmentally and said that he is where he should be at 18 months already!  That's our boy!  He did notice that Declan had some fluid in his right ear, so he gave The Dew a prescription to Amoxicillin, but told us not to use it unless he needed it...the fluid could just be a sign of the onset of a cold, so make sure he needed it before we gave it to him.  Other than that it was an uneventful visit!  Yay!

 What an absolutely beautiful little girl...just like her Mom!

Playing with Uncle Jason!

After the doctor, Nicole and Sawyer met us at the house and Nicole and I took the kids out for dinner.  It was great to catch up with one of my BFFs.  She has had a REALLY rough year and I am amazed at how strong she still remains and what a wonderful single mother she is.  I could not even imagine doing it on my own.  She is way better off without the D Bag ex-husband, but I know it has not been easy for her!!!  SE and The Dew had so much fun playing together.  Thank God Sawyer has her mother's laid back and wonderful personality!  She is so fun to be around and Declan adored her.  I took a couple of cute pictures!!

Cold and Cold Weather

 Snack time!  He looks like such a big boy in this picture!

 I LOVE this picture! 

 Raspberries!!!

 Lays there until he is calm...after tantrum

 During tantrum.  Looks pathetic doesn't he? This is what happens when I don't let him run the front loader washer all day long with nothing in it.  I'm such a mean Mommy!

Declan has not been feeling that wonderful this week.  It seems to be a little bit of a cold. He is not eating as much and has been a little cranky and definitely clingy.  The stomach bug is going around my classroom again and I'm praying I don't bring it home.  He built up such an immunity from staying with my sister and being around other kids, that I swear he is not getting as sick as quickly.  He was sick for close to 3 months this time last year.  He is sleeping through the night still.  I went back and looked at the blog and Declan has been sleeping through the night (12 hours) for 10 months!  We have been blessed with such an "easy" little boy...I can only imagine what the teen years will be like...ha ha!

He is still very loving and kissing and hugging everything.  It is adorable.  He has also started laughing when we tell him "no," and will throw a fit if we move him away from what he was doing after we tell him "no."  He falls to the floor very dramatically and kicks his feet for all of 15 seconds.  We try not to laugh because he still looks so cute even when he is having a tantrum.  So far the ignoring is working.  Hope these don't last long, but I'm sure this is not the end of them :-)  He is still very chatty and repeating and imitating everything that he can.  He has also added "help" and "yes" to his sign language vocabulary.  It amazes me how much he takes in...the other day he was walking around the house saying "oh shi"...ummmm, I think we need to start watching what we are saying.

We had a nice weekend as a family.  We pretty much stayed home and out of the cold weather.  We played around the house and built the first fire of the season.  Declan thought that was so much fun.  There is NOTHING better than a weekend with my boys.  I'm so in love with them and love to watch them together.  Jason continues to amaze me at how wonderful he is with Declan.  He is such an incredible father.  Declan is back to being obsessed with his Dad (how can I blame him).  Declan is definitely Jason's mini me.  Ha ha!  We also went to Minnie and Al's to celebrate the October birthdays.  It was great to see the family.

Ready for yet another work week!  Declan has his 15 month checkup on Thursday, so I will update after that.  Not looking forward to the shots :-(  It did not bother me so much when he was a little baby, but I have a feeling this visit might be a little rough for Mama!

Trick or Treat!

Declan was up late on Saturday and was a little bit moody on Sunday. I know that is hard to believ, but he was :-) My mom came down to visit us and bring Declan a Halloween treat. We went to lunch and Trader Joe's with her. He was so excited to see her. I swear he is so obsessed with his Cyn Cyn!

Declan actually took a late nap (he has dropped his second nap recently) but was still a little cranky. We were going to go and see the Nau's, but didn't think The Dew was up for it. I even debated taking him out, but Jason said we had to and he was right. We dressed Declan back up and loaded him up in the Cozy Cart and headed out to get some candy. He LOVED it!!! He had the best time! It was such a nice night with our sweet family. I also absolutely love our neighborhood and just don't know when I will be ready to leave the city!

It was such a great weekend with family and friends!!!

Halloween/Football Fun At The Brigman's House

There were sippy cups galore...this cracked me up for some reason. By the way...that ugly coozie was NOT mine!

Yummy Food!

I'm so in love with these two!

Abby and Rylan

He loved this golf club! Future pro golfer? I'm good with that :-)

Rylan...please check out her adorable shoes!

Playing!

Abby!

Bennett!

Coleton!

Emma!

Madison!

Our family!

Our little vampire!

He did not love his cape!

Declan and Bennett :-)

Friends!

Sari and Zac had all of us over on Saturday and we had a blast! We dressed the kids up and let them play together and they all seemed to have a great time. It was so fun to see all of their different little personalities. We are all so lucky to have beautiful and healthy children! What a fun time!!!

Pumpkin Carving

We carved our pumpkin when we got home from school on Friday! Declan was really into it!

I Just Can't Help It...

Smile!

Really, mom?!

Fake laughing...to make me laugh...and it works!

What?

I find myself constantly snapping picture after picture of Declan and can't seem to stop it! One because he is so damn cute and two because I want to capture every moment and wish that I could freeze time. I'm sorry if it is annoying, but I suppose if it bothers some of you, you will just stop reading the blog. Ha ha!

There is just not much going on in our day to day lives right now. Wood's World is pretty boring right now, but that is not always a bad thing :-)

All Done!

Declan is talking so much! He repeats everything...this could be trouble. The other day I asked him if he wanted his apple juice and he said "apple?" Then on Friday when I picked him up from Ms. Jeannie's he wanted to look at a tree in her yard. I told him what it was and he repeated "tee." When we got to Jeannie's this morning he pointed out the window and yelled "tee!" It is so much fun to watch him take everything in and how much he is learning. I am loving watching him learn. I know this is very developmentally typical, but I work with children all day long that are developmentally delayed and a few that are completely non-verbal, so to see our son hitting these milestones daily is amazing to me. It also makes me count my blessings and gives me even more motivation to work with my babies at school and push those early interventions. Here is a cute video of Declan saying all done and fake sneezing. He is so funny!