Catching up

I took Dade to his Doctors appointment on the 18th. He had an ultrasound and then we met with the urologist. He does have a small blockage on the left side. That means the ureter has a small hour glass shape instead of being strait. Everything else still looks the same. No new concerns so we will now be going in every 6 months to check on it. Next time he goes in he will have the VCUG test done again. We still have to give him the antibiotics everyday and watch to make sure he doesn't get a UTI or Kidney infection.

Two days ago Dade said "more" in sign language for the first time. He is so smart. We haven't been doing the signing with him for very long. He loves watching us use sign language. Now he says "more" all the time, even when he is just playing by himself. I thought his k-9's came in on the top because they are so pointy and spread out but actually they are his second teeth. His two front teeth just came in and he is going to have a big gap between his teeth. He does really good at eating solid food and always wants our food instead of his baby food. He is already such a trouble maker. He gets in to everything and is so fast. If we turn our backs for a second he is already in the next room. He is very interested in everything. If he knows someone is going to the bathroom he races in there to see. He will stand up holding onto the toilet and there has been a few times we were not fast enough and he put his hand in the toilet.

Landen is doing so good recognizing his letters and numbers. He can count to 11 by himself and needs just a little help to get to 20, Then from 20 he says 1,2,3 instead of 21,22,23 etc. He is also doing really good with his colors. Some of his favorite phrases right now are: "That's weird", "What the?", "Peace out", and "What you doin?".

It has been so nice having Drew home more now that he is on break. Things have been crazy with Christmas but I have still enjoyed every extra minute I get to spend with Drew and I know the kids feel the same way. We saw Santa on the 12th. He came to the apartments community center. Both the boys were too scared to sit on Santa's lap so we took a family picture with him. On November 7th our friend Candace took some family pictures for us. We went to this really nice park. It was cold outside but we got some nice pictures. I have fallen behind on posting pictures so here are a bunch.

Landen's Birthday Party

We celebrated Landen's Birthday on Saturday the 5th. We went to Furniture Warehouse to watch John Schmidt. He is a lot of fun to watch. We came home so Landen could open his presents and he was really excited. He got a Lightning McQueen plate, bowl, and silverware, and a Lightning Mcqueen skatebaord, and two movies. When its time to eat he always wants to use his new set and he always caries his skateboard around. After opening his presents we went to Applebees for dinner. I am really sad we didn't take our camera because we had them sing to him and he got really embarrassed. He put his face in his hands right before they said "I don't know but it's been said, someones face is turning red". It was so funny. He wouldn't look up and everyone around us was laughing at him for doing it. He wouldn't even eat the ice cream they gave him. We came home and sang Happy Birthday and had some cake. After he blew out the candles he kept saying that he wanted to do it again. Here are some pictures from his birthday and some pictures of Landen helping me decorate the tree.