Wednesday, December 3, 2014

November 2014 Family Recap

November started out a little slow for us, I blame it on the let down of Halloween being over, or perhaps Pat switching positions at work and bringing an end to our three and four day weekends! While we are mourning the end of long weekends, I am so thankful to have him on this schedule, I was not looking forward to another night shift rotation!  The highlight of the first week of November was going to vote (but then no one we voted for won, so maybe it was the low point of the month?!?) Thankfully the month picked up for us when visitors came to town!  Pop and Nan came to town twice, once for Dylan's big 3rd Birthday.  We celebrated with donuts, cupcakes, dinner, a movie, and of course presents!  Then a couple days before Thanksgiving our favorite friends that moved to TX came for a visit.  I loved watching the two older kids run around together, we sure do miss them a lot! Last but not least, we hosted Thanksgiving at our hose where almost my entire family was able to make it (we missed you Jared!)  It was a little bit crazy with the five cousins, three of which are one and under, but it was fun to have everyone here!  We took advantage of having the crew here and the day after Thanksgiving had an Avengers party for Dylan. I love having the cousins together, even if they don't always get along!  

 







 
 










 



Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Dylan in November

Oh little boy, you are 3!!  How this can possibly be true is totally beyond me, but it is!  Watching you grow up makes my heart simultaneously swell with pride and break into a million pieces!  I miss my tiny little baby boy so much, but I am so crazy about the funny, adorable, fantastic little boy you have become!  Your excitement for life is infectious and I just love watching you experience everything!


You are constantly singing songs and officially have the ABC's down - every letter in the correct order!
You can count to 13 all on your own!
Your daddy taught you the word "sucker" and now you are constantly calling people "suckers" as hard as I try, I can't un-teach it.  In other words, you are a parrot and we have to be so careful with what we say!
You have started calling me "mama" and it is so so cute!
I took you to get your photos taken this month and you fell in love with the "nice ladies" 
You love puzzles and are really good at doing them on your own
All day long you say "I'll show you!" and then lead me to whatever it is you want me to see
You are slowly but surely giving up nap time - it's the worst!
You adore your little sister!  You regularly say "that's my baby, she's so cute!"
You celebrated your birthday twice this month - once on your birthday with pop and nan and once with the Schofield side of the family with an Avengers party.  You LOVE blowing out candles and made us do it multiple times in a row and you LOVE opening presents!   
As I set up your Avengers party you ran all around the living room in circles yelling "i love my party! i love my party!"  It made my mama heart so so happy!