Happy Birthday!!!!

Our little boy is not so little anymore. We celebrated Dylan's first birthday a couple of weeks ago. Here's a little trip down memory lane. A picture from each month of his life.

Such a sweet newborn. He was great from day one, despite the jack-hammering at the hospital and hanging out under the blue lights for an extra day.

Dylan quickly had a lot more hair than Connor, and was a very happy baby.

The kids enjoy playing with Dylan, and for the most part he is happy to follow the kids around.

He's also a great helper around the house.

Then he started to get mobile. Rolling over, then some scooting.

The backwards scooting had a few mishaps. He forgot the upgrade to the backup camera.

The smiles got bigger and more frequent.

He started pulling himself up, and we realized we needed to lower the crib.

More mobility = more trouble. I think we have the same toilet paper picture with Brooke, Connor and Lexie.

Then the laughing started. I think over Chinese New Year, thanks to all the attention from Jason, Dylan realized that he could command an audience.

He's been a ham ever since.

We love our little (bit bigger) guy. He is a great kid! Excited for what the next year holds.

Sick Free!!!!

I'm hoping that I don't jinx this but we're finally sick-free in this house.  Hooray!!!!  It seems like at least one of us (mainly Dylan) has been sick since Christmas with a nasty cold/runny/stuffy nose.  Poor Dylan seems to have gotten the brunt of all the sick bugs but I think we're finally seeing clear skies!

This last bout seemed to have me the most concerned.  A few days after coming home from CA Dylan started burning up with a crazy high fever, ranging anywhere from ~102.5-103.5.  He had woken up in the middle of the night but in my delirious state I just assumed that he was hot from being under his covers.  It wasn't until the morning that I checked his temp and saw that he was burning hot.  Poor guy!!!

But he didn't even complain.  I can only imagine how uncomfortable he felt but you would never guess.  He continued having high fevers from Wednesday through Saturday.  Sunday was the day that it finally broke.  I had taken him to the Dr. but all the tests came back negative (this was the one time I wished that it was another double ear infection or strep or the flu...at least a definite answer of some sort).  I even had to get urine test.  That was fun!  Alas, Sunday came and he was finally fever free.  Yahoo!!!!  But then a nice rash started to develop.

I remember Brooke doing the same thing (high fever and rash) and being diagnosed with roseola so I figured Dylan was in the same boat.  Not so much.

Monday morning I found him covered in hives.  Poor guy had no idea what was going on just that he was so uncomfortable and itchy.  I took him back in to the Dr. and was told that it was probably some nasty virus and this was how it was manifested.  Poor kid is like me.  I break out in hives after having a cold sometimes.  Sorry Bud!

With some help of Benadryl we were finally able to get him happy and comfortable.  We've now been sick free for over a week.  Let the celebration begin.  Just in time for someone's birthday!!!!