Easter

This year was Kyle's first Easter, since Easter was earlier in the year last year. To celebrate, we met April, Zak, and Ryder at Arundel Mills on Thursday the 21st to see the Easter Bunny. I was curious to see how Kyle would react since he did well with Santa. That was at 8 months of age. At 1 year...the Easter Bunny was the enemy. The twins did great, and I hope in time that Kyle will get better too!

David had to work on actual Easter, so Kyle and I went up to visit April, Ben, Zak, and Ryder. They did a little egg hunt. Kyle loved picking up the eggs and shaking them. We filled one of the eggs with rice and taped it shut, so that he had his own egg maraca. We had a cheese fondue dinner with chicken sausage, bread, apples, and veggies. Kyle loved trying the sausage, bread, and apples.

The weather seems to be getting warmer everyday, and I cannot wait for summer to be here so that I can take Kyle swimming.

Kyle seeing the Easter Bunny for the first time. Needless to say he was not to pleased to see him.

Zak and Ryder though were very happy, and did quite well!

New Pictures

Dad blowing out his birthday candles since his bday is the day before Kyle's. Being a funny man

JDRF Walk...with Bill the Goat

Playing at the open windows

The birthday boy getting new sneakers.

Opening presents with mommy

Umm, what is this?

Time for cake

Liesel and Kyle

Ready for his party

Birthday boy and daddy

Birthday boy and mommy

Playtime with Nana

Happy Baby!

Stay tuned, there will be many more to come!

What A Year Its Been!

I know I said I would try and stay updated, but I had a lot of work with this most recent class. Though I got an A! Sorry All, I will do better now that classes are done till November!

Kyle is doing very well. He loves to listen to music and clap or bop along. He loves dancing as well. He is becoming more and more independent and shows his tude when he does not like something. He is also walking for the most part, but knows that crawling gets him places faster, so at times he just crawls. He also can stand up in the middle of a room without holding onto anything. He "talks" all the time and loves to give kisses. He is sooo cute!

He understands many words and phrases and has a real sense of humor. He lites up at the sound of mine or David's voice, and loves to play with and pet Bandit. He loves to play with his blocks, toy trucks, and activity table. I cannot wait for him to grow and learn more each day.

We had his first birthday party, and he had such a good time playing with the other kids. We cannot wait for the warm weather to actually stay so that we can continue to play outside amd later go to the pool. We are so proud of our little boy!

Kyle's 1st Year

Time to Catch Up!

Time has gone by, and now you need to be filled in on what is happening with our little man and the rest of the family!

Christmas was a huge success at our house this year. Nana, Pop pop, Grandpa, Aunt Meredith, Uncle Karl, Liesel, and Max all joined us. The previous night, Kyle and I went to mass with April. I also finished my 3rd class the week of Christmas with another A. The first week of January, I started my 4th class. I have just finished that one and earned an A again. I am starting my 5th class, and looking forward to the end of April when I get to be done until September and gain some much needed family time! Until then, it is teach, learn, and be a mommy:)

Kyle is now 10 months old! He has two teeth, can say Mama and Dada, waves, sort of points, crawls everywhere, cruises, pulls up and stands up, knows his name, claps, helps to dress and undress himself, turns light switches on and off, hand feeds himself, has the most wonderful laugh and smile in the world, has a definite mind of his own, and is the best little man in the world! He has taken 3 single steps, and we are just waiting for him to start walking.

In late January, he got really sick with the stomach flu for 2 weeks. He lost over a pound and was so sick. It was awful to see him so miserable. In mid February, we tried to take him off one of his doses of meds, but to no success. His reflux was awful within 48 hours, so after a week he was back on the 4 doses a day. All things considered, he is such a happy little boy, and we love seeing him grow and learn.

We have had much less snow than last year, and that makes me very happy. I am counting down the days till it is warm, and we can take Kyle out to play! Bandit is getting anxious about being outside and swimming too...come on summer!

In February, my phone was stolen, so all my wonderful pics have been lost. We get new phones soon, and I cannot wait!

I look forward to April 20th when our little bird turns 1! I can't believe that he has grown so much. I also can't wait to see what he does next. Stay tuned to see what new adventures Kyle takes us on. I promise that once this class is over, I will post 2-3 times a week. Until then, I will try to get them in every week or so.

Pictures Pictures Pictures

Pictures to catch you all up on how our little man is doing!

Kisses from mommy! Look at my two teeth!

Smile for the camera:)

Time for Cheerios!

Yum Yum Yum!

Mommy and Kyle...We have Duke, and Navy gear so we need a Ohio State Shirt ASAP! Showing off his Duke shirt from Nana.

Up close and personal.

Laughing after we took him away from the toys once...now he is back!

Bandit Boo!

Curious Kyle.

Look mommy, I found the doggy toy bin!

Playing with Bandit's toys.

My chance for freedom.

Smile while I figure out a plan!

Trying to escape, thank goodness we put up the gate a long time ago!

Trying to escape down the stairs.

Look at that adorable smile:)

He got it!

Kyle trying to climb on the presents.

Zak, Kyle, and Ryder.

Bandit helping Kyle open gifts from April, Ben, Zak, and Ryder.

Kyle with his first Christmas tree.

Kyle and daddy decorating our tree.

Kyle in front of the masterpiece.

The cousins tree decorating at Nana's in early December...Max, Liesel, and Kyle.

A little clip of Kyle!
Kyle clapping

Wow, it has been quite some time. With the start of my master class on November 1st, my time has been very full with school work, teaching, and being a mommy to the best little guy in the world. I will try to be better, especially with the holidays approaching, but bare with me!

To catch you all up, we have seen Halloween come and go, along with Thanksgiving. For Halloween Kyle got to come to my school for our parade and for my my kids to see. We dressed him up at Tigger, and he was so gosh darn cute! On actual Halloween day, we went to Mike and Diane Lash's house to hang out and do some Trick-or-Treating. We were there with Meredith, Karl, Max, and Liesel. Nana joined in the fun too! Kyle had fun, but next year will be so much better!

We also got our first family photos done. The photographer said he was so good and loved the camera...which is true he is such a ham!

November is coming to a close and with that, is Thanksgiving. We went to Nana's house in Easton for a couple of days. The Weiss clan was there as well and we all had a blast. Kyle got to meet cousins Bill and Nancy and see Gillian, Mike, and Fionn again. Additionally Aunt Marilyn and Pop pop joined in the fun! It was nice to spend time with the family.

My dad went to Williamsburg for the holiday, but got to spend all day Sunday before the holidays with us...it was good to see grandpa again.

My classwork continues to keep me busy, but I am half way through my 3rd overall class which is nice. This one will end right around Christmas, and then I will restart the 3rd of January and go for 16 weeks straight taking 2 classes before I get another 6 months off. I can't wait for that time! David has been great watching Kyle while I work, but it will be nice to have more family time, especially as Kyle gets older.

We had to take Kyle to a Peds GI special st for his reflux. He is on meds 4 times a day and is still having troubles. He has to get blood work and an X-ray this coming week before we know if there is an endoscopy in his future or surgery or what the plan is...pray for him please! He now sits up on his own all the time and can get to that position from laying down. He is starting to crawl forward and is very successful at going backwards. We are hoping that by the time we go over to Nana's to decorate the tree in 2 weeks he will be full on crawling. Then he can help...lol. Kyle loves his jump-a-roo and playing with Bandit. We hope to get Kyle to see Santa, as well as our Christmas shopping done soon. I have Christmas cards to get written, as well as making it through the next few crazy weeks at school. I hope we do not see the snow we saw last year, or any snow for that matter. Time will tell. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and look back for more info on how our Little Bird is doing!

The precious little angel! My two boys:)

Kyle in the pumpkin patch at our family and 6 month portraits.

So Cute!

Tummy shot.

Kisses from Mommy and Daddy.

Our first Family Portrait:)

Ready for Trick-or-Treating!

Kyle and his cousin Max on Halloween. They are exactly 10 weeks apart.

T I double ga ER...TIGGER!

With Nana on daddy's birthday dinner.

With Aunt Meredith and Uncle Karl..enjoying the dinner.