I decided a blog update is way past due, so here it finally is.
The last couple of months have been great. Since my last post Andy and I celebrated our 3rd anniversary by kickin it at home while Mike and Jen watched Drew overnight (fabulous), celebrated Thanksgiving and Natalie’s wedding with all the family in Arizona (also fabulous), celebrated Christmas here in Utah with my family, moved into our own apartment (Yay! finally), and celebrated the New Year.
We finally had a big tree this year. Grandma Thorne gave us one of her old trees which was awesome. Willes and Karen let us use all of their Disney ornaments which was really nice since all of our Christmas stuff was packed in our storage unit somewhere not easily accessible. Drew loved the tree and only pulled it down on himself once.
Andy and I made Drew this PVC pipe chair. It’s adorable to see him sit in it. At first he couldn’t figure it out and we would have to sit him in it and then he’d just sit there until we took him out. That was kind of nice. He’s getting better getting in and out of it now and he loves to push it around the house. He’s saying please in sign language in this shot. Probably, “Please get me out of this chair and give me some more candy.”
Drew just turned 18 months on Sunday. For several months I’ve been counting down the weeks until Drew finally hit that landmark and could go to nursery. The day has come and gone, but sadly Drew was sick and wasn’t able to go. Hopefully he’ll be all better for this Sunday. I took him to the doctor yesterday for his 18 month check-up. He wasn’t sick when I made the appointment, but he happened to be sick when he went. I guess it all worked out. Poor little guy has infections in both ears. He’s acted fairly normal though, so I guess that’s good. He’s still just a little guy. Here are his stats: height 30.5 in. 7th%, weight 22.2 lbs 8th%, head 47 cm 26th%.
We got Drew these boots at Kid to Kid and at first he hated them and couldn’t really walk in them, but now he brings them to me all the time and wants them on. Then he walks to the coat closet and wants his coat and then he knocks on the front door. Today he even gave me my shoes too. He likes to go on little walks outside, but it’s been so cold and the air is so disgusting that I don’t like to take him out a lot. Especially since he already has a cough. I’m excited for warmer weather to someday come.
I tried to get back into the Nursing program at UVU this semester, but that didn’t happen. I ended up being the 4th alternate which wasn’t good enough to get in. That’s kind of discouraging, but kind of a relief at the same time. I’ll try again another time.
Andy’s trying to get into an MBA program right now, so if that happens things will be getting busier for us. (at least for him…)
Anyway, I really want to do better keeping up with my blog so it’s not so boring, but we’ll see how that goes. I notice that on a lot of blogs people just put pictures of their kids and none of them, and I always want to see “them” too. Now I’m realizing that I’ve just done that too. There were a few pictures of me recently, but I’m pretty much in my jammies, hair a mess and no make up on so I obviously don’t want to post those. I’ll have to work on being presentable first, and then taking some pictures.
I am SO glad that you finally got your own apartment! That is very exciting. We are still working on that. Drew is SO adorable and I love his boots. Gavin loves to have shoes on all the time.