Wow - it's been almost a month since my last update. SORRY! Things get crazy around here. The big news is that Jack is now walking all over the place. Crawling is being phased out. He has lots of words and quite the personality. He will do just about anything for attention and to make people laugh. New favorite words include hat (hatta) and hot (hotta). The word he says most frequently is dog. A dog or even pictures of dogs never go unseen. He is very observant. There was a dog at the airport yesterday, and he kept trying make a break for it and get over to the dog.
I'm not sure how much updating I'll be able to do right now, but I promise to be better about keeping you all posted. We got home late last night from a great Thanksgiving break spent in Wheaton with family. I'll post pictures from that. I have laundry and lots of cleaning going on --- multitasking! Jack did wonderfully on both plane trips, which was a great relieve to us. We were really nervous about being stuck in a plane for over 2 hours with our energetic little guy! When we got home last night, it was around 10:30. We passed our neighbor who had been taking care of Roi for us. He told us that Roi had dug out of the fence sometime after 5:30 and that he had been looking for him for 2 hours. He didn't have a collar on plus it was dark, so I thought for sure that he was gone for good. Colin went looking for him in his truck, and 2 hours later, around 1 in the morning, he comes backing into our driveway with a wet and filthy yellow lab wagging his tail!!! I guess he thought he would go out for a stroll around the neighborhood. So thankful that we got him back, but SO mad at him!!!
Colin and the rest of his team completed the Firefighter Combat Challenge in Vegas a couple of weeks ago. They did pretty well, and made it to the finals. I think he had a really fun time, but missed his little buddy a lot! My parents and sister were here helping out for the week which was great. I had to work, but we still did a lot of fun things. We went to Disney and park hopped one day and we headed to Clearwater Beach for a night right before they had to head back home. Lots of fun!!! Mom, can you send me the pictures so I can put some up? I didn't take a single picture! oops... As soon as I get those, I'll put them on here.
At the Christmas Parade in downtown Wheaton. It was his bedtime, and he was so tired, but he was a trooper. He waved, clapped, and yelled "yay" while he watched the parade go by. So fun! That's Santa and Mrs. Clause in the background in case you can't tell.
Not a great family picture, but it's the only one from our trip. And the puffiness has returned, just like when I was pregnant with Jack! :)
Sleepy boy walking to the parade.
The cold didn't seem to phase him much at all. He's a true midwesterner at heart!
