At our Ward Christmas Party they had Santa. I just got the pictures back. He was not a fan.

 

Hopefully Santa wont put him on the naughty list.

Eric is done with his first Quarter of his Master's program!! Only 5 more quarters to go :) It has been difficult to figure out a new routine. But I think we figured it out and so going forward it should be easier. Fingers crossed! We love living behind U Village and being downtown Seattle. Except if you want to go anywhere after a football game. Since Eric has been done with school since the 10th he gets almost an entire month off. Its been awesome.

We have started giving Q new foods- since he needs to take more calories but cant drink whole milk. Dang milk allergy. We took him to an Occupational Therapist that gave us some ideas to keep him from throwing up his food, because thats what he usually does. So hopefully we will be able to get calories on this kid! He is still in the 3 percentile for his age. Annabelle, is only 4 months and weighs 3 pounds less then Q who is 13 months old. I love how little he is though. :)

Gave him some bacon, I think he liked it! But who doesn't like bacon?! Oh thats right- I dont. :P

 

Our ward Christmas party was AWESOME! They decorated everything like we were in Jerusalem and all the families brought blankets to sit on to watch the program. Everyone did a great job.

 

After the Christmas Party we went down Candy Cane Lane. Its about 20 houses that decorate for Christmas. This house was Santa's Toy Shop. In the window is a rocking horse and other toys. I would love to live in a neighborhood that does this!

 

Becky, a cute gal in our complex put together a cookie exchange. I didn't want to make cookies so I dipped Pretzels in Chocolate, Carmel and White Chocolate. I came in 2nd place for the best decorated cookies!

 

She had the cutest boxes and ribbons to put the cookies in.

This is only 1 table of cookies. I sampled most of them, they all tasted great!

She even had appetizers for us!

Q and Eric watching Dog youtube videos. He was having a cranky afternoon. When we buy a house we might be getting a dog too.

We took Q to Nordstrom to try on new shoes, and they gave him this blue balloon. He would not let it go. He was walking all over the mall playing with it. The other day when we finally had to pop it because it was no longer floating and I didn't want him to pop it, he cried. He first had a look of astonishment that the balloon was gone. Then he cried.

If you know anything about me, it is I could walk the mall EVERY day! So on a different day to the mall, he found a girl friend. They were hugging and walking around playing together. She was 3 months older then him. Nice to see he isnt that much smaller then her.

We went to my parents Christmas Party and in the overflow area all the kids were playing Freeze Tag. He just stood there watching them all run around. They kept tagging him. I think they thought he was frozen so they were trying to unfreeze him.

These two little boys kept giving him a hug, so then they decided to give him a hug at the same time He is in the middle of them.

Q found a bag of cereal at my moms house. I hurried something going on in the other room but though Eric was watching him. That was not the case.

November has gone by in a flash! It helps that we have been super busy! We play with our friends the Bastians all the time, and between Work, School and everything else our calendars are full. Maddie LOVES Q and likes to dress him up in her dress ups. She had put this outfit on all by herself. She was so proud of herself!

 

We went Ice Skating on one of Eric's days off. 

Q started walking on his birthday, and hasn't stopped since. I think he sometimes walks just to walk. He is never sitting down- he is always has something to do.  We also have taught him to go down the stairs. He has only fallen down then once, and after that he never had to be told to turn around again.

 

We tried a new lotion on Q for his dry skin and he had an allergic reaction to it. His skin turned red, he was having problems breathing and had hives all over. Poor kid. We rushed him to Urgent care, and luckily they gave him some medicine to stop the reaction. 

 

 

 Speaking of Allergies, we retested Q at Children's Hospital on his allergies this month. Instead of the back pricks we opted for the blood draw. Turns out on a scale of 1-100 his scored a 100 on eggs, and a 50 on Milk. So I guess he is still allergic to Milk and Eggs. We are trying to get creative on what to feed this kid!! 

 

 Starting to drink of a sippy cup! Yes I did bribe him with a little bit of Diet Coke. What can I say he is a kid after my own heart :) Once he started drinking from the cup though, I dumped it out and put grape juice in it. So no need to freak out.

 

For Thanksgiving we went to St. George this year. It was SO fun being in the sun and the warmth! I love seeing my cousins and both of my siblings came too!

 

These pictures kinda show Q's Personality. The picture above he has a Jenga piece in his mouth. He thought he was pretty funny. Also he decided that since he had his own table to sit at, he would put his feet up. We did tie him to his chair using a ribbon. We also didnt have a chair to feed him in at my moms house down there, so we were just feeding him on the counter. He decided he wanted to eat in the sink. Crazy kid.

 

 My cousin got a new puppy named Oliver and he LOVED Q. Quentin wasnt sure what to do, since he got licked all the time! Eventually I think he warmed up to him.

 

 We also tried to take those cute light pictures you see on pinterest. Unfortunately Q kept breaking them, so we had to stop the photo shoot to clean up all the glass pieces.

 

Since Q LOVES Despicable Me, we had a Minion themed birthday at Mike and Sue's house. They were so sweet to let us have it there. Our apartment literally is shoe box and can hold NO ONE.

**Warning - Lots of Pictures**

When Q woke up from his nap and came down stairs to see all the decorations he got super excited and went straight for the balloons.

We just had a small party but it was still fun. We had our friends the Bastians, and the Twitchells. Then Grandma and Grandpa Dolder and Uncle Andrew and Grandma Corbetter. We skyped with Grandpa Corbett, Uncle Donald, Aunt Emma, Aunt Haylie, Aunt Chelsea, and Aunt Brianna. They were so sad they couldn't come. 

 When we sang Happy Birthday to Q he was in shock. We video taped it, it was pretty funny. Maddie helped blow out the candle since Q was just looking around unsure what was going on.

Wilson enjoying the Cake

 

Since he is allergic to Milk, I had a piece of cake that I didn't ice with frosting so he could have some cake. He tried it, but didn't seem to like it. I am just grateful he didn't throw up.

He decided just to play with his cake

After cake we tried Chocolate Soy Ice Cream. You didn't like that either. Again we video tapped Q's reaction.  But the picture above is the reaction. We may have been a little mean and kept giving it to him because he made the funniest faces! We think he didn't like how cold it was.

Wilson, Maddie and Annabelle

 

Bath Time.

After bath we started opening presents. Maddie and Wilson helped a lot. Wilson thought most of the presents were his. He wanted to play with all of them and was sad when he couldn't take them home. You got spoiled with all the fun presents and clothes!

 

He had so much fun at his birthday, playing with his toys and friends!  Thank you everyone that came and sent messages on is birthday and throughout the week. We are so blessed to have so many friends and family members.