Eric and I the other day were talking about how little snow Seattle has had so far this winter. Usually there is at least 1 or 2 days of snow where everything is cancelled! It's awesome! Well one Saturday night we happened to look out the snow and saw it was snowing!! I had to speak in church the next day so the prayers for church to be cancelled started!

We woke up the next morning to a lot of snow and since church wasn't till 11, we had to play in it! Also, Neal and Wilson were throwing snowballs at our windows.

Wilson and Q are always playing together

They are going to be best friends

Just like their dads

Trouble Maker Wilson- who needs yellow tape?!

Trying to make snow balls

 

Couldn't find his other blue glove- so we used a sock

Maddie was so excited to see Q

Maddie is also always looking out for Q

Who needs siblings when you have Maddie and Wilson? He had so much fun playing in the snow and exploring. He cried when we went back inside. Sadly church wasn't cancelled and I still had to give my talk. Hardly anyone was at church though, so it wasn't half bad!

On my list of things to do every day is to update the blog. As you can see it is pretty low on my priority list. As of January 1st my job became Full Time, so I have less hours to sit on my computer reading blogs, Facebooking for fun (part of my job is on facebook I have grown to hate checking it), and less pinteresting. sigh. But it does mean benefits, PTO and MORE MONEY! Which is always a nice thing to have when you are poor and back in school, taking out student loans. SO let me catch everyone up.

Christmas was FABULOUS! Since both families live in Seattle we get to see everyone at Christmas except Donald and Emma- they were in Dallas this year. Chelsea and Mikey couldn't get Christmas off either, but they came over. They were all greatly missed. Q didn't quite get the opening present thing... he liked to play with everyones bows on the presents and thats about it. He was totally spoiled rotten and loves all of his toys. To tell you the truth there are some that I haven't even opened from the package because how many toys can he have? And I think he will enjoy the toys more in a few months... maybe for Easter. :)

 Update on Q- still in the 3% for basically everything. He weighs 18 pounds, and still fits into 9-12 month clothes. We bought him a pair of 12-18 month pants and they wont be fitting any time soon.  His skin is under control as long as we put lotion and his medicine on him every night. If you miss a night he is super itchy the next day and he gets bumps all over. He is starting to eat solid food. We were pretty proud when we gave him a McDonald's chicken nugget and he ate half before throwing all of the pieces on the floor. I tried something the other day though that made him gag so he isn't completely ready for all foods yet.

New Years - After Christmas was over Chelsea and her Boyfriend Mikey came for their vacation. We went to the Seattle Aquarium, played silly games, and they lived through a shooting. While they were driving home from our house their car was shot at. No joke, their car window has a bullet hole. Even the Window repair man said so. Oh Seattle.

2014 -  January so far has consisted of school and work. Eric started his 2nd quarter at UW and now is having interviews with companies for an internship this summer. He is on an Alaska Airlines consultant project right now, and is planning on going to Stanford for a Case Competition soon. I should find out when that is. I am working, working and more working. I am still trying to find the balance of when I will be getting my 40 hours in and when I should go to my moms or mother in laws for help.

 

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.