Weight: 22.4 pounds - 2%
Length: 32.5 inches
Clothing Size: 12-18 months
 
Sleep: We are down to 1 nap a day which is upsetting. I really liked having 2 naps! It was great for working and getting things done around the house. His nap is around 1 pm 2 pm and usually lasts for about 2 - 2.5 hours. He sleeps through the night! Usually he goes to bed at 7:30 pm and wakes up around 8 am. Its fabulous!

I Love...: Cars, Planes, Trains. Anything that moves. He will watch the garbage truck pick up the trash, and is always pointing out all the cars and buses when we are driving. His favorite toys are his trucks and airplanes.  He also loves running. He will run up and down our hallway. He likes to race, so he will yell GO! Then run down the hall. He also LOVES wrestling and tickling other people. Its great that dad and both grandpas are great at wrestling. MCDONALDS! He loves Chicken and walks into McDonald's saying "chicken chicken!"
 
I Hate...: Being told no,
Food: He is still highly allergic to Milk, Beef, Peanuts and Eggs. So a normal food day Oatmeal with Soy Milk Yogurt for breakfast. Ham and Fruit for lunch. Nuggets for Dinner. Snacks can be animal crackers, an Oreo, Juice. He eats Chicken a lot.
 
Other facts: He is great at picking up toys and throwing things away. He will take things to the trash for me and throws his diapers away. Its cute. It seems every day he has learned more and more words. He is usually a great kid, he always wants to play and rarely has to sit on time out. He does run everywhere we go, so you better be wearing running shoes. He loves love loves Nursery. As soon as we get to church he is trying to get there and doesn't even look back when we drop him off. He is also going to be a great cousin and will get Emma anytime Ellie is crying.

October has been one of the craziest months this year. Work has been busy, Q has been sick, Eric is back at school full time and has 2 part time jobs. So its just busy. So here is whats going on lately. At least that I have pictures to document.

 

Q spent the night in the hospital. He woke up one morning struggling to breath and turned really scared and frantic about it. I couldn't get him to stop crying, so I took him to the ER since he eventually was only gasping for breathe. The ER said he wasn't moving any air around. Turns out he had RSV which lead to a severe Asthma attack. They couldnt seem to get it under control, so they wanted to monitor him longer.

He is better now, but they will monitor him all winter long.

 We thought Q would enjoy playing Garage Band. So up at Eric's parents we played it one night for fun. He totally had a blast playing the guitar and the drums. We then played Wipe Out, and he jumped around the entire time. Fun Family activties.

 Emma had her baby! Q has a cousin! This is us at the airport because he LOVES airplanes waiting for Emma's mom to fly in.

Baby Ellie. Shes adorable!

 Q was a Football Player for Halloween, complete with knee pads.  He was pretty excited.

 Q on his birthday holding baby Ellie. He is going to be a good cousin.

 Took him swimming on his birthday. He is one of the bravest kids i know. He kept jumping off the edge of the pool into Eric's hands, and eventually he didn't need to hold hands to do it. And he would dunk his head under the water too. Guess we will be swimming A LOT next summer!

 Eric and I went to the UW vs ASU football game Saturday night. We braved the wind and rain, only to return to our apartment and find it without power. This is obviously a before picture. We didn't get soaked like I thought. But we had a ton of fun.

 

Q got a bike for his birthday. We have him ride it inside since it is so cold outside right now. He loves it. 

Music appreciating can never start too early!

Fishing is a very serious job.

My parents moved to California. I have been pretending they have been on vacation, so I haven't been able to see them. That helps more then thinking they have moved. Between me going there or my mom coming here I get to see them at least once a month. :)

At the end of August, Q and I headed down to California. Q was pumped.

 

We got our own row. He wanted to review all the safety precautions and know where the emergency exits were before we left. 

Reunited and it feels so good!

We went and visited my cousin who lives about 1.5 hours away. She had this dragon tail, and he loved it! He cried when we took it off to go home.

Anytime we had to get in the car, he wanted to sit in the front seat. 

 On Saturday we headed to Monterrey. It was GORGEOUS! We were hoping to see Sea Lions, but apparently they were out swimming.

 First time in the ocean! He didn't really love the waves. I think the sound and the fact that the water comes in and out worried him.

 He did like to watch it though. We were waiting for our Ice Cream.

 He thinks he is seriously the funniest guy around. He makes this face all day long.

You cant really see it, but there is the 12th man flag on this yacht. Seahawk fans are everywhere!

 Getting the car washed and feeding the fish. He thought this was awesome!

 Stopped at a fruit stand on the way home and got the most delicious strawberries I had ever had! So we had to make jam!

 Met Jerry Rice at the airport! You never know who you meet in California!

Wish this had been our plane going home! Go Russell!!

I must be a true Seattle ite because I am SOOO over summer. A very large part of that could be that I dont have air conditioning and my huge windows face the sun all afternoon. For the last 2 months my house has had an average temperature of 78 degrees. INSIDE, there have been a few days when it has gotten up to 82. SO so so hot. I am ready for long pants and sweatshirts. 

We have gone to A LOT of sporting events lately. Some times I have opted out and just let the boys go. Since the Mariners like to make you believe they are good, and give you false hope that "this could be the year" we have gone to their games. Q seems to love it, especially if he gets his own seat. I love going to football games. I prefer them to baseball and basketball. We have season tickets to the Huskies so we go to all the home games. Sometimes Eric gets lucky and gets extra tickets. So we can bring friends! Last game we brought Donald and Emma. We sat in the shade, cause you know in the middle of September it was 80 degrees. We had a lot of fun though!

A post wouldn't be the same if I didnt include our monthly trip to the ER right? 

The first trip was croup. We went to play at a friends, and within 5 minutes he couldn't breath. He didn't have any symptoms before, so I had to call the doctor to find out what was wrong. Apparently that happens. Completely healthy kid one minute, struggling to breath from croup the next.

 

The next trip to the ER was super scary are required us to stay for 6 plus hours. After we had dinner one night Q started crying uncontrollably. We did everything we could think of to calm him, but nothing worked. He was also having a really hard time breathing. We rushed him to the ER right away, cause we knew he was having a severe allergic reaction. I have never given him an Epi Pen and as long as I live 3 minutes away, I dont plan on it. As soon as we walked in the doors they could tell he was in severe distress so gave him the epi pen, started an IV, and started a breathing treatment. They kept us there for 6 hours to make sure once the medicines wore off he wouldn't go into shock again.  Luckily Q was pretty tired from the treatments, and from crying so hard. I'm sure he was also really scared. So he let us lay with him and watch some movies while we waited.  Luckily he didn't go back into shock, so they sent us home. That doesn't mean I slept good. I'm pretty sure I woke up to check him every hour. We dont know what caused it, but afterwards I deep cleaned my entire house, and wanted to throw everything away. 

Happier things also happened in August! Eric's grandparents came into town so they had lunch with us and took us to the Pacific Science Center. You would think I would take pictures but no. I was having too much fun. Q did NOT like the dinosaurs. He kept jumping from one person to the other trying to get them to save him. He eventually warmed up to the butterflies but not enough to get down on the ground himself. Before we went we played at the park by us. Grandpa Dolder pushed Q around in 'his" car. Q was on cloud 9.

 He thinks he owns this car. If I had a bigger yard/house he might be getting one for his birthday. Sadly he will have to borrow the one at the playground.

 This is how Q shops. If he isn't covering Eric's eyes, then he is grabbing his ears. Its pretty funny.

 

Now we just have to wait till Baby Hermione gets here! Q made sure her carseat worked and was comfortable for her.

Andrew left on July 23, 2014 for his 2 year LDS Mission. He was called to serve in the Quezaltenago, Guatemala Mission. He went straight to the Guatemala MTC to learn Spanish. He was there for 6 weeks before he was sent to the area in Guatemala where he will serve.

Saying goodbye to him was a lot harder then I thought it would be. Maybe because 2 days later my parents moved to California. There were a lot of goodbyes that week.  We all miss Andrew a ton, we have family chats where at some point during it, someone says "where is Andrew?!" He was our tech guru and the Go-to Guy.

He has been doing awesome the last 6 weeks! He gets to email us every week, and that has been a day we look forward to. Last week because he was leaving the MTC we didn't get an email, and it sucked. Me and my mom checked our emails every hour!

I am so proud of him and cant wait to here about all of his adventures. I do miss him like crazy though.

We have had so many fun activities so far! Between work, and Q, and all the summer fun I dont have time to blog about each of them. So here is just a photo post with our activies!

UW treats their married students with kids FABULOUSLY!! They always have the best activities! This could also be because Michelle works for them, and is planning great stuff :) BUT it is still awesome that they do anything at all! July's big activity was water slides! So they got 2 huge slides, and set them up at the family park! Q and I went down twice. It was SO fun! He wouldn't go down alone, so I had to go with him... dang it.

 

Q and Wilson are seriously best friends. They play with each other so well, and are always looking out for each other. They were taking turns playing on the toy truck. They kept pushing and pulling each other around the basketball court.

 

 We also finally got rid of the bottle! He only was having it for 1 of his naps and bedtime. But I got tired of it, and he was ready to grow up. So we no longer have any bottles in the house. He could care less. He doesn't seem to miss it!

We also got Q a big boy bed! He doesn't sleep in it yet, but he seems to like it. Whenever I take him to get in his crib for bedtime or nap, he also points to the other bed and wants to sleep in there. When he is ready to sleep in it, we will take the crib down and move the bed where the crib is. Away from the window. :)

Q had gotten more interested in scripture time! He loves to sit on Eric's lap while we read scripture stories. We use the church children gospel stories that has pictures. He loves it. 

 I love that his legs are crossed!

 We also were able to escape our apartment (its been 80 degrees INSIDE!) and go to Martha's house and watch Mila while Martha and Brenton went to Oregon. Q had a blast! It made me super jealous not having a backyard that we could play in and having a house. One more year of school and hopefully we are in a house!

Apparently he had a car accident :) 

 Teaching himself to play XBox at Martha's house!

 Learning to LOVE Toy Story!! He sat like this for half the movie.

 We went to the Snohomish Downtown area and walked around with Sue and Brianna. There are the cutest stores down there! We went into one of the kids stores and they had this mask with a cap. Q thought they were awesome! He kept running the mirror and looking at himself and laughing. So we had to buy the mask. I guess I will be making a Captain America cap!

 Eric has the craziest luck, like seriously, he entered a MBA competition at school and won a $100 gift card to the UW bookstore! So we were trying to figure out what to get. Q had his own idea of how Eric should spend his money. He went straight to the little kid department and grabbed this trio of sports balls, and then went and put on this hat. He ran around the entire store like this, hence the reason the photo is an action shot. I couldn't get him to stand still.

 With this heat, we have been DYING! We dont have air conditioning in our townhome, so its HOT. We went to Grandma Dolder's house to play in the water and enjoy her air conditioning.  He has such cheesy smiles.

 That night Eric and Grandpa Dolder came home from golf and Q wanted to show off his moves. He LOVES to golf, he walks around our place hitting his golf club and golf ball. If he cant find his golf club, he uses his hands, sticks or anything else that will hit the ball.

 Daddy trying to show him the proper technique :)

 He stole Grandpa Dolder's hat, and would only wear it backwards.

I'm sure we have many more days of swimming, golfing and playing with our friends!