Baylor's 1st Birthday!

Our precious baby boy turned 1! Wow, cliche, I know, but TIME FLYS! He has brought so much joy into our little family. We were so excited to celebrate with new toys, cake and ice cream, but on the night of his birthday he didn't feel well and he woke up that night in pain. The next day a trip to Dr. Jed, our pediatrician, and we had the painful news - ear infection. He caught a cold and his bottom teeth are bulging and Ear Infection:( We are still treating the ear infection a week later. As soon as we're off the nauseating antibiotic we will celebrate with cake and ice cream Big Guy! He did get some really fun toys, which he is enjoying more than we could have imagined! Here's Baylor taking a spin in his new car. When he woke up on his birthday Josh and I were so excited we burst into his room and burst into a lively rendition of "Happy Birthday to you...." Baylor started to cry, whoops, maybe we were off key, but we overwhelmed him, so we stopped and pushed his new car into his room. Love at first sight - he squealed and circled it, stroked the tires, pushed it - realized he could make it go and squealed even louder - ONE is FUN! He loves to cruise the neighborhood in his hot rod!

BiG GuY!

Big Guy - Little Body! That is Baylor. We went to the mall tonight. I needed some things and Mr. Baylor loved marching through the stores. He grunts and with a deep voice says "Doe, doe, doe..." He takes short but heavy steps, looks like he marches and does so with his chest puffed out. He's absolutely adorable and his personality is to die for!

He loves people. Last night we went to a wedding reception and I think he thought he was the star of the occasion. He squealed and marched around - completely loving all the attention he was getting. Josh and I can't help ourselves, we're so amazed by him, we smile ear to ear watching the little guy!

Walk, Walk, Walk!

Baylor has been taking steps for a couple weeks, but still crawling most places. However, today he stopped crawling. He is walking across the house and squealing and beaming in excitement. We are so pround of him. He never has allowed us to hold his hands. Mr. Independent knows he has learned this skill on his own and prefers no help. He is amazing! Walking is so fun... he's very balanced and hasn't fallen very much, he's loving his feet on the hardwood floors rather than his more tender knees, he can reach and see new things.....yahoo Baylor, Mommy and Daddy are so excited for you! He feels like such a Big Guy! He's on the go and so excited to explore! I love how he takes short steps and puffs his chest out! You're as cute as they come Baylor!

Our Angel Sage

Today we celebrated Sage's birthday! Our little angel is with us often. We are so grateful to have her spirit bless our lives! Her birthday was tender as we drove up to Lewiston to visit her memorial and place flowers there. We remembered her birth. Truly a beautiful experience. We know she is ours forever. We will see her again. She has work on the other side and when our work is done here we will be with her. Sage we love you. Thank you for loving us. My pregnancy was my time with her. We carried her 32 weeks and I cherished every kick and movement from her. She is spunky and she is perfect, too good for this world. Josh and I know we need to live our lives that we can be with her someday.

February Favorites

Here's a list of Baylor's February Favorites- in no particular order...

Squirty bath toys
Laptops
Cell Phones
Peek a Boo
Mom and Dads made up songs
Crawl Crawl Crawl
New Toys
Loves to Read Books
Chase Vaccum
Chase balls
Clap Clap Clap
Squealing like a Piggy!
Saying Ma Ma Ma Ma for everything
Grins ear to ear when Daddy comes home

Pictures of Our Little Family

We met up with my old roomie Des and her husband Chad and their cute little girl, Samara a few weeks ago. We looked at some houses in Millcreek, took some pictures and ate Cafe Rio. Really fun. Thank you Des for the pictures. Missing a nap is Baylor's excuse for not smiling:) Good excuse little buddy, I'd be serious too.

Grade 3 Locks

My next door neighbor called me last Friday wondering if I saw anything strange in the area. She returned home around 7 p.m. to find her basement window had a rock thrown through it and her front door had been kicked in. Her husbands laptop gone. "I don't want to concern you, but did you see anything?" Concern me....who me.....concerned?? Of course I'm concerned! I did not see anything but concerned is an understatement. I'm so upset for my sweet neighbors. They moved in only 6 months ago and have a 2 month old baby. She had been gone that day since 1 p.m., so apparantley these brazen morons did this crime in daylight on our busy, busy street, I might add. She said earlier that week twice there had been a knock on the door and when she went to answer no one there. They have one car, which her husband takes to work. So, without a garage it appeared no one was home. Well, last Friday someone threw a rock through her window, then when no one came out of the house, they came back and kicked in the door. Her basset hound throws himself at the back door when he hears his family come in the front door, so they figure the robber heard that and ran off quickly with just the laptop. Suffice it to say we are looking more diligently for a new hood. This is just the umpteen time, I've been "concerned" or scared out of my mind, in other words. This past week we had installed grade 3 security locks for the front and side door.... they have double strike plates and we also had a metal plate put in the door frames. Josh also gave me a refresher course on how to use his guns. I plan on just bringing the posse to their attention. See posse picture. No one would get past Biance, look at that face....GRRRRRRR!

OUR PROTECTION POSSE