Potty Time!
Well, tonight was the first time that Nathan went pee pee on the potty. What a milestone! Hopefully it was not just a fluke. I'll keep you informed. He mentioned something about the potty on the way home from the store so when we got back, I asked if he wanted to sit on the potty. He said yes. Our potty chair is one where it plays a tune if he goes so in a minute or so the tune started playing. We were both shocked and I think Nathan was as well. We made a big to do about it. Hopefully it will continue!

Happy New Year!

Hope you all had a great New Year's celebration. We had some friends, Angela and Darrin, pass through town and spend the night with us. Angela was a bridesmaid at our wedding and they have a son that is a little older than Jacob. They all took a bath together and it was cute...

Daryl Bowled a 300!

Well, it was on the Wii, but that is still impressive. He was pretty pumped, to say the least. He was playing my step-dad so that is player 2. Here is the picture to prove it...

Bowling!!!
So Nathan's new obsession is bowling. It is pretty funny. I think it started by him watching Daryl bowl on the Wii. He loves to sit and watch "Daddy bowl". He also loves to set up his blocks in towers and roll the ball to knock them over. We turn bowling on TV whenever it is on and so today we decided it was time for the real thing. We all went to the bowling alley and would take Nathan up to roll the ball and knock the pins over. He loved it!

Christmas(es)

Our Christmas was very nice. It was the first time in 6 years we didn't have to travel across the country! It all started in Terre Haute. Here is a picture of Nathan and Papaw H reading the Christmas story...

From there we went to my grandma on my mom's side. Here is a picture of Nathan getting his train set...

The next day we had Christmas with my mom and then on Christmas morning we did gifts here at the house and then went to my dad's house. Here is a photo of Jacob opening a gift at the house...

The boys, of course, got lots of fun new stuff including a ball pit, a tricycle, a sit-n-spin, a kiddie basketball goal, a tee ball set, and clothes to name a few things.

To put you in the Holiday Spirit...
I thought this song was really funny.

Wedding

Today my "little" step-sister, Tara, got married. It was a beautiful wedding, and she was a beautiful bride. She started dating her man about the same time that Daryl and I started dating. I am so happy for her. Yesterday she graduated from college in nursing, so this is a busy time for her! Congrats Tara and welcome to the family, Matt!

Guest Blog: Jacob
Well, since my mom hasn't gotten on here recently, I decided to get you all up-to-date on our life. First off, I am one now! My birthday was November 19th and I had my party the Saturday before. I had a great time visiting with family and friends and eating cupcakes!

We even had a campfire for roasting marshmallows. I got lots of fun gifts although I think Nathan is going to try them all out for me first.

Then on Sunday I got dedicated at church. There were only 60 other kids along with me! I think I am famous because I made the large screen at church...

For Thanksgiving we went to Boonville to eat and hang out with some family from Daddy's side. Tonight we are going to put our Christmas tree up and I get a month to figure out how to knock it over.

I am really starting to get the hang of moving around. I am just starting to cruise and can pull up on anything. Mommy better watch out because I will be walking before long!

Joys of Home Ownership
So about a month or so ago when we were gone to visit family, a few floorboards in our hallway warped and popped up. We weren't sure what the problem was and figured it was the large amount of rain we had gotten recently.

The other day I was researching it and one of the causes I found was a leaking. I decided it was time to go in the crawlspace and rule that out. Under the house I went and there it was... a rainstorm! There was a hot water leak that was spraying out pretty quickly. I, of course, called the plumber and they came out the next day. They said they went under and it wasn't too bad and they made a little fix on the hot water heater and left. I went back under and the leak was still happening. I called them and they came back out. It turns out they had to pull out the water heater and replace the piping going down into the crawlspace.

I am glad we have that fixed. Now we just need to fix the hardwood flooring.

Jacob Crawling
So Jacob decided today was a good day to start crawling normally. Here is the video to prove it...

Happy Halloween from a Cowboy and his Horse!

Vacation Time
This past Thursday-Monday we were able to take off some time to go to Alabama to visit my brother and his family. Their son is 4 months younger than Nathan and they had a blast! They were best buddies the whole time. It was very cute. Where they live is about an hour from Atlanta so we went there one day and went to Ikea (yay!) and ate at Sweet Tomatoes (yum!). The drive there took about 9 hours with the stops. It wasn't too bad. We were sure and took plenty of rests. Here are some pictures of the weekend...

Been A While
Sorry for the lack of posts recently! I will try and give a recap of the last few weeks. Please forgive my erratic spacing. The space bar on my computer is messed up and sometimes will put one space, sometimes two... quite annoying!

Spa - I got to go get my nails done as a birthday present. That was a nice get away!
Zoo - A couple girlfriends and I took the kids to the zoo. 3 moms + 8 kids = a zoo of our own!
Parent Visit - Daryl's parents had the chance to come in town and visit a few weekends ago. It was good to see them. It had been a while.
Daryl Birthday - I missed the chance to do a cool blog posting for his birthday. Sorry! You'll have to settle for just an embarrassing picture of him.

I guess the biggest excitement recently was last weekend my mom and step-dad watched the boys overnight and we had a date weekend. It was so great! We officially celebrated our birthdays by going to a play, a very nice restaurant, and drum roll please... sleeping in!!! The dinner we had was at a restaurant called 610 Magnolia. The meal was a set price and came out in 6 courses. It was something I had never done before and was a very neat experience. The dinner lasted 2 hours and was wonderful. In the morning we ate at Lynn's Paradise Cafe. I had never been there and it was great!

Here are some random pictures. Jacob is getting pretty good now of pulling up to his knees. Sometimes he can get to his feet if it is the right height. He always looks so proud of himself...

Daryl and Nathan decided to take a nap the other day. Here is how I found them. Like father like son...

Biking in Style
Here is our most recent purchase. They seem to really enjoy the ride!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JENNY!!!!

And now... for something COMPLETELY different... Sing with me...

Happy Happy Happy Birthday
Happy Happy Happy Birthday
Happy Happy Happy Birthday
To You, To You, To You
OLE!

Help me wish my lovely bride, Jenny, a happy FIRST 29th Birthday today!

I love you! XOXO

--DW

To the Doctor
So Jacob still has been having some yucky diapers recently so I took him to the doctor's yesterday. Turns out he has a little ear infection in one ear. I am not sure if that is causing all of the other, but he is on some medication now. He got weighed as well and now is a hefty 18 pounds, 7 ounces. That was with his diaper on, so it is probably a little less than that, but at 9 months he only weighed 17 pounds, 2 ounces. I am glad he seems to be getting bigger now.

We got sent home from the YMCA today because Nathan had 2 yucky diapers, so it is another day at home tomorrow. If he isn't better tomorrow, I'll take him to the doctor. Ugh!

Visitors
Last weekend we had our friends, Chris and Angie, come in town for a visit. We went to Purdue with them and then we went to Seminary with them and then Chris and Daryl worked at LifeChurch.tv together. So, we have known them for a while. They have a son who is a few weeks older than Nathan. The boys had fun playing together and we enjoyed visiting as well.


FUN Week
We had an interesting last week. I have figured out that I have cleaned up every sort of body liquid possible. Here are the gory details...

1. pee - Nathan had some wardrobe malfunctions this week. Several mornings when he woke up one of the tabs on his diaper was broken so he peed all over the bed and himself. Pretty gross in itself, but it gets quite worse.

2. spit up - Of course Jacob is a pro at this and it required some cleaning on my part.

3. blood - We went to the park when our friends were in town and Nathan ended up taking a tumble and his lip and the step became friends. He bled all over his shirt.

4. vomit - All of us in the house, except for Nathan, have had a bug this past week which resulted in vomiting. The worse was probably when Jacob got sick in bed. I went in to get him and he was swimming in a lake of poo and vomit. Ugh!

5. poo - Jacob has had a good case of diarrhea along with the vomit.

6. snot - Jacob and Nathan have a runny nose now.

Needless to say, my washing machine has been running overtime this past week. I am hoping that all of our bodily fluids will stay where they belong for a while. I am sure you didn't come to read the blog to hear about all of this, but that is what is new with us. I was out of work for 4 days last week with it.

New Jacob Milestone
Today Jacob went from a lying down position to sitting up. He did it twice. We'll see if he got lucky or if this is a new skill for him. He is getting a lot better at getting up on his knees as well. He'll get up and rock from time to time. He is trying to pull up, too!

Well, we are doing well. Not too much new happening. Jacob has been honing his crawling skills and is pretty good now. He still does the army crawl. He loves to crawl over to where Nathan is and mess with what he is up to. I guess it will be that way for a long time now. Nathan does pretty well with it and thinks he is pretty funny. At least so far.

This past weekend we went to a community festival and Nathan and Jacob experienced their first parade. The firetrucks were his favorite... and the candy.

Here is a fun picture of the boys tonight in the bath together...

Reunion
This past weekend we were able to visit with a lot of family from my dad's side at the Weir family reunion. Daryl played golf on Saturday morning and his team won, Jacob and I went to a BBQ on Saturday evening, and then today (Sunday) we had the actual reunion. There was a good turnout this year and it was great to see everyone. Most people there we get to see just once a year. Nathan and Jacob both did very well. There were lots of boys for Nathan to play with. They definitely outnumber the girls.

Funny....
So I found this video tonight and I think it sums up life with kids pretty well.