Thanksgiving visit from Grandma and Pappy Beall!

Kodak moment with Grandma and Pappy!

Does he not just remind you of Ralphy from the Christmas Story???

As much as Grandma tells us to watch for deer, we forgot to tell her to watch for ice! At least they are both smiling!


Dilan's special bear, made by Pappy, he has really enjoyed riding it around, and crashing into the cabinets. He always makes sure to say "bye" when he scoots away!

We have been having a great start to our winter this year! The weather has not been very wintery, but there have been a few days we could enjoy some sledding! Dilan is starting to talk up a storm, some days he will totally surprise us and say something we had no idea he had even learned yet. This past weekend he said highchair, and he pointed to Scott's watch and said "watch". The most enjoyable thing to date is he loves to lay on the couch and be covered with a blanket (just like his mommy!) and read books outloud. He will turn the pages and rattle on for several minutes, then say all done, and grab another book. It is so funny. Every time I try to get it on video, he sees me and becomes more interested in the camera.

We have had a great visit from his Grandma and Pappy Beall. Pappy got here a couple of weeks ago, and has stayed home with Dilan. Grandma came last saturday, and stayed for a week. They all had a blast, and it was nice for me to have extra babysitters...I forgot what it was like to sleep until 9am! Thanksgiving was great, lots of food, and our first Hooderite turkey (organic

and farm raised). We all stuffed ourselves, and watched the Lions lose! Can't wait for christmas and to see the excitement on Dilan's face when we get our decorations up!

Happy Halloween!

Dilan was a turtle this year for Halloween! We didn't know if he would have a complete outfit since he doesn't like hats on, but he didn't take his turtle hat off the whole time! We took him to the Boo Bash at our local elementary, and he seemed to have lots of fun! He played some games and won some candy...but somehow the candy disappeared before he could eat it! Hmmm wonder how that happended!

Fall fun!

We had another ER scare a couple of weeks ago with Dilan. He got up and had these strange red bumps on him, and his ankles were really swollen...I called the nurse and she said bring him in! So we raced in, only to be in the ER for 6 hours (you moms can understand how tough that was) to be told he had a virus, and that was just his bodies way of fighting off the virus...no follow up needed! Thank goodness we already met our deductable for the year! These pictures were just the day after, he was back to 100% so we decided to get some fresh air and hike right behind our house!