Happy October!

Ok, I don't really have an update.  We're all doing well.  Jack gets his evaluation with the school district on Tuesday, since he'll be 3 in November and Early Interventions only goes until 3 years old.  It's a double-edged sword if he qualifies.  It means he still needs help and the school district feels that without help, it will hinder his lifelong learning (or something like that), but at the same time, the free preschool for him even a few hours a week will be nice!  I'm kind of hoping he qualifies.  I could use a break!

Dean and I are still busy with school.  The semester is almost half over (thank goodness). 

Also, in a few short weeks Jillian will be a year. I don't know where this past year went, but it's gone. Here are a few pictures of her I took this past week. She looks just like Jack to me in these pictures!  Oh, and she fell and hit her cheek.  That's why her poor cheek has a bruise on it.  :(  Lots of falls while she masters walking, which will be soon!  She's been walking everywhere she wants to be.  She barely crawls anywhere!

And she walks!!!

Ok, so she's been walking for almost a month now, but I finally got video of it.  She's pretty good for only being 11 months.  Sorry it's so grainy, not sure why it's like that (and it's sideways).  And you can hear Jack in the background saying "Gee-yan" over and over.  It's what he calls Jillian.

Pictures and a real update

It's been brought to my attention that my last post wasn't an update.  So, a month later, here are some pictures and an update.

The kids are doing well.  Jack is really coming along on his speech.  We're so proud of him.  He's doing really well knowing his colors, shapes, alphabet, numbers and counting.  He's one smart little cookie!

Jillian has started to walk.  She takes about 5 steps at a time, just enough to get her from a couch to a table, chair or Mom.  She's starting to talk as well (and sign!).  She says "Momma," "Uh-oh," and "Dadda."  She certainly is growing up fast!  And she loves to climb on everything and anything!

Here are a few recent pictures.  As soon as I take video of Jillian walking I'll post that too.

Dean's sister and her family came to visit us in August and we went shooting one day.  This is Jack out where we were shooting.

Another day we went to Wheeler Farm and this is Jack and Jillian on the tractor ride.

And we also went to the Aerospace Museum at Hill Air Force Base.

Update

I've been asked to update my blog with pictures and stuff.  Um, that was a mighty tall request!  Just kidding (sort of).  I will update with pictures when I get them off my camera.  We spent a week on the road, so we have some pictures (not too many though).

Recent pictures of the kids

Ok, I haven't been able to blog too much!  I started summer school and obviously have a lot of work to do (2nd class of Anatomy & Physiology, fun stuff).  Anyway, I hope the 2 posts in 1 day make up for it!  :)

This was take a week or two ago.  She's now up on all 4s just trying to figure out how to crawl.  She rolls any place she needs to go!

Lately she's been anticipating the flash when I take her picture, which is why she has goofy looks on her face!

Silly Jack likes playing by opening and closing the screen doors (and likes playing behind and in Grandma's plants).

"Plllleeeeaaaaasssse Daddy!"  This is Jack begging Dean for a lollipop that apparently Dean wasn't giving him fast enough!

Jillian at the park enjoying being outside

Jillian after sliding down the slide for the first time (with Mom's help, of course).  Apparently she's a fan of slides!

Look at how much fun Jack is having on that slider thing!  I have another picture of him letting go too, but Dean has a goofy expression trying to catch him, so I won't embarrass him by posting it!

Apparently he was getting tired of me taking his picture!  I love the expression on his face! 

He's playing in the sand!  Not doing what it looks like!  LOL!

Jack's field trip to the police & fire station!

He did not want to stop to get his picture taken.  I'm lucky I got the one up above!

I couldn't get him to look at me!

I love this picture of him in the fire truck!  He didn't want to come out, so the fireman putting them in kind of just left him in there.  Jack had a ball!  Unfortunately there were a LOT of buttons in that truck, and if you know Jack, he's a button pusher (of many kinds LOL).  I had to try to get him not to push any of the buttons.

Jack next to the police motorcycle.  I thought it was cool they ride on Harley's.  Dean told me "duh!"  Ok, so I didn't know.

Jack in a holding cell.  Of course, he's eyeing the buttons (plus, I had to run in there so he didn't push them).  Fun times with boys!

Outside of the holding cells.

Sorry this isn't at the top, but I didn't want to redo the whole post.

Jack is in a program with Early Interventions for his speech therapy and they have a class for 2 year olds in their programs to get them to learn to interact with other children who have some sort of developmental delay.  Gets them to learn how to interact with others and helps them to become more social.  Anyway, in the summer they take field trips and these pictures are from the field trip to the South Ogden Police & Fire Station.  Jack had so much fun and I'm just glad I get to take him on his trips!  (Jillian had a good time too)

National Park Trip

During our semester breaks we decided to hit up some National Parks here in Utah we'd never been to.  We spent a few days in Zion and on the way home we went to Bryce Canyon and Capitol Reef.  It was a lot of fun!  We spent my birthday in Zion, which was really fun for me.  :)  Here are some pictures.

This was on the Riverwalk.  And yes, I carried him like that for 2.2 miles. 

He lead us, by running, of course!!!

Me and my babies!!!

The big girl Jillian!  She's 6 months now!!!

Waterfall in Zion at the beginning of the Riverwalk

The semester is over!!!

I'm done for the spring semester!  It's finally over!  I'm looking forward to my break between semesters and spending some (much needed) quality time with the kids.  They were good sports this semester, as Dean and I had 5 hard classes.  I just had to write about it and scream "whoo hoo!!!!"

I'm the worst blogger!!

I know I've been awful at updating this blog.  I've just been very busy with being in school full time and running around after 2 kids, not to forget also having to take Jack to his therapy.  So, here are some updates and I'll post a few pics.

Jack is in speech therapy and doing well.  He's speaking a little more and a little better, and also signing a lot better so we can communicate with him.  He also gets to go to group therapy and learn how to interact with other kids and they have fun.  That has been a huge improvement as well.  Next week he starts behavioral therapy to work on his behavior (not that it's particularly bad, but he is two and does have communication delay, so he gets frustrated easily).  The therapy is nice and teaches me how to work with him, so it's reall focused on the parents. He's just as active and fun as ever!!!

Jillian is almost 6 months old.  I can't believe it!  The time has gone by so fast!  She's doing a lot of fun stuff like rolling over, laughing, smiling and almost getting up on all fours.  She moves herself around quite well on the floor.  She also has been getting solids.  Her dr. told me to start her out on them at 4 months since she isn't gaining enough weight (she went from the 22% to the 11% in 2 months, but she also has reflux and throws up all the time).  She loves her cereal!  She's also getting fruits and veggies too and loves those as well!!!  She adores her big brother too and Jack is getting used to her more and more as well.  I don't think he likes the fact she's invaded his space and sometimes Mommy, Daddy and Grandma hold her as well, but he's getting better.

As for Dean and I, this is the last week of the semester and finals are next week.  Fortunately we only have one instructor who actually is making us take a final.  Then we get a week off and summer semester starts.  Summer shouldn't be nearly as hectic for me, as I'm only taking 2 classes (the second half of the Anatomy & Physiology class and also Pathophysiology) as opposed to the 5 we have this semester, but Dean has 5 as well this summer. 

That's about it for us.  We're quite boring, but that's the way I like it.  Here are  few pictures of the kids at Easter.  Please ignore the fact Jack needs his mouth wiped off.  I was doing a million things at once and I forgot.  Usually I'm pretty good about it.  Oh well.

Jillian rolled over!

Yes, I know I'm lame and haven't blog in a long time.  School has started and between homework, feeding kids and changing diapers my day is pretty full.  LOL!  I will post pictures eventually, just not today.  Sorry.

I did want to tell everyone that Jillian rolled over by herself last night for the first time!!!  She's not quite 3 months yet (will be on Tuesday).  I couldn't believe it!  She was playing on her tummy (on her cool gym her Nana and Pawpaw gave her) and she rolled herself over onto her back. Thinking it may have been a fluke (Jack was over 5 months before he rolled himself over) I put her back on her tummy (made Dean watch with me) to see if she'd do it again.  Sure enough, she rolled herself back on her back (and then almost back on her tummy, would have made it if it wasn't for that darn arm).  I wish I would have video taped it.  I'm gonna try to tape it today!