After 3 years we finally made it back to the Outer Banks for Thanksgiving, but this time we came as a family of 4! We had such a good time catching up with everyone and were so lucky to have an awesome cottage (thank you Mike and Gale) for the week. Sean and Dylan just loved hanging out with their aunts, uncles, grandparents and great-grandparents. We did a little bit of everything and were sad to leave – it’s always so fast. Here’s our week in pictures…
I’ll never forget coming home from a work trip on June 1st 2012. As soon as I walked in the door John said “Check this out – look what Dylan’s doing!” Sure enough, Dylan decided his first mode of transportation would be scooting instead of crawling. At first we thought it was so cute and laughed at how funny he looked. But let me tell you, by September we didn’t think it was so cute. I was bargain hunting at the stores buying endless supplies of shorts and pants because every time I turned around he had ripped holes in another pair. And not holes as in ‘oh I’ll just patch that up’ – I mean his diaper was hanging out and he was definitely feeling a nice breeze kind of holes. It seemed like the poor child would never walk. But Dylan got really bad double ear infections and pneumonia in October and would you believe that a double dose of steroids was what it took to make that kid walk?! I brought him home from urgent care on Sunday afternoon and instead of going to sleep like I thought he would (the poor baby was so sick) he proceeded to start singing and walking all over the house. And as they say, the rest is history!
I made this video to show how good Dylan at scooting – no wonder he wasn’t interested in walking! The first clip is from that night back in June when he just started. By the end he was going as fast as he would if he were to walk, and was even able to “jump” when you asked him! haha
Well Sean sure got some good use out of his Knight costume this year (Dylan had to miss a lot of the fun this year because he was sick… but he was always there in spirit). We went to a few parties over the past 2 weeks and topped it off with some great trick-or-treating last night. We had double the fun with Jen and Grant (Grant’s daddy was out of town for work) and made it to almost 10 houses!
