Drake's Picture Day

Today we took Drake to get his 1 year pictures...finally I know! Now that he is actually 13 months old...oh well better late than never! He did really good, he was s little cheeseball! I have put them on our online album, so click the link over on the side to see them! Spring break has been great....just busy! I am sad it is almost over. :( I have loved getting to spend this time with my baby boy.

I put my favorites on here! Enjoy!

Video!!

I finally have had some time to play around with my new phone and I figured out how I can take video on my phone and then transfer them to my computer!! We are still working on getting the USB for our camcorder to be able to transfer video from it to the computer. Here is a video of Drake from today...walking!! Enjoy!

Drake is 1!

He had a GREAT party! He loved his cake. We weren't sure if he would attack the cake or not but he put a pretty good dent in it ;) He got a lot of toys and clothes..thank you all so much!

We can't believe how big he has gotten...he is not a baby anymore...he is a TODDLER! oh my! He is walking! He still falls a lot but he is doing more walking than crawling these days.

I posted some pics...Rachel took some better ones so as soon as I get those from her I will post those as well. He goes to the doctor Thursday afternoon for his 1 year checkup so I will let you know how that goes!

Almost Drake's 1st bday!

I can't believe it is the end of January and my little baby boy will be 1 soon! This year has gone to fast. It seems like just yesterday I was holding him for the first time in the hospital...what a precious moment that was!

He is still keeping us busy these days! He is crawling and pulling up on everything still, but just this past week he has been standing all by himself for at least 5 seconds!! Walking will be coming soon...so I can only imagine how much more busy he will keep us. He is still babbling a lot and saying mama but not dada yet. He loves to eat!! He eats pretty much whatever we give him...I am so glad he is not a picky eater (at least for now) :). He made us laugh so hard the other night cause we had the tv on and wheel of fortune was on and everytime Vanna clapped he started to clap. He is such a goober!

I have attached a few more pics of him just hanging out around the house. I look forward to sharing pics with everyone after his birthday!

Hope everyone is doing well. I have been battling with congestion for a while, this weather is not helping with it changing so much. Sounds like it will be cold tomorrow! Have a great weekend!

Happy New Year

Drake had a great 1st Christmas! Our living room is now full of toys, so much that I am making Bo take the tree down today so that we can have more room for him to play! He also gots lots of clothes since the little piggy has grown out of his 9 months clothes and is already wearing 12 months clothes. He is 22 pounds..we took him to the doctor this morning because he does have a cough, but doctor said that his ears looked okay and his chest sounded okay, so it is just a little cold. We have been doing the steam showers, humidifier in his room, vicks vapor rub on his chest, etc....so hopefully he will be better soon. He is not acting sick, he is just happy and playing and eating like normal so that is good.

His personality is really starting to come out...he is talking more, copying what we do, eating finger foods, and has a slight temper when he doesn't get what he wants...wonder where he gets that from??? haha

We are just having so much fun with him. I wish I could be home with him everyday, I really don't want this break to end.

I hope everyone has a great New Years! We are having some friends over to celebrate by playing with our kiddos, playing games, and just relaxing in our pjs..it should be fun! I have added some pics from Christmas! Rachel got better pics on her camera but I am having trouble uploading them so I will try again later. We aren't the best picture takers :)

Talk to you in 2009!

Time Flies

I can't believe my little boy will be 10 months old tomorrow!! He is officially crawling and going everywhere! He finally took off and started going forward a few weeks ago. He is trying to pull up on everything and has already gotten several boo boos. We are just having so much fun with him. He loves to eat and play. He has a basket of toys in the living room and has figured out how to dump the basket over so that all of his toys can fall out.....it is a mess but it keeps him entertained and happy so that is good. We are working on eating more finger foods....right now he likes cheerios, and some gerber cheese puffs. We think his top middle teeth are trying to come in. So far he just has the 2 bottom middle.

I am so ready for the winter break!! Only one more week till we get a nice 2 week much deserved break....these first graders are going crazy with all the holiday excitement! So things are good in the Taylor family. I better go cause Drake is waking up from his nap...my break is over :) Have a great weekend!

Turkey time!

I can't believe Thanksgiving is here...the months are flying by. We are excited for the upcoming holidays with Drake's first Thanksgiving, Christmas, and then first bday! Wow, how time flies when you are having fun! Drake is doing great! He is crawling backwards still but sooo close to full out crawling forward. He still gets around by crawling backwards then pushing him self up into sitting position. He is reaching and wanting to pull up on everything. He is making daddy a nervous wreck! He started talking a lot this past week and officially says 'mama' every since Friday! It is the cutest thing. I don't think he associates it with me yet but it is still cute to hear him say it.

We went to get him a big boy carseat tonight cause he has outgrown his baby carrier carseat.....and on the way home we were in some traffic of course on 820, so I exited off the highway and was trying to get over into the turn lane but of course the other people on service road were not yielding to us coming off of highway so I couldn't get all the way over into the turn lane. Well some cars were going around me to keep going straight on service road and then we heard BAAM! Yep, some idiot sped by and hit my tail light and broke the glass then just cut across other cars to turn right and was gone before we could get the license plate number. Bo thought he got it but the police met us at a nearby gas station and said that the license number Bo told them brought up a van and it wasn't a van, it was a sports car. So that is a bummer that we did not get the rude person. I can't believe some people are so mean to not stop.....so now I have to call insurance figure out how much it is going to cost, etc, etc, just one more thing for me to add to my list, and it is not something I want to be dealing with over my Thanksgiving break!! ugh! It is frustrating.

But luckily Bo said the glass from my tail light should be easier to fix then the actual body part of my car....we shall see I guess. I will let you know the turnout.

We want to wish everyone a great Thanksgiving. We do have a lot to be thankful for with such a wonderful family and friends!