Few more Drake pics

Look at this precious little mister.  He looks like an angel doesn't he?  

For those of you who haven't seen all of Drake's teeth...here you go :)

One of Drake's favorite toys is the busy ball popper, he likes to look down the tube before the balls pop out-he gets hit in the face quite frequently so it's good that it's a low velocity toy!

See his hair blowing in the wind :)

Kristen's Baby Shower

A few weeks ago we went up to Tulsa to go to my sister in law's baby shower.  Drake's little cousin Gage is due to arrive in February and we can't wait!

Halloween pictures

Drake wasn't feeling well on Halloween (just getting over a double ear infection, tonsilitis, and a reaction to an antibiotic) so we only put him in his real costume for about 10 minutes.  Here are the few pictures that we have of him as a dog :)

For the rest of the night he wore this his little glow in the dark skeleton outfit.

Doing his famous "monkey face":

Next year we may even try trick or treating!

A few pictures

I wanted to post a few random pictures of Drake, I will upload the Halloween pictures soon!

GO POKES!

For months David and I have been trying to find the time to get back up to our Alma mater OSU and go to a football game.   We decided that even if we didnt' get tickets to a game, going up Homecoming weekend would be perfect.  David's parents have season tickets this year and after David just mentioning in passing that we were going to come up for that weekend, they gave us their tickets to the game! Aren't they fantastic?  David and I had not been back to Stillwater in over 4 years and had not been to a game in at least 6 years-let me tell you, that place has changed!  We went with Neal, Kari, and the Drakester up to the walk around on Friday night and we could see a few changes, but nothing could prepare us for GAME DAY.  Back when we were in school, you couldn't really tailgate unless you knew someone and even then it wasn't wide spread.  Now campus is like 1 big tailgate party!  All of the bars and restaurants have tents with beer and food and even tvs set up outside. The stadium is now complete and is absolutely unbelievable, it looks nothing like the small stadium that I remember.  We really didn't have time to walk around the campus but that will be a priority when we go back.  I would like to let Drake run around on library lawn and see the place where his parents met.

The best part about Stillwater (aside from the win against Missouri) was that my best friend Sarah was there and her sister Mel (who I also adore) and her hubby Sean.  We had so much fun hanging out in the place where we all first met.  

Me and Sarah:

 















Me, Sarah, and Mel:

Thanks again Neal and Kari for giving us your homecoming tickets!  We had a BLAST!

Catching up...

 AUGUST

Back in August we went to visit my family and Drake was able to hang out with his cousin Matt who is 2 months and 2 days younger than him. They are going to be the best of friends!

SEPTEMBER

September was a less happy month for us considering that Drakey broke his left arm :(  He was trying to stand and fell on it wrong-this was verified by our Orthopedic surgeon (trust me, we were freaking out that something worse happened to him).  My mom came out from California to help take care of him since it was a big adjustment.  He was in a cast for 3 weeks and then was in a brace for another 4 weeks.  During this time our household didn't get much sleep at all, you see, Drake sucked his left thumb and the cast no longer allowed him to do this...he was very unhappy to say the least.  Once the cast and brace came off we figured that the first thing that he would do would be to shove his thumb into his mouth, but that wasn't the case at all, he actually no longer sucks his thumb which hopefully will save us a lot of money in braces!  He had just started to crawl and pull up when all of this happened, so we were really worried that this would delay him severely, but he still crawled all over the place and was still into everything.
We are very thankful that his arm has healed very well and that that chapter is closed-although I've been reminded by everyone that he's a boy and this may not be his last cast :(

David waited about a week before he added his artistic touch to the cast:

Drake and his BFF Maggie:

I know, I know, it's been forever...

First of all, I promise that I will post pictures soon! This past month has been absolutely insane at work, the beginning of the year is always like this. I can hardly find time to breathe during the day...okay that's a bit sarcastic, but it's been unbelievable. Home has been crazy as well, Drake broke his arm and had to get a cast(it's now off, but he's wearing a brace). He was standing up at daycare and fell on it wrong, (don't worry, we verified this with the doctor). He is crawling all over the place, climbing up the stairs, pulling up on everything and is really acting like he wants to walk soon. I don't know how we'll ever keep up with him-he's super fast! He now has 8 teeth (including 2 molars) and he is starting to look like a little boy :( Our sweet little baby is now gone and has been replaced with a (still sweet most of the time) TODDLER who definitely knows what he wants and how to DEMAND it. David and I are doing our best at the discipline part of parenting but it's really hard when we tell him no and we laugh at the look that he gives us. This is definitely a whole new stage for us all!

Pics coming soon!