Catching up

Hello Family and Friends!  Happy Valentine's Day from the Scavnicars!  We have been doing well.  It has been cold.  January was a disappointing month.  Our first season with Bears season tix and our beloved Bears made it to the playoffs.  But much to our dismay, we lost to the Packers in the final round.  Very disappointing.  It was a cold and brutal day at Solider Field. 


He already hates the Packers :)


Dylan has transitioned from the infant room to the toddler room at school.  He made a seamless transition.  He was reunited with his best friend Grant.  He is growing up so fast, I can't believe it.  He has continued to expand his vocabulary, some new words:  octopus (opoppo), bumblebee (buhbuhbee), bath, turtle, elbow, hippo, hot dog, snow, bull, bubbles, yogurt (yono).  He always knows a lot of animal sounds:  monkey, elephant, chicken, sheep, dog, duck, cow, horse, fish (Dennis made up a noise for the fish), lion, train, kitty, piggy....There might be more but it is hard to remember everything on the spot.  He is obsessed with the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse cartoon.  When he says Mickey Mouse it sounds very much like MaMa and when he says Donald Duck is sounds very much like Dada.  He really loves the songs in the show and so most of the time we DVR it and watch the beginning song and the end :)  He is still really into Elmo and Big Bird.  His favorite stuffed animal is a Big Bird who he snuggles with every night. 

Dylan continues to amaze us with his massive appetite.  He loves to eat and very rarely refuses food.  Two things that he doesn't appear to like are oatmeal and canned green beans (Frozen are good:).  He loves spaghetti the most and has seemed to really like potatoes recently.  He is a growing boy!  We find out Wednesday just how much he has grown, he seems so tall lately. 

New tracksuit!

First bubble bath

Bubbles and Bulldogs!

Dylan had his first snow day.  We got about 15-20 inches of snow.  We were able to spend a little time the day after the big storm in the snow with Dylan and the doggies.  We even found an old sled in our crawl space that we took out for a spin.  Dylan really enjoyed himself. 

Snow Day!

We can't wait for nice weather!  We were able to go for a walk today and it was so nice to get outside and not be completely frozen after a few minutes!  We hope you are all doing well!

Love,

The Scavnicars

Christmas/Winter Time

Dylan had a great 2nd Christmas.  He enjoyed his trip to Iowa.  We were able to spend time with family and friends.  Dylan loved his time with Grandma, he made sure to give her lots of snuggles. 

Great Grandma and Grandma

Dylan also got to spend some time out in the snow.  He had so much fun.  At one point I was swinging him up in the air and plopping him in the snow.  He really loved that, he kept laughing and laughing.  And the he points and says "Snow". 


Dylan enjoying himself in the snow!



Hanging with Uncle Matt at his home in Knoxville

We spent one night at Matt & Cathy's in Knoxville.  Dylan got to see his patrolman uncle in his uniform and also got to see the lights and hear the sirens of his car.  He got a little freaked by the sirens.

Dylan is officially a walker now.  He is toddling around all over the place.  He also has such a vocabulary.  I feel like he learns a new word everyday.  His newest words: nose, eyes, ears, belly,  applesauce, bath, Matt (uncle), Big Bird and Elmo, applesauce, I don't know (really don't know where he picked that up), milk...he also knows That the cow says moo, the horse neighs, the monkey goes Ooo OOo and the piggy snorts.  It is adorable.  He also has learned where his eyes, ears, nose, mouth, belly, hands and feet are.  He loves to show you where your nose is, it is adorable.  He is like a little sponge and learns so quickly.  I'm sure this is normal for this age but since he is my first I just think he is so smart!

Loves to share with the doggies

Vacuuming!  He loves it and everytime he sees it he makes a vrooom noise!

We hope everyone had a safe and happy New Year!

Santa

Dylan went to visit Santa last night!  He was very indifferent to Santa.  He was more interested in the Santa's work shop next to Santa which had Christmas lights and mechanical elves working on it.  He did check Santa out for a minute.  He really enjoyed the candy cane that Santa gave him.



Dylan really loves the Christmas tree.  We had to do some creative furniture arrangement around the tree.  The couches on either side and the coffee table in front so Dylan cannot get to the tree.  We are afraid he won't leave it alone b/c he loves lights and will probably try to pull on them all the time.  But he likes to look at it and is working on his climbing skills now to get to the tree :) 

He has a few new words to add to the list.  These are his new words: banana, apple, Niblet, Butters, ball, book, block, Moo, more, Elmo, balloon.  We are still only taking a few steps here or there.  He seems content with cruising on furniture and crawling for now. 

We will be heading of Algona for Christmas.  We hope to see a  lot of family and friends.  If you are in town, please let us know so we can get together. 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!  Love, Angie, Dennis & Dylan

1 YEAR OLD!

Hello Everyone!

Happy Birthday to Dylan!  He turned one on November 12!  We had a great birthday party.  We had family and friends, lots of good food.  Everyone was very generous and gave Dylan great gifts and a great party!  We appreciate everything!  Dylan dug right into his first cake!  He loved it! 

Eating Cake!

Last Picture with his bear!

He is working on taking steps on his own.  He is becoming a bit more independent but I think it will still be a few weeks before he is toddling around consistently.  He is still working on increasing his vocabulary.  He has started calling Niblet (na-na) Butters (bub-ba).  He loves his doggies very much.  He copies a lot of sounds we make so it is difficult to know what he knows and what he doesn't know.   He also is a big eater.  He has such an appetite.  He really enjoys all kinds of food and is very demanding about getting "more".  It is very cute.  He is also quite the bookworm.  He loves to sit in your lap and have you read to him.  He likes to turn the pages. 

In a camping chair from Uncle Matt & Aunt Cathy

We had a visit from Uncle Matt and Aunt Cathy and my friend Erin.  I think Dylan enjoyed his house guests.  Grandma was supposed to come Saturday but a early snowstorm in Algona delayed her for one day.  She came on Sunday night.  He enjoyed his time with Grandma.  They read a lot of books and took walks in his new push buggy which Grandma got him for his birthday.  It is by far his favorite present so far.  Too bad we can't use it for much longer since it will be turning much colder. 

We will be heading to Algona for Thanksgiving.  We leave on Wednesday.  It will be nice to see the family again. 

Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving! 

11 Months and Halloween

Hello Everyone!  Dylan has had a great month so far.  Lots of fun activities and firsts for him.  He turned 11 months.  He is getting very close to being a 1 year old!  We are planning his birthday party and I cannot wait to see him eat his cake!  He had two different Halloween Costumes this year, both were pretty cheap as well since we used things we already had which was nice.  He was a baby Mike Ditka for a Halloween party we went to last week at the Krygowski's.  He was not really a fan of the mustache or glasses so we opted to have him be Herky the Hawkeye for his school's Halloween party.  We got to go to the school and watch his the parade.  they put the infants in a buggy, a couple of strollers and wagons for the parade.  The costumes were all adorable.  Dylan enjoyed having us come to school.  We did sneak out when he wasn't looking so he wouldn't get too upset that we were going back to work.  Here are a few pictures from this month and the Halloween fun!



Best one, he did not want to sit at ALL!



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Mommy and Baby Ditka

We don't really like the Chicago Bears at all :)

Many of the kids at the party, there were more but we couldn't get them all in one shot!

On the buggy, waiting for the parade, Go Hawks.  His best friend Grant is the skeleton beside him

Out on the playground on the parade route





Enjoying the ride!



I cannot believe it has almost been a year. I remember last year this time I was so anxious for Dylan to join us.  He has truly blessed our lives and we enjoy every day we get to spend with him.  He has recently started to take a few solo steps.  I hope he will be walking regularly soon.  He is a big boy and can make our arms quite tired :) 

Everyone have a safe and HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Fall Fun!

Hello Everyone!

We have been busy busy!  Dylan went to his first pumpkin farm!  It was quite the event.  We had 6 couples for a total of 6 boys and 1 girl all under 14 mos.  The farm was jam packed as well!  The kids enjoyed exploring the pumpkins.  Only two of us braved the animal farm.  Dylan and Cole really like the animals, especially the baby camel.  We fed some of the goats with carrot sticks and Dylan wanted to eat the carrots himself :) 

Look at all these pumpkins!

Checking out the baby camel!

We also made a trip to Morton Arboretum.  They have a children's garden which Dylan really enjoyed.  It involved water so of course he really enjoyed himself.  He got to play in a fountain with squirting frogs and in a stream with lots of pebbles and rocks. 

Playing in the fountain, loved the squirting frogs

Playing in the stream

Dylan is working on walking by himself.  He has been standing periodically and taking steps towards us.  Most of the time he falls on his bottom. 

He is also working on expanding his vocabulary and using sign language, he says several words now:
Mama
Dada
La (Light) (says and signs)

Duh (Duck)

Uppa (up)

All done (says and signs)

More (signs)

He also likes to mimic sneezes and barks when we walk by dogs barking.  He also likes to dance to music.  His favorite toys are soft toys when you press their belly they play music. 

He is officially 11 months.  Only 30 more days til his 1 year birthday!  We will post his 11 month pic soon. 

Love,

Angie, Dennis and Dylan

Time to Catch Up!

I've been slacking on uploading photos and writing this blog.  Things have been a little hectic for us lately.  So I have missed Dylan's 9 and 10 month updates.  This will have to serve as an update for both.  I've probably forgotten at least half of what we have done the last month or so as well.  I guess I'll blame that on Mommy Brain! 

Dylan is growing like a weed!  At 9 months he was weighing in at around 21 1/2 lbs.  I weighed him today and it seems he is almost 24.  I was holding him and subtracted so I would guess it is probably a little off.  He had his tube surgery, it went extremely well.  He was so brave.  He hasn't had an ear infection in two months so hopefully it stays that way! 

He is all over the place.  He is not walking yet but crawls, pulls up on everything and walks along furniture.  He is so busy.  His personality is really developing and it is so funny to watch him.  He really hams it up for everyone.  His favorite "word" is UH OH.  Everything is UH OH.  It is so funny.  He loves his bulldogs and his kitty very much.  They are all very patient and good with him, even when he is pulling their fur and ears!



Butters cuddling with us on the couch!



We had a busy September.  We went to Algona to see our family.  Trav was in a wedding so him and Molly came home and Matt and Cathy did as well.  Dylan got to spend time with them.  We also had a visit with Grandpa Struecker.  We then went and visiting Grandpa Wagner in the nursing home.  It was very nice to see everyone.  Unfortunately we had to come back the next weekend for my Grandpa Wagner's funeral.  We were happy we were able to see him the previous weekend.  Dylan was a trooper with all the travel. 



Visiting GPA Struecker



We got Bears season tickets so we are looking forward to a lot of football this year!  Dennis will be going to almost all of the games.  I think I am going to 3 maybe 4 total. 



Dennis and I at our first game with our season tickets!



Hope everyone is well! 

Love,

Angie, Dennis and Dylan