5 Months & First School Pictures

Here are some more pictures!

Matt's Wedding

We had Uncle Matt's wedding a couple of weeks ago!  Congratulations to them!  It was a great weekend and the wedding was beautiful and so fun!  It was so great to see all the family and they got to meet Dylan.  He was rarely without someone who wanted hold him.  Dylan was so good despite his schedule being all out of whack.  He is such a good baby, Dennis and I thank our lucky stars every single day for that fact.  I know we are in for it with the next one ;)

Here are a couple of cute pictures from that weekend:

Dylan crashed at the hotel the first night!

At the reception

Struecker siblings and the lucky ones who married us or will get to marry us...:)

We started a baby sign language class.  We are doing it with another couple we know that has a baby who is 3 months old than Dylan.  It is fast paced but fun.  I can't wait until Dylan does his first sign, it will be great to be able to communicate with him.  We are starting with basic signs like:  More, Milk, Eat, All Done, Mommy, Daddy....  The class is fun, we do a lot of songs with signs and it is fun seeing other babies. 

Another big event in the Scavnicar household Dylan started solids about a week ago.  We were all prepared for the big event.  We recorded the entire event and Dennis also managed to take 176 pictures of it!  He was a little confused about what this cereal stuff was at first but he is becoming a pro.  We have only done cereal so far.  I think he will be ready for some veggies soon! 

Gimme that, I can do this better than you!

I love cereal!

Hope you are all doing great.  It was great to see everyone at the wedding!  

Love, 

The Scavnicars  

Catching up!

Hello!  So sorry for the delay.  I have a lot of catching up to do!  We have had a plague come upon the Scavnicar household the last month.  It all started with Dennis being sick for a few days, then he cleared up, then Dylan got sick and had an ear infection.  A week later Dennis was sick again and this was for 5 or 6 days.  Then Dylan had another ear infection.  Then it was time for me to get sick.  Thankfully I only had a mild version of what Dennis had.  I'm getting rid of the last of the sniffles and hopefully that will be it for a long time! 

So Dylan's 4 month birthday was March 12.  He had his 4 month well baby visit the same day.  He was sick so I felt just terrible for him.  Here is a sick baby picture.  It was so sad and I cried so much! 

He is still our big boy.  At 4 months he was weighing in at 16lbs 12 oz.  He is 26 inches long.  He has slowed a bit on the growth charts, only in the 85-90th percentiles now.  Except for his melon which is 17.25 inches and in the 95%.  Dennis gets all the credit for that one! 

Happy 4 Month old!

Can't wait for opening day!

Despite his ailments, he was a trooper when he was sick.  He still slept through the night every night.  We did start sleep training (letting him cry it out at night).  I can't believe we didn't do this before!  It would take us so long to get him to fall asleep at night and now we put him down and voila!  The first few times was hard to listen to him cry but it was quick and the most crying we get now is 5-10 minutes.  It is fabulous!

We love Dylan's daycare.  His teachers are so nice and I genuinely think he enjoys himself there.  They spend so much time on the floor with the babies which is great b/c at home floor time can be limited if the bulldogs decide they want to get into the mix.

Dylan's new things:  he talks constantly, all day through school and always talks during church.  I think he likes to compete with the pastor as to who can get the most people to pay attention to him.  He is rolling somewhat.  He can get from him tummy to his back and almost from back to tummy but his arm gets in the way.  He is starting to be able to sit by himself momentarily.  He laughs and smiles all the time!  Everyone says what a happy baby he is!  He grabs at toys, faces, hair (much to my dismay, he had two fistfuls last night and would not let go).  Oh and most importantly, he has TWO TEETH!!!!!!!  I couldn't believe it, but one day I thought I saw something, felt inside his mouth and number one was coming through and then the next day, there was number two!  All this happened while he was battling his cold and ear infections but he was still pretty good and not very fussy through any of that.  I hope the rest of the teething is as easy as these were!

You can see his teeth in this one, if you look closely!

Well that was a long post since I haven't posted in FOREVER!  Hopefully the next one will be quicker.  We are heading to Pella/Knoxville Iowa next weekend for my brother Matt's wedding.  Dylan has the cutest little outfit.  I can't wait to take pictures.  He will get to meet a lot of our family which is exciting!  Hope everyone is doing well and I will see many of you next weekend!  Love~Angie, Dennis and Dylan

3 Month Pictures

Here is a link to Dylan's 3 month pictures.  I think to view them you have to register but it is free!  He did not want to smile but I think we got some cute ones!

http://www2.snapfish.com/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=4067863013/a=134988914_134988914/otsc=SHR/otsi=SALBlink/COBRAND_NAME=snapfish/

3 months!

Hello Everyone!  Things are going fantastic with Dylan.  He is now a little over three months old.  He has been sleeping through the night for about 3 or 4 weeks now.  So it was decided that it was time to move the little man to his own room.  He has slept very well for two nights in a row in his own room.  I think he probably didn't even notice but I sure did.  It is very nice to not have to tiptoe around at night in our room.  I have been back at work starting my 4th week.  I am enjoying being back in the swing of things but I do miss getting to take care of my little boy all day.  He is still a growing boy.  We weighed him the other night and it seems to be around 16 lbs (we don't have a baby scale so one of us holds him and subtracts:))  He is all smiles a lot of the time and just a happy and content baby.  We went on another trip to IA to visit Grandma Struecker.  He did fabulous in the car ride again.  There is so much snow in IA.  I wish Dylan was a little bigger b/c he would have had a blast playing in all that snow.  It was ridiculous.  We took a quick picture of him in the snow before we left.  He didn't seem to like it much!

Our next trip to IA will be for my brother's wedding in April.  Hopefully he'll still be a good car rider.  We just got his three month pictures taken yesterday.  We should have them by the end of the week.  It was very nice, a relative of Dennis' is a photographer and they came to our house to take the pictures.  I am very anxious to see how they turned out.  He didn't smile much of course but at least he didn't cry.  This is Dylan's last week with Grandma Scavnicar during the day.  He will be starting daycare on Monday, March 1st.  I think it will be hard to drop him off so it is a good thing that Dennis' is taking that on.  I am going for his first day and am not sure if I'll leave all day!  We are very happy with the daycare and know they will take fantastic care of him.  HOpe all is well with everyone.  I will post his 3 month pics as soon as we get them!

2 Months

Two blog updates in one day, being a new mom really has me behind.  It seems like whenever I sit down, Dylan decides he doesn't want to nap or I decide I need to nap instead of getting pictures together on the computer!  Dylan is doing great.  He is 2 months and one week old now!  I cannot believe how fast thing time has gone.  I am going back to work in a week and a half.  I go back on the 29th which was a weird day but two meetings that I need to go to are scheduled for that day.  Grandma Scavnicar will be watching Dylan for the month of February.  This will be nice so I get to push off the daycare for one month.  I will be home working on most days so he will just be right upstairs if I miss him!  Hopefully I can concentrate on work and not on him.  My office is in the basement now so I think I should be ok. 

Dylan is growing like a weed.  He had his 2 month well baby visit on Friday.  Shots made him cry but mommy had more tears than Dylan.  On the way home I have a pictures of him giving me the finger.  It was pretty funny.  No fever from the shots or anything so that was good.  He slept a little more than usual but not too much.  He is weighing in at 13lbs 7oz (90th percentile) and is 24 1/4 inches long (95th percentile).  He has been babbling and cooing more and more each day.  He loves to smile at us and has started to giggle just a bit.  He loves being naked or just in his diaper so today I got a little giggle out of him while I was dressing him for the day.  I have a feeling once he starts walking he will be running around in his diaper all day or running away w/o a diaper on!  Here are some pictures of our little man at 2 months!

Daddy and I match!

I'm gonna be a hockey player!  Go Blackhawks!

Dylan's First Christmas

Dylan celebrated his first Christmas!  He made his first trip to Grandma's house in Algona.  He was a very good baby for the car ride.  He slept the entire way, only waking up to eat.  The bulldogs came along for the ride as well.  They rode together in a crate and slept most of the way too!  We were in Algona for a week.  He got to meet almost all of his family while we were there.  We did not get to see Santa Claus this year, we thought he was a little small to be making the trip to stand in line at the mall.  We had a great trip and hope all our trips are as easy as this one.  Dylan started showing off his beautiful smile just before we left so the family in Algona got to see this smile as well.  Here are some pictures from Dylan's first Christmas.

Meeting Uncle Trav and Molly

Uncle Matt-I had a blow out while he was holding me :)  HA HA!

Great Grandpa and Grandma Wagner

Great Grandpa Struecker

With Great Grandpa and Mommy and Daddy

Merry Christmas!