Well, my "baby" turns 4 today. In some ways, I truly can't believe it. I remember being pregnant with him and waiting for my little delivery. In other ways, I can barely remember life without my little Dylan. But he's 4 today and he's so excited. Mommy's pretty excited too. The last two nights, he wore underwear to bed and was able to make it through the night completely dry. I didn't really think he was ready yet and didn't want to be washing sheets every day so we haven't even attempted sleeping in underwear at night. But a couple nights ago he begged and begged me to not to put a diaper on. I decided we'd try it a couple times and see what happened. Clearly he knew he was ready-I just wasn't paying attention. Hopefully, his 4 year birthday marks the monumental occasion of no more need for diapers at night.
Unfortunately, Preston's still not feeling very well. He's had a bug since Wednesday and been throwing up and had diarrhea (I know, more details than you wanted, but that way you know where we're coming from). So no church for Preston or Maria today. I have yet to shower today, but Preston's had 3 baths already (it's a messy little stomach bug). Too bad his baths don't make up for my lack of one today! Needless to say, it hasn't been the most glamorous birthday for Dylan. Luckily, Marcos took him to church and everyone was cute with him and wished him a happy birthday.
We're having a combined birthday for the boys this year so today there's not much going on. I just bought a little cake and some frosting and drew an elephant and wrote his name on the cake. The most simple thing ever, but he LOVED it. He blew out the candles and we had a piece of cake. He did get a little scared and then mad at the "trick" candles we bought, which is why he moved off his chair to blow out the candles the second time. Since then we've just been playing together and taking it easy.
So here are a couple of pictures from Dylan's birthday, but not from the "party." Those will come later. Marcos took a couple of pictures of us playing after we had some cake. Now before you judge, keep in mind I haven't showered and I've been taking care of and cleaning a sick baby all week. As Oprah would say, I'm definitely sporting my "Shlumpadinka" look, but you can see how much fun we were having doing nothing on this special day.
4 comments:
Happy B-day Dylan! We love you! Hope you have a great day. Give Preston a kiss from us, hope he feels better soon.
Lau, Dave, Leah and Mylo
Happy Birthday Dylan. I sure wish we lived closer so we could celebrate with you! Gianluca would have a lot of fun with the cousins. You cut and colored your hair since I saw it last??? Right? Well, it looks cute. I think I've only seen you with long blonde hair. I hope Preston gets better soon!
Love,
Sid
I should've posted when I cut my hair, but by the time I thought about it, I'd put several pictures up and figured it was old news. I was trying to decide whether or not I should go dark or cut my hair and ended up doing both. It's actually pretty blah right now...I'm in need of some color again, but I like the change. I think I emailed the "bola" a picture awhile ago. I waited awhile to show people around here in person so that's why I put off posting about the haircut at first. But yep, this is the short, dark-haired version of Maria. It's way darker than my natural color so I don't know how long I'll keep it...it's a bit hard to keep up with, but maybe one more time dying it dark and then I'll go a little lighter again. We'll see. This is the newer, spontaneous, Maria (not really, but it's as close as I'll ever be to spontaneous).
Amazing how Dylan looks so much like Marcos when he was little...I wish I could be there to give him a b-day hug...Hopefully time will fly by for my trip...probably ends of May or June...we'll see! Anyways...besos y abrazos para Dylan!
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