Shooting it on

Okay, so this my (Steve's) first attempt at "blogging", so forgive me if I am not familiar with the protocol. First off, a little update about me... I've been in my "orientation month" for clinical anesthesia the last two weeks. So far everything is going well, but the thought of being alone in a room is quite scary right now. Sarah has been really working hard the last several days trying to clean the house up so when we travel up to Michigan this weekend, we won't come back to a long list of things to do.

Now we come to the focus of almost every blog, the boys. Kyler is teething right now and has two tiny little teeth poking through his lower gums. It's really cute, but he does seem to be screaming a little more lately. He is learning more every day and today he and I had a brief but very fun game of Peek-a-boo and he just laughed and laughed in a deep belly laugh every time I showed him my face in a new pose.

But the excitement of the night definitely came from Brayden tonight. I was getting him ready for bed and told him he had to "go potty" before he went to bed, so I sent him into the bathroom by himself and told him to call me when he was done. This is our usual routine. I was in my office studying and could hear everything, and the sound I heard was not what I expected, so went to check on things and found my three year old son swinging his penis up and down, and back and forth, effectively painting the bathroom wall with his urine! I quickly told him to point into the toilet and asked him what he was doing, to which he replied "I'm shooting it on the wall!" Further questioning revealed that he was pretending that he was a fireman and was using his "hose" to shoot water on the wall to put out an imaginary fire. Sarah and I were laughing too hard to reprimand him, but we did tell him that he was NOT to do that again. We then decided that this warranted a "post" on the Dillon Family Blog. Hope you enjoyed reading the story as much as we did living it!

-Steve

It's been a while...sorry about that!

Wow, I am sorry it has been over a month since I posted to this blog! Things have been crazy!

Steve is now a CA1 - PGY2 Anesthesiology resident - actually putting people to sleep for surgery! I am so proud of him! He is doing great, but is really exhausted because of the early start time and the HUGE reading assignments he gets every night!

Kyler is now 4 months old and is getting his first teeth! On Sunday we noticed that he has is 2 lower teething poking through his gums. This has caused some LONG evenings and a lot of fussing! Hopefully it ends soon! There is just so much a parent can take!!!!!

Brayden...what can I say about Brayden...there is always so much to say about him as he is constantly cracking us up with the things he says and the things he does. Of course there are also the times we want to pull our hair out because he doesn't have his "listening ears" on.

A story about Brayden...last night we were all sitting in the dining room waiting for the hamburgers to be ready to take off the grill. To kill some time I started showing Brayden some of the pictures I had of me growing up. My grandma "K" had given me a picture frame that had all of my school pictures in it. I was going through them one by one saying , "Look Brayden, this is mommy when she was 3", "look Brayden, this is mommy when she was 4"...you get the picture. Well, I turned the picture to the picture of me in 1st or 2nd grade, and before I could say anything Brayden said, "Mommy is that you when you were a BOY????". The picture was of me when I had a really short haircut, "unisex" as Steve called it. A boy...A boy!!!!! I told him that mommy was still a girl, but she just had really short hair. I think he is still confused....

Have a great day!
- Sarah