Here it goes!

The last actual post was MONTHS and I mean MONTHS ago!  I honestly can't remember the last time I sat at the computer and did one of these things.  Seeing that one of my high school friends just had her baby (Congrats Jessi!!) I thought I should get back in the swing of doing these again.  I was looking through some of Dade's baby clothes, and I do mean baby clothes, Friday night and I can't believe how small he was.   He's changed SOOOO much in the last 14 months.

Here's a picture from the hospital

Here's a picture of him from this past weekend!

The crazy kid is as active as one can be.  He's walking, no, running everywhere that he can.  He's jiber jabbing ever chance he gets, and is well on his way to talking.  Every once and awhile he'll get a word out that we can understand.  He says his name, duck, pup, up, Dada, Abba (which Clint claims is father), Papa.  However he thinks that it's funny when we ask him to say mama.  One day Clint asked him to say mama, and he looked right at him and said, "Nope"

He takes after his dad in looks.  However, as Clint states, he never shuts up like his mother.  I guess he did get something from me after all.

I offically took the bottle away from him.  Earlier this past week he was drinking out of it so hard that he was making it collapse.  He was only using it for his milk, but now he's not even getting it for that.

I bought him a potty today.  He's been squating when he pees or poops in his diaper, so I decieded that it was time to start slowly working our way to the no diaper route.  I'm sure it's going to take a while, but if we can get him to go atleast once or twice a day on there, that's one less diaper I'm going to use in a day.  He went twice for me today, which I was super excited about.

Dade loves to go to the park across from the house to play, and with the weather starting to get nicer, he and Clint take nice walks over there while I'm teaching.

I'm almost done with my 3rd year of teaching (second year at DTA).  I still wouldn't change it for the life of me.  I love my students, and enjoy watching them grow!  Just a few more weeks before the regular school year is out, and then summer school.  I honestly don't mind teaching summer school, I will get my students that I will have in the fall, so it's a great time to get to know them and have fun!

Clint is working on LOADS of creative projects right now.  He decided to make a huge business change, and KNRPG is no longer.  He has a new company in the works, and hopefully within a few months everything will be up and rolling.  I'm in love with one of his current projects.  It's by far my favorite that he's done.  No secrets out of me though. Shhhh!  You'll just have to wait and find out.   He's currently outside of Detroit, Michigan hanging out with some guys from Palladium Books.  He took the train from Kansas City to Detroit.  He said it was a nice relaxing trip.

With him gone this past week, Dade came to visit Nana and Papa, and go to Baby School with his cousin Brant.  The house was SOOOOO quiet that I didn't know what to do.  Even Slinky was being super peacful.  I left school so fast on Friday to get Slinky and head to Knob to get Dade that it was crazy!

Clint and I both finished our Masters Degrees this past December.  One would think that I would stop there. NOPE!  I'm currently working on my 2nd Masters.  This one is a Masters in Liberal Arts (like Clint's).  Clint is sad because I'm going to be ahead of him in schooling, but he plans on getting a doctorite as soon as he finds the program that he wants.  He found the perfect one at MU, but we don't want to move to Columbia.  We love our house in the city, and want to raise Dade there.

That being said,  I need to watch The Lonesome Dove for my Western Film class, and then write a paper on it.  I'm going to try my very best to update this more often than I have been!