Dickerson Family Blog Spot: Lots to Catch up on....

Well a lot has been happening the past couple of weeks, so much I haven't had a chance to keep everyone up to date. The weekend before Valentine's Day we had our pictures taken by a friend from our bible study. They turned out awesome. We spent about 2 hours over at their house that saturday morning and had a blast doing it. He did such an awesome job working with Madison and a screaming Luke. I don't think he stopped screaming the whole time. Well, who could blame him, he was naked in most of the pictures. Madison had a good time playing with their daughter Ava and watching the 2 dogs out back. We got some good pictures of her to, which was unusual since she has not cared for pictres since about 18 months. The next weekend we had lots of visitors. MiMi and Pops came to visit that weekend and then on Monday Pop Pop and Ge-ma came to visit while Madison was out of school that week. Everyone had a good visit and had a good time spoiling Madison and Luke. This past weekend I took Madison to the circus on Saturday morning. We had a good day out, just us girls! She enjoyed it better than I thought she would. It was a long show, 2.5hrs, and I didn't think it would keep her attention for that long. But there were plenty of animals doing tricks, and her favorite part was when the elephants came out.

As far as Alan and I goes we just broke ground on our house. We are expected to close mid May. We are so excited about this new house. It has everything we need and a ton more room than we have now. Everything is moving fast with the house. They already have the lot cleared and foundation framed out and ready for concrete sometime this week hopefully! Work is going good for Alan, always staying busy. He is expected to be in Orlando in March for a conference. I have been cleared by the doctor and don't have to go back for a while now. I have started back to running last week and am hoping to get out a couple times a week. We are all looking forward to the warmer weather that is hopefully coming soon and being able to get out and enjoy the parks this spring!

The foundation

Luke update: He is starting to get bigger and bigger each day. He still isn't sleep any better, but some days are better than others. Seems like we get a couple of days in a row of good sleep at night then one bad night. He is still having a hard time napping during the day. I think he just wants to stay up so he knows what is going on! He is starting to smile from time to time and has out grown all his newborn stuff. We made an unexpected trip to the doctor's office this week. We had been thinking that he has acid reflux and we were right. So now we have him on 2 kinds of medicine and hopefully in a couple of days he will be feeling much better and able to sleep better. They did weigh him and he has been gaining almost a pound a week. He is up to 11 lbs 12oz!

Our BIG boy!

Madison update: She has been out of school for the past week due to winter break, so we have been out of our routine. We went over to Leah's house before Valentine's day to make and decorate cookies. I think the kids ate more than they did decorate. They were all on a sugar high for a while afterwards! She definitly enjoyed all the grandparents visiting. And it gave me a much needed break from keeping 2 kids occupied. Madison's new favorite thing to talk about is going to the beach and visiting with Riley and Winston. She has been going on and on about the beach and MiMi's house. Looks like we will be down there alot this summer visiting so she can get her beach fix in. She had been a big help with Luke. She like to go get diapers for him and I even have her trained to take the dirty ones to the trash can.

Below are some pictures from the past couple of weeks. Enjoy!