Walking Machine

It's been barely a week and this boy has taken off! He isn't real steady still and his record so far is ten steps at Chuck E Cheese, but he is not happy just sitting still or crawling. He won't even crawl normal anymore, it has to be on his hands and feet instead of hands and knees. It's so amazing to watch him take his steps, he's so grown up now.

We took him today to get pictures made in his Easter outfit and they had real live bunnies at the studio, he loved it. He was so good. We got some really cute pictures. I can't wait for Easter this year, it's his first one! We barely missed it last year, and oh, by the way, only 26 days until his birthday now!

An update on my crazy week at work, it went really well, the meeting I was hosting was a huge success and it's such a relief to be finished. Now I just have to get to those 200 account reconciliations that are due by Friday...hmm...do you think I should be doing those now instead of playing on the computer?

OK, one more Timothy story and then I should go...we go to our friends, the Odens, every Thursday night to eat dinner and watch Survivor and Timothy usually plays with whoever else is there. This past Thursday, Cindy found some old Little Tikes cars that belonged to her son (in 6th grade now) so she pulled them out for Timothy to play with. He started crawling around pushing the car making a car noise the whole time, it was so cute. He is definitely a boy! He then repeated this for mom and dad and everyone at their house last night with Tyler's old fire engine toys.

And lastly, a big thank you for all my birthday presents. I had a great birthday (even though I spent most of it driving around in the woods on a tour for work) and I love my new stuff! Thank you all! And what would a new post be without some new pictures. I don't have time to put down stories for all of them, but you get the general idea!

Big News

Our sweet boy took his first steps this week!! He apparently took three steps at daycare Monday (not too happy that they told me about it since I obviously missed it, but whatever) and then he took two steps Tuesday at our house and one Wednesday night and one Thursday night so it's not much, but he's doing it!! I think since he's so tall it's harder for him to keep his balance, but he's definitely on his way...I know this is short, but I just had to share that wonderful news!!

The Fun Begins

Ok, so we're 11 days into March and I'm already exhausted. I don't like Daylight Savings time and this was not a good weekend for it to happen! Well since I was on here last, Timothy has gotten another ear infection and another split lip. I guess they just have to happen together? He's doing much better now, he's been on antibiotics for about a week now so it seems to be helping.

We went to a Sonics game last Sunday night, it was the JDRF night so Heather got us all tickets and since they were playing Charlotte, Tyler got to meet Adam Morrison who is also diabetic and he got to meet some of the Sonics, he was pretty pumped about that.

Last week was month end closing at work so that was busy as usual and Timothy had his first day at KinderCare. He seemed to like it and everyone there kept going on and on about how happy he is, so that made me feel better. He starts full-time there tomorrow. Full-time for us is only three days a week, but it's three 10 hour days so it's a lot. The good part about it is I can start work earlier and leave earlier so I think it will work out for the best!

Yesterday Brandon and I went out to dinner at The Melting Pot (yummy) and Aunt Heather and Tyler watched Timothy for us...it was pretty nice, we were celebrating our anniversary, we always go to eat there, it's our little tradition. So that was fun and Timothy had fun playing "ninjas" with Tyler.

Speaking of Tyler, I sent out an email to everyone I could possibly think of to let you all know that we're raising money to participate in the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fun Walk for the Cure which takes place here in Tacoma on May 5th. If anyone wants to walk with us or is interested in donating, just send me an email (lindsay_york@hotmail.com) and I'll send you the link to donate. We're really excited about it, we're going to have team shirts made and Heather's putting together a video of Tyler to share with everyone telling more about his fight with diabetes and what he has to do to basically survive. Long story short, that kid has been through more in 8 years than I could have ever imagined and he's had to endure things that I don't think I could get through and he deserves something good in his life and if participating in this walk will help find a way to cure him of diabetes then I'll do whatever I can to make that happen. I found this picture of him from when we went to the zoo this summer and I thought it was pretty funny. He wanted to pose for this one because Brittany and Kevin took a picture like this in South Padre this summer and he wanted to do it too. I added a vacation picture too, this was right after he was diagnosed (and there's Hadley too!).

And of course I have to add pictures of Timothy just being his normal happy (yet sick) self. He's getting so close to walking, it's just a matter of time...it's still a little scary to think about. He also has a new "chore"...he holds the dog's leash while she's outside. It's so cure, he really just holds it and sits there and watches her, he loves it. And I had to add a picure of him looking all cool in his sunglasses, he hates them and pulls them off as soon as I let his hands go free, but they're pretty cute!

And baby Easton is getting so big now!

I'll keep you all updated on the JDRF walk and fundraising efforts...if you can't give your time or money, please at least give your prayers that a cure will be found so no more kids will have to live with this disease. And of course, everyone in our family says a great big THANK YOU!!