My First Steps!!

Anderson has started walking!! He's taken up to 12 steps at one time but I can't seem to get it onto video. Below is the best I could do for now...look for more walking videos soon!

Last Ladies Holiday Dinner...

I celebrated the holidays with some of my favorite ladies last weekend! All of the ladies from the the residency class get together each year for dinner and laughs...it's so sad that we'll all be at different corners of the country next year. I'll always treasure the time we had in Denver with all of our friends!

From left: Sara, me, Marcy, Lindsay, Claire, Joy, Jess, Alyson, Susan, and Gaby

From left: Me, Marcy, Lindsay, and Claire


Sara and me



Joy, Jess and Alyson


Brad and I will be in Seattle, Jess and Gabe will be in Boston, Nate and Lindsay will be in Las Vegas, Matt and Marcy will be in New Zealand, Zach and Emily will be in St. Louis, Claire and Jeremy will be in New York, Gaby will be in Denver, Joy and Andy will be ???, Alyson and Ben will be ???, and Susan will be ??? (hopefully in Denver!). Crazy!! I can't believe our time with all of you is coming to an end...so quickly...that went by way too fast (however, I know we are all happy the residency work hours are close to over).

All bundled up!!

We had some really cold weather and some snow a couple of weeks ago in Denver. Anderson got all bundled up to go for a walk with mom and dad...he swims in this jacket because it's so puffy! At least it keeps him warm!!

Into everything...

Anderson has been on the move and into everything!! It's fun to watch him explore just about anything he can get his little hands on. Everything goes in the mouth, gets pulled on, push on, climbed on...you get the idea. He's all boy!! Along with all of this exploring has come a few bumps, cuts, and bruises.

"What's for dinner mom??"

"Check out my two bottom teeth!! Now I have two top teeth also!"

Brad got this video last week...what a monkey!!

Happy Thanksgiving

We had an amazing Thanksgiving dinner at Zach and Emily's place on Thursday. They have a 3 week old baby, Henry...somehow they prepared a turkey and all of the fixings!! It was our last Thanksgiving with the DG family and it was great! Thanks Zach and Emily!

Robin and Anderson (9 1/2 months); Joy and Scarlett (3 months); Emily and Henry (3 weeks)

"Mommy...put me down! I need to go play and explore."

The Talley Family on Anderson's first Thanksgiving!!

Daddy and Anderson

Welcome Back Daddy

Just wanted to keep you updated on Anderson's poo problems. He definitely still has the loose stool and we have a doctor appointment tomorrow. Luckily, he is still drinking plenty of fluids...hopefully we're winning the dehydration battle.

Brad came back late last night and was ready to help me this morning with Anderson. Anderson welcomed daddy back by pooping right on his lap not once, not twice, but three different times today. I'm pretty used to dealing with bodily fluids because of my job and you would think Brad is too because of his job...however, you should have heard him scream when it happened. I had to laugh a little!!

Cleaning house...

It's been an interesting weekend. On Friday, Anderson started a bad case of serious butt pee (aka loose stool). Along with the loose stool came a horrible diaper rash. Poor guy has been miserable all weekend! At first, I was wiping him with wipes and just trying to be gentle...I quickly realized that this was making it worse. So...I moved to wiping him with a warm wash cloth. That worked ok till I used up every wash cloth in the entire house. So...I moved to running his little butt under water. However, it was obvious after the first try at this that I was not getting all of the poop off of him. So we moved to baths and hair drying the area after the bath. I think he's had more baths in the last three days than the previous nine months of his life. In addition to a bath about every 2 hours, I've been letting "hang free" when possible.

Of course, all of this has happened while Brad is away in Lamar doing some moonlighting...big surprise there. To say the least, I'm a little tired! Fortunately, I have the cutest and most lovable baby! He constantly makes me laugh and smile. How could you not smile...he finds so much joy from the simplest things. Below is where I found him earlier today...what a helper!! I'm happy to report that he didn't pee all over anything while in there...just all over the kitchen floor a few minutes later! Enjoy!!