Happy New Year! A lot has happened since we last posted to this blog. The biggest news is that Thatcher is walking now! Now that he is walking he loves to get into all sorts of things. Currently his favorite past time is to walk over to the remote control draw (yes I have a draw dedicated to remote controls...) of our entertainment center, open it up, pick out a remote control and eat it. Thatcher must have very acidic saliva because anything he "eats" stops working shortly after. One of the bigger profile victims was my cell phone! 

I got to spend a lot of time with the family in December. I took three weeks off of work. Seth and Thatcher got a lot of play time with me. Seth and I even took a road trip up to Pinehurst, NC to visit his great grandparents. We got to sleep overnight in a hotel (which he loved.) Seth is now old enough for travel, now all we need to do is get Thatcher there and we may be able to start visiting relatives again! WOO HOO!  I took some  Pictures of the family over the holidays that I think you will enjoy. I also made a short video of Thatcher walking, and Seth making a fruit cake. Enjoy!

It has been an exciting past few months. Thatcher is almost walking now, he took four unassisted steps last night. I had predicted he would be walking by his first birthday and he is almost there. Thatcher had his 1st birthday on Friday. He got a walker, some bath toys, and clothes. He wasn't in the best of moods that day so it was a short lived Birthday but Seth and I loved the cake! 

Since my last post Seth, Megan and I went to an airshow and we celebrated Halloween. Seth went as an astronaut (there is a shocker) and Thatcher went as a sea turtle. Here are some pictures I took of the events.

More Pictures

Don't have a lot of time. I hope you see the videos below. I also posted a few pictures on Shutterfly. Been nuts around here. This is the first free time I have had in weeks.

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Thatcher Crawls and Eats Solid Food

Thatcher is crawling now! We got some good footage of him crawling with Seth, looking at himself in the mirror, and eating some solid foods. Enjoy!

Seth's 4th Birthday (Video)

I finally got around to making Seth's 4th birthday video. Enjoy!

New Picture Blog?

Shutterfly has a new blogging tool. It seems way more advanced then blogger. I have started to play with it. Depending on feedback, I may decide to switch over to it. Tell me what you think. You can view the site by going to http://thefaylings.site.shutterfly.com

Car, Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Visits

June/July is the busy time for our family. In the past few weeks we have bought a new car, had three birthdays, a 50th wedding anniversary, and three separate family visits. I purchased a 2007 Chrysler 300c. Since I drive about 120 miles a day for work I needed to get a car that was better for my back. My old Monte Carlo was giving me horrible back pain. I have had it now for a few weeks and I haven't had a single day with back pain. It was the best purchase I have ever made!

Seth turned four June 28th. We went a little overboard on the presents this year. I think Megan and I learned something important this time around. Anything over 4 presents is just to much. Seth had so many presents he actually got tired of opening them! Seth is doing much better with his speaking now and is talking in full sentences. He is still seeing a speech therapist but I don't expect him to be going for much longer.

As for visitors, we have had my mother, grandfather, cousin (Jenice), Kim, Brandi, Nick, Morris and Doris all visit us within 10 days of each other. As you can expect it has been very hectic around here. Brandi and Nicholas stayed with us for over a week. So we had a four year old, 18 month old, and a seven month old all at the same time. You can imagine the days around here. Brandi and Nick just left today and it feels a little too quite around here.

Morris and Doris Nicholson celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with us. The family threw them a surprise party and it was a success. We also threw Jeff a 50th birthday party. The whole family is a little sick of cake right now.

We have a TON of pictures for you to view, and expect another compilation video in the next few days (It takes several hours to compose, and finding time is getting more difficult these days.)

Enjoy!