Neglect

I guess I've been neglecting the blog. I keep thinking that I'll update when something big and important happens and even then I don't get around to it. I looked to see just how long it has been since I posted and it was May 27, 2009! So here is an update on a few things:

Christian
- Christian is now 15 months old. He is a VERY BUSY little boy! He likes to get into everything. He climbs on the furniture with no understanding of gravity and needless to say has quite a few bumps and bruises.

-He has a severe milk allergy. Remember the post back in September? He ate strawberry yogurt and we had to take him to the ER. Well in January we finally found the pediatric allergist at Hamad and he diagnosed him with it. He was getting sick almost every month and we'd end up in the ER for breathing treatments. He is now weaned and taking a bottle with Neocate formula and he hasn't been sick (fingers crossed) in over a month.

-He is saying a few words like, momma, dadda, nem (no in Hungarian), egy (one in Hungarian sounds like edge), what's that?, tickle-tickle, and a whole bunch of other things I haven't figured out they mean. He loves to get the phone and put it to his ear and "talk" on it.

-Balls. He is such a boy! He has soccer balls, baseballs, basketballs, footballs, even cricket balls. Plus a those plastic balls for a ball tent thing. He loves them. He kicks around balls and is actually pretty coordinated with kicking. He throws cricket balls just like you're supposed to by walking a few steps forward and throwing and letting it bounce. We have a little tikes basketball hoop and he loves to throw the ball in.

-He loves music. He loves to dance and believe it or not his favorite show is Wheel of Fortune. You know the music that they play during the toss up part where they solve the puzzle as the letters show up? He loves that and when it comes on he dances his head off. I always knew he'd love music. When I was pregnant and we went to church he'd dance around to the hymns. He sings as well. I hope that he has a good singing voice like my Dad.

Lyssa
-Not much going on here for me. I'm just being a stay-at-home mommy and loving it. Christian is getting to be such a fun little boy. I love that I get to be home with him and give him a lot of attention.

-I'm trying to get Christian through this whole allergy thing. It's been pretty tough. I went dairy free at first because I was still nursing, but once he was weaned I started again. I have to say that I did feel better not eating all the dairy. I wouldn't go completely off again, but I think it helped keep the chocolate out of the house. Anyone with dairy-free tips would be helpful.

Dave
-Busy with work. They cut his class hours, but he's still just as busy as ever. He's working the afternoon shift, which is nice. He never has to leave for work earlier than 10am, so we get to spend the morning with him.

We have a year and a half longer here and we're trying to make the most of it. On Saturday we took a trip over to the camel races. They weren't doing any races, but they were taking some of the camels for a run, so we drove along side them for a while and got some pictures.

Flat Tyrell with camels, (I'll post about that later) if you look closely the guy in the back is looking at the camera and smiling. They got a big kick out of us driving next to them. Christian was asleep, of course, the whole time.

The fun didn't end there. Next we drove to some sand dunes and played there. Christian loved the sand, even tried to lick it off his sands.

It was so windy!

We couldn't just go home after that, so we went to the beach. We didn't have swim suits or even towels. I figured we'd just hang out by the water a little bit and then go home, but Christian had different plans. He walked right up to the water and kept going. He loved it! He kept splashing in the water, sitting in it, getting all soaked and we let him. The sun was starting to set, so we decided it was finally time to go home. Christian was soaked, so we had to take off all his clothes and let him ride home in his diaper. Good thing it's warm here!

I'll try to blog more often, but I can't promise anything. Somebody keeps me way too busy :)

I love this picture! I think he looks a lot like Dave. Look at that big forehead!