October

I can't believe it's already the middle of October! Mark's parents have been visiting this month, and leave tomorrow.  We've had a lot of fun, and I love how Easton is getting so familiar with them and their new place.  He loves to go visit, and knows right where his toy box is located.  At the beginning of this month, Costco opened in Sioux Falls.  Mark's parents are huge fans of the store, so insisted on getting us a membership for Christmas.  Our first visit was fast, Easton was more than excited to be in such a huge store with so many fun things to see and touch!  The picture below is a toy tha the found, and was not happy to have to leave at the store :(

Looks like he almost knows what do to, right?!?

We've had our share of ups and downs already this month.  Easton had an ear infection, again.  It's been draining now for a week. I am so tired of dealing with it, and I know he is too.  Aunt Cori did a great job of caring for him those first few days with it, but it just doesn't seem to be getting better. We are going to visit with Dr. Jensen on Tuesday, hopefully make the right decisions and get our little boy back to normal! I also got sick this week.  Strep Throat was my diagnosis.  It really kicked my butt!! I can't believe how terrible I felt.  Yes, my throat hurt, but the aches and pains that came along with it I thought maybe I had influenza or something.  Was glad that's all it was, and I'm already feeling better.  But after 3 days home sick, I hope so!!  During all that we also had something wrong with our furnace, so had no heat.  It seemed to be one thing after another.  Of course those couple of days without heat, were also days of rain.  It was cold, rainy and windy.  Good think we don't lack blankets in our household, they kept us warm along with some space heaters.  But thankfully our house is warm, and we're on the mend!  Here is a picture of Easton all bundled up for daycare, I just picked up some warmer jackets last weekend.  Perfect timing ;) 

Mark leaves tomorrow for a weekend hunting trip.  It will just be me and Easton Saturday-Monday.  Good thing I know we can handle it :) Good luck Daddy, just please don't kill something that you think we need to mount!

Looking forward to Halloween, Easton will love the parade, and hopefully his costume :)  



One- Uno- 1

Easton was lucky to be home with Daddy for his 1st Birthday! I was able to enjoy some time with them as well.  He got to spend the afternoon playing outside in his new truck, which he loves! We actually don't mind pushing him in this one, we can stand up straight vs. his trike where we have to bend over and our backs are killing us after 30 seconds ;)  He cries when we bring him inside, no matter how long we are out he doesn't want to leave his truck.  It's kind of funny how similar it is to Daddy's truck :) He loves to put his arm out the window and honk the horn.  He fits in with all the other semi trucks driving by!

He was dressed for the day in his official "Birthday Boy" shirt and bib :) It was fun to take time and look back at all the pictures we had on our phones from the last year.  It really is amazing how fast they grow, he was so little and now so big! I look forward to waking up, almost every morning he greets me with his sweet smile.  I thank God everyday for our little blessing, and look forward to the years to come! Easton's checklist seems to be complete for year one:

TO DO:

Enter the world- check

Steal Hearts- check

Learn to crawl- check

Learn to walk- check

Start talking- check

Become a Big BROTHER- check!

(Baby Radtke #2 due May 11, 2014!)

Easton's Birthday Party!

We had a great Birthday Party for Easton! He loved all the Mickey decorations and most of all, the family that was there!  Easton loves his cousins, so seeing everyone in one room, giving him attention was awesome.  He seemed to enjoy his cake, but unfortunetly it was black! I should have known to pick a better frosting color.  Not only was it hard to get off his face and hands, his bowels were colored and stained his butt those first couple days! LOL, lesson learned.
Thanks to everyone for the presents, and most of all the love and support! Easton is so lucky to have you all in his life.  I can't believe he is a year old already.  It seems like just yesterday I was home on maternity leave.

 

 

Easton's 1 year pictures

We had a great time taking these pictures.  Easton did pretty well, until the last couple.  He wasn't so sure about the cake, but did taste it.  Can't believe he's already 1!

Family Pictures

It's been awhile since my family has taken family pictures, so we scheduled them with Easton's 1 year pictures.  You can take a lot, but I guess you really only need one to turn out ;) That's about what we got.  With trying to get all the boys to look and smile at the same time, adults smiling with eyes open, sun shining in the right spot, etc. we got some good ones and bad ones!  But that's always part of the fun of "family pictures". 
We had them taken in Sioux Falls at Sertoma Park, and thankfully the weather was pretty nice this particular morning.  It got warm fast, as we were all dressed for fall.  But glad we got them taken, we don't do it often enough!

Mean Molars

Since the middle of August, Easton hasn't been sleeping through the night.  We now realize how spoiled we were that he started that at only 2-3 months old! It started with a 3:30 AM wake up call, crying baby.  It wasn't to bad, you'd go pick him up, rock him back to sleep and lay him down. He sleep till almost 6:30 AM.  But then things got a little worse.  He was waking up around midnight, 3:30 AM, and sometime 5 AM!  With one feeding usually around 3:30 AM.  His first year molars are trying to make an appearance, and I'm sad to say they haven't come in yet!!  I knew it was his teeth when it started with fever, diarrhea, and fussy.  He was refusing his to eat, didn't want his bottle, and wasn't happy playing fo very long.  He'd be pushing a car around, and then all the sudden just lay on the floor and cry :(  Poor baby, he slept alot and loved to cuddle with his Momma! That part was nice, but I felt so sorry for him.  He is getting better, but still fights a fever every once in awhile and hasn't gotten back to sleeping through the night.  But hopefully they will break through soon, and we'll be back to normal :) After all, his Birthday is coming up, he deserves to feel his best!
Easton was moved to the 1 year old room at daycare on September 16th.  Much to my dismay, I think it was a good move.  I'm hopefull once he adjust to the new schedule, he will nap close to 2 hours a day.  In the baby room, he was lucky to get 45 minutes! This isn't like him, on the weekends when he's home, he takes a morning nap- 2 hours and usually a longer afternoon nap- 3-4.  I know he likes his sleep, so I feel bad when he doesn't get it.  His diet now consist of all table food.  There isn't anything yet that he doesn't like.  He's had eggs, and he's not allergic which is awesome.  I'm excited to try peanut butter, I think he will love it! Who doesn't?
Next up will be breaking him of his bottle and moving him to whole milk.  I'm making it a slow transition. I going to start mixing formula and milk after he's one.  As far as the bottle, he really doesn't care for it anymore.  Of course he likes it when it's time for bed or middle of the night.  I'm trying to push daycare to try for one bottle a day, but soon I know that will be gone also.  My baby is going to be a toddler, I guess I need to embrace it :)
Enjoy the pictures from this month.  With fall comes Football!  We love to cheer on our teams, and are really enjoying going to Central Lyon football games on Friday nights.  Easton loves it, all the kids love him! It's a nice social time for us and him!

Go CSU RAMS!

Watching the hawks with Daddy :)

Easton loves to go for bike rides! The trailer was his early Birthday present from Mom & Dad :)

Sporty's for supper with Grandma & Grandpa Radtke

Monday mornings with Daddy, he's always happy to stay home!

We try and get to Cameron's soccer games, he's doing great this year!

Easton is WALKING!!!

I knew it was coming, he was walking to and from furniture and his balance was getting really good while standing! I'm so proud of him that he made this milestone before his 1st Birthday! I kind of thought he would, but I'm happy because I didn't want him to get run over in the 1 year old room at daycare ;) I think he had enough of watching the other kids and wanted to keep up with his cousins! I thought he was fast crawling, but he gets farther faster walking- for sure!! 

He's getting into everything these days, loves the kitchen cupboards! 

 And he loves to be outside! He usually cries when we come in, and if he doesn't get to ride his bike, he's really upset! I just wish he knew how to peddle, it would make it much easier on our backs :)