a baby transformed and 2015 goals

I am kind of loving this blog post idea that everyone is doin, so I'm going to jump on the bandwagon. But first I have to do a little Dylan update, because let me tell you... things are going well my friends. He goes to the doctor tomorrow morning so I can't wait to see what his stats are!

I seriously feel like I have a whole new baby on my hands! Dylan is HAPPY! He squeals and makes little giggles, but won't full on laugh yet. But he is the smiliest little guy and has finally decided life is pretty fun. And getting Dylan to nap and go to sleep at night has drastically improved over the last two weeks. It used to be that he would just cry and cry if I just put him in his crib. He demanded rocking and he basically had to be completely asleep before I laid him down, otherwise he'd get very angry and wake up repeatedly. But all the sudden he is okay with me helping him wind down a little bit with a book or lullaby, and then I swaddle him and put him in his crib and half the time he doesn't cry at all, and the other half he cries for 1-2 minutes and then goes right to sleep. 

This is big I tell you! Everyone in our household is better rested and happier, especially me. Haha! My day is honestly ten times easier without the struggle to get him to sleep. 

Some things I'd like to remember: 

 He grins at everyone who grins at him now. He loves to talk and squeal and make himself heard. He loves to help me hold his bottle, and sometimes will hold it on his own for one or two minutes before he jerks his hands away and it falls. He is REALLY wiggly and will hardly ever just be still so I can burp him--he has to have his head up looking around. He grabs at anything and everything, most often my fingers, my hair (and it hurts) his clothes, my clothes, the burp cloth, and all toys. Everything goes to his mouth and he goes to town exploring things with his tongue. He LOVES bath time now that it's in the big tub, and kicks his legs like crazy as he coos and smiles. He made the jump to size 2 diapers last week after having 3 blowouts in 4 days. Before that, I could count on one hand how many blowouts Dylan has had. He's still wearing some newborn pants and 0-3 month pants, and mostly 3 month onesies now. He will be 6 months old on January 21st, but his adjusted age is almost 5 months!

Taylor has had the not-so-good fortune of discovering most of Dylan's blowouts... hahaha. This picture was not staged.

 After bath time!

Intense licking session. With his cousin's toy no less.

Ok now on to our new years goals. Taylor and I took these VERY seriously this year. We printed out calendars to help us keep track of scripture study, prayer, dinners, etc. We have our family goals posted on our fridge. We both felt like we were kind of in a rut and wanted to make some changes, and so far we are doing awesome! I won't give you all the boring details, but I am going to fill out this fun little diddy that everyone is doing, so here we go. 

A Bad Habit I'm Going To Break:  Getting on social media 20 times a day. My goal was to only be on social media two times a day, and it's hard!  It's so easy every time I'm bored to pull up instagram or facebook. I haven't been perfect at this goal yet, but I'm way better and quite proud of myself. My house is way cleaner too :) 

A Destination I'd Like To Visit: With gas prices so low, I really am pining to take a road trip. And after reading the news on KSL today, I've found out all the free entry days to national parks in Utah. Haha, I'm such a Burnham. But really, I would love to take a trip to Zion this year. Ultimately I am dying to go see the Grand Canyon though. I went when I was young but I really don't remember much. And my patient this week was telling me all about his trip there and how awesome it was. So that's definitely on the list. 

I'm Going To Work Harder At: Exercising! I mean really... pumping is pretty awesome exercise, and takes care of all those sweets I love to eat, but I don't think it entirely counts (even though I wish). I need to get my heart pumpin! I didn't exercise much at all towards the end of my pregnancy, and hardly since. So, my goal is 2-3x/week to exercise purposefully :) So far, Jillian Michaels has been kickin my behind on her videos. It's great though! I feel better already and still want to get back into running when it warms up a little more.

A Project I'd Like To Finish: If you've been to our apartment, you know we have about 2 million wedding pictures all over the place. There are pictures of Dylan in his room, but other than that there is only ONE lone picture of Dylan elsewhere in the house. So my project is to print out our family pics and replace some of those wedding pictures. And to do a little picture collage for our front room that I've got in mind. One of these Fridays I don't work, that's on my to-do.

A Class I'd Like To Take: While I was at BYU I took beginning and intermediate clogging. Turns out, my teacher at BYU is actually in our ward and he's the primary chorister and I'm the primary pianist. He owns a clogging studio with his wife and they have an adult clogging class and I want to take it! Unfortunately I work during the time the class is... but someday. I think it'd be a blast. Especially if my sister Jan takes it too :) Right Jan? She's clogged a lot more than I have... so she'd definitely be showing me up! 

I'd Like To Spend More Time Doing: Music. I really miss having a piano. One day we will have a piano, but probably not for awhile. So I'm enjoying my calling, because I at least get to play at church once a week. 

A Food I Want To Eat More Of: weeeelllll. I am not a vegetable lover by any means, but I am trying to like them. I have successfully turned myself into a brocolli-liker, so there's that. I am trying to like beans too, that's kind of my next project... wish me luck :) But if I'm being perfectly honest, I would love to eat more cookies, ice cream, and Cafe Rio. Lol.

I Want To Wear More: All the things popping into my mind are summer things. Shorts... swimsuits... flip flops... because if I was wearing those, it would mean it's warm. Can you tell I'm looking forward to spring? Today was really warm here and I loved it! 

Books I'd Like To Read In 2015: I'm reading the Book of Mormon currently (started on January 1st) and plan to read it twice this year maybe. At least once, and then maybe I'll work on some D&C, but we'll see. Entertaining books I want to read... I'm curious to read Jim Gaffigan's books.. he's a comedian who I find quite amusing...and I'd also like to read Paper Towns by John Greene-- he wrote The Fault In Our Stars, which I did love. And there's going to be a movie for Paper Towns too, so of course I gotta read the book first. Has anyone read it? I'm curious if it's good!

Cheers to an amazing 2015 with these darlings!