Dixon Family Blog

7lbs and 7.5 oz and very manly! Everyone is doing great and we have a healthy baby boy!

So blessed!

Logan James Dixon is here!

We are scheduled for a c-section two weeks from today! It is crazy how fast this second pregnancy has gone by. Sage has been keeping us super busy along with moving in the last couple months – it’s been pretty crazy. I have definitely noticed more contractions this time around – hopefully we will make it to the 19th. We will keep you updated and post pictures of little Logan when he arrives.

I have been pretty bad at taking pictures lately, but here are a couple from the past month:

Sage posing in one the her new dresses from Nana - too cute!

we've had a few pretty cold spells in the last few weeks!

Sage "helped" mommy make cookies this week!

Christmas Picture, better late than never...

Sage with Nana and Papa around Christmas

Sage with Moush and Pops, and cousins Landry, Blake and Avery

Believe me, we are well aware we have not posted on our blog in a while.  We do, however, have good reason for the delay.  You see, a lot has happened in the last three weeks so I’ll try to summarize.

1.  We moved!  We closed on Dec 31st so you can image why we are so late in bringing in the new year.  We finally have the “major” things in order at our house where we can relax if needed.

Quickly, 10 things the I (Cody) love about our new house.

1.  More space.

2.  I have a study/room that I can close the door and not hear the other things going on in the house.

3.  Shower with a seat in it.  I highly recommend it, even if you have to bring your own seat into the shower.  No lawn chairs.

4.  It’s pretty.

5.  Our new refrigerator has a spot in the freezer for frozen pizza!

6.  Covered back patio.  It’s been too cold to use it but very excited about grill season.

7.  Serious, I’m not trying to be gross here, but the master bathroom has a toilet in it’s own little room.

8.  Kitchen island.

9.  Closer to church.

10.  Amy loves it.

Sage update:

She is growing up so fast.  It is hard to imagine that in a six weeks she is going to be an older sister.  Some of her latest tricks…

1.  Trying to scare Mommy and Daddy by saying “boo” all the time!

2.  She will try to say about any word we ask her to.  The responses we get are often hilarious.

3.  I think she is starting to make some progress on potty training on the number two side.  As of late, she tells us that she has pooped or needs to poop.

4.  Our new house has handles instead of knobs, so she has learned the joy of opening doors.

5.  Wow, she has been an amazing sleeper at the new house too.  We have been here 10 days so far and she has slept through the night every night.  The transition wasn’t hard for her at all.

Amy update:

First off, she is an amazing wife and mother.  She works very hard all day raising Sage, which isn’t an easy task when you are 33 weeks pregnant.  And check this out, the two nights I was home for dinner she had dinner ready for me when I got home from work, like I said, amazing!  Continue to pray for her as the latter part of the pregnancy is the most difficult.

Me update:

Busy as always, but doing well.  I’ve been trying to read a lot lately which has its ups and downs.  I’m not a natural reader, and if you know me, I tend to lose attention pretty quickly.  Anyway, I’m 80 pages away from finishing an Old Testament Theology by Bruce Walte (which is 969 pages long).   My new year’s resolution is to re-learn Greek.  I’ve been wanting too and a buddy from church has really encouraged me to do so I’m going to give it go.

(this post was not proof read, any spelling or grammatical error is the responsibility  Coppell Independent School District).

Love you all!

Avery on the left and Sage rocking around the Christmas Tree!

Sage busting a move during her class' song.

Aidan as a wise man up front, Avery and Sage in the background during the Nativity reading.

Here are a couple pictures from the Wee School Christmas program yesterday morning. I couldn’t get any of the videos to upload, but there are more pictures and a few videos here for those interested. The videos are at the end of the gallery – the best on is the second to last one, enjoy!

We got to enjoy two firsts with Sage the last couple weeks. She got to see her first snow, which was so much fun…and got to sit on Santa’s lap which was not as much fun in her opinion.

That is one excited little girl!

We didn't get much, but it sure was fun while it lasted!

Why are you making me sit with this strange old man?!?

We also had our fourth sonogram of this pregnancy – everything looked pretty good. Logan is measuring a little small so they are going to keep an eye on his growth the next few weeks. There was one point in the sonogram where Logan looked toward us and started moving his mouth like he was trying to talk to us! It was crazy and cute – Love this little boy already!!

Profile picture with his hand at the top right - almost sucking his thumb.

Face pciture - the mouse cursor is pointing towards his chin - looks a little like an alien mask!

So…I have not posted on the blog in a LONG time, and a lot has been going on. Since, I posed last,

We decided on a name for our little turtle! After going back and forth several times…LOGAN JAMES is what our little boy will be called.

We put house house on the market, got a contract on it, and are waiting to close in a couple weeks! Bye bye first house.

We have been looking for the perfect house to buy and after two contracts on two houses fell through, we have a contract on a house to buy!

We took Sage to the Texas State Fair for the first time, (my first time too). We saw a dog show, went to a petting zoo, and a car show. We saw “Big Tex” and ate some awesome fair food!

We celebrated cousin Avery’s 2nd birthday! She has a petting zoo and horse rides in the back yard!

Sage dressed up as a cute little ladybug  for Halloween and went trick or treating with her cousins.

Sage turned SEVENTEEN months old today. I can’t believe she is a month away from being a year and a half old. She is quite the handful, getting into everything. She loves coloring, horses, Elmo, and playing outside, when the weather permits. Here she is practicing to be a big sister:

Cody has had to travel for work several weeks recently. Boo!

We joined a local Mom’s Club and love going to all kinds of activities and meeting new friends. Our first outing was a trip to the Dallas Zoo!

I am starting my third trimester and Logan is kicking the tar out of me. I thought Sage was very active, but it wasn’t as much as this boy. I have a sonogram next week to check his size and developmental progress.

We have tentatively scheduled Logan’s C-Section date for Feb. 19th! Less than three months away!!

I saw New Moon opening weekend. It was SO good!! In my opinion, much better than Twilight.

Sage’s favorite spot to get into is our bathroom cabinets, thankfully she won’t need those for a while!

We traveled to Henderson on Thanksgiving to see Cody’s Dad’s side of the family. We stopped to see Nana and Papa on the way. Loved getting to see all of our family!

One last picture of sweet Sage before I go…

Here is the latest picture of our baby boy! The mouse cursor is pointing at the “turtle sticking his head out” as the sonogram tech put it, so we are “99.9% sure” we are having a baby boy! All his organs were normal looking and working as they should be at this point and his estimated weight was 9 oz. – 50th percentile. His head measured right on track, his tummy was a little smaller than average and his femur bone measured a little above average. Now, if we could only decide on a name!!

15 things about my 15 mo. old:

1. At Sage’s 15 mo. well child visit today the doctor and nurse both kept commenting on how tall she was. She landed in the 95th percentile at 32 1/2 in. for height!

2. She was 75th percentile for weight at 24 lbs. 5 oz. and her head was 45 cm – only 25% !? this one worries me a little.

3.She finally figured out how to open highlighters:

4. She got her first flu shot today. I wasn’t 100% sure about getting it, but she did get the flu last winter and it was pretty miserable, so I decided to go ahead with it this year.

5. She is a picky eater. Both in the sense that she really doesn’t eat a whole lot, amount wise, and she is picky about what she will eat period. I have to sneak any and all veggies into macaroni and cheese or something comparable.  Doc said not to worry about it.

6. She LOVES books – she has lots of them and is always bringing them to us and asking us to “bead” them to her.

7. Two of her favorites are 5 Little Monsters (like 5 little monkeys), and a Noah’s Ark book.

8. When you ask her to dance it is hilarious!!  video forthcoming

9. She is doing really well at MDO one day a week. I was a little worried at first, but she is having a great time and so am I!

10. She got the colorful “big girl” bedding and we are trying to decide what color to paint the walls right now.

11. She loves animals. In books, in Baby Einstein movies, and sometimes in real life…unless they are too big and coming towards her.

12.She has turned into a chatter box, saying things like hi, bye, mama, dada, papa, nana, happy, no, tree, eye, ear, “nee” for nose and knee, door, baby, bee, “peas” for please, “ba” for ball, as well as making lots of animal sounds – sheep, cow, cat, mouse, owl, dog, elephant, snake, monkey, and chicken. A lot of these she is just been learning in the past couple weeks, it’s hard to keep up. It is so amazing to see her learning so much and soaking in everything around her.

13. She has been randomly doing the sign for daddy(which I didn’t teacher her – i think she learned it at wee school) and saying dada a lot lately – she loves her daddy!

14. She knows no stranger – she is always trying to tell random people hi and bye when we are out shopping.

15. She loves, loves, loves to be outdoors. I think she would spend all day outside if we’d let her. She always grabs my hand and pulls me toward the door to go out. Speaking of outdoors – we did get a few good shots at the Arboretum this past Monday: