Baughman Update

WOW.... 2 years has gone since my lats post.  I obviously have been slacking with the blog. A lot has changed for all of use since our last post.  I am going to try to hit the highlights.  Since 2013, our family has moved from our Townhouse in Milford to a wonderful house in Batavia/Eastgate.

We love our new house and the neighborhood we will live in.  It has a wonderful feel to it and has a great park to play in.  As a family we have also been actively attending Mt. Carmel Christian Church, which is less than 3 minutes from out house. 

Nate:

Nate has had a few job changes in the last few years.  In the Fall of 2014 he left teaching at Amelia Middle School and Coaching at Turpin to be an English Teacher and Football coach at Lakota East.  he also sent his free time getting his Masters in Administration and has just recently accepted a new position as Assistant Principal at Amelia High School.  He will not be coaching next year, but is really looking forward to the new job.

Megan:

Megan also has had changes in her job since we last wrote.  After working from home for almost 6 years, Megan went back to the office world and excepted an Event Manager position with ST Media Group.  She is in charge of 4-6 events a year for various magazines that her company publishes.  She loves getting out of the house for work, but still have flexibility to be home some. 

Cole:

Where to even begin with Cole... WOW... he has been excelling in school and LOVING legos!!! In May of 2014 he had he second palate surgery and it was successful.  The recovery was much harder, but he did GREAT!!  Cole has continues to go to speech after his surgeries and has been sounding much better. He does still continue to snore, so that is something we will continue to deal with. Cole has had an adventures summer so far in 2015.  Cole has played Tee Ball and Soccer, but seems to enjoy soccer the best!  This past year he was goalie and LOVED that.  The beginning of June he broke his arm falling off a swing in the backyard, then just a few short weeks later he fell at school and had to get stitches in his chin.  We hope this will be the end of his accidents for awhile. Cole will be 6 in just a short few days and in the Fall he will be starting Kindergarten at Batavia Elementary.  We are excited for all the changes he is about to face and cant wait to see what a strong young man he becomes

Maya:

Well Maya...  She has since turned 1, 2 and 3 (WOW... poor second child)  Maya is a very independent, spirited, spunky, princess loving little girl.  She has since learned to walk and now run, skip and jump.  Maya LOVED Clover, her kitty cat stuffed animals, Curious George and all things Frozen related.  She started going to All Aboard Preschool like Cole last year and will be in the 3 year old room this coming Fall.  She is challenging at times, but on so sweet at others.  Maya has had to have tubes in her ears and had speech from 18 months to 3 years of age.  She is now a chatter box and wants to say everything we say.  

Happy 4th Birthday Cole

Obviously I have missed a lot of things going on in our life, but tonight I went back through and read all of the blogs from when Cole was born!!  WOW, what a MIRACLE!!!!  I love my crazy 4 year old more than anything in this world.  He is a challenge at times, but I would not change anything at all. Thank you for being my son Cole!  I love you!!!

HAPPY 4th Birthday!!!

Cole's Soft Palet Surgery

On February 15th Cole had his Soft Palet surgery!  It went pretty well and we were home with in 37 hours on the surgery, which was great!  He was a bit cranky and whinny for about a week, but nothing too terrible.  He got several visitors while he was recovering.  Neetie, Paw Paw, Gran, Grandpa, Kate, Nick, Emily and Keaton as well as some SURPRISES from his Teacher and THE BEARCAT!!!!

Cole and the Bearcat had a BLAST!! Below are some pictures from his visit.

Here are some other pictures from the week!  

Cole with Cars before heading back into Surgery

Cole and Daddy playing in the Playroom at the Hospital. This room was a LIFE SAVER!!!  

Cole coloring in his book from "Aunt" Kate!  He LOVES her.

Cole with his Get Well Car and gift from his teacher Mrs. Fatute and his class

Cole with his gifts from Mommy's co-workers :)

7 and 8 month pictures

I cant believe Maya is 8 months old :)  She is getting so big and is getting into EVERYTHING!!!  She is crawling everywhere and can get from sitting to crawling and back and the blink of an eye.  She still just army crawls, but man she is fast!!

She sure is getting hard to catch in a picture!  She is a moving machine.Just this week she has started to say her first real word.  It is "Da-Da". She calls everything "Da-Da", not just Nate, but it is still super cute.  I also think she has decided to name Clover "Gah". She looks for her and always says it when she find her.  She sure does LOVE clover!!

Nate's Birthday

Cole was REALLY into Nate's Birthday this year.  When I picked him up from school we had to go buy him balloons then decorate the house and hide to yell "Surprise" when Daddy got home.  It was so cute to see him so excited about it.  He even ate cake too :)

Happy Birthday Nate (DADDY)!!!!

Cole's 1st Trip to Disney

Back in January we took a trip to Disney for Cheerleading Nationals.  It was Cole's 1st trip to Disney and he had a BLAST!!!  He LOVED the tea cups, the Dumbo ride, Big Thunder Mountain and playing at the hotel with the "big boys"or "best friends" as he calls the UC Cheerleaders.  

Cant wait to make another trip, he was so good and and such a great time, that it was really enjoyable and fun to do a trip just the three of us.