The last 6 weeks...

Where to begin? On May 17th we left our home in Hoover with all our belongings in a UHaul truck to start our new adventure. Chris and our stuff went to Ohio for him to continue his job search there while the kids and I, along with both cats and Penny came to Michigan to enjoy summer on the beach. It has been stressful and crazy but we have sold our house in Alabama, put a house in Cincinnati under contract and Chris is a month into a new job.

Little Miss A has made some serious changes in that time. She says mama and nanna (Anna). She waves hi and bye-bye. She has started signing - all done, more & milk. She responds to her name and the word no. Just recently she can stand by herself for a short amount of time and loves to "walk" while I hold her hands up. She is always moving and squealing. A very happy baby during waking hours... Nights have been a challenge for her but she's getting better.

The little man will be 3 in just a few weeks. I'm hoping that the terrible twos will expire at that time but I doubt it as he came into it a bit late. Listening and eating continue to be a fight with him (and I can't even think about potty training) but he is still delightful much of the time. He loves playing at parks, anything related to trains and making friends at the beach. His vocabulary continues to improve all the time. He speaks in sentences much of the time and continues to ask why at least 50 times a day. He has had so much fun getting to see more of his family... So much more that he had to refer to everyone as "that guy" til he started putting names together. He loves his guys and insists on having Grandpa put him to bed every night.

Ahhh!

Anna can crawl up the stairs.

David figured out how to open the child-safe cabinet locks.

Shoes

My little girl is developping her love for shoes at an early age. The only problem is that right now she'd rather chew them than wear them. She can spot them from across the room and takes off in her fastest crawl, squealing with glee. So of course David has made it his mission to keep all the shoes (hoos, as he says) away from her. Yesterday he worked so hard to put all the shoes he could find into a laundry basket. Shortly after he finished his project, Anna saw the basket and seemed to think it was the world's greatest treasure chest!

Another tooth!

Anna's second tooth poked through yesterday. Hopefully we will soon be getting more sleep!

Interior Design

David is redesigning our home. He told me yesterday that we should take down the living room wall that closes the room off from the entry way. He also wants to paint the fireplace yellow.

Imagination

David's imagination is taking off. For a while his favorite games were taking noses and puppies pooping. For taking noses he will come up to you and pretend to grab your nose, then proceed to hide it, throw it or eat it. It can go on for a long time with your nose ending up in the kitchen, behind the couch or even in the sandbox. (He actually used that as an argument to try to go outside to play - "mama nose in sandbox!") In puppies pooping, he would tell me that his puppies pooped in the living room and then he had to clean it up. I wonder if it's a boy thing!

Yesterday he recreated a scene from Bob the Builder. The puppies were trying to eat the sunflowers growing in the living room. First David had to be a scarecrow and try to scare the puppies away. When that didn't work he had to cut down the sunflowers and hide them under a table.

A new word that he says is "beebee." It means pretty. He talks about beebee flowers all the time.

First Tooth!

After torturing her for several weeks, Anna's first tooth poked through on Friday. It is her center bottom right tooth. It looks like the second should be in soon.