Bye Bye Swing

The swing finally died. This is the original swing that we received as a gift when Little Man was born. Peanut slept there for MONTHS. It wasn't until he decided he wanted to roll over while sleeping that he finally gave it up.

Our kids love to swing so we knew we had to get another. Have I ever mentioned on here that we simply love Amazon? Well, we do. Free 2 day shipping is a beautiful thing!!!

It got here last night and we let the big kids take a ride in the old swing just for fun.

Routines

We all know how important routines are. Kids need to have an idea of what to expect and it helps them function better. Right?

We have our routines around here, that's for sure. One of them is our daily ritual as we wait for the bus to come pick Little Man up for school.

Today I was trying to take some pictures of the two older ones. Little Man isn't always too cooperative.

But then I practically begged for just one smile & I got it!

Peanut just LOVES to say "CHEEEEEEEESE" and smile for me.

Then Peanut decided to start practicing his newest trick, climbing on any tables that he can find.

Then he was curious about my camera.

They looked for the bus some more...

And after Little Man leaves, Peanut watches & waves...

Yes. Routines are important.

Enjoying his talking

Back before Little Man really started talking, people used to constantly tell me some variation of, "it'll come & when it does you'll be dying for him to stop." Nothing could be further from the truth to be honest. In fact, that scenario got so bad I was ready to punch the next person that said that to us.

We weren't momma and dadda until closer to his third birthday. And even then, Hubby had to wait another year to actually be dad. He was, 'gaggy' & now he's 'dadda'.

So now that he's FOUR we're finally getting to enjoy the 'crazy things kids say'. The way they take things so literal and that kind of thing.

This kid is a hoot and it's so great to finally be able to understand more of what he's saying. I'd say we figure out about 85% of the things he's telling us. If it's in context that percentage is much higher.

We still do a lot of Q&A to get to the bottom of things but I just LOVE when he gets in the car and tells me, "Momma we went outside and played on the new playground" and I can actually understand what he's saying.

I love when I tell Peanut not to do something or to stop doing something, Little Man pipes up with, "I did not do it."

I know these moments aren't going to last long so we'll cherish them.

We knew it was coming...

Last week wasn't such a good week.

Matt was laid off.

We knew it was coming. We knew when his boss had to pick who he was going to let go it would be Matt. If you know us personally, you know exactly why. But Karma will eventually take care of him. That's just the way it works.

Back in August, his company lost a HUGE contract.

Of course there is always more to the story, but that's not really our concern anymore.

The initial knee jerk reaction was panic. I'm a stay at home mom so it's not like there is at least still one income around here. In the end all will be fine and I really do believe everything happens for a reason. We've been in these situations before where we couldn't figure out for the life of us, "Why did this have to happen" only to figure it all out later down the road.

His first option would be to find another job in which he could keep his security clearance. If not, it's not the end of the world. He's looking everywhere, with no geographic restrictions. It's a bit like dejavu. When we moved down here from Michigan, we didn't know where we were moving to until about 10 days before we left.

He's already submitted literally hundreds of resumes and I know he'll eventually find something.

Life goes on.

Christmas 2009

We're in the middle of transitioning from the old computer to a new one, so for the moment I don't have pictures handy to post but Christmas was great. The boys had fun and Peanut didn't give a hoot about unwrapping gifts. Not at all.

The morning after Christmas we set off on a road trip, to Washington, DC to visit Hubby's family. Every time we make that drive we swear it off. And then we do it again! Since it was Munchkin's first road trip we spent the night on the way up there instead of driving it straight through.

Let me tell you what, it was ridiculously cold while we were there. And the morning we left, the roads were downright awful. Reminded us of living in Michigan. Reminded us that we aren't exactly fans of the cold.

In spite of the cold we had a good time.

Pictures to come.