Were here!

We've just not been up to much, therefore- blog slacking. We got all the flooring done at "our" house. (Although its not officially ours... we call it ours.) It already feels like home to us. We've been out there a few times helping with the few projects we've needed to get done. She (home owner) has been living there for a few months without her husband (he's transferred jobs to another state. She is trying to sell the house) so we've (Nat's) been able to bless her by helping get some of the work done so that she doesn't have to pay someone to do it. After all it is almost our house. :) She has equally blessed me by taking all 3 kids under her wing while were out there (so I can help Nat) She just loves them... and they love her equally the same. She takes them outside on nature walks and shows them stuff, and teaches them about stuff. Its been a wonderful experience. I don't think God could have placed us with anyone better to buy a house from. Its been refreshing after all that we've gone through trying to buy other houses. The appraisalist (is that a word??) Will come back out tomorrow to make sure the flooring was put down and then we'll CLOSE from there. Good Lord willing. Oh my soul, I'm sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ready! I dream about the day we move into our house. Whew... ok, I won't start... cuz I'll probably never stop talking about it. :)

Stetson, oh my sweet, handsome boy.... he just doesn't sleep anymore... and by doesn't sleep anymore, I mean I am up with him at LEAST, ten times in the night. Swaddling really doesn't do it for him anymore. He is up to eat once, and the rest of the time, he is wide awake just wanting to get up and play. Just laughing, and talking to himself.... then he gets tired of entertaining himself and he wants me to entertain him... and so begins the round and round, for hours on end. I am totally at a loss at what to do. I've tried everything I can think of! Not swaddling him, swaddling him. Warm clothes, no clothes. Feeding him 2 jars of baby food AND putting cereal in his bottle before bed. Putting my shirt in the crib with him so he has that smell near him. Paci, no paci. Tylenol and orajel before bed. Sleep on the tummy, sleep on the back, sleep in the boppy. Less napping during the day. I am clinging to the idea that once we get in our house, and he has his own dark, quite room he'll sleep better.... same thing with the girls. He wakes them up every morning (and its usually when I've finally fallen back asleep cuz Stetson has finally gone to sleep) So in turn, they're grouchy cuz they didn't get enough sleep.

Blech! Its just a big sleep MESS over here! Right now all the kids are sick with cold/cough junk so that absolutely doesn't help matters! When your 2.5 year old, and your 1.5 year old (BTW... My payton girl was 18 months yesterday!!!) ASK to go take a nap, you know there is seriously something screwed up in the sleeping dept.

In more positive news. Stetson has started eating, and loving puffs! I have given him a few solid foods and he does quite well with them. Quite the relief from giving child #2 solid foods. I was sure that she was going to die of choking she did it so much, and so horribly. He also had his 6 month check up which was great. He weighed in at 19 lbs... and as far as the other measurements... I didn't even think to look at them. Bad, bad mom.

As I've mentioned before, she loves to try to feed him stuff so she was thrilled when I actually let her feed him. She sat on the floor stuffing them in is mouth.

As I mentioned above, my P girl is 18 months! Halfway to 2. and she is a middle child if I ever seen one. She's talking soooo good. Although no one on earth can understand everything she says but me, she is indeed communicating. I walk around translating what she says to Nat. Madelynn can understand her pretty well too. I love to watch them talk and look forward to the day when they can actually talk a lot. Dr W. always told me to not worry about speech problems till she hits 2 so we'll see what happens in the next 6 months. I am aware that she can talk, but its the pronunciation that worries me. Like she says "byby" for water?? How in the heck she hears byby in water beats me. I work with her a lot on pronouncing things correctly... we'll see what happens.

Miss Priss is becoming more aware of the term "scary" we are really having to watch what we say/watch these days. (Pardon me if I repeat myself... for I can't remember anything I said 1 week ago... but I can tell you anything you wanted to know about my childhood.) She is on the monster/dinosaur kick these days. There is a dinosaur that has been biting her for months now. Its pink, lives at her nana's house and its nice and it tickles, and bites her. It is so hard not to laugh cuz she is so dead serious when she talks about this dinosaur. At first we thought it was funny, and played along with her... but now that its kinda become somewhat of a fear, were deterring her from "The Pink Dinosaur." As far as monsters go, they're everywhere! and they're scary. Ever since she was little, we have always prayed over her (all of them) and I always tell her never to be scared cuz Jesus is always with her. So the other night when she wanted to go back to her bedroom to get a book, and she saw that the light was off, she told me she was scared and that there was a monster in her room and she wanted me to go with her. I told her there was nothing to be scared of, and she proceeded to say "Jesus with me"? It caught me off guard, but it just goes to show how observant that little mind is. After that she walked back there. I did follow her to turn the light on for her. I am just so glad that we can put that "fear" at ease for her with her knowing that Jesus is always with her. I hope that never changes for her... or any of them!