Do you think I should bribe Owen with this when he is old enough to Date!
I haven't been very diligent about much lately.
Writing in newsletters, updating my blog, eating right, exercising....showering.
It seems that when Owen hit 6 months old everything just spiraled out of control.
I could not keep up with anything. He has arrived at the age of need. He cannot crawl but can sit up. So he becomes frustrated when he is not being entertained. My girls do a good job entertaining him but that only lasts so long. He really needs to be with mom.
This makes doing the things I need to do almost impossible.
I am not complaining though just saying at as it is.
I am truly enjoying every bit of his babyhood.
He is a good baby, he just really wants to get moving, once he does I think he will be happier.
He has had problems with spit up still. His medicine stopped working so we have upped the dosage, we will have to see how that goes. I really am sick of being wet all day.
He is beginning to have a schedule for naps and goes to bed by 7:00 every night, and wakes
up at 7:00 every morning. That has been nice. He is in need of more calories then Mom can provide. He loves to eat. He is already going through 2 jars of stage one baby food a day. It is so fun to watch him grow.
She loves to be everywhere that he sister is, this drives Madi crazy. But she learns a lot from her.
She is so pleasant as is often more quiet then Madi ever was.
When Madi is not home the house is actually very quiet and Eleanor is content to play alone. Although I become a little suspicious when it gets too quiet. More often then not she is happily in her room playing with the ponies or Legos, content as she can be. Only once in a while has she found the lotion and decided that her face, arms, pants, and shirt were in need of some soothing moisturizer, it is winter after all. Or that she needed a little bit of color to her pale face blue, or green are a nice shade. I didn't know that the markers were out.
Independence is a much needed thing to her, getting water out of the fridge every ten minutes. Spilling water from the cup every ten minutes and wiping up the water from the fridge every ten minutes. She is TWO after all. What a fun age. Challenging, but fun.
Madi is 5 and with that age came a new sense of self.
She assumed that she would finally get to ride that bus that comes in front of our house everyday. What a heart break it was when she could not. It is hard to hold her back. She is so determined to learn and grow that she is reading and writing already. She reads everything that she can. It is amazing how fast she learns.
She is full of energy, so much energy. Santa gave her a hula hoop. What an investment. We were not sure if she would get the hang of it or not. She did! She can hula hoop now for at least three minutes at time. I must say I am impressed. She and I read the Tale Of Desperaux together, it was nice to spend that time with her and a good book that we both loved. (The movie pales in comparison to the book.) We also finished reading the Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. We have enjoyed that too. Kate DiCamillo is a good author. Now we are looking for our next adventure.
I have been just been trying to keep up with everyone.
It will be nice when Madi can start school and I will some time with my other two in the mornings.
And she will be able to talk to people her age, for once.
I am serving as a Second Counselor in Primary.
I am also preparing for the Stake play..."Savior of the World", where I am playing the role of Mary's Mother. I am very excited to have the chance to do something like this, it is already a testimony building experience.
Brian has been traveling about every other week now. It is getting a little easier each time he goes. I still get pretty tired, with three little kids to handle. When he is home it is always wonderful.
Brian was just called to be a ward missionary, since that call came we get called by the missionaries at least once a day. Is that normal? I don't know. I know they need help but we do have a family too. Our family is blessed for his service though, when he goes out, it has been a spiritual experience for him.
We had a casualty in our house recently, our computer stopped computing. It has been frustrating. I think we have about seven months of photos stored in it. We were stupid and never got them onto a disk. So now we are trying to find a way to recover them. Then we will get them onto a disk. We have a new computer now. Which of course is something we did not plan on having to buy, yikes. We thought we could go with out one, but have found that it is almost impossible.
DID YOU KNOW THAT SANTA CAN DELIVER TOYS YOU LEAVE SOMEWHERE ELSE.
WELL, HE DOES!
My daughters left behind some of their special toys at my brother's so I asked Santa if he could help me out! He did!
Christmas morning they found their old loved toys under the tree with all the shinning presents.
THEIR EYES LIT UP WITH LOVE. Ithink we could have stopped with those two things they were so happy to have them back.
SANTA IS SO NICE!
