My children fill my life with so much joy and just as much work. I always say it's good that they do such cute things to make up for all the work. Just when I thought my plate was completely full, we now have my brother and niece living with us. My sister-in-law left, leaving my niece with my brother. He works 6 out of 7 days a week, long hours, and needs help caring for my niece. They have been living with us for a month now and we're starting to settle into a routine.
As I'm writing Logan and Grace came out and Logan's excuse for getting out of bed is: "My throat is dried up like I haven't had water in two days!"
-My little Evan baby is growing up way to quick. He is 10 months old and in a month and a half he will be one year old! He now has two teeth, he crawls everywhere. I spend much time chasing him- he thinks its a fun game to crawl to the woodstove, giving my heart attacks. He has had a cold for over a month now and it breaks my heart to see him stuffy and hard for him to nurse. Even through his cold, he is still good natured. He is full of smiles. Today at the grocery store we constantly had people come up to us and comment about how cute and smiley Evan is.
-Grace is still my beautiful princess, in every sense of the word. She loves her dresses (although she still likes to wear nothing if we let her- hard to keep clothes on her). Grace loves to get all dressed up and prance around asking people how she looks. Logan is very good with her and always tells her how beautiful she is (he is going to make a great husband some day- just like his dad;). Grace's favorite thing is dance class and she is soooo cute with dancing- I love that. She also loves school! She has nursery school 2 hrs 2x/wk. Her recent report card had all excellents, including that she knows her shapes, numbers, letters, and colors. Grace is doing very well starting to write also. We spend quite a bit of time together while Logan and Claudia are at school- I adore how loving she is- always saying, "Mommy, do you know I love you". I get at least a hundred "I love you"s and kisses each day. LOVE IT!
- Logan is such a little man and quite a deep thinker. I love the questions that he comes up with. He is very smart and does well with his academics. He is very kind with his sister and cousin- always ready to compliment them when they are looking for that. He is starting to take some chances, with the help of his cousin helping him be a little braver. Logan likes to wear sweaters and his footie PJs because they are for snuggling, we call them his "snuggle sweater" or "snuggle jamies". Logan is making progress with learning to read and write. He has been doing Karate for several months now and passed his first test, earning himself stripes for his white belt. We just signed up for year 2 of soccer this spring/summer.
- Andy is going back to school, to police academy. I am glad for him, although I am scared about the amount of work it will add to both our lives.
That's all for now.....
