Monday, August 2, 2010

just life...

well I haven't written for a few weeks. I just haven't felt like it I guess, but we are all doing well, and have been pretty busy (in a good way:) Last week I spent a lot of time decorating and straightening up the house. That was fun and felt really good. As it is the beginning of he month, I am just now trying to think of what projects I want to try to do this month. It helps me not to feel too overwhelmed when I have a plan. I've been thinking about how I want to be more disciplined and keep a stricter schedule (mostly with how I start the day, but also just with making sure I'm taking some time for everything I want to do, and not leaving things out).
We finally got Evan a real crib and put it up in Joel's room, but so far he hasn't wanted to sleep up there. I even put dark curtains up, so it would be nice and dark in there, but I think he just doesn't like the idea of sleeping in a different place yet. His birthday is coming up on the 18th, and soon I will have a big 1 yr. old boy. He is changing to fast, it's hard to keep up. It's way too easy to just assume that they will stay the same for a while, and before I know it, I'm trying to figure out why he doesn't like something that he always liked before, when it's just that he's getting older, and wants new challenges. I don't think I've ever written on here about Evan's strange fascination with shoes. it started as soon as he was able to move around, and he's still will go straight for any shoe in the room. He's starting to better about not EATING the shoes, but I just don't get it. Why shoes, Evan?
Well, Joel fell and cut his chin the other night, and had to get stitches...again. He's only 3, and so far has been to the ER a total of 5 times (most of them for midnight croup attacks). I know this is nothing compared to what many children (and parents) go through, so I am thankful that he has always gotten the care he needs, and been just fine again. We are truly blessed.

2 comments:

  1. Wow- Evan is almost a year old? It doesn't seem like it's been that long!

    Jude has a fascination with shoes as well. He's through the stage of eating shoes (he went through it though... you're not alone there! lol), but he still wants to wear EVERYONE'S. I can't tell you how many times Josh has gotten up to go to work and had to search the house because Jude made off with one of his shoes the night before. The funniest thing is when he goes into my bedroom and gets two different high heels and comes clomping through the house lopsided because one heel is higher than the other! hehe:)

    Oh, and I keep telling Josh that I need to buy a stitch kit so we don't have to waste the gas to drive all the way to the hospital. This summer alone, we've made 6 trips to the hospital for stitches and sani-glue (it does the same as stitches but comes off on it's own). The kit itself would save enough gas money to pay for itself! LOL

    I hope the little guy's all healed up! :)

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  2. Thanks Desi, yeah he's all healed now. Yikes! 6 times! That's crazy...I hope you guys get a nice long break from that;)tell those kids to be careful (nice try, right!?)

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