Hi everyone,
It has been like forever and a day since I updated this blog. Last August, to be exact I think. I have lots to talk about, so please forgive the loooong post.
The first thing that comes to mind is to express how very grateful I am to my wonderful family and friends who have supported me through the loss of my sweet, sweet mama. I want to give a huge shout out to everyone for being such a great help. We felt your prayers in ways I cannot explain. The power of prayer will never cease to amaze me. I know that there are many people out there who, even after a month, are still praying for us. I can feel the strength every day. I am so grateful.
A new house is in our future. We are hoping to move in to the new place in April. For anyone who does not know, we are not buying a house, but are moving into a brand new, still under construction rental house that sits about 100 yards from where we are now. A brief summery- My good friend from work's daddy owns several rental trailers here in Wyandotte. The one we are in was and still is in rough condition. The previous renter just didn't take care of it at all. Nick and I have cleaned it up and done our best to get it into livable conditions. It's still not perfect, but we are happy while we wait for the new house to be done. It was cheaper rent, closer to work, and not in Missouri, where we were. We have been able to watch the new house rise from nothing to something. It is a 3 bedroom house. We are totally ecstatic. It was promised to us when we moved into this trailer, thanks to my good friend, Shelby. We have even been involved in some of the decision making. We got to pick the paint color, the cabinet stain color, and give our two cents on whether or not Larry would put down tile or carpet as the flooring. (We picked tile!) The house is completely built, painted, and has water and electric hooked up. We are just waiting for the flooring to be laid and the rest of the cabinets to be built. Appliances still need put in and hooked up. Other than that, it's so close to being done. Larry predicts to be done with it in April. That's like... Next month!!!
In addition to the new house, we have been blessed to find some amazing new furniture. I just have to tell you all about them. We had a crummy old recliner that had been previously owned by smokers, so it reeked. I hated it but it was something to sit on and rock Jayden in. We also had an old white couch we got when we got married. It was in great shape when we first got it, but having moved so often and having to store it a couple times, it's not so great now. Our storage unit had a water leak so the pretty whiteness is pretty much gray now. I always kept sheets over the couch to cover it up, but those weren't any better. We did a lot of shopping around and finally found a great deal on 3 different pieces, all for under $1000. Talk about a steal. They were delivered yesterday and we are in love. They aren't real leather, but a leather look-a-like. They smell good and have warranties. Did I say I loved them yet??
Jayden is a blessing, too. He is growing so fast and learning new words all the time. He knows more than he speaks, though. He follows directions so well, even if he can't tell me what he is doing or asking. But today, for example, he said 2 new words. Cheek and head. He knows almost all his body parts by pointing to them and now he is starting to name them. I'm so proud of him! He also is praying. He has never acknowledged prayer, but all of a sudden he finally folds his arms and kneels for prayer. I am pretty sure I have caught him praying to himself, too. He randomly folds his arms and starts babbling random words I can't understand. So proud!!! He has made some new friends at his new daycare. I take him to a very wonderful girl named Tara. She has a son close to Jayden's age who Jayden adores. He never cared for daycare and would always cry when we dropped him off. But now that he has gotten used to her and realizes how much fun she is, he loves going. He gets excited and runs into her house all by himself without looking back. I'm so glad he has fun there. We have not really started with potty training yet. I feel like I am slacking in that department because I have heard of kids being potty trained by 18-24 months. But I just honestly feel Jayden is not ready yet. He has been telling us when he has a dirty diaper for some time now, but that's the only sign of being ready he has shown. He has never actually gone potty in the potty, he never allows himself to sit long enough on it. He will sit for 5 seconds before he is ready to get off of it. He screams and throws a fit if I make him sit back down. I don't want to make the experience not fun, so I'm just not even bothering with it yet. I think when he is 2 and a half we will start thinking about trying to train for real. Until then, I'm not worried about it.
I told you I had a lot to talk about. I know I have more to say, but I better stop now. I say this all the time, but I will try to keep up with this blog more often as things happen. Thanks for reading all this if you made it this far! Life is good.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Life Goes On
Nothing new has really changed lately. We are continuing to fix up our little home. We got the kitchen painted a couple weeks ago after some disastrous attempts at wallpaper. Wallpaper is not my first choice, but after you know how much I paid for it you will understand. I bought 8 double rolls for $2. Not $2 each, all 8 rolls for only $2. Talk about an amazing deal. They are prepasted too. I couldn't pass them up. The kitchen needed some color so we went for it. Bad idea. While the wallpaper was good, I think anyways, we didn't know what we were doing. We kept trying to put it up and always messed it up. We either cut each piece too small or too big, in which case we tried to slice the edges off resulting in the paper ripping, or the paper would be the right size but would have wrinkles all over it. Nothing we did would work. My mom always used a towel and a putty knife to smooth out edges. Her wallpapering skills are flawless. Mine and Nick's certainly are. We finally gave up after several failed attempts and went for paint instead. I thought we were saving money. The paint went surprisingly great. While it turned out to be more purpley than the blue I wanted, it looks really good. The kitchen has some character now! We are really pleased with it. We tried to finish painting the ceilings but got frustrated with that again, so it's still not all done. It's very hard painting the entire ceiling of your house. It starts to hurt after awhile, not to mention all the paint specks falling into your face and hair. Ick. That project is to be continued.
Jayden is saying more and more words. While he isn't speaking a ton yet, he is certainly trying. He says a lot more than we know, he knows exactly what he is saying, we just don't always understand it. He says "Get it!" when we throw his toy ball around, he says "Sit down." when we ask him to get into his highchair for a meal. Nick said he waved bye to me as I was leaving one day and said "Bye bye Mama!" He is so cute when we bring out his shoes to go somewhere, he plops down on the floor in front of us. We didn't even teach him that, he just started doing it. He loves to put our shoes on his little feet and walk around in them. Or trip around, I guess I should say! He is full of sentences and words but these are just a few that we can actually hear out of all the baby language he still uses. In time his speaking will be clearer. I feel bad sometimes when I hear about other babies his age practically getting ready to graduate college it seems. But Jayden is perfect and smart and growing in his own special way.
I will have been at the fitness center for 3 years this September. I'm so thrilled. I love it here. I was offered a full time position starting when our construction is complete in May 2011. I said I would love to, but I'm not sure I will be able to. If I work full time, Nick and I would never see each other. I would no sooner get home from work when he would be getting ready to leave for his work. We did that before Jayden was born and it stunk, we hated it. It's not good for a marriage. So I will either have to decline the extra hours or we might try to get Nick on a day schedule so we can all be home together in the evenings. That would mean Jayden would have to go to daycare. At this point, I'm ready to send him. He doesn't play with any kids other than at the church Nursery on Sundays. That's not enough. He needs to learn to share and play. I think being around other kids would help his shyness and even his speaking skills. Nick doesn't think he will be able to switch to days, his Chef wants him on evenings for his skill and maturity. We always say Nick has to "babysit" the other workers and that is no lie. Oh well, we have several months still to try to convince Chef.
We got a dog. And then took it back. Crazy 3 days, that was. Nick and I decided we were ready to have a dog. We found a little Chihuahua on Craigslist. He was 9 months old and already house trained. When we got there to look at him, we discovered he was from a breeder. The lady never mentioned that to us. We thought he was just a family dog that needed rehomed. Turns out the "rehoming" fee was actually a regular breeder-customer sale. I wasn't too pleased about that. But she was nice, knowledgable, and her dogs looked in great shape. She still said the dog was house trained because her children always brought the dogs into her house to play. We went ahead and took him. He was a darling. We named him Bailey. Jayden just adored him. Turns out the dog wasn't house trained. He peed on everything when we turned our backs and he was so afraid of us. Now I realize Chihuahuas are a shy breed, especially when they are in a stranger's home. We gave him a chance and when he still never warmed up to us and was still trying to pee on our furniture (and pooped in the living room at night) we decided he wasn't the dog for us. Luckily the breeder lady took him back. We were very disappointed that she told us he was housetrained when he really wasn't. If it weren't for that, we could have dealt with the shyness. But when you combine a shy, terrified dog and a sharp "NO!!!!" when he lifts his leg on stuff, it was a bad thing. Any fright he already had was made worse when he got in trouble for peeing. I'm sure he is happy to be back home now. I'm positive if the right person comes along that has the patience for that kind of behavior, he will make a great pet. Not us though.
Speaking of pets, my kitten Mischo went to get neutered last week. Yay! Vets are really trying to make it affordable to spay and neuter pets. It was only $40! That's cheap! That's the surgery, pain meds, and 1 night boarding for the animal to recover. Woo hoo!
Jayden is saying more and more words. While he isn't speaking a ton yet, he is certainly trying. He says a lot more than we know, he knows exactly what he is saying, we just don't always understand it. He says "Get it!" when we throw his toy ball around, he says "Sit down." when we ask him to get into his highchair for a meal. Nick said he waved bye to me as I was leaving one day and said "Bye bye Mama!" He is so cute when we bring out his shoes to go somewhere, he plops down on the floor in front of us. We didn't even teach him that, he just started doing it. He loves to put our shoes on his little feet and walk around in them. Or trip around, I guess I should say! He is full of sentences and words but these are just a few that we can actually hear out of all the baby language he still uses. In time his speaking will be clearer. I feel bad sometimes when I hear about other babies his age practically getting ready to graduate college it seems. But Jayden is perfect and smart and growing in his own special way.
I will have been at the fitness center for 3 years this September. I'm so thrilled. I love it here. I was offered a full time position starting when our construction is complete in May 2011. I said I would love to, but I'm not sure I will be able to. If I work full time, Nick and I would never see each other. I would no sooner get home from work when he would be getting ready to leave for his work. We did that before Jayden was born and it stunk, we hated it. It's not good for a marriage. So I will either have to decline the extra hours or we might try to get Nick on a day schedule so we can all be home together in the evenings. That would mean Jayden would have to go to daycare. At this point, I'm ready to send him. He doesn't play with any kids other than at the church Nursery on Sundays. That's not enough. He needs to learn to share and play. I think being around other kids would help his shyness and even his speaking skills. Nick doesn't think he will be able to switch to days, his Chef wants him on evenings for his skill and maturity. We always say Nick has to "babysit" the other workers and that is no lie. Oh well, we have several months still to try to convince Chef.
We got a dog. And then took it back. Crazy 3 days, that was. Nick and I decided we were ready to have a dog. We found a little Chihuahua on Craigslist. He was 9 months old and already house trained. When we got there to look at him, we discovered he was from a breeder. The lady never mentioned that to us. We thought he was just a family dog that needed rehomed. Turns out the "rehoming" fee was actually a regular breeder-customer sale. I wasn't too pleased about that. But she was nice, knowledgable, and her dogs looked in great shape. She still said the dog was house trained because her children always brought the dogs into her house to play. We went ahead and took him. He was a darling. We named him Bailey. Jayden just adored him. Turns out the dog wasn't house trained. He peed on everything when we turned our backs and he was so afraid of us. Now I realize Chihuahuas are a shy breed, especially when they are in a stranger's home. We gave him a chance and when he still never warmed up to us and was still trying to pee on our furniture (and pooped in the living room at night) we decided he wasn't the dog for us. Luckily the breeder lady took him back. We were very disappointed that she told us he was housetrained when he really wasn't. If it weren't for that, we could have dealt with the shyness. But when you combine a shy, terrified dog and a sharp "NO!!!!" when he lifts his leg on stuff, it was a bad thing. Any fright he already had was made worse when he got in trouble for peeing. I'm sure he is happy to be back home now. I'm positive if the right person comes along that has the patience for that kind of behavior, he will make a great pet. Not us though.
Speaking of pets, my kitten Mischo went to get neutered last week. Yay! Vets are really trying to make it affordable to spay and neuter pets. It was only $40! That's cheap! That's the surgery, pain meds, and 1 night boarding for the animal to recover. Woo hoo!
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Settling in Nicely
I wish I had pictures to share, but I haven't gotten around to uploading them yet. We have lots of plans still for the new place, including new, fresh paint! We did the ceilings last weekend and it was terribly hard. I couldn't reach very well even with an extended roller thing, and I kept getting paint dribbles in my eyes. I guess we decided we like polka dots because the carpet now has a few white spots where the paint dripped and we didn't notice it till it was dry. Boo! We still have yet to finish completely, we need to touch up the edges. My next project is to paint Jayden's bedroom a bright color, maybe even two. I would like to do two different colors to brighten it up. Wood paneling is so dark and out dated, Jayden needs lots of color to turn his room around. We will probably end up doing plain white in our bedroom and possibly the living room and hall way as well. Anything to be rid of the wood paneling. Luckily our landlords are great and told us we could do whatever we wanted to the house to make it look nicer. The yard is looking much better, too. It was overgrown with weeds and had lots of farm garbage. The previous renter had a horse and so there was bailing wire and rope everywhere, plus lots of just plain trash. It didn't take much to turn the yard around. We still have lots to do, but it looks so much better. We even took down the 3 satellite dishes that were stuck to the house. Yes, 3. It looked like an alien spaceship or something with all those things. We laughed when we saw all of them. Down they went and they will be taken to be recycled. We have plans to make a walkway and planters with big pretty rocks we will collect from the dirt road. I will eventually plant flowers and probably some hastas, those never fail to look gorgeous. The landlords are getting to work on the new house being built. He laid the concrete foundation on Friday. We went to look at it yesterday and it looks great! It looks soooo small, but we are sure it will be great. Everything looks smaller without walls.
Jayden is going through a huge shy stage. I brought him to work yesterday for a small party we had for a lovely coworker who is leaving for college. Jayden didn't want anything to do with anything or anybody. He refused to eat cake! All he did was cling to me and give everyone dirty looks. My mom and grandma always tease me about how when I was little, I always glared at people when I didn't know them or like them. Jayden was glaring at everyone, his looks could have killed! He seemed to be warming up to a few people after awhile, but not by much. Poor Kelly (my lovely boss) tried to make friends with Jayden but he didn't want to! I need to bring him to work more often to visit, I would love for him to get to know everyone better. He needs to socialize more often anyways. Without daycare and only just starting nursery at church, he doesn't see anyone besides close family very often. I hope it's only a stage!
Time for me to close out now, it's back to work for me. Until next time!
Just testing out the picture uploader... A lady named Terra on the JustMommies message board made this for me.
Jayden is going through a huge shy stage. I brought him to work yesterday for a small party we had for a lovely coworker who is leaving for college. Jayden didn't want anything to do with anything or anybody. He refused to eat cake! All he did was cling to me and give everyone dirty looks. My mom and grandma always tease me about how when I was little, I always glared at people when I didn't know them or like them. Jayden was glaring at everyone, his looks could have killed! He seemed to be warming up to a few people after awhile, but not by much. Poor Kelly (my lovely boss) tried to make friends with Jayden but he didn't want to! I need to bring him to work more often to visit, I would love for him to get to know everyone better. He needs to socialize more often anyways. Without daycare and only just starting nursery at church, he doesn't see anyone besides close family very often. I hope it's only a stage!
Time for me to close out now, it's back to work for me. Until next time!
Just testing out the picture uploader... A lady named Terra on the JustMommies message board made this for me.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Totally exhausted....
Well, Monday was moving day for us. And it was crazy. I had to work Monday morning, so Nick and I sent Jayden to his first day of daycare to keep him safe and out of the way while we moved. He got to go stay with Kelsey, who is just great! I still can't thank her enough for watching him. He ended up going on Tuesday, too. After I got off of work, I got right to work helping. Nick and his brother Vince had already been at it all morning and they were just soaked. It was so hot. Vince had to go home shortly after I got home, so it was just me and Nick after that. Nick is an amazing husband. He loaded things into the big uhaul truck and I got to, for the most part, stay inside and put things in boxes and set them by the door. We eventually got done and trucked on over to our new place. My wonderful dad came over and helped us unload and once again, Nick did most of the work. Here's a shout out to him. He is such a hard worker and without him I would be lost! Somehow everything got unloaded and into the house. It was a disaster area. Stuff was just everywhere. We are still working to put everything away. We are so far really enjoying it and think it will be very comfortable. The road to here was a long one and is another story. I will be posting pictures soon of what the place looked like before we moved in and what it looks like after we get things put away. Let's just say it will be a blog to look for, the difference already is just unbelievable. To sum it up, the place went from nonlivable conditions to livable and very comfortable. Pictures coming soon!
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Let's Get This Started!
I have to give credit to Trudi Matlock for the idea to make a blog. I don't know how well this will go over, but it looks like fun!
This last week all of us had the stomache flu. It was terrible. Nick started it. He was so sick. This started on a Monday, which stinks because Mondays are our date nights. Needless to say, we stayed home. He was fine by Tuesday. Then on Wednesday morning Nick sent me a text message saying Jayden was sick. Poor little guy was throwing up every couple of hours and had awful diarrhea. He was done throwing up by Thursday, but still had the runs. Thursday night, I got sick. I stayed home from work Friday morning and was fine by the evening. Poor Jayden was still having bad diapers. He has had it for a whole week. We even took him to the doctor yesterday, but he didn't want to give him any medicine because he is too young. We just had to keep pumping him with fluids to keep him hydrated. Finally today he had a normal diaper. We are so excited! Jayden has also been eating like a champ today, which is great because he had been eating so little. Yahoo for a healthy baby!
Tomorrow Nick and I celebrate our 4th anniversary. Is it even possible that we have been married that long? It's just amazing to me. It's been an eventful 4 years, too. We have been through so much in such a short period of time, but we have made it through everything. Our adventure is just beginning. Here's to many, many more years ahead of us!
This last week all of us had the stomache flu. It was terrible. Nick started it. He was so sick. This started on a Monday, which stinks because Mondays are our date nights. Needless to say, we stayed home. He was fine by Tuesday. Then on Wednesday morning Nick sent me a text message saying Jayden was sick. Poor little guy was throwing up every couple of hours and had awful diarrhea. He was done throwing up by Thursday, but still had the runs. Thursday night, I got sick. I stayed home from work Friday morning and was fine by the evening. Poor Jayden was still having bad diapers. He has had it for a whole week. We even took him to the doctor yesterday, but he didn't want to give him any medicine because he is too young. We just had to keep pumping him with fluids to keep him hydrated. Finally today he had a normal diaper. We are so excited! Jayden has also been eating like a champ today, which is great because he had been eating so little. Yahoo for a healthy baby!
Tomorrow Nick and I celebrate our 4th anniversary. Is it even possible that we have been married that long? It's just amazing to me. It's been an eventful 4 years, too. We have been through so much in such a short period of time, but we have made it through everything. Our adventure is just beginning. Here's to many, many more years ahead of us!
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