Well, things have finally slowed down for us! Hopefully now I can be more consistent with the blogging. This summer our weekly schedule has gone something like this..
Monday- various activies such as me at a meeting or Michael giving hitting lessons
Tuesday- life group at our house
Wednesday-Dineer at Pops and Grrs and then me off to work on Little Tree (a blog about this to come later)
Thursday- Michael playing in the church softball league
Friday and Saturday- every single weekend this summer we have had birthday parties, graduation parties, get togethers, etc to go to.
Sunday- Church then family dinner at Michael's parents
Don't get me wrong it has been great, but I am excited for a slower pace (hopefully!) with fall coming.
For the fall I think all we have on tap is Dinner/Life Group on Wednesday and Olivia's dance class on Mondays. Both kids will also start Moms Day Out soon and they will be in "school" Tuesday and Thursday while I work. I'll still work Wednesdays and every other Monday as well.
I'm still loving my job at the PRC although some days absolutely wear me out emotionally. I am so thankful to have a job that I can help people every single day. I told Michael the other day that if he ever got transferred and we had to move away that I don't think I could work because it would be hard for me to find a job to top this one! Michael started grad school this week. He's taking 2 classes for his MBA which are online so hopefully it won't be as time consuming as it was when he was in school full time. He will still have to watch his lectures but at least he'll be home!
Now for the updates on the kids:
Olivia is still cracking us up constantly! She says some of the funniest things in the world and since I never take the time to write them down, I'm just going to try and remember them for this blog.
Last night we sat down to eat dinner and she interrupted Michael as he started to pray and said she wanted to pray. She folded her hands and closed her eyes and said "Dear Jesus..." She paused and looked up at Michael and said "what was the last part?" It was quite funny!
She has been telling everyone the last couple of days that "my daddy pulled my tooth out." We couldn't figure out where in the world she came up with this because she doesn't even have a loose tooth. We figured out yesterday that her best friend from church told her last week that her daddy pulled her tooth out so I guess she thought that was a cool story and wanted to tell everyone.
She is still the friendliest child. Every time we are standing in line at a store she turns to the person behind us and says "hi, I'm olivia!" It's kinda scary sometimes how friendly she is!
Ok, so I've always heard the saying "he's all boy" but now I understand the meaning of it! Grayson is absolutely wearing us out these days! He is constantly crawling into, on top of or over something. He plays so differently than Olivia did at this age. He wants to bang everything together and smoosh all of his food into a million pieces. When he's in the stroller he leans over and plays with the wheel. We can't unload the diswasher around him, nor can we have any lamp cords, blinds, curtains, etc in his reach. We got locks for all of the cabinets but he still pulls everything out of the drawers. He's learned how to turn on the water in the bathtub and can also climb (more like free fall) into the tub.
He will be one in just a couple of weeks. Dado and Aunt Sissy will be here for his birthday so I can't wait for it to get here! He says "mama, dada and bye bye" so far. He took his first steps last week and just got tooth #9 yesterday. He is eating only big person food (no baby food or formula) but we are still working on getting him off the bottle. He just hasn't quite got the sippy cup thing down yet. He sleeps through the night about 50% of the time.
That's all I have for now. We are still just realizing how quickly time flies and trying to enjoy every minute even through the chaos.
Romans 8:28 "We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."
Pictures from our evening stroll to the nieghborhood park. Hopefully we will get to do a lot more of this now. Olivia calls this "carrying Luci"
