I can see on the calendar that I've been Missing In Action since my last post. But you see I am really here. That is, I'm here at home wondering what happened to October and why has it gotten so cold so fast?? I have so many updates to tell I don't know where to start! One family member at a time I guess.
Dee is working hard, all the time, non-stop. Work and school have him plenty busy. We are lucky enough to have him surface for meals on the weekends. He's finished with another class as of Tuesday this last week and has only TWO more to go!! We can see that Master's diploma framed and mounted on the wall already. He's finally glad he decided (or that I pressured him) to go on after his Bachelor's. "Just one more year," I heard myself tell him over and over again. Easy for me to say; I'm not the one writing 20 page papers. But now...NOW he only has two months left. I couldn't be more proud of him! We will celebrate January 28th as a new holiday for our family.
I need to wish him a VERY belated b-day; the first time my mom had to go to the hospital was Sep. 21st...his birthday. Sorry the party had to end early babe. I'm glad you are ok with being 31 this year. And I am glad that you are ours! Isn't he handsome?!
Me. Is there anything worth updating me over? Not really. My exercising/losing weight idea got lost somewhere between my mom's illnesses and the cold weather. There is an unused treadmill at my parents' that is going to have to find a home with us somehow. That, or I'm asking for a gym membership for Christmas so I can
GO and work out. I really need to loose a "few" before our cruise. I wonder all the time "how does the day get away from me?" where I don't think I am ever going to actually get the house work done besides the daily dishes and
emergency laundry when we've all run out of clean things to wear. And then there are mouths to feed. What? You people get hungry? I'm in a bit of a cooking slump. Should help us loose weight. HA! I wish.
Right this minute I am fighting off some beast of a headache. Can't quite figure out why I have it in the first place. I've saved this post-draft twice already to walk away and come back; maybe my eyes just can't handle the computer screen today and it will get posted tomorrow.
That was a sinus infection-we all took turns being sick for a few days. Dee was sick for a solid month between bronchitis and sinus infections. We are once again on the mend, as of today.
Taycie had a fun fall soccer season and they won most of their games! Go Pink Panthers!
She's loving school. We found out she needed glasses to see the board (she was coming home with misspelled journal entries). She was able to pick out two pair and they look very cute on her. She was a very cool Tiger for Halloween. Taycie's first quarter grades were excellent! She almost doubled the required reading points and loves math. As always she's on the run, loads of energy she doesn't know what to do with. She is looking forward to the upcoming events: her 8th birthday, her baptism, and Christmas!! I am reminded every day, several times a day.
Tanner looked up at me from my lap Sunday afternoon (Oct 26th) and said "shun-beem!". It made me smile ear to ear and I kissed his little face all over. I'm thinking they were singing the Sunbeam song in nursery. He wants me to sing to him all the time now. Every day he is saying something new, finally copying anything we want him to learn. Some new words include: stay, come, up high, show, sh-ong, TEE (for tv) off and on as he pushes the button while we are trying to watch something-he thinks that's pretty funny. And while those are more easily interpreted here is a list of his slightly more complicated language: buh-lay=blanket, mi-mi=milk, ooesh=shoes, gauk=sock (shoes and socks have off's and on's attached when he's dressing -OR undressing when he shouldn't be. I think he's going to be a nudist when he grows up. He does have some mad dressing skillz when he is wearing clothes but he wants to do it himself=resulting in this.
I love that I get to be home with him all day, we are bestest friends. Except for when he's attempting to escape nap time. He loves to play on the "pan-o" we finally found batteries for and he'll sit on the coffee table where there is just enough clearance for him to pull it in close. I'm telling ya, I just don't know where the frog's legs gene came from. You know how you say a big buff football player has a neck the size of your thigh? Oh, well that's what daddy says anyway...our Tanner Man has legs the size of daddy's pinkies!
He was the Great Pumpkin for Halloween. He was thrilled that poeple would open their doors offering him bowls full of candy. It was a fun trick-or-treating trip around our block and I had made homemade chili for us to all come home to and warm up with. YUM YUM!!
That should get everyone up to speed on our family to today...good to see you (and be seen)!! Have a happy weekend! We should-daddy doesn't have any homework, HOORAY!!
All night last night I had nightmares of missing Taycie's baptism due to the fact that I forgot to bring extra (dry) underwear for her and daddy to change into. And in the time it took me to drive home and back to the church house they proceeded through the entire program without me. I woke several times with my heart pounding from my chest and every muscle in my body shaking.
