This Week's Updates

• I taught Charlie about ten letters of the alphabet. Since she was slow to jump on the "ABC Train" it's really exciting. She does great writing them and recognizing them. We drove past Centerra on our way to church Wed. night and she said, "Look mom, that starts with a big C like mine does!" Then, at Hobby Lobby we were looking at some letters for something else and she holds up an "S" and says, "This is in your name, right mom?" I know she's 3 and 1/2 and your kid probably did this sooner, but I don't care. It's exciting!
• Benjamin turned 11 months old yesterday. On a less exciting note, he's getting a tooth and where it's coming in is all swollen and bruised looking. Does this sound normal? It's one of the bigger teeth more toward the back. I think if it doesn't change I'll be taking him to the Dr.
• We're about to pay our first mortgage payment. Simultaneously thrilling and terrifying!

Oh my word...

No, I'm not dead. Nothing terrible or tragic has happened to me or anyone I love.

We've just been busy. And on the not-so-busy days, we've been recovering.

But I have good news! I've been saving up all of my terrific blog ideas, and I'll share them with you over these next few days.

For now though, one (long, grammatically incorrect) sentence updates will have to suffice.

Benjamin - he's a walking machine, goes everywhere (I'd say it's about 90% walk, 10% crawl at home), still not talking much, lots of teeth, LOVES table food (and HAS TO have it) and a happy baby.

Charlotte - she's so full of energy, she's smart, she's funny, she remembers everything, she's enjoying the fenced in backyard, her current 'new' vocabulary word is "hilarious" and she loves to have you close your eyes so she can say "surprise" and show you whatever she's done.

Will - back to working nights, (actually they're called "mids" if you wanted to know), he goes in about 5:00 PM and gets home about 6:00 AM, he's a proud homeowner (Funny story (the parentheses are because it's longer than one sentence.) We had to rip our the carpet in our basement and it's been in our driveway until my dad comes home with his truck and we can take it to the dump. So we're home the other day and someone rings the doorbell. Will answers and she says, "Is your mom or dad here?" Will's like, "I own this house." Oh - they wanted the carpet. Yeah, I laughed.) and an amazing provider, I am so blessed by God in this man.

Me - I'm doing well, I have about 8 to 10ish boxes that I can't seem to unpack (some that I can't until we paint, etc.), I'm finally getting over the immediate shock of losing the basement floor (I found out today that that carpet was only 1 year old!), I'm enjoying the kids having separate bedrooms, having them on a pretty good routine that gives me alone time with both of them and looking all the time for a job so we can save up for a new floor. :)