Musings of a Farmer's Wife: Life Happens!

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Life Happens!

So, it’s been a LONG time since I actually made a “for real” blog post. But I have a good excuse…life happened. I’ve been insanely busy. Usually that would be a lie and it would need to read “insanely lazy” but that hasn’t been the case the last few months. I never really thought having 3 kids would really make life that much busier, but I was wrong! Especially 3 little kids! So – here’s the update on all of us.

Caroline is such a big girl. She is my all the time helper. She starts 4K in August and I don’t know what I will do without her. We spent many nights praying and talking trying to decide whether or not to do 4K…but we ultimately decided she would absolutely LOVE it. This will make her the youngest in her class (which we originally said we wouldn’t do) but we figure she can always repeat it and never know the difference if she lags behind. She does well with her glasses and at her check up a couple of months ago, she was told she had to wear a patch for 2hrs/day for the next 8 months. We were a little bummed at first, but it could be MUCH worse. After a month or so she really adapted to it – and sometimes even ASKS for it! She wrote her own name and Amelia’s name the other night. She did hers without any spelling assistance, but needed help spelling Amelia’s. But after we helped her spell it, she wrote it! I was so proud! She’s doing so well. She also starts gymnastics in a week and she is BEYOND excited. She’ll be in a class with her friend, Addie Jane so she can’t wait! She had her first sleepover a few weekends ago with Addie Jane and it was so fun! We ate pizza, played outside, then popped popcorn in our pjs and watched Rapunzel. Then they slept in the top bunk together. So cute. We got a puppy a couple of months ago, Minnie, a miniature dachshund and Caroline is totally in love. That about sums up Caroline.

First sleepover!

Amelia changes mentally every day. She knows things that I didn’t think she knew. When we were working with Caroline on writing names, I started writing random letters on the board and Amelia was calling them out AND telling me what sound they each made. She didn’t miss a single one! I was truly impressed because I didn’t know she knew all of that! She still has some social issues, but they do seem better than they were 6 months ago. She’s a lot better around family and kids that she sees often. She’ll occasionally talk to strangers and say “Hi!” to them which she certainly wouldn’t have done 6 months ago. She really just seems painfully shy. But I was told that many moons ago, I was shy too. She’ll grow out of it eventually. She is somewhat of a diva princess. She wants things done for her. She wants you to hand her the cup that’s 2 inches in front of her, you to drive her around in the power wheels gator, you to push her on the swing, etc. She is so funny! I’ve never seen a child eat ketchup with a spoon until Amelia came along. GROSS. But she absolutely loves it.

Amelia was NOT happy about the sprinkler being underneath the trampoline. Caroline, on the other hand, was thrilled. Winking smile

Walker is nearly 9 months old!!!! How did that happen? He’s pulling up and crawling EVERYWHERE. He eats a massive amount of food. He’s cutting his first two teeth on the bottom. One is punching through and the other is trying. He’s taking it fairly well and really doesn’t complain with it much. He is literally the happiest baby you’ll ever meet. Nothing upsets him. He is so chill. He smiles if you meet eyes with him. He loves to bounce up and down to music, his wubanubs, sleeping, eating, and his MAMA. He is SUCH a mama’s boy…and I’m totally fine with that. I love it, actually. Winking smile He still takes 2 naps a day and goes to bed around 7:30-8p and sleeps until about 6:30-7:30am usually. That would seem like I get a lot of sleep, but I’m usually dumb and stay up until around 1am and then kick myself all day the next day.

Pulling up for the first time!

I am BUSY with sewing! I took a dress order recently and I got SO many orders. I’ve been working hard to get them all completed! Between occasionally taking care of my house (ha!), my kids, my business, and sometimes sleeping, there’s not much time for anything else…like, blogging, for example. But I’m trying to catch up because I do *love* to go back and read my old blog posts to remind myself of what my days were like back when…

My whole world sitting on that couch!!

Judd is busy planting! We’ve had weird spurts of rain all Spring, and that has made planting stretch out a little longer than usual – but it’s going! Just about every time it gets dry enough to plant, it rains again. But they’ve gotten a lot done in the last week or so and that has made everyone breathe a big sigh of relief. He’s been getting home after the kids go to bed (and he leaves long before they get up) so they are missing him a lot right now! Just a few minutes ago, Caroline said, “Mommy…I miss Daddy,” and just kept on coloring. I’m thinking they may need a trip to ride on a tractor with him.