Success!

T has been going to Speech Therapy since November 2011.  When he first started the Speech Therapist seemed very concerned about his speech.  We obviously did also since I initiated the therapy on my own. Our pedatrician wasn't as concerned as I was but I just felt he wasn't on the same level with his speech as his friends.  The ped. said it was because he is so advanced physically and usually boys that develop physically will be later speaking, etc.  He has always been great at climbing, pushing, heaving, etc but everything I read said that he should have a vocabulary of 50 plus words at 2 years old.  He maybe had 20 words and I was including sounds when I counted his words.  We started going in November once a week to Ms. Holly (which T finally started saying her name and pronounces it Ms. Hottee) she really likes  him!  Ha!  He has made leaps and bounds with his progression.  I'm sooo excited for him.  He is imitating everything I say now (which can be tricky-I have several stories) and saying his words so good.  I'm very thankful for Ms. Holly and the opportunity to go.  We are gonna take a break this summer and his last session was Friday.  She said that he was meeting all of his goals that she set for him. He now can say all of the names of his choo-choo's that he has known all along but couldn't get them out!  We will come back in the fall and make sure that our p,b, and m sounds are good (that's our homework for the summer). Yay T!

Here are a few of T's sayings lately:
I do, Daddy...I do
I'm so dizzy (in the cutest, country voice ever)
he tells us to wait or that he's busy
if we are pulling into a restaurant or somewhere he wants to go he will say...I want to go riiiight there
I want to seep with my mommie


Love my boy!

Mama's Day 2012

This is the best Mama's day yet!  I got to celebrate two days this year- on Thursday with T at his school for Munchies with Mom, and on Sunday with T, MM, B and my Mama & Daddy!  T got me some M&M's that he picked out all by himself, the biggest card ever, and B helped by getting some gift certificates for some of my favorite things!  Also, today was the Baby Dedication at our church so we got to celebrate the birth of MM and have our church pray over her.  It was a special day!  :)  My parents brought BBQ and we ate then me and Mama went shopping!  Thanks Mama for putting up with me for 30 years.  Love you!


T and me @ Munchies with Mom!

T's Teacher and MM!  I looove his teachers so much!  

MM's Baby Dedication

Look at that pretty girl!  

MM was so sleepy afterwards.  She took a nap on GaGa.  She is the best baby ever!

I'm most thankful for these two babies!  I can't describe how much I love them.  I may look worn out, stressed out, and tired but I love them so much it hurts.  T is a handful but I wouldn't have it any other way.  He makes me laugh so much and MM seems to have come into our lives this year and made her place in our hearts like she has been there all along.  Thank you Jesus for these 2 blessings and letting me be their Mama!  

Home Updates

We had the inspection on Friday and we are even closer to the closing date!  However; we do have to spend some money in order to repair those items that needed attention.  So this next week we will have several different companies coming out to the house which is always fun with nap time and a crazy two and a half year old that likes to climb in the attic when the door is open!  Hopefully, we will take care of that checklist and move on to the next step.  I'm not sure if that is the appraisal or what but I'm ready for it!


Here is T waiting on his Daddy to come home in 2010.  He wasn't yet a year old but he still knew how much he loooved when Daddy came home.  He still waits like that and I hope he always will.  He gets so excited and I think his love of cars and trucks started this way.  We've had so many memories and I'm hoping to list them all by the time we close.  I want to remember this house always...it's our first house as newlyweds, where our babies were born, etc but here's to new memories in a new house!

A Ball of Nervousness...

We have our house for sale right now.  It hasn't been on the market that long considering the real estate market.  We've had lots of lookers and we have sooo much baby stuff everywhere which meant that we would throw everything that resembled a toy or baby item into my van.  We wanted the potential buyer to visualize themselves living there.  We had my Dad come and repaint the whole downstairs, put in a new light fixture, install new hardware on the kitchen cabinets, repaint the baseboards, take out majority of T's toys and take them to my mom's and put the dining room table and hutch back.  It's been very stressful for me.  B hasn't gotten that stressed out and he is usually the one who worries about stuff.  I don't know why I stress about it so much.  It's totally out of my hands and we have done everything we know to do.

That being said we got an offer over the weekend and the buyer accepted our counteroffer.  So now we wait for the inspection, appraisal, and closing date (which is very soon).  All of this is great news but it could also fall through and I hate not being in control.  I love our house but it is too small-I would like a room for MM, a yard for T, a garage for both of our cars, a laundry room, and a swing to swing on!  But...if it does fall through then we will be okay and start over again with putting everything in my van and going to Babies R 'Us for hours while lookers look or my mom's house.

It's fun to start looking for new houses but we are blessed abundantly with our babies, marriage, and health so it's silly to be disappointed, right?  I need to keep that in mind this week.  Remember what's important and re-read this blog!

Just one of the memories from our house...

Beautiful snow in January 2010.  I can remember rocking T in the middle of the night the snow fell and looking out his window watching it cover the cars and road.  It was so pretty that night.  I will always remember that night thinking how I needed to remember this when he gets too big for me to hold.  I love my little boy!  

Boo Boo's, Pics, and MM's

Two weekends ago we headed to Birmingham to see B's Aunt, Uncle, Cousin and her husband!  I love them like they are my side of the family.  They are incredible people with a love for Jesus that is truly inspiring.  Being around them makes you feel taken care of and very peaceful.  I'm not sure how else to explain it.  I love visiting them for so many different reasons. While we were there we had delicious meals, went to several yard sales (and got some pretty dresses for MM that still had the tags on them) and T rode his bike down their huge driveway...and got a big Boo Boo!  I'm glad I wasn't there to witness it.  I was actually laying in the bed upstairs trying to make my awful migraine go away.  I think I was more upset about missing one of Aunt Nancy's meals than my migraine but while I was sleeping T took a big spill.  B said he kept backing up on the driveway and got higher and higher to go down the hill.  Everyone said he fell really hard and cried just for a little bit but was more upset that the bike also got a boo boo( the seat ripped on the bike).  He got back on the bike and rode it though.  He is one tough little guy.  He isn't one to cry about hurting himself.

MM was the best baby the entire trip.  I didn't hold her much the entire trip.  She was getting all kinds of sugar and hugs from everybody else.  Jennie Merritt took wonderful picture of MM while I was dealing with the migraine.  I was so happy the next day when she showed me the pics!  I'll include some of the best pics...

Didn't she do a GREAT job?!  I love them.  T was worn out on Sunday afternoon.  He had been a little spoiled all weekend and pretty much lived on M and M's, combine that with a boo boo and no nap.  He hadn't let us wash his boo boo so it needed to be washed so we swung by Mama's and Daddy's and I threw him the shower.  We were having dinner with some friends that night and he needed a bath.  He cried the entire time in the shower and then hobbled out of the shower.  Poor baby.  We had a great trip and hope to be back for another trip this summer!