It's been a while

It's been a while since I actually blogged. Let's see. What's new.

A few months back, we decided to put the kids in separate rooms. That has made a world of difference. The night terrors stopped almost immediately for whatever reason. Both kids seem to love having their own rooms, and bedtime has become somewhat easier, other than a stubborn little girl who tries to turn pajama time into a game. Haha!

Mady has started talking in sentences. She is currently spending the month of July with her dad, so when I have gotten her for my weekend, it was incredible to see her progress. She just absolutely blew me away. She gave me a kiss after having an M&M cookie and got chocolate on me, so now she tells me her kisses are "chockit". lol. She finally got a (small) haircut. She is rocking bangs now and looks like a 2-year-old. We are thinking about getting her into swim lessons. She just loves the water, and can kind of float when she loses her balance and goes under. Oh, and the apple doesn't fall far from the tree with her. She seems to enjoy drinking (yes, drinking) pool water. Oh joy! She is also one smart kiddo. I was hiding the water ball at the pool from her. She kept asking Gram, "Where it go?" Once she got the ball, she started hiding it from me, asking, "Where it go Momma?" She would then produce it from behind her back and crack up. Mady also enjoys throwing it and shouting, "Go get it Momma!"

Adair is out in California until October. It's rough. We all miss him. Mady constantly asks, "Where's YaYa?" (She can't say Adair, so she calls him YaYa.) Apparently, it threw his mom for a loop since he's started calling himself YaYa. She doesn't like the nickname, but hey, when his sister has come up with a name that she can say for him, that's what is going to stick. Oh well. They're 2 and 3 after all. He has started Speech Therapy at the very least. We are hoping he will do Occupational and Physical Therapy while he is out there as well. We got all the referrals sent with him to California so that he can keep doing therapies. We have about figured out he's roughly a year behind (with speech at least). When Mady's speech exploded, that was the same time Adair's did, so it's helping us mark his development. His mom says he is having fun out there. He gets to go to MUCH larger zoos (which I know he loves), and the beach. That child loves sand! We get to Skype every so often with him, and Mady just adores seeing her brother on the computer and shrieking "YaYa! Momma, there's YaYa!"

James and I will be married 3 months this Saturday. As he put it, it seems so much longer since November will mark 3 years that we've been together total. We are going this afternoon with Mom and Dad to look at 2 houses with the thought of exploring the possibility of purchasing. I just don't see the point of throwing $10,000 in a year away on a house that isn't ours and that we can't do anything to. Our current place has a gate that "latches" into the side of the house via mortar that has been routered out (unless the wind blows over 5 mph, then the dog has free run of the neighborhood. Thanks gate!). Our fence has been "repaired" multiple times, yet still has stability issues. Our landlord has "repaired" it by screwing 2 boards horizontally across the front of 2 parts of the fence, and has filled holes they created (seriously, who puts a new fence section over a tree root, creating roughly a gap about a foot in height next to the tree?) in the same manner. Our a/c unit is too small for the house, so we got told not to set our thermostat below 81 (81 in West Texas? How is that going to help us reach a little bit of comfort INSIDE?). Needless to say, I have a bad taste in my mouth from renting now. Oh, and we have to attempt to cover exposed tack strip with small runners, which the kids and dog now trip over. The joys.

Roscoe is closing in on a year old now. I think the digging in the backyard has stopped. He has mostly quit chewing on electrical cords outside. I wonder if he figured out he gets tethered, which he hates, when he chews on cords? He gets to start Obedience Classes Saturday. We have GOT to break him of eating the kids stuffed animals. Doors have to stay shut currently or he will destroy Mady's bed. But, the kids adore him, so off to Obedience Class he goes.