Where to begin???
Israel is now pulling up, cruising, and mixing army crawling with normal crawling. It’s hard to believe he will be a year old in a couple weeks! Seriously, where does time go??? We are planning to have him dedicated and have his party on the same day so that family or friends who are travelling can be here for both. How many kids will be able to say they were dedicated in a movie theater? Not many! He has also been waking up a lot at night this month, which is kind of a bummer. I kind of alternate attributing it to teething or constipation, but I really don’t know what it is. The sad part is that when we let him cry himself to sleep, he’s in our room, so we’re awake as long as he’s crying! But this is really the first time he’s given us any trouble at night, so I can’t complain!
Ava is doing much better with letting us know she needs to go potty. She also, I confess, is getting a little bored with just me and brother at home all week! We met another stay-at-home mom living in our apartment complex, Tiffany, and her two girls, Gwiny and Izzy, in the Spring, became fast friends, and were having play dates with them a couple days a week all summer. Now they have moved away, which is something that Ava is slowly beginning to understand, and our daily lives haven’t been nearly as exciting. She’s acting out and getting in trouble a lot, but I know that it’s partially because she’s bored. I’m going to research our city’s fall gymnastic program; from what I understand it’s relatively inexpensive, and we need SOMEthing structured for Ava to do with other children. (Church is nice, but it’s only an hour a week, and I’m teaching her class every other week, anyway.) Since our “summer break” is pretty much over, I am starting to think about implementing a somewhat structured “preschooling homeschool” program. She’s learned her colors, so I need to make a plan to teach her shapes, numbers, and the alphabet. (Not all at once, but between now and next year’s “summer break”!)
Our old house that was remodeled post-flood is finished! We went to look at it Friday and it’s AWESOME! We’re putting it back up on the market tomorrow and are praying that it will sell quickly! As long as God is providing the mortgage and incidental expenses, we probably won’t seek a renter until after the first of the year; the tax credit for first time home buyers goes through December, and we are thinking that we need to keep the house new and fresh so that interested buyers will have the extra pull of a newly remodeled house. Of course, if the expenses get too much, we will look into renting it out. But selling it would be the best option!!!
More blogging to come, of course!
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