Feeling better already

Imogen turned one a few days ago...she took a few steps on her birthday, but nothing since...If we try to get her to walk on her own, she lets go of our hands, gets the the ground and lays her head down...kind of funny.  However, if we give her our hands, she will "drag" us the full length of the yard...and it's a long yard...hehe

I'm trying to work on her 1st installment of 3 for her 1 year old photo books.  I did 3 for Emmaus and I WILL do 3 for her too!!  Just might take awhile to get the photos uploaded....hehe

We have a huge swing set in our backyard now THANKS to my mom and dad.  It was a birthday present...for Imogen's 1 and Emmaus' 3...it's quite the gift.  I can even climb up the ladder and rock wall, stand up completely in the playhouse without hitting my head and slide down the slide....and both jake and I can swing on the swings...quite heavy duty..again, loving it!

Umm....what else...Emmaus wants to watch movies and shows 24/7.

When he wakes up in the morning, he comes up stairs and says....do you remember when....and he gives us some story from the day before...I love it...or when he says..."Ezra's not coming over today..." haha, this kid cracks me up. 

Imogen is starting to babble a lot more...she is putting things in her mouth all the time...I have to gather up all the small bouncy balls again so we don't have ourselves an accident.

The other day I heard some noises in the bathroom, and everyone was accounted for except Imogen...I walked over to find her not only alone in the bathroom, but up on the sink...rather in the sink....she had crawled up the toilet...used the toilet paper roll as a foot hold and got all the way up into the sink....she wanted to turn it on to wash her hands...one of her favorite pass times....we have to keep the bathroom door closed from now on!...

She loves talking to the phone, whether it's my phone, Jake's phone, or the soft squishy play phone, she looks at it and starts blah blah blah...waiting for someone to talk back...super cute.

She's a big eater....when she wants something she extends her arm and speaks...not sure what...but we know that's when she's commanding us to either give her something, or walk her over to something...she's very much Girl!

She climbed up the ladder to the playground on her own, and crawled to the slide and proceeded to slide down...just needed a tad bit of help getting the shoes out of her way so she could sit down...she's getting so big...and we're loving it.

She's incredibly persistent, much like her brother, much like their mother!!! haha..

Emmaus is such a wiz with his puzzles....he loves the new kitchenette we got from Ikea for Imogen's birthday...he was making me a salad earlier with some salt...and when I thought he was done, he said...wait, a little more...and we play nibbled on the food...at first Imogen was actually putting her mouth on the stuff, then she watched what we were doing,  and started just putting her mouth towards the food instead of eating it...so cute...

Anyhoo..for now these are my joys...figured this would be a better thing to blog about!

Cheers.

Some days...

Some days are worst than others. 

Emotions are running high in this petite body of mine.  After having 2 children semi-back-to-back, my body, after 3 years is finally "back to normal..."  and oh how I didn't miss this.  Hormones suck! 

It's not just that aspect of biology, I'm insanely busy this LAST semester as a student to get my BA!  I'm working way more than I will admit, and taking 2 classes and driving back and forth and back and forth from work to work to home to work...missing my kids, forgetting what it's like to spend quality time with Jake....in it's place we have misunderstanding and miscommunications left and right...tonight...(I laugh just thinking about this...)  Emmaus is getting ready to go downstairs for bed, and he looks at me and says, Mommy's mad...I couldn't keep a straight face when he said it.....it's funny how perspective changes things. 

I roll my eyes thinking about how things happen....it's petty, and silly and just stupid...

Breathe....

2 more months eh....that's not too bad....8 weeks give or take...that's less than 1 trimester of pregnancy....If I can do that...I can do this!!! Right?...haha...

If it weren't for this "Womanhood,"  I think I'd be fine....I hate "letting"  that take over though, I've always thought it was a really bad excuse....I just need to remember my breathing....and prayer...and give extra long hugs to those amazingly cute babies of mine...only they aren't babies anymore....She's ONE....and so funny and cute and loving...Lord thank you for all my blessings, friends, family, opportunities, and silly blogs where I can vent....and feel normal for doing so!..

as always...thanks for reading peeps.

mmmm...peeps sound good (wink*)