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Dusting the Blog Shelf off.

Yes. I know. Haven't updated here in FOREVER. I still don't have a lot of time lately to update, but thought I would share these simple pictures from my phone. Which is my lifeline nowadays. Did I mention we didn't hook internet up at our new house? Yeah. I know. I can't believe it either. But we just hit our one year mark at the beginning of this month at the new house and that means I've gone a whole year without internet at home. And you know what? I'm ok with it. Never thought I would be, but I am. Now of course I do have ways of getting online...like with my iPhone or using Curt's laptop once he gets home. But I don't have constant access to my pictures or my desktop.

These are all pictures from my phone, which all things considered (it's a phone picture!) aren't too shabby!

My little monkey. She is obsessed with this monkey towel! It's so cute!


Happy about finding her punkin' hat


We got this dress from our neighbor. I think it's going to be her Christmas dress this year. It's really adorable, the picture does not do it justice!


A day that we spend at my aunt's houseboat.


Playing outside with Max in the yard


I love when she lets me fix her hair. She's getting better about it, but its still a struggle a lot of times.


Max in the yard,


First homerun of the season!


My sweet sweet boy


When he first got his backback


Helping me make cheesecake. He LOVES to help me cook. Loooves it!!!


At a playdate with friends one day we let the kids play with shaving cream. This is what the results were, lol.


The second week of school I got Max up in the morning and he disappeared shortly after waking up. I found him in our bed fast asleep, lol. Kindergarten is wearing him out!!


That's all for now.

Tubes

Since the beginning of January Aspen has had a horrible time with ear infections. She has a lot of fluid in her ears and antibiotics just don't seem to be helping much. She's been on 5 different antibiotics in the past two months. I hate having to give her so many antibiotics because of the risk of building immunities to them. But she's been in a lot of pain lately. So today we went back to the doctor again. The doctor said that she really needs to have tubes put in her ears. I figured that is probably what he would say since she has had such a problem the past few months. She used to be such a great sleeper and now she is waking up a lot. She used to eat great and she hasn't been eating much lately either. She was up to 21 lbs and today she barely weighed 20lbs (20 lbs 2oz with clothes and shoes on).

I'm not worried about the procedure at all. Max had tubes and it's a pretty simple surgery. I'm not sure when it will happen though. I have to make her initial ENT appointment first.

My Girl

If you had asked me more than 6 years ago whether I was going to have any children I would have said I wasn't sure and they definitely were not in any immediate future at that point. However a little guy named Max changed all those plans and made my life expotentially different. If you had asked me about what kind of mother I would be after I had Max, I would have said, "A mom to boys." I never ever in a million years dreamed that one day I would have a daughter. Never. I had always envisioned having two or three little boys.

However, sometimes things aren't how you would imagine them. And often times, the way we envision life isn't how it's supposed to be for us. And I'm so glad.

Because I LOVE having a girl. She's the sunshine to my day. The crispness to my oxygen, she's what makes me breath. Her smile, her bright eyes, her extreme personality, the way she looks up to her older brother. I love it all.

 

My Max

My Max

I love how he always says, "Mommy, I love you bigger than space."

 

I love listening to him singing in the truck when he thinks no one is listening, "Daddy is the best! Daddy is the best dad ever!"

I love how he takes Aspen's hand when we are out and she starts to wonder off. She lets him bring her back to where she needs to be.

I love how he takes pride in his new room and always keeps it clean without me having to ask him.

I love how he never lets us forget to say the blessing before every dinner...no matter if we are at home or at a restaurant.

I love this boy and I'm so lucky to be his momma

Little Smartie

I have to do a little brag post on Aspen. The other day (about a week ago) I have a University of Louisville shirt on and I was showing Max all the different letters and words on the shirt. Aspen was there with us at the time so I showed her the letters too and she said them and repeated each one. So today after a week, I had the same shirt on and she noticed. So I asked her where the "O" was and she showed me. Then she found the "I", the "T" the "S" and the "V" without me having to tell her where they were. I thought that was pretty impressive for only being 19 months old and having only showed her one time a week before.

Little Piggies

Aspen's hair is getting longer and thicker...slowly but surely. I can put bows in it sometimes. I did real pigtails the other day. Her first ever!

Decorations at Stuckyville

I didn't really buy much this year, but I can't wait to add more to our decorations for next year! Now that we have a place that we actually want to decorate, it will be loads of fun to do a lot more than we did this year.

Max wanted a Christmas tree in his room, so I let him and Aspen each get a little tree for their rooms. Aspen's is pink and Max picked out a white one.




We put the Christmas tree in the front room. I wanted it right in front of the window, but with the little couch there, it would have seemed really crowed, so it's off to the side.


The mantle. The cool thing about our mantle is there are three sides to it. So I kinda did a different thing on each side.


The stockings


Some festive garland on the chandelier


Advent calendar on the back of the front door.


Some lights in a glass pitcher in the kitchen.


The snowmen figurines on the tv. The one with the tall hat is an LED one that changes colors. It's neat.


Welcome snowman sign on the front steps. The lights went out on the sign, so I just wrapped some lights around it, lol.


The wreath is the one thing we did buy new this year. It's one with LED lights and looks really nice lit up at night.


And my little Christmas children. Max wanted to take pictures for Curt since he was out of town. So he put a nice outfit on and I put a dress on Aspen and they sat in front of the tree for pictures.

Playing Catch Up

I can't believe how much I slacked off on the blog the past couple months. I have a good excuse though. Still trying to get everything set up in the house. We're almost there and it really feels like home now. I've been working a lot more lately, so between that and the kiddos, life is a little hectic. But I want to play catch up on some stuff, so I'm going to make a few posts here.

18 month appointment

Aspen had her 18 month appointment last Wednesday (November 17th). I love my pedi office and always look forward to her well checks. We saw the NP that day and she spent about 30 minutes with us playing with Aspen and evaluating her milestones. It's so nice to just be able to TALK to a professional about your child and be reassured that everything is going as it should.
Aspen talked quite a bit for her and she was really impressed with her vocal skills at this point. She has no problem speaking her mind and getting her point across, lol.

She's hit a mini growth spurt as well. She is now up to 19lbs 6oz and was 29" tall. Still not on the chart, but getting closer!

Other than that, she got two shots, screamed bloody murder then asked for a sucker and was fine!

Recents

I finally got some pictures uploaded today. My mom has been asking about new pictures. So I thought I would try to post some for everyone

Max fell asleep in our bed one night. He looked so small to me laying there. He acts so big all the time, I sometimes have a hard time finding that little baby boy that he once was.

Max's letters for his room. We did finally get them hanged up, but I have yet to take a picture

Aspen and my friend Kristie's little boy Ethan. He's 10 months old and is about 7 lbs bigger than Aspen. He's so cute and they are going to be T-R-O-U-B-L-E when they get older, lol.

Aspen helping Curt wash the board game off.

And grabbing a quick drink,

The horses in the field behind us are SO friendly. They come up to the fence in the evenings and we feed them carrots and apples and they let us pet them. It's awesome! Some of my family was visiting a couple weekends ago and they enjoyed feeding them as well.
My dad with Aspen,

Aspen sleeping...surrounded by her silkies of course.

Her "look"

TNMNT needs a ride.

Jumping on our bed,

Max looks so tall here!

Max gives me a goofy look every.time.I.take.a.picture. I still like this one though 

Max started Fall Ball last week. So far he loves it, although, it's a little more strict than I wanted. But I guess that's what you get for being on the older kids' team.
In the duggout,

Up to bat. They put him on the wrong side he's first time (he's a lefty batter) so he had a hard time hitting the ball.

Finally turned the right way,

That's all for now...I do have some more to share, but they are uploading. I'll try to get them up tonight or tomorrow.
Thanks for looking!