Kindergarten

I feel the need to document this monumental season we are in. I have a kindergartner. Isaac started yesterday. He is in a dual language program meaning he is in a spanish immersion class. Most of his lessons will be spoken in spanish. I'm excited for him and so far he has been happy.

This summer we went to SeaWorld for Isaacs 5th birthday. We also went to Corpus Christi/Port A for a few days.

Gracelyn is talking a lot more and is very independent. We haven't started potty training her yet. She misses Isaac a lot today while he's at school.

This summer we have also been renovating our bathroom. We are very involved in the church and stay very busy.

I want to get on here and document things more but its so hard to find the time. I miss blogging and reading blogs. Instagram has sort of taken over blogging.

This age is so fun and its hard to believe I have a child in school and another one that will be out of diapers and out of her crib soon.

A year has passed.

Wow, I can't believe it has almost been a year since I've blogged. I've missed it but there just isn't a lot of time for me to get words out of my head and into a readable format. Last year was a blur. It was a really good blur. We traveled to Gulf Shores, AL to visit family including my 85 year old Grandmother (she just recently had a stroke so I'm so happy we got to see her then). Justin and I also had a weekend alone together in Wimberley. That was a really good time. And I had several weekends with friends and no kids! It was a good year for sure. Gracelyn is about to turn 2 this month and she is starting to talk more and has developed a really sweet personality. Isaac will be 5 and starting kindergarten this year and I almost can't bear to think about it. Justin and I are doing well. We're hoping to do some house renovations this year and trying to decide if we want to have another baby. I started back to work 2 days a week in August and that has been going well.

Goals this year are to do house stuff and to also get out and do more. I told him that I don't want to relive the same year over and over. I want to try to do more whether thats traveling or just having more quality time with our family. Even if its not successful and we have crying kids I still want to try. It wont be time wasted and we will have a funny memory later on.

These are just a few things that I wanted to get out and be able to come back and read later. I'm hopeful I can try to record things better as they happen throughout the year so I can have a better memory in the future.

One year old!

Yesterday was Gracelyn's first birthday! It blows my mind that it's been a year already. She has completed our family in ways I didn't even know we needed. I have had so much joy seeing her develop and grow. And also seeing Isaac grow into his role as big brother. Their relationship is so sweet and I hope they are always close. Here are her stats:

-21 lbs
-not sure of the length but she looks taller for sure
- standing up without holding onto anything for a few seconds
-not walking yet or taking steps but verrrrrry close
- 5 teeth with a 6th breaking through any day now
- she eats pretty much anything but loves clementine oranges, bananas, green beans and brocoli
- never took the bottle but drinks out of a straw or sippy well (if its water not breastmilk)
- sleeps from 7pm-7:30am waking up at 10pm to feed and then somewhere around 4am. This makes me happy!
-Still breastfeeds and hasn't really started weaning

We celebrated her birthday with friends and family this past saturday. Our friends Irene, Colin and their kids came. Emily and Jason and the girls. Our neighbors Amanda and Adam came with Anaya. And of course Meme and Poppy.

I've said all along that she's sassy. She is and she knows what she wants but she is also very sweet. When Isaac cries sometimes she'll go lay her head on him or try to crawl to him and see where he is. She drops food off her highchair to the floor and laughs cause she's making a mess. She can blow spit bubbles and then laughs about it. She's funny and such a sweetheart. We are SO blessed. We love you so much girly goo. You are such a joy and bring so much light to our lives!

11 months

I know I'm a week late but last week when Gracelyn was 11 months old Justin and I had strep and Isaac had an ear infection. It was also right before Christmas so thats a crazy time too.

Gracelyn is not quite walking yet but we got her a walker and she is loving it! As long as she's holding onto sometime she can walk! She's still breastfeeding but not as much. She eats a lot of regular food though. She sleeps pretty well but still wakes up 2 times or sometimes 3 in a 12 hour period so not bad! She adores Isaac and loves to play chase. Or play with anything you don't want her to play with. She loves opening up cabinet door and trying to crawl on the dishwasher when I'm loading or unloading it. She had a good Christmas and loves her baby doll and walker!

10 months!

I'm almost a week late with Gracelyn's 10 month update. Whoops! She turned 10 months on Thanksgiving so it slipped my mind. She is doing really wonderful and just thriving. She has cut her top 2 teeth in the front and so those are making their way down for her to have 4 teeth total. This go around it is making breastfeeding excruciating. I never had issues with Isaac cutting teeth and breastfeeding so this has caught me by surprise. I'm to the point where I have a sore on my nipple from her teeth. Ouch! Other than that she is saying, "mamamamama" and "dadadadada" occasionally. Not consistently though. She adores Isaac and loves to play with him. We like to play chase. She is a really quick crawler and sticks every little thing in her mouth. She loves standing up and I was thinking she might be walking my Christmas but I'm not sure. She's about 18.5 lbs. She had a good Thanksgiving. She's been sleeping pretty good for the most part and only waking up 1-2 times a night. Just recently 2 times. For the most part she was only waking up once for a few weeks. So that was nice. She eats pretty much anything we give her and tries to drink out of a sippy cup. She still doesn't like bottles. I've tried pumping and giving her a bottle/sippy cup of breastmilk and she was not having it. Just kept pulling at my shirt. Thats pretty much it! Can't believe she will be turning 1 soon!

Thanksgiving 2017

This is a strange year for us. My mom is working. Memaw and Cyndi are in Maui. Papaw is in Heaven. We haven't been talking to Terri or John. And We ate chinese food for lunch. We are making pizza tonight. We'll be having traditional Thanksgiving dinner on Saturday and my memaw will be coming to my mom's new house in Temple.

I have anxiety today. Justin decided he wanted to call him mom. So we are waiting on her to call him back. They've sort of played phone tag all day. I guess I just am fearful of the unknown. We've had their number blocked for a month. I don't know if she's going to be mad or if things will go back to how they were before we blocked them. Either way I'm just kinda freaking out over here.

Father, please take my fears away. I pray for your peace today.

How we used to be.

Since my blog is private I feel like I can really write about my relationship with my Mother in law. I'm really sad that we don't have a good relationship anymore. I miss being able to talk to her. We used to watch the same shows and read the same kind of books. And go to the movies together. I miss that. I feel like I've been grieving that part of our relationship. It hasn't been like that in a long time. And I'm hoping that this break we've had can help restore our relationship. I want her to be well. I just don't want it to be dependent on us.