So this is Love: August 2012

Saturday, August 25, 2012

True love

What is going on in this picture you ask? Shyloh is in love with her stuffed animals. She coos at them, she pets them, she carries about 5 in her arms at all times. The funniest and most entertaining thing she does however is bites their noses. I'm not quite sure where she learned this. Her way of showing her fuzzy friends that she loves them is by clamping down on their noses and growling. You can instantly tell which animals are her favorites because their noses are usually wet, deformed, dirty, moldy or all of the above. She especially does this first thing in the morning (note the disheveled hair) after a long night of being without her favorite toys. We just accepted this as part of Shyloh's fun little personality. Its her sign of affection although I have to admit I am relieved she hasn't tried to do this to me. I don't think my nose could handle it! So if we come to visit HIDE any stuffed animals you don't want commandeered by our little two year old. Their noses may not be in the same condition she found them in.

Rest in peace van

Last Thursday I kissed Nolan goodbye and left him at school. My thrift store shopping was coming up empty on 2 year old water shoes so I decided to go to target. While I was waiting patiently to turn left a few cars back from the intersection a women veered into the side of my van. She then proceeded into oncoming traffic and hit another car but because she hit me first the other car had minimal damage. No one was seriously hurt thank goodness, aside from my poor van. She was under the influence of medications and admitted to police that she should not have been on the road. Apparently her reckless paroozing through town already had the police after her so they got there pretty quick. She had already almost ran down a construction worker so I'm just thankful that I was the one to stop her and not someone else! She was only a block away from the elementary school! Scary!

Unfortunately the van was totaled out. The whole situation would not have been so bad if we hadn't just dumped so much money into fixing the transmission two months ago. They gave us a fair value for the van so we will be car/van/hatchback shopping next week. Not sure what we'll get on our budget. We may not have enough for another nice van. But I'm fine with a roomy car or a hatchback.. Thank you everyone for your thoughts and prayers :) I will let you know what we find!

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Our new pets

The kids and I had a really nice visit down in Tucson. Their was one day when it was cloudy and sprinkling and Shyloh was sleeping so we decided to go for a little walk. While we were out Nolan found a millepede! We took it back to the house and found a container for it. I googled millepedes and found that it was a male and that they were completely harmless. Nolan was so proud of his discovery that I decided to keep it. Then decided that we couldn't just have one so we set out the next day to try and find another (hopefully a girlfriend). Bekah was sweet to come help me but we had no luck so on our way out of town I stopped at Kens Bug Shoppe and we picked up three more Millepedes. They make really great pets because you just feed them whatever fruit or veggies you have in your fridge! Our millepedes LOVE watermelon. Nolan always wants to hold them although they are pretty smelly and poop a LOT so I make him wash his hands and disinfect every time. Welcome to the family Millepedes :)

We have a kindergartener!

Our eldest son Nolan started Kindergarten this year. He is doing very well! The first week was a little rough. He didn't want me to leave him at first. Now though, I just walk him to the gate and he goes by himself to class! His teacher tells me he is good on most days but every now and then he likes making noises like he's blowing something up and has trouble fallowing directions but he is a little boy so I think he is doing really well all things considered! We have little rewards at home to motivate him to mind his teacher and do his homework. All in all I am really happy with him. He seams to be ahead of the curriculum already and I am continuing to do some work at home with him as well. We leave to live with Helena in 6 weeks (October 3rd) and his teacher recommended I just do work with him at home during his absence from school. We will be there with her until I birth these two beans.

I was just looking through Nolans baby and toddler pictures the other day and I cannot believe how much he has grown! Nolan is a sweet boy with a big heart but he knows how to push my buttons at times! His favorite activity of late is pestering his sister which mainly consists of taking which ever toy she is in possession of at the time. Her retaliatory screams may have caused me permanent hearing damage. I guess he's just giving her a tougher skin which isn't so bad in this day and age. Were working with him to be a bit nicer to his sister and it seams that he is indeed being a bit sweeter and helps her with different things. Currently his favorite color is blue and he is really into My Little Pony for some reason. I'm sure I can black male him with that one later ;) It works though because Shyloh likes it too. He also has a great memory and a good imagination. He likes to rein-act t.v shows or movies that he has seen recently and its amazing to me how well he remembers things. There are times where he will repeat word for word a few lines in a movie after only seeing it once! I am so grateful so far to see that he has has inherited his daddies brains and not mine!