One day at a time

Well, we're all doing well here. It's been one house project after the other for the past few months. What initially started out as a simple project snowballed into a complete re-do of the sunroom, a new roof, new guttering, rerouting of our gas line, a new patio, and some maintenance on our water lines (that I didn't know we were supposed to do, having been on well water my whole life). It's a long story, and really not worth boring you with; however, I must thank with all my heart all of the family that has helped us out SO MUCH during all of this. I know God loves us when I think of the wonderful family that he has blessed Gary and I with. We are SO thankful for them. I just hope that someday we have the opportunity to help them or someone else as much as they've helped us.

LJ's growing by leaps and bounds quite literally. He leaps and bounds everywhere. In fact, I'm dumbstruck when I see other kids his age that will stand still. I don't know if we've gone wrong somewhere with discipline or what, but the child is in a perpetual state of motion! He's learned to walk backwards and make himself dizzy by spinning around in a circle; he starts falling down and just cracks up. He also loves to watch this Sesame Street sing along DVD; it will entrance him right after he wakes up (which is about the only time he's ever still). He likes for me to play the "ladybug song" on the piano, and Heart & Soul; he'll dance around like he's trying to shake something out of his diaper. He's also discovered screaming (like a girl, no less) and it's ear splitting. I don't mind too much at home, but about ducked under the table when he did it at Jose's.

Binx and Nala are both doing well also. We have an impostor-Binx hanging around, though. I don't mind as long as he/she doesn't try to beat up my cats. We also have an orange cat that hangs around that I'm about to shoot w/ a bee-bee gun (for those of you not familiar, it will not kill them, just sting like hell for awhile) if he fights w/ our cats anymore, or if I catch him peeing all over our carport again.

I've been busy planning and preparing for our garden. I have high hopes for it this year since I'm not working. My Dad and I have been discussing and planning since about mid-January. We're always ready for warmer weather once the holidays are behind us. However, I AM thankful for the snow we had this year. It really made for a fun winter, and we haven't had a snowy winter around here in quite some time. I'm glad we have more of winter behind us than ahead of us, though!

Also, I yet again didn't get Christmas cards out this year b/c of the madness with home improvement stuff. So, if you didn't get one from us, nobody else did either....MAYBE this year!

Snow!

I'm not even sure if anyone looks at our blog anymore. I really ought to try to post more, but I simply can't seem to find the time. I do post things on facebook sometimes; feel free to add me as a friend.

LJ's room got rearranged today to become a "big boy" room. He's so grown up anymore. Today he was making me happy (like literally making me smile and say how happy I was with him) by taking a toy out then putting it back where it belongs.

Here's some pictures of LJ in the show. HE LOVED IT, and his Daddy was tickled to death. Gary has kept saying this is the most fun he's EVER had in the snow!



Here's just some random things that LJ does, more for my own sake (so I'll remember) than anyone else's...
LJ's quite good (and has been for sometime) with peg puzzles and anything that requires you to identify a shape and place an object accordingly. He can identify all of his capital letters and numbers through 12 without flaw (assuming he WANTS to), but he has some trouble with the lower case letters, specifically b,d,p&q. He also has some trouble with 13-20 (20 is as far as we've even attempted). He knows most of his colors, although varying shades throw him off easy. He loves his kitty cat (a stuffed cat I gave to my Grandma while she was in the hospital, a day before she died), and pets the kitty "gentle" (he actually is pretty gentle, but I've been a stickler for "being gentle" to the cats and animals since he's had control of his movements). He also likes his stuffed Pluto and adores his blankie. He likes to hide his blankie, then make Gary and I come find it. Today he was taking a small ball and trying his hardest to throw it on the top bunkbed in his room (he actually came darn close a time or two). Oh, and a real quick funny thing he does with his puzzles (which is what he plays with at least 70% of the time), sometimes if he picks up a puzzle piece upside down, he'll walk around to the other side of the board so the board is upside down also and put the piece in. I get such a kick out of him! I'm tired and I'm not going to proof-read this, so sorry for typos.