Greetings from outside Starbucks on a beautiful Monday morning. I know not everyone loves Mondays, but because they are my husband’s day off, I enjoy them. It means that Mondays are my chance to try to get ahead on the week. 🙂
Housing update: Last week Tuesday we were supposed to have the house we are trying to buy inspected. Unfortunately, JB’s signature didn’t have his middle initial, so the sellers weren’t ready to accept our paperwork until that was taken care of. Additionally, the pipes of the house had not been de-winterized yet, so the inspector can’t do his job until the sellers have that taken care of. Sooo, today is the day (we hope)! 2:30 pm will bring us one step closer to having a house.
In other life news, baby is still doing well. Kicking and squirming a lot. I seem to be feeling more squirms than jabs lately, which has been a pleasant change. Ty has a few friends from church that he really enjoys playing with. Sydney and Reagan are girls, 3.5 and 1.5 respectively. Their mom stays home, so she and I have been getting together at least once a week. Ty calls Sydney “Teen-tah” and Reagan is a lot closer being something like “Rag-uh”. His vocabulary continues to boom. We were told yesterday by a woman from church who is a family practice doctor and is fairly well-versed in the language of child development that he is speaking really well for his age. While we always think he is awesome at everything, it’s nice to know it’s not all just our parental bias. 🙂 He also adores playing with bugs. He and JB will go in the backyard to try and catch crickets to feed our lizard. I really get a kick out of watching it, especially when Ty imitates JB saying “Rats!” whenever he misses one. Although Ty likes crickets and ants and flies, etc., etc., he does not appreciate the cicada shells around the yard. He’ll tell me that I should pick them up. No, thank you! Ty also really likes picking vegetables from our little backyard garden. We have green beans and two different kinds of tomatoes, one small and the other large. We also have a pepper plant, but no peppers have come from that yet, which makes JB pretty sad. Hopefully next year.
Hmmm, what else? As far as I can tell, JB is really enjoying his call. He works a lot, but he also makes sure to spend time home with Ty and I. He has a few additional Bible classes starting up after Labor Day and is also working with congregation members to get plans finalized for our church picnic on September 8th.
That about wraps up my thoughts for now. I have some time to figure out how to get more pictures posted, so hope you enjoy! God’s blessings to you!Ty doing sparklers for the first time on the 4th of July