This blog is never up to date and I feel like all my posts are a failed attempt at relating our lives over the past several months. But as I have looked at many others I realized I am not the only one who is not on top of things. Life is really just the typical daily grind in our neck of the woods, work, dishes laundry, play and more play.
Seth is really into imaginative play which usually involves some sort of bad vs good guy. This play is very scripted as in Seth tells you word for word what you are suppose to say as we are playing it. Also how we are expected to die. I really have no idea how he comes up with half of what he says but it keeps us laughing and on our toes. Just tonight he is packing a bag to go to the Easter Bunnies home and we are going to need to take food so of course the top choices are apples, oranges, carrots and potatoes. One of my new favorite and least favorite things he has discovered is drawing. It means he actually sits still and is calm for a few minutes. His drawings consist of various line forms that represent different items but he loves it. However he only covers a small portion of the paper and then moves to the next and does not want any of them thrown away as they are, "special to me mom". Seth turned 4 recently and I just didn't have the energy to do anything elaborate this year but I think I did okay anyway. We had a Power Ranger Party where we played typical games like samurai samurai nylock(duck duck goose). I also was lucky to find a boy in our neighborhood who is very good at karate. He came and taught the kids a few moves. They loved it and learned how to be good ninjas that only protect themselves.
Norah continues to improve on her gross motor skills and is cruising gaps, can get into standing from sitting in the middle of the room and is walking behind a push toy. She loves it and is so proud of herself for everything that she does. We are starting to do more gestural imitation such as pounding on things, making blubber noises with her fist at her mouth and recently did some waving. She is stuck on the da da babbles despite my attempts at mama or even a buh buh sound. I also have found that I have become lazy and have not attempted any signs with Norah like I did with Seth. For now I am not worried we will see what she does over the next few months. Health wise we had Myringotomy tubes placed in the fall after she had four ear infections in two months and a long winter still ahead of us. Then after a very tiresome December we discovered she had acid reflux. We were up five times a night with a hard to console baby and if she was sleeping she was whimpering in her sleep. She does not fit the mold at all for someone who would have reflux but after being on meds for a few weeks and taking her off again for a few days she is definitely happier and sleeping better on the medication. She is starting to get her first tooth and I have to say I must have suppressed the memory of Seth teething because I have forgotten how grumpy they can be. Overall though she continues to be such fun to have around. I love watching my two kids together. They are generally happy and Seth loves getting laughs out of Norah. Can they always stay this way and we just skip the we hate each other phase?
Justin and I are both busy at our respective jobs and at home. Justin is taking another computer programming class online and is looking into continuing with more school. He is also hard at work tiling our bathroom that we gutted last June. After months of letting it sit we finally had a plumber come help us and then finished up some of the construction work. I am excited to see the light at the end of the tunnel and have my bathroom back. I was called into the Primary Presidency in December and have been busy learning my responsibilities for that and then carrying them out. I work with a pretty amazing group of women and feel like I will learn a lot from them as well as the kids. Overall most weeks I feel like I can barely keep up with my own life and I long for my weekends to try and catch up but I know that life overall is pretty good right now and I really have nothing to complain about.
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| Norah really did not care about Christmas she just wanted to do her own thing. I had to keep putting her back by her toys to get any pictures of her with them. |
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| Christmas was so much fun with Seth this year. He loved everything was so excited and was totally spoiled. |
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| Ninja Birthday Boy and Cousins with their instructor Tehl |
