What is a normal day?

It has been a few weeks since things have been quote, unquote, normal around here I have forgotten what it was like. Jack has typically not been taking naps during the day; he has been getting his 12 hours all at night, but for the last few days he has been a little out of sorts. So today after lunch, I was going to take him out to run a few errands and then take him to the park, but only 10 minutes down the street and he was out like a light. Since it has been rare for me to get a nice little break during the day, I just turned the car around and he is sleeping peacefully in our bed.

He probably could be in his own bed today, but the fire detector in his bedroom has decided to become a tweeting, annoying, distracting pain. One of the errands I had planned to accomplish this afternoon was to buy a new battery for the stupid thing, but I didn’t get to that yet. I am really hoping that will fix the problem because I cannot find the directions and after this trouble shooting idea, I don’t know what to try next. If anyone has, any suggestions please share :)

I cannot believe that September is officially over today. The months and day just keep passing us by so quickly. Before you know it, the holidays will be here and I know I am not ready for that yet...

Happy Anniversary!

I can't believe it has been 8 years since Justin and I said "I do" It has been a crazy and fun ride so far, and I'm sure we are in for more exciting times as time goes on.

I would like to say a big Happy Birthday to Justin's mom, Jack's grandma Jeanette! Her birthday was yesterday and we are very sorry we didn't get to spend the day with here celebrating this very special day. However, we are looking forward to seeing her in a few weeks when they come down to baby sit Jack for us while we take a little vacation to NYC!

Today has unfortunately been one of those days. It started this morning very early. Jack decided that his present to us for our anniversary was a wake-up call at 3:30 AM. I did however, get a couple more hours of sleep when he finally passed out on the couch around five and slept until seven.

Justin and I got a nice dinner out of the house without Jack, thanks to his sister Joyce who has been here visiting us since Saturday. We went out and had a nice steak dinner :-) We will be sad to have here leave us tomorrow, but I know all good things must end.

We had a great time playing at the park the other day and I have some cute pics of Jack playing on the slide. I am hoping that the second half of my day will be better than the first.

TTFN

Oktoberfest in September?

Well Jack's auntie Joyce finally arrived yesterday after a delayed flight out of St. Louis. We are having a great time with her and Jack is loving all the attention. We spend yesterday afternoon in downtown McKinney at their annual Oktoberfest celebration. It was fun! There was a petting zoo, but Jack wasn't to interested in the animals so maybe he can feed the animals another time.

The weather is actually very pleasant down here this weekend. It is 66 degrees right now and I guess I have become a real Texan because it is cold! Glad that it isn't the usual 90 degrees but I'm sure we haven't seen the last of the warmer temperatures (I'll take it for now).

..and so it begins

I would like to dedicate my first official blog post to my friend Gwyn. It was in a our recent phone conversation that she told me I needed to start a blog so that she could see what was going on with my family. So I thought about it for a minute and decided to give it a try. Now I must confess that my writing skills are usually below par, so don't judge me on a misspelled word or bad grammar every now and then.

We have been enjoying our time here in Texas and I believe that we are adapting to the heat (man it got hot this summer) pretty well. For those of you who don't know yet we are expecting our second child in the coming year. We are not far enough along yet to know the sex of the baby yet, but unlike with Jack we will be finding out that information before the baby arrives.

Jack is now two and had a great birthday party back at the end of May. He is doing really well and has recently started to talk. He has been a little behind in the talking department but we have been working with a few therapists and things have been coming along great.

I will post more about how things are going soon, but I believe that Jack will be waking up soon so I will sign off for now. I will return when I can, and hopefully so will you.