But all that being said, we are doing really well. I'll be honest, this blog post is more for me than anyone else. I intend to use it as a memory book of sorts one day. Unfortunately, it looks like I'm missing a few months of memories, haha! So here is my attempt to recapture some!
Lessons learned:
*I'm not a perfect Mama and have decided to stop wasting my time trying to be
*Unfortunately, I'm not a perfect wife either. But I've learned that I should at least try to put a little effort into that. Sometimes I get caught up in being a Mommy.
*Work will always be there tomorrow...in piles. I'm never going to get caught up, I'll probably be behind forever. But I will try my best, I will be as efficient as possible, and I'll do what I can!
*Jobs that pay well come with lots of responsibility
*Families that flourish come with lots of responsibility
*The best parenting advice comes from other parents...not books. I'm no longer reading parenting books, partly because I don't really have time, and partly because they make me manic :-)
*It's ok to be poor. I don't see us getting out of the poor house anytime soon...well not as long as I keep popping out babies! I am ok with my Target purse because when its full of capri sun and has bite marks from the dog, I don't really feel so bad.
*Can you say your poor when you have a beautiful house, two good cars, a big backyard, food in the fridge, and date night a couple times a month? Nope :-)
*Hard work always pays off, and so does generosity
*I need faith in my life...whether its faith in my family, faith in God, faith in our sprinkler system...whatever! Sometimes you just need faith!
*I still have a lot to learn. There have been 2 distinct periods in my life where I thought I had it all figured out...one at 15, another around 25. Both times I have been mistaken. Doh! Someone slap me when I turn 35 because I see a trend here!
The new baby:
*This kid is a whole lot nicer to me than Jace was! No puking, I'm not as tired, no crazy allergic reaction to my own placenta, nothin!
*This baby is alot more hungry than Jace was. Or at least I am. I'm alot bigger this time :-(
*We have passed the 20th week and still don't know the sex. Hoping to find out next Wednesday!
*Back to the topic of books, I haven't read anything about this baby. I don't know where it is as far as development. Feeling really guilty about that one
*I think it's a girl. But I really don't care either way. I want a boy for Jace and Anthony...and a girl for myself. Either way, I don't think it really matters.
*We have almost everything we need from Jace...except clothes, receiving blankets, and diapers...alot less daunting this time!
*I pray every night this baby will sleep through the night after the 1st week. I have faith, remember!!
Jace:
*Jace is the best
*Every day that he gets older I find him alot more fun.
*He is quite the chatterbox. He talks alot, Anthony and I can understand almost everything he says, others can probably get over half. Who knows, maybe more. Although you do have to know his code: yaya=raisin, mocha=milk, boo-boo=booger. There are a few more that don't really make any sense but overall he does a pretty great job speaking.
*The last week he's been doing alot of speaking in sentences...fragments, but sentences nonetheless. "Jace drive vroom vroom Nana house", Chula eat Jace fishies no no bad" "Yaya bite Chula owie" "Dada vroom vrrom moo cow pumpkins (this ones a little harder to understand. We met Anthony at a little pumpkin patch yesterday, he was trying to explain to me on the ride over there that Anthony was driving his own car to the pumpkin patch). "Jace wash hands"
*And the phrases that are so overused, I will not be sad if I never hear them again: "all done!", "more please", and "uppie down". Uppie down is the worst, it means he wants to be held and he will repeat it over and over again, hook onto a leg and not quit until I pick him up.
*He loves to hop - I would say he gets off the ground one out of every ten times maybe?
*He's almost 2...which means he's almost terrible! haha his behavior isn't bad, but that doesn't mean that I haven't been smacked, that he hasn't thrown himself on the floor, that there haven't been plates of food thrown across the room or that there isn't a fair amount of whining and crying at our house. He's actually a very sweet boy. Very spoiled, a total attention hog, but very very sweet. When he does naughty things I can see him laughing on the inside. When he does mean things, he is immediately sorry. I would say 85-90% he is an angel...the remaining time, well, we work through that. Patience is a virtue!
*He's funny! I don't know how to explain this one, you just have to see it. He dances, he hides, he giggles, he is really sneaky, he crawls into pillowcases and pretends he is a pillow, he's just a goof. I tend to be over-serious sometimes and so does Anthony, but he makes us goofy too.
*He adores Chula. And he is so bossy with her! He yells at her like we do, he makes her go out her doggie door when we go out back instead of through the arcadia doors, he kisses her every day, he pets her, he pokes her eyes, pulls on her teeth, tries to force feed her play doh, teases her with snacks...just about everything he should and shouldn't do with a giant 65 lb dog! She is still a huge giant pain in the butt and we (Anthony) threaten to get rid of her every day. But how could we? So, she stays another day!
*He says cheese when you take his picture
*He was born to live on a farm!
*There are so many more things to write but my legs are on fire from the heat of the laptop! There are a bunch more pics on my FB page
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