Our Crazy Lives - August , 2009

Well, we have had a roller coaster of a few months here. This summer has literally flown by. Isaac will start school next week, although I know he will be brave and excited for his first day of Kindergarten, I'm already stocking up on kleenex's. It's scary sending my little boy out to the evil world! He can't wait! He is such a funny guy and I'm sure he'll have the best time every.


Audrey is 3 1/2 and so into princesses and "tinkibell" as she calls her. She loves being a big sister to Adriana and "tries" to share, I know it's hard for her but she really does want to be nice...it's just so hard when Adriana grabs the one thing she wants to play with. Ha! Once we get moved in a few weeks here (more on that in a minute), we will begin Speech Therapy. Our pediatrician really feels she needs it, so do we. We're telling her she'll get to go to a special school just like Isaac but it will just be a few days a week. She is excited for it and we hope it helps. She is still young enough that we hope she doesn't realize how hard it's been for us to understand and that by the time she starts school, everyone will understand her fine. Kids can be so harsh. Dan still remembers studdering when he was really little and how people would stare at him and say things. To this day he is still self concious about speaking even though he totally speaks fine. Anyways, Audrey is very sweet and happy for the most part.

Adriana is a crazy baby! She is so much fun, we just love her to death. She really cracks us up with her little faces and growling. Yes, I said growling. Her new nickname is "little bear" because she growls at everyone. I took her to get some baby pictures yesterday and the only way the photographer could get her to smile big was to growl at her, then Adriana would growl back and laugh. She is just starting to crawl (we have late bloomers) and she now has 3 teeth which she loves to show off (see picture). She's 10 months now and getting so big! Time sure goes by fast. She loves to stand up and is almost always standing in her crib now and chucking stuff out.

Dan and I just celebrated our 7 year anniversary. My parents were here when we celebrated it and they were celebrating their 38th anniversary so we got a sitter one night and went to dinner at a really nice restaurant on the waterfront in Tacoma. It was a lot of fun. Most of you all know by now that Dan is transferring to the Portland branch of Charter Construction. He will be doing insurance work there and will help them as they begin to form a commercial division. He is excited and anxious to get down there and start. He will start work on the 21st of September....less than a month from now. We think we've found a home to buy in Battle Ground, WA (what a cool sounding name, right?) It's about 20 miles from his work and his commute should be less than a half hour (so great!). We're driving to see the home this weekend, our Realator is positive that it's the perfect home for us. It sits on 1/4 of an acre and has a huge fenced back yard and front yard. We hope it all works out! We'll keep you updated and take some pictures this weekend. Our Realator has sent some pictures, it's in the process of getting new carpet, new paint and new linolium and new appliances. It was a foreclosure and some investors bought it as it just needs some cosmetic work done otherwise it's in great shape. So, we'll get a brand new home basically. We will see how it goes this weekend but it sounds perfect for us. That's been our lives lately. If we buy this home, our Realtor said we can do a "good faith move-in" while we're waiting to close on it and we can move in as soon as the rennovations are complete in 2 to 3 weeks. That would be perfect so we can all move together and Dan won't have to stay in a hotel in Portland and work while we're here waiting to close. We hope you enjoy the pictures. I just realized I had people post comments on our last blog. Like I said, I'm still figuring this out. We hope everyone is doing well.