2 weeks!

First off I want to say that I have felt completely wrapped in prayers, especially the first week Dom was gone. Things went so smoothly, no one was sick, we all were pleasant....thank you so much for all of your prayers for us.

sleeping Seamus

My mom has been here about a week now. Things are going well. She works over the Internet. so she is here, but still needs to get some work done, and that is hard for the boys to understand, but they are getting better at letting her do her work. And its nice to have a grown up around and a second set of hands for the dinner, post dinner bedtime chaos.

This week has been rough for the boys though. For some reason they have gone crazy! They are being exceptionally defiant, they don't listen or respond to things I tell them to do, they take more joy than usual in bugging each other, and are getting quite sassy in the way they talk to me. I hope it goes with out saying that any of this behavior is unacceptable in our house. And generally speaking I am working on these issues as they crop up again and again, but never has it been all at once. I am pooped!!! I don't know where this is coming from. Well maybe I do. Dom is gone and we have a new baby, what can they get away with?!? I'm doing my best to stick to my guns, and hopefully things will simmer down again soon.

sleeping Finn

Finnigan is quite a climber. Now that he no longer has his sippy cup he is constantly hungry. I try to curtail the constant snacking and get him more on a schedule, but the minute my back is turned to feed the baby, or take care of something personal he will scale the counters or pantry to get at what he wants. Once he even did it while I was still asleep in the morning!!!! I just don't know what to do! I put things up high so he "can't" get at them, but there he goes! I am so thankful he hasn't hurt himself yet! I told him today that if I catch him climbing, or see evidence of him climbing to get something that he will get a time out. I am hoping if we do this often enough that he will stop. He is stubborn though, and time outs don't seem to be too much of a deterrent yet. On the positive side (I guess) Finn has the little toddler pot belly for the first time in his life...

Finally, I am doing my best to mentally prepare myself to move in a month or so. My neighbor took this test last month, and just moved this past week out to WA (where we think we will be going) We don't have orders yet, and won't until Dom comes back, but we are expecting to get stationed at Ft Lewis, and it looks like its a quick turn around. We are still clinging to the outside hope that we will get to stay here in NC where we have made so many wonderful friends. But I am trusting in God, knowing that He hasn't failed me yet. I know of some good people out West should that be where we go. I just hate leaving. I haven't talked about the probability that we will be moving soon to the boys yet...they know we will probably move, but we just don't know how soon. I just can't bring myself to say anything until I know for sure that we will be going. Still hoping, still praying.... sleeping Liam