5 1/2 months

ARGH!!! blogger has cut off my ability to add pics again...i have more...oh well...

Always new things in the life of Kylan. Kylan now gives kisses --well actually he has been for about a month now...but now he does it a lot more often--and if you ask for one. He will open his mouth and basically drool on your cheek. If you are lucky he will lick you. It sounds gross, but coming from him, it is very cute. Kylan also sits up on his own very well now. He still tumbles from time to time, but for the most part he does well. He also crawls on his back. He will be laying on his back and will arch it and use his feet to scoot backwards. Luckily with this method he is unable to travel too fast. Ohhh..and Kylan is now officially ticklish. You can tickle him and he will laugh and squirm. Lots of fun!

Kylan has his first thanksgiving. He ate sweet potatoes for the first time. The top pic shows his reaction to that. A new food with lots of fun faces. But Kylan loves food and ate a whole lot of sweet potatoes on thanksgiving. He had thanksgiving brunch with Nana, Grandma Jan and her family. He was very sociable and looked smashing in his suit coat that Aunt Liz and Uncle Adam sent him. I have to say he was the best dressed. At thanksgiving at Grandpa and Grandma Debi's, Ky got to meet Aunt Steph for the first time. He also ate more sweet potatoes. The boy was in heaven.

So this coming week is a very big week. We are almost done packing. On Wednesday we close on the new house and begin to clean. On Thursday we finish cleaning and packing. On Friday we move. On Saturday we unpack. On Sunday we return to our old house and clean. And on Monday we close on the old house. A VERY BUSY TIME!!! So hopefully I update this again before the holidays....But I am not stressing about it. It will all work out. Kylan is also expecting a new cousin shortly after we close on the old house. He is very excited (or I should say that we tell him that he is very excited) for a new playmate.

Well that is all for this blog....The next entry will be from the new house. Tootles....

Five MONTHS!!!

Blogger has cut me off...It only allows me to add so many pics at a time--and well, I have a lot of entries to make up for....

So November 7th was a very big day. First of all it was Grandma's b'day. Secondly it was Ky's 5 month b'day. And lastly it was voting day. Kylan was very anxious about heading to the polls for his first voting day. I wish I had taken my camera along. I would have taken pictures of him in the voting booth. But alas, I forgot.

Lots of new stuff in the world of Kylan. First of all, Kylan has begun to sleep better at night. On Oct. 18th I woke up at 4:30 in the morning. I was in shock. Kylan had not woken me up yet...But I was sure he was going to wake me up soon. He had slept 5.5 hours and for sure would not go much longer. WEll I was up until 6:30 waiting for him to wake up. I even went to check on him several times, just to make sure he was okay. But there he was in his crib sleeping soundly...and here I was not able to sleep because he was sleeping. (Ironic..) So at 6:30 I woke him up to feed him so I could go back to sleep. Who knows how much longer he could have gone. So he slept 7.5 hours. Since then we have had at least three other nights where he has slept 7+ hours. Otherwise he has been sleeping at least 5 -6 hours before waking. I have so much more energy now. It's great.

Observations of Kylan in the last several weeks--

He knows his name. You can say his name and he will turn to you expectantly. He now outstretches his arms pretty regulary when he wants to be picked up. He has begun some serious giggling. He started laughing in September, but then it turned into shrieks, but now it is back to giggling. We think Kylan is going to be a singer--Axel Rose style. Every night when we go to prepare him for bed he makes these shrill noises. I don't know how to explain them, but you have to think he is hurting his voicebox. Ky loves to razz. He does it ALL the time. Unfortuantely this includes a lot of spit. Ky gave me kisses the other day. I was giving him kisses and he turned and slobbered on my cheek. It was very cute in a baby drool kind of way.
Ky is obsessed with food and drink. The boy trembles--yes TREMBLES with excitement when he sees us with food or a glass. He just prays that we are going to give him a taste.

So for Halloween, Ky went as a baby. Yes, we are not very imaginitive. But he did play in the leaves. He had fun. We dragged him on the tarp with the leaves from the back yard to the curb.

hMM...I think that wraps up the latest Kylan update. On Thanksgiving we are planning to feed him sweet potato. It should be an exciting time. That's all my thoughts for now...as random as they are.

home sweet home

Well..the Lord works in mysterious ways. After several offers on houses that fell apart we finally have one that worked for the best. The above pictures are of our new house as of November 29th. It is a 3 bedroom colonial with a family room on the main level, lots of beautiful gardens and even a playhouse in the backyard. It is located on a cul de sac, where I met another stay at home mom who is also a teacher. This house is 4 miles from Rob's work and is less than a mile to most stores, the mall, the gym, etc...talk about ideal location.

We got this house a week after it went on the market and for a fair amount less than asking. During the inspection, the roof was discovered to have problems, so the owners have agreed to put on a brand new roof before closing. They are a good christian couple (older) and ironically both graduated from Valpo (Rob and my alma mater.)

A few weeks before this house went on the market, Rob and I had decided that we were going to bite the bullet and just buy a house without selling ours. We knew it was going to be rough, however we were not going to deal with a winter of Rob's daily driving back and forth. After we put in an offer on this house, two days later we received an offer on our house. We know this was God. Perhaps this was a test of our faith. Us, taking the plunge, and trusting God to see us through and then we received the offer.

The offer was not the greatest offer, but it was enough. Actually it was the lowest price we had agreed to take for it (prior to the offer). We also felt somewhat insulted by some things the buyers wrote on their offer. We know we shouldn't feel insulted, but these people really have some issues. But God bless them and our old and new house. I will miss our current house. We have put a lot of work into it. But I am so glad to move on...

This is also why I have gotten so behind in the blog entries....Sorry for those who have noticed, but I imagine I will not be up to speed on blogging for at least a month with the impending move.
PEACE!!