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I know everyone is ready for a house update and after my venting post yesterday you deserve it ;) So here is a time line of what's happened so far on the new house! (and a video Zach took early on during the building process of Kye) Enjoy! Day lot became officially ours (sometime around Sept 9th) The Parker Family property! helping Big Papa clear the lot to make room for our home earning that sweat equity goodbye beautiful pecan tree :( starting to frame day before leaving for Big Canoe/Wedding/Jamaica trip (Sept 24th) home from Jamaica (Oct 6th!) garage side back Kye checkin' out his new room G-Mama enjoying the new house Big Papa came by to do his own inspection on the work Gramma - our future neighbor ;) First fam pic on our front porch (10/6/10)! view of family room looking out to backyard on 10/11 looking upstairs from living room outside: windows and door in, roof started (10/14) close up of the door and windows (door will be painted, colors to come soon!) ...
I am very far behind in blogging, I realize this. And I realize that half of what I want to vent about you blog readers don't even know yet because I'm living in today and you guys are still living in my one-month-ago-world. I feel overwhelmed right now and need to get it all out and don't have anyone to go to so I'm going to talk to you :) Since June our lives have been pretty crazy. After the house fell through we were living in a home that didn't feel like ours with half of our stuff (well probably less than half) and all of it out of place. Now that "our" house is no longer ours the feeling hasn't changed (I still feel not at home but I've been feeling like that since June so I'm kinda used to that) but now all of the stuff we do have at the house is even MORE out of place. And I feel guilty that it's all even here to begin with b/c Mom should be able to put HER stuff away and have this feel like HER house ya know? I realize with all ...
As you all know, life around our house the past couple of months has been pretty insane. It's not only been crazy for our little family of three but it's been nuts for Mom as well! The day we got back from Jamaica mom was actually coming to Valdosta for "good" (she had an Aflac training class the next day then that weekend she and Zach went to Melbourne to officially move her up here!). Before leaving for the Big Canoe/Wedding/Jamaica trip Kye and I worked hard to make Mom some welcome signs for her when she arrived (we had some girls watching the house for us while we were gone so they hung them for us on the day of Mom's arrival since we were in Jamaica - I know confusing!). Kye and I made a HUGE sign for the garage that said "Welcome Home Gramma" then we did a smaller sign for the front door that read "Gramma's House." Cute huh? Growing up Mom always did big garage signs for us on our birthdays or other big events so I was pretty pumpe...
For this months breakdown of where Kye compares to the "norm" for his age from What to Expect The Toddler Years , I'm using more pictures from our fun time at the park in Big Canoe . They had a BEAUTIFUL field there that just screamed "run on me!" So we did. And it was fun :) "down, set, hut!" Kye can do everything a 19 month old "should" be able to do. The list simply says that by this age he should be able to perform all the previous "should be able to's..." from the previous months. I don't think there was a month that he wasn't performing something from that list so I guess he's good to go! pumpin' that arm like his mama Kye can do all the things a 19 month old "will probably" and "may possibly" be able to do including: "feed" a doll use 6 words walk up steps (Big Canoe was great practice!) build a tower out of 4 cubes identify 2 pictures by pointing Crazy...
