A lot has happened since we last updated this blog. For starters, we have an up and running sprinkler system and a beautiful new lawn. Of course, now that it's started raining, it has been slightly more difficult to show off our spiffy new sprinklers, but that's ok. All in good time!
The kids are doing great. Taylor is continuing to enjoy her pre-k class and loves meeting new "girlies" anywhere she goes. She said the funniest thing the other day. I suspect it had been a long and tiring day for her because she couldn't stop bumping her head on things. I could see the frustration on her face and asked why she thought she was bumping her head so much. She replied with, "Because God made me with too big of a head and I need to exchange it for a smaller one." We had a good long laugh over that one..even AJ chimed in and thought it was funny. I love that girl. She really is her own little person. One other thing I've noticed with her is the sweetness she is finally showing toward her Brother. She now will give him good night kisses all on her own and she includes him in lots of play. I can tell AJ loves the attention from her.
AJ is such an inquisitive little kid. Any little noise that presents itself, he stands as still as a statue and just listens with his mouth wide open. His new fascination is the rear windshield wiper. I also have been letting him get into a bad habit! I let him "drive" my car in the garage pretty much every day. As soon as he wakes up in the morning, before he even eats breakfast, he asks to go drive the car. At first, I let him have the real key, but found that he could start up the car in no time so then I started giving him other keys. He loves turning on the lights and messing up the visors. One day he left on the fog lights...oops. Jumper cables!!
At 22 months, AJ is speaking in complete sentences with quite a varied vocabulary. He talks just as much as his Sister, which is really hard to pull off. Sometimes I get dizzy trying to figure out which conversation to follow as we are driving in the car. Like Taylor, AJ also loves the pool and jumping into the pool all by himself. He has no fear whatsoever. His poor little toes get all scuffed up and bloody from climbing out of the pool over and over and over. He also enjoys turning on the buckets that fill up with water and turn upside down. This is probably right up there with driving the car! Oh, one more thing...we just signed AJ up for Tricks and he is loving it!
My wonderful Chris has taken a new job with Verizon. He's a consultant of sales operations now, which is presenting him with new and fun challenges. It's so nice to see him happy at work again. It's been a long time. His new job is considered temporary right now and so he is making less money. Enter pizza delivery guy! Chris is making up some of his losses by delivering pizza. We have been eating lots and lots of pizza lately. I'm sad that he is gone a few nights a week, but I appreciate his dedication to our family and I look forward to him getting to be home most nights in the near future.