Things are looking up!

I am a bad blogger.  Most people probably think that being a stay-at-home mom is easy.  I thought it was going to be...back when I had one child.  Well I have been a working mom and a stay-at-home mom and I can honestly say that being a stay-at-home mom is much harder (at least when your children are not in school yet)!  I love my kids more than anything in the world, but when you stay at home, there is no break! I now get excited to go to Publix or take a shower.  It is difficult to find time to blog between potty training Leah and trying to keep Peyton calm while she gets her "patch time" in each day.  Plus, I have never really been the most open person, so this is all quite new to me! Anyways, that is why it has been a month since my last blog.

Our days are pretty boring and monotonous, but here is a brief summary of our life this past month!

Leah is the cutest little toddler in the world.  She just turned two last month, and yes sometimes they are the terrible two's!  However, most of the time, she is the sweetest girl.  We are right in the heart of potty training.  We have had several attempts at potty training since she was about 15 months, but it seems that I have given up each time upon realizing that she just had no interest in being potty trained.  In the past few weeks though, she has shown more interest in being potty training.  She has told me a few times that she needed to go, but most of the time she just tells me after or not at all.  But we are definitely making progress.  I would love for her to be potty-trained by the summer.  I am absolutely amazed at how she picks up on things.  She is saying 4-6 word sentences now.  She counts to 10 and has been since she was about 16 months.  She knows most colors, although she calls brown "chocolate" and black "coffee" for some reason!  It is so funny how she will get really interested in one thing for a few weeks and then switch to something else.  She is currently very in to the Disney Princesses, particularly Sleeping Beauty.  She loves to watch Sleeping Beauty, which is kinda unfortunate for us because it is literally the worst animated Disney movie!  She absolutely adores her little sister.  Surprisingly she did not even seem to notice Peyton's patch, however I did find a sticker directly over her stuffed dog's left eye...so cute!  Leah is just the most loving kid.  The other night we went to Longhorn for dinner and she literally told me she loved me like 100 times.  I just love that kid!

 

Leah gave her puppy a patch!

Peyton is doing very well! She went back to the doctor for a post-op last week and he is still very pleased with her progress.  She now wears the patch every day for 4 hours.  She still doesn't like it, but she is getting used to it.  She was fitted for her glasses and they should be in next week.  She tried some on, and I must say that she looked absolutely adorable.  Keeping them on should be a challenge.  The doctor said that from here on out it is pretty much in our hands, but hopefully she will thank us in 30 years.  She does not go back to the doctor again until May.  I have said before, Peyton has got the sweetest disposition, but she has definitely tried our patience.  She is a pretty fussy baby.  I don't know if it is colic, or gas, or what, but she cries a lot.  This is new to us because Leah has always been the happiest baby and kid!  I keep thinking that she will grow out of it, but that has yet to take place! I am hoping that once she gets her glasses and can see better, she will be happier! But when she is happy, her smile is as big as her face and her laugh is absolutely contagious!

She is quite chunky!

On to sad news...Charlie was not able to have his surgery.  When we went in, the surgeon determined that it was just too advanced for him to do the surgery.  He wanted us to bring Charlie to Knoxville for surgery with an oncologist, but he would have had to have at least three ribs removed and spend a week in the hospital.  He also said that the cancer was likely to recur.  We already spent about $600 just to diagnose him, and after surgery and chemo we could have been looking at spending $10,000 easily.  With the amount of pain he would be in and the likelihood that it would recur, we decided that it was not worth it.  He is still a happy little dog and other than the massive lump, you would never know that he was sick.  He is living with my parents now since they can give him more attention.  When he shows signs of being in pain, then we will put him down, but for now we are just letting him be happy and spoiling him!

I mentioned in my last blog that we are trying to sell our house and have been for like 18 months.  We have had incredible activity lately.  About 10 showings in the past two weeks.  We had refrained from looking at new homes until recently because we did not want to fall in love with something that we could not have, but with all the activity, we feel like it is bound to sell soon! So we started looking and we fell in love!  We went in a model home in a new neighborhood and we pretty much have to have it now.  We will probably build it, provided that our house sells and we are unable to find an incredible deal somewhere.  I will give more details once our house sells (keeping my fingers crossed that it is soon)!

So February was a tough month for us, but things are looking up now! We are loving this warm weather and looking forward to the spring and summer!