First and foremost, we are very excited that after 9 months of being in school and 3 months of driving back and forth on weekends, John is done with school for now and he finally lives here with us!!
E had so much fun at Christmas. She loved opening all of her presents and it was great to see her so excited about everything! She got so many new and exciting things to help her learn and grow.. and of course some awesome new outfits. Thank you so much to everyone that sent gifts!!
Just after Christmas we packed up the car to head to Colorado to check on the house and see some friends. It was so great to be back in CO and it reminded us of how much we missed it there. We drove through some snow on the way in and the way out, but it was gorgeous everyday. We got to have a "just the adults" dinner while 2 baby sitters watched all 7 kids, we went to a place called trampoline world, we went rock climbing, we got to see our house and we got to hang out with some great friends. Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of trampoline world, but it was awesome. All 7 kids and all 6 adults got to go in and jump around. It was a lot of fun!! Rock climbing was pretty awesome as well. Peanut had a blast. It was a huge indoor climbing place and they even had harnesses small enough for E to get into and climb. She spent a lot of time in the giant swing and the zip line. John and I made it to the top a few times and then we were all pretty exhausted!
We made our way back home just in time for john to start his new job here at Ft. Knox. It is pretty cool and it is NOTHING like his old job in Colorado. John has been adjusting very well and as a family we are enjoying this new lifestyle a lot more. John is home in time for dinner every night and some days he's home in time to COOK dinner… which is much better than getting home between 7 and 8 every night after the peanut is in bed! It is a much deserved and well earned position. John's job is now focused on writing contracts for the army and he even got his first two contracts yesterday! It was very exciting!
Peanut is doing great! She is getting so big and she has been learning so much. She is picking up new words every day and she is doing great with numbers and colors. Her favorite color to say is orange.. she also loves to eat them. She is also starting to develop quite the independence. John was carrying her out of the childcare center at our church this weekend when she proceeded to tell him "I walk, I walk" over and over again until he put her down to let her walk on her own. She was very pleased that not only she got her point across, but she got to walk ALL the way outside by herself. She also likes to use the word "no"… like "no bath", "no eat", "no shoes".. etc. She even helped us count all the way to 4 yesterday. She loves to sing whenever there is music on, she loves ALL fruits and will eat anything as long as it has chocolate or ketchup on it. She frequently runs around the house yelling "more choc-lat" and wants "cats-up" on everything. She loves playing number and letter games on the iPad. She loves snuggle time and watching Sophia the First and Doc McStuffins. Her most favorite thing to do is read books. She will sit on your lap for HOURS reading books. She likes us to read them to her, but she also likes to pretend that she is reading them to us. She loves books that have flaps that she can look under and ones that have big pictures of words that she can identify in them. She has one book that she can name everything in (cat, dog, chair, shoes, car, orange, etc..) and its pretty neat to see her able to do that! she has grown just over 1/2 and inch in the last 2 months and is now just over 32" and weighs about 26 lbs. She is such a smart and sweet little girl and it is so fun to watch her become her own little person.
Peanut started swimming lessons this week and she loves them. She had so much fun with the other kids and it was cool to see her kicking her feet and putting her arms out to try to swim. She loves the water and has no fear in it. She was eager to put her face in the water and loves going under the water.
This is what it looks like in my email--I click the blue link that says Happy 2014.
That link then takes me to the Blog webpage and should look like this picture below. That way you will be able to view the videos at the bottom. Also, if you are on a mobile device, the device may not allow you to view the videos. If not open them on a computer.
Here are the videos. You will click on the link to watch each one! Happy viewing
---------> Laughing baby!
----------> Swim lessons
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