More to come!

I know you have been patiently waiting on me to get my butt on here and update. Sorry. I had to take the computer when I started school and just brought it back for a couple of days. I need to learn how to load things on the Mac now so I'll try to learn this weekend and keep up better! I will also post a couple of videos this weekend so that you can get some action shots, but I am just way too tired tonight.

Updates from the homefront though:

1. Little Dog has a new home as of the day I dropped Ani Amy at the airport. She is now a proud member of the Martin family and since they are military she will be traveling to Hawaii in November. Things sound like they are going quite well with her new family AND she has 2 kids to play with there as well!

2. Jonathan and I started school. Jonathan is liking the 4th grade, but has none of his friends from his other classes in his class this year so he's busy trying to make some new friends. He also got to go to his first pep rally at the high school last Friday and he thought that was really cool, but noisy! :-P I am starting this school year with another student teacher and she seems really good. I am excited about fresh ideas and so far she has impressed me with her devotion to learning how to work through lessons smoothly and she has good classroom management for a newby! WaHoo!! Quite refreshing!

3. Jansen has started daycare and after a rough first couple of weeks is settling in nicely. He has picked up a cold though and he's such a sweet & kind little boy that he shared it with his Mommy so we were both home sick yesteday ALREADY!!! We went to see the pediatrician, but he said it was only a nasty cold. No fever + no wheezing = a really relieved Mommy, even if she's stuffy too! I really just have to work on teaching him that he doesn't have to share everything, but if that means giving up those sweet kisses I'm out. It's not worth losing out on those precious gifts to avoid his sniffles. We could be in for a snotty year, but we'll deal with it if that's the case! It was like a sneezing symphony here these last couple of days between the two of us though!

4. Richard had a conference a couple of weeks ago and then a one day training on the way back from the first one. He got about a week away from us and we missed him a great deal. I think, though he said he wished we could have come too, that he secretly enjoyed the time to himself since Jansen has been teething pretty much non-stop for just over a month now. He has been dubbed McScreamy semi-permanently so Richard got a brief moment away from that! By the time Daddy got home I was ready for a moment of peace to catch up on the housework without trying to do it one-handed, so I passed McScreamy off to a refreshed Daddy and got busy. Too bad that cleaning thing doesn't last long. I've had to do it a few more times since he got back already, but it's sooooo much easier when he's here to entertain or at least distract McScreamy for a bit!

5. And now for the biggest news of all.... Hot off the press (yesterday)... Drumroll Please.... We have a WALKER!! Jansen has started walking as of yesterday afternoon. He still only takes about 6 steps successively at max, but he does it consistently. He kept going back and forth between Richard and I last night and laughing & clapping! It was so much fun!! He can still crawl faster than walk so he mixes them up depending on his urgency and the height of whatever he is going for, but he can do it and he knows it now!! WaHoo!!

Now I'm off to bed. I promise I'll shoot for those vids tomorrow or Saturday and hopefully I'll have some new walking pics and vids to add along with the ones waiting to be posted already!