More daily life

What a week! The boys are putting themselves to bed every night, at the same time, in their room. It's amazing, phenomenal, I feel like a new person and I really didn't think it would happen this soon! You have to understand, that having your sleep interrupted for an entire year, longer if you count the pregnancy, can be hugely detrimental; it's hard to explain if you haven't experienced it recently.

I know some women have their babies sleeping through the night by 12 weeks old, or their babies are just sleepers, and that's great. I just wasn't comfortable forcing our boys to sleep through the night until they were ready (Kyle started doing this at 10 months old, Micah is 13 months old). When we moved to Nashville, Kyle regressed some and required one of us to lay down with him while he fell asleep; only since Micah has started going to bed with him in their room, has this request completely vanished! Don't get me wrong, I love snuggling with my boys while they fall asleep, but some nights it would last a LOOONNNGGG time and by the time I stumbled downstairs, it would be 10 o'clock already, so I'd head straight back up and go to bed until Micah's midnight feeding or just stay up and do stuff around the house until Micah's midnight feeding. Anyways, it's all very exhausting the first year of an infant's life and having the boys' sleep life falling in to place is an ENORMOUS piece of the puzzle to me feeling like a human being.

Kyle is really starting to get excited about his 5th birthday coming up next month! Kevin and I have been exploring birthday party options. It's all quite amazing what you can do for a kid's birthday party these days; My 5th birthday is the first party I have clear memories of, including the purple, frilly party dress I wore. It was at McDonalds on Arizona Ave. in Chandler (no longer there). I don't think McDonalds even does birthday parties anymore. Do you remember your 5th birthday party? Let me know in the comments.

Well, we went back to the church we tried last week. Sunday school was good all around; Micah hung out with us because he has a runny nose, but no one gave us a hard time about it and the sermon was fine. This church has great community outreach and activities for the kids. We'll see, there are a few red flags, but these are known to us and are more personal issues, then true make or break issues with the church itself (it has to with the denomination). And that is all I have to say about that! Here's to starting year #2 of church searching.

The boys both continue to grow up. Kyle has just recently been able to really verbalize what he wants/needs/is feeling. It's been quite the developmental leap that I've noticed in him from concrete to more abstract. Micah is starting to develop a love for reading, something he had not been interested in up till now. Both boys still love to play with sticks, throw rocks, and wrestle; it's non stop action around here! Micah has gone back to two naps a day since we arrived home from vacation. This means Kyle and I play games/read during nap #1 and Kyle does his own quiet time during nap #2.

Hey! We got new furniture, new to us, but our current furniture isn't yet sold, so the family room is full of couches and chairs. It's a cushy wonderland for the boys. Micah can now climb up and down all of our furniture himself, and then often rolls off.

Oh man, and did I tell you about the ants. Ever since we got home, there have been ants in the kitchen. We have regular pest control, but they forgot to schedule us for July, so they hadn't come while we were on vacation, ugh. So I called and scheduled them as soon as we got home, they sprayed and we saw more ants, so I got ant traps and wow did they love those! It's been since Wed. and I only saw one ant today, thank goodness. I'm crossing my fingers that they are gone for good.

Well, Kevin has now beat me up to bed, which rarely happens, so goodnight! And I'll update again soon.