Just Have To Keep on Going

I'm so far behind on blogging. Eh. Oh well. I can't sit and think about it or I just don't want to write and that's not good either!

       January went by way too fast. We spent most of our month on our own with Reed out of town WAY too much. We had 2 straight weeks where he was gone from Monday through Friday or Saturday. Yuck!! And then the last 2 weeks have been pretty similar. Poor guy. He's so tired from driving so much. He's so tired from working sunup to sundown and trying to do his regular work AND do tradeshows. When we get him on the weekends, it's just too short. BUT he's finally hit a lull for a few weeks and we are SOOOO happy!! 
     This last week we went and met him in Twin Falls where he was doing a show and we stayed with him in his motel and enjoyed the pool, the breakfasts and the exercise room. :)  There are definite perks to his job. We got to see my sister Alyson while we were there and went to our favorite shopping spots there as well! So that was fun.
        Aftyn and Bronwyn are both the same as ever. Playing, fighting, reading books, and having fun. Bronwyn has decided to start testing the waters again and has begun screaming(!!) when she feels really hurt or gets really hurt. Seriously. I just let her get it out of her system and then figure out what's really wrong and if she's going to die anytime soon. Which she isn't, but she doesn't know how else, I guess, to communicate that she's really hurt. Oh my. We're working on just using our words, something she has been struggling with for a long time. Hopefully sometime soon she will figure it out and she'll learn to be more patient with herself and all of us. 
             Mirren is still not walking, but she's getting a lot more steady on her feet in general. Also, she is a very steady knee crawler now, very rarely breaking out the army crawl. Her clothes show it. ;)  She just started climbing onto things this week, figuring out how to climb up on the couch, onto stools, and anything else she can. She loves it and it's cute to watch. She has 2 teeth on top and 2 on bottom and it looks like she's getting 2 more teeth on bottom. We'll just see what actually happens. I laid her in Bronwyn's bunk bed tonight to see what she would think about sleeping in a big girl bed. She laid there so quietly, not even moving, with the cutest little grin on her face and the blanket pulled up to her chin. She didn't want to move but looked a little uncertain about the whole thing. Uncertain if I was going to leave her there for real.  I called Reed up, who has been saying he thinks she's too little for a big bed. After seeing how happy she was, Reed changed his mind. LOL  We'll be changing her sleeping arrangements here in the next week or so. She's going to love it and I'm excited!

Okay, I'm challenging myself to keep up the blogging! I want to get back into the habit, and I'm challenging myself to figure out what the heck is wrong with my computer so I can upload pictures from my camera.