Back At It

Life, as you might have guessed, has been pretty busy the last few weeks. 

We had a trip to Idaho Falls for eye exams. Aftyn got 2 new sets of glasses just in time for school to start! Woohoo!! Mirren's eyes look great after her surgery, she is looking a little far sighted so she may need glasses, but for now she gets to wear her eye patch 5 days of the week instead of 7 and only 2 hours on those days instead of 3. Woot!!

Bronwyn has been turning into the boss at home now that Aftyn is in first grade and she has school every day, all day. In some ways it's good. In others ..... yeah. She is really coming into her own. She had an awesome summer. She finally learned to swim. She learned to ride a 2 wheeler with absolutely no help at all. And next week, unbeknownst to her yet, she gets to have a dance class. She is going to flip!!!!

Mirren recently gave up the binky. We had some strange repercussions from that, like she started having problems staying dry at night and once I caught her with her thumb in her mouth in the middle of the day.  Perplexing....  But as of now, things are back to fine. She is staying dry again, after putting her back in pull-ups for about a week which she hated, and I'm keeping a really strict eye on the whole fingers in her mouth thing. She is 2 months away from turning 3, but has been in 3t clothes for about 2 months. She is going to catch Bronwyn here in a few years unless Bronwyn surprises us all and starts having some massive growth spurts. Bronwyn JUST went into 5t stuff, but still fits in a lot of 4t clothes.

Lochlan's 1st birthday is this Saturday. :(  :)  How did that go so fast? He is such a fun boy. He's stronger than he knows. I call him a brute. Except he smiles all the while that he's unknowingly hurting you. He does really well with being taught to be gentle, thank goodness, so I just have to keep moving forward with that. He's not walking yet, but he cruises and crawls like nobody's business. He can crawl into the bathroom SO fast, all the while laughing and smiling as you try to catch him. Little stinker. It's hard to not smile while he's being naughty because he's smiling and laughing at you while you try to tell him no. Ha ha!!! He sure is loved.

We got 2 cats about the beginning of July. One was a kitten maybe 10-12 weeks old, an orange tabby. We named her Tilly. Now she's referred to as Tilly the terrible or Atilla the Hun. She is your typical crazy kitten. At the same time, we took an abandoned cat from my sister that needed a home. She showed up one day at my sisters house and just never left so my sister was feeding her for a few months before we decided to give her a home. At my sisters house, she was called Blackjack. We initially called her BJ and that morphed into Betty Jean, and now we just call her Betty. Recently, it became Big Betty. She really is a sweet cat and is so patient with our crazy kitten. Poor Betty recently got re-spayed because unbeknownst to us, her previous owners had had her spayed but we didn't know so in trying to do the right thing, the poor thing had to go back in a 2nd time. Except they couldn't find her uterus. Poor poor Betty. She's recovered well, and totally got spoiled while she's been recovering.

Reed is doing great at work. He continues to support our family so well and I am impressed with his work ethic. I am in the middle/beginning of finally losing this dang baby weight! I have lost about 16 pounds so far and cannot wait to be done. Seriously. There will be a party with lots of yummy food. :) Ha ha ha!!!!