Overdue update

I haven't done an actual post in a while so I thought I would update everyone about what's been going on with us lately. I know you appreciate the pictures and frankly, some days that's all the energy I have to post something. Working full time and having two kids is definitely interesting! Exhausting but worth every minute of it!

A comment was made to me the other day because someone noticed that I have updated the website around 6:30 am a couple of times. Usually we've been up for a while at this time. Abigail varies on what time she gets up. She sometimes gets up around 5 am like she did this morning and sometimes she makes me wake her up at 6:30 so she'll have time to eat and get dressed before we have to leave the house. My goal is to leave the house at 7 am but we usually end up leaving around 7:10. Those who know me well enough shouldn't be surprised that I can't leave on time!
Well the first paragraph ended up talking about Abigail so we'll start with her. She thinks everything is funny. She smiles and laughs at everything. Her giggle and coo are the cutest thing and they makes me smile every time. She has really adjusted to daycare lately. I think one of her favorite teachers is Miss L. I think Miss L. likes Abigail just as much! If she's not with another baby in the morning she will usually come to get Abigail out of her car seat while Austin and I put her bottles in the refrigerator and sign her in. Abigail always gives Miss L. the biggest smile when she picks her up and talks to her. Abigail is now drinking 4-5 bottles a day. I bit the bullet and bought a great breast pump. I send five 3-3 1/2 ounce bottles of breast milk to school a day by pumping during my two breaks and my lunch. It's awesome knowing that my baby is getting the best even while she is away from me. I want to get her a Bumbo seat but I'm waiting for Target to have a pink, purple or yellow one. The last time they had one it was blue and the other day when the kids and I went they didn't have any at all. She gets to start cereal in a couple of weeks when she's 4 months. I'm sure she'll like it just as much as her big brother did. D.R.O.O.L. - it's starting already! I think she saves it all up and spits it out at once! I'm interested to see how much she's grown. She goes for her 4 month check up and shots (ouch) on the 11th.

Austin. He's three. He's independent. He's potty training. Does that sum it up for you? He's been a handful lately! I'm kidding, he's doing better lately. I was beginning to think he was going to be 12 before he got the hang of this potty training thing. He's been doing better lately, but he's still not where I would like him to be. He is probably sick of us asking him if he needs to go potty. If I'm not asking him every 5 minutes, Daddy is. He did really well this weekend. He, Abigail and I went to McAlister's for lunch and then to Toys R Us and Target in search of the Bumbo. At both McAlister's and Target he told me that he had to go potty. We went to the bathroom and sure enough, he went! When we went to the grocery store on Sunday we asked him if he had to go potty and he said yes! Sure enough, he went! We're getting there. Potty and school is a little difficult still. I think he gets too busy playing and he forgets about going potty. He only came home with 2 bags of wet clothes today. We just have to stick with it. Putting Austin to bed lately has been much better. We can now tell him that's it's time to go to bed and he will go into his room and crawl into bed. We kiss him good night and leave the room. Usually he will ask if we will sit with him but we tell him that we're going to bed ourselves or that we have to go get Abigail ready for bed. At which point he will roll over and go to sleep. It's so much better than the struggle we used to go through. Most of the time he will sleep all night. Austin also has to go to the doctor on the 11th to see Dr. R. for his routine tube check.

My Mom is coming to visit in a couple of weeks. I was teasing her that she's on the 3 month plan. She was here in December, then again in February and now in June. Honestly, I'm excited for her to be visiting again!

Michael has been working days instead of second shift and it's been nice to have him home in the evenings. He still has to work on Saturday's but it gives the kids and I some time to hang out and do whatever we want while he's working.

Well, I guess I better get the kids ready for bed. I feel a sinus infection coming on so I better get ready for bed myself.

See what I mean (Edited)

This is our what our backyard looked like before the rain hit the last couple of days.



This is what it looks like now. The picture below is taken of the same area as above. The deer feeder is completely submerged under water.

There is a small lake way past these trees. The lake is probably six times it's original size at this point.

It has also been reported that a tornado touched down right by my work yesterday as we were all getting ready to end our work week. The rain sounded really strange and then the power went out. It came back on about 30 seconds later. I'm not sure if the tornado went over my work but it did affect an apartment complex less than a mile away. I was very relieved to get my kids and get home last night!

Edited: Below are some pictures of Watercrest, the road that is flooded to the bottom of a speed limit sign. I think the water is higher now.

Trying to stay afloat

We have had a lot of rain the past two days. Killeen has even made the news over at CNN.com. Click here to read the story. The kids and I have had to take an alternate route just to make it home the past two days. Every way I attempted to get home yesterday resulted in having to turn around because of a flooded road. Not far from our house the road is so flooded the water comes to the bottom of a speed limit sign. Very scary. Instead of getting around in the car we're going to need a boat for the next week...

Look how much I've grown

1 1/2 months old

3 1/2 months old

And you can't have a picture of Abigail without a picture of
Austin!

New pictures

The newest movie

Here's the latest gossip from our girl. She had the hiccups too. She's so much fun now that she's able to interact with us.

Wish us luck

They informed us yesterday that we can start bringing Austin to school in underwear! I went last night and got him some knit shorts that are easy to pull up and down. I might have to get him some more, we'll see how today goes. His teachers say that he goes potty at school all the time when they tell him to go. Let's hope he starts to take the initiative and starts to go on his own when he's wearing underwear. He knows when he has to go potty, he's smart! So anyways, wish us luck!

Happy Mother's Day

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My Mother's Day present from my kids and my husband was a Mother's ring. I love it. Here is a picture of it.

3 Months

Abigail is 3 months old today. Oh how the time flies when you're having fun. Here is a picture comparison of how much she's grown in a little over a month.

I also have two sick kids at home. The daycare germs have attacked us all at once. They both have a terrible cough. Abigail has congestion associated with hers and Austin seems to have a little bit of a fever with his. We've been giving Austin Tylenol and some breathing treatments. Abigail is getting Vick's Baby Rub and I'll probably be taking her in the bathroom later for a little steam treatment from the shower because she's starting to wheeze a little. Here is a picture of my sick babies this morning.

Amazed

We have another child who sticks their tongue out! Austin sticks his tongue out when he's really concentrating on something. I don't think he even realizes that he does it. I caught Abigail sticking her tongue out the other day when she was in her bouncy seat. She was really concentrating on the bubbles and fish as you can see in the pictures below. She is really starting to interact with us and other things more. She loves to watch the mobile on the swing, kicks her feet in the bouncy seat and is smiling and cooing all the time. She's starting to giggle and laugh at herself too. I'm sure she doesn't know what she's doing but it's the cutest thing.

Wild hair

I'll probably get in trouble with Austin for posting these pictures when he looks back, but I couldn't resist! He was combing Abigail's hair. She thought it was funny!

Still alive

I have to post these pictures for my Grandma. She nursed this plant back to life while she was here and I have to show her that I'm keeping it alive. I'm not the greatest at keeping plants alive, so I'm pretty proud of myself!

Special delivery

Austin always enjoys getting a package in the mail. Wouldn't this be a great package to get in the mail?

Another comparison

I thought it might be fun to post a couple more pictures of Austin and Abigail when they were around the same age. He was a little bit bigger than she was! He also had more hair on the top of his head! Aren't they the cutest? I think so!

They know

They know when I'm taking their picture. The difference is that Abigail will give me the biggest smile and Austin won't. After obsessively taking his picture for 3 years, the kid won't smile any more. He says "Cheese" and he's done. He won't even look at me for 3 seconds. Little stinker!

A semi-smile, and he's looking at me!

Abigail will smile at me any time!

Rain rain go away...

It has rained the last three days. It hasn't rained the whole day, just during the times when it shouldn't. Rain makes it very difficult for me to get the kids in and out of school. It absolutely poured when I got to work yesterday. Of course it was a fine time to find out that my umbrella didn't work! I got soaked running into work.

The same ole same ole is going on down here. I do the same routine every day. Get up, get the kids ready, take them to school, work 8 hours, pick the kids up, come home, make/eat dinner, wash bottles, get the kids ready for bed, get them into bed, finally collapse into bed myself just to do it all over again in the morning. Thank goodness Abigail sleeps through the night. I don't know what I'd do if she didn't. Probably walk around like a sleep deprived mummy all day. Oh wait, I already do that!

Anyways, it's time to get Austin into bed. Here are some pictures of the kids.

This looks like the same picture as in this post, but it's not. This is a little closer picture of that cute smile!