I have no idea who reads these blogs besides our immediate family. So this may not be “news” to any of you… Tim accepted a job with Wal-Mart in northwest Arkansas. He starts his new job tomorrow! Jae Anna and I plan to join him very soon, but until then, we’re busying ourselves visiting family and friends and making sure the house is show-ready. We’re excited about this opportunity. And as is true with any big change, we’re looking forward to settling in and getting our bearings in the new town. I think we’ll really enjoy living there with lots of lakes, the Ozark Mountains, hot springs, and any shop or restaurant you can think of. We enjoy outdoors activities, so I think we’ll be right in our element.
We celebrated Jae Anna and Tim’s birthdays, together, yesterday. Tim’s b-day is actually the 20th (today!) and Jae Anna’s b-day is the 25th. We had a little party for them at my sister’s house since a lot of the family was going to be in their part of town for my niece, Ellie’s, band concert. Tim always says he doesn’t need to celebrate his birthday, but I think he enjoyed blowing out his 33 candles with Jae Anna on their Hello Kitty cake.
There really aren’t that many things to share with you as far as new things that Jae Anna is doing. She’s not walking, yet. But she is standing for longer and longer periods of time. I’m thinking that she’ll take a couple of steps in the new few weeks. We got her some big girl toys for her birthday and I can tell she was ready for them. She hasn’t been playing with her old toys for some time now. The dog bowl, the remote control, my keys (basically anything non-toy) are way more entertaining. My good little shopping companion no longer likes to shop with me. She’s not content sitting in a shopping cart or stroller anymore. So our shopping outings are very brief these days. She has learned that a continuous high pitched squeal will get her out of the cart pretty quickly since mommy doesn’t like the attention it brings. I see now why a lot of women’s clothing styles get outdated once they have kids. I can only imagine how much less and less time I’ll be spending on what used to be a favorite pass time or as I like to call it “my favorite sport”. But that is okay. I’d much rather have my beautiful daughter to play with than spend my life shopping without her. Motherhood has proven to be so much more fulfilling than anything I had anticipated it to be. It’s hard to imagine having more children and feeling that overflowing feeling of love for them as I do for Jae Anna, but then I see my nieces and nephews and how much love my sister and brother have for all of them. I’m sure every parent struggles with that thought until they hold the next child in their arms for the first time.
A friend of mine brought to my attention that she couldn’t leave comments on our blog. So I’m trying to adjust our settings so that anyone can holler at us.
We celebrated Jae Anna and Tim’s birthdays, together, yesterday. Tim’s b-day is actually the 20th (today!) and Jae Anna’s b-day is the 25th. We had a little party for them at my sister’s house since a lot of the family was going to be in their part of town for my niece, Ellie’s, band concert. Tim always says he doesn’t need to celebrate his birthday, but I think he enjoyed blowing out his 33 candles with Jae Anna on their Hello Kitty cake.
There really aren’t that many things to share with you as far as new things that Jae Anna is doing. She’s not walking, yet. But she is standing for longer and longer periods of time. I’m thinking that she’ll take a couple of steps in the new few weeks. We got her some big girl toys for her birthday and I can tell she was ready for them. She hasn’t been playing with her old toys for some time now. The dog bowl, the remote control, my keys (basically anything non-toy) are way more entertaining. My good little shopping companion no longer likes to shop with me. She’s not content sitting in a shopping cart or stroller anymore. So our shopping outings are very brief these days. She has learned that a continuous high pitched squeal will get her out of the cart pretty quickly since mommy doesn’t like the attention it brings. I see now why a lot of women’s clothing styles get outdated once they have kids. I can only imagine how much less and less time I’ll be spending on what used to be a favorite pass time or as I like to call it “my favorite sport”. But that is okay. I’d much rather have my beautiful daughter to play with than spend my life shopping without her. Motherhood has proven to be so much more fulfilling than anything I had anticipated it to be. It’s hard to imagine having more children and feeling that overflowing feeling of love for them as I do for Jae Anna, but then I see my nieces and nephews and how much love my sister and brother have for all of them. I’m sure every parent struggles with that thought until they hold the next child in their arms for the first time.
A friend of mine brought to my attention that she couldn’t leave comments on our blog. So I’m trying to adjust our settings so that anyone can holler at us.
