Anyhow, its been a minute or two since my last post. I haven't missed blogging about much though, just my first child being born. And my second child. But there is no time like the present to start the old blog back up again. I just finished another semester of school, so I am out for seven weeks! Yay! I have to go back in September for my FINAL SEMESTER! I am hoping if I blog every week for 7 weeks that will be long enough to make it a habit. Its just so hard while I am in school and have two kids!! But I really do enjoy blogging. Its the closest thing I have to a journal!
Since I missed so much time between now and my last post there is no way I will ever catch up so I will just start with what's going on with everyone now.
Tommy- Ole Tommy recently graduated with his Bachelors in Business Management! I am so proud of him. He really focused on school when we got married and he has been kicking butt ever since. I love that guy. He got accepted to UAB's MBA program and he will be starting that in September. He is going to pursue UAB's Dual Degree program where he will have the opportunity to get his MBA and his MSHA at the same time. He will start the MSHA program next summer. I am not looking forward to him being gone all the time, but I know its what's best for our family in the long run. So I am trying to be tough and make him proud!
Brittany- I already told you I finished up a really hard semester of school. Somehow I ended up taking all of the really hard upper level classes at the same time. But now all I have left is an internship and two classes next semester and I will be finished with my Bachelors too! Right now I am just focusing on having fun. I was always trying to do schoolwork when AnneMarie would sleep. John doesn't take naps anymore so he took care of himself a lot. I would also have to give Tommy the kids pretty much as soon as he walked in the door so I could go do homework. I feel like I haven't been playing with them as much as I should. So we have just been playing everyday for three days! Real summer is almost over but it just started for me!! We have been swimming everyday and we just got back from the zoo this morning!
John- Our Bubba is getting so big! He is so sweet and has started giving me kisses all the time. He is obsessed with Thomas the Tank Engine right now. All the rest of us have to put up with that Thomas the Tank Engine theme song every time its his turn to pick a show. I just started implementing the "taking turns picking a show" rule because he will watch Thomas all day if I let him. I tell him AnneMarie gets a turn and then Mama gets a turn, and then he gets a turn. It actually works out for me because whatever I turn on for her he usually gets interested in too. He is two and a half years old now. He still struggles with his speech. He can communicate with Tommy and I but it involves a lot of whining and he throws a lot of fits. So that's hard. He has been getting speech therapy twice a month. The therapist doesn't think he will qualify for any free preschooling to help because he has made so much progress since we started seeing her. We are going to meet with the School District Representative on Monday. I almost hope he does qualify so that he can be around other kids his age. I think that would help him a lot. John is also potty trained!! He picked up on that very quickly so we were all super happy about that. $20 something dollars I don't have to spend on diapers every month! John is so fun now that he is getting older. He is a good helper, loves all things trains, loves hot dogs, and apples!
AnneMarie- Its amazing how different your kids personalities can be. Annie and John are so different in almost every way! John was a tiny little baby when he born and she was a chunk. She is a chunk now! She is bigger than her two year old cousin Lina. Like I am starting to get genuinely concerned! haha! She loves food. She refuses all baby food except for the fruits because she wants to eat whatever John is eating. She has two little teeth and I am pretty sure she is working on her top teeth since she's been a little extra fussy lately. She loves our dog so much. She will laugh if the dog is just walking around! Belle is a good babysitter. Annie reminds me of John when he was little. He would sit and watch the entire movie of Brother Bear and The Nightmare Before Christmas. She will sit and watch the entire movie of The Good Dinosaur and Tangled. Which is good for cleaning time! Annie is sweet and cuddly, she loves to be in water (bath or swimming), and she loves it when John plays with her. (Which isn't that often because she pulls hair and pinches...)
We are getting ready to move in with Tommy's parents at the beginning of August. Since Tommy is starting grad school and I am going to have to do a 20+ hour a week internship in the fall, I am going to need help with the kids. I am looking forward to having another adult to talk to during the day and a bigger space for the kids to play in other than our apartment. John will like being able to go outside and Tommy is going to love saving some serious dinero. We are hoping to rent a house when we move out in six months that is the same size or bigger than our apartment that has a little backyard for the kids to play in. They just love to be outside and I hate having to keep them closed up all day.
That what's going on with the Green Team lately! We are going to the beach next week and hopefully hooking up with my parents and siblings down there. But if that doesn't work out I am still looking really forward to seeing my grandparents and my aunts and uncles! I haven't been to the beach in years so I am about to die to get there!
BG
