sweet baby boy

I have the sweetest baby boy!  He is 14.5 months old and the longest "baby" I've ever had.  What I mean is this, at that age my girls were walking, running around and also talking.  They could speak several words and get their point across.  I look at pictures of them at that age and they look so "grown"...  Baby boy is NONE of that!
At 14.5 months old, he crawls, FAST, everywhere.  He has also recently learned to climb up our stairs and squeals in delight every time!  He knows 1 word, Dada, and knows very well who that is.  He knows by the chimes of the door opening when dada comes home, and does his military crawl at super speed to get to dada.  Don't be mistaken though, as much as he loves his dada, he is still a mama's boy!  Which shocks me that he won't say mama.  sigh  He doesn't walk, he cruises around the furniture, but he refuses to stand on his own and walk.  In fact, when we hold his hands to make him walk, he throws himself on the floor.  I have no idea why.  Part of me loves that he's still such a baby :)  I love holding him!  But part of me is ready to hear him say my name, to run towards me!  I know he'll do it all in his own time.

My boy LOVES his food!  At his 1 year well check, he had lost 2 pounds, and you could see the weight melting off him.  He was a super chunk and at that point, other than cheeks, he had no chunk! I stopped nursing and put him on milk, and after months of battling his eating issues, he finally started eating solid food without choking and puking it! And let me tell you, he gets hangry and it's so funny!  He is a true carnivore, his favorite is chicken! He loves sweets (we put a limit on that for sure), loves strawberries, goldfish, yogurt, mashed potatoes....

It's interesting to see the differences b/t him and the girls.  He is doing it all on his own time, his own way!  He is a true joy to our family and we can't get enough of our sweet baby boy!!!!

Back to school

I have been blessed with a wonderful gift and "job".  And although some days I complain, I am so beyond thankful that I get to stay at home with my 3 children and homeschool.  This week we started our school year.  This year, I get to officially school my 2 oldest!  Seems impossible!  I have a lot of plans for this school year, and hopefully with baby brother being a bit older, we can have an easier more flexible school year :)

This big girl is in 2nd grade!  Seeing all she's accomplished and learned makes my heart happy.  I love being the one that sees a smile on her face when she 'gets' something.  Or being the one to help her overcome her frustrations with something.  She grew so much last school year, I look forward to all she'll learn this year. :)  She's developing her "favorite" things to learn, dinosaurs and Egypt are some of her faves ;) I'm working on teaching her to study more about items that interest her.  She still loves drawing and creating her own books.  And she still wants to work with animals in some capacity when she's older.  

Although she's done school work for the past 2 years, this cutie is officially in PreK this year and excited to have her own curriculum.  This is our first year reusing our first set of books we ever bought with the Sonlight curriculum.  We had started big sis with Prek and now baby sis gets to use it.  She loves all the workbooks, and we're working on sitting still whenever mommy has to do the reading portion.  She's doing really well though!  So proud of her! 

She asked me what she could be when she grew up, I said since she loves to sit quietly, alone and do puzzles, she could be a diagnostician.  I proceeded to explain what that was, and she loved it b/c she wants to help people get better. ;)  Love it!!!! 

Watching my babies grow is bittersweet and I always struggle with it.  But I am so thankful for this new chapter and for having 2 sweet kids in school!  Praying for a great school year and that the Lord uses me to bring Him glory as I school my children!