well... Antony will be 6 months old soon! :( i actually am excited for him to start crawling because right now he wants to be on the move so i end up holding him just a little more than i want to... i do love holding him! i just want to be able to do a couple of other things, like, clean my house. it's complicated when holding him, AND he can literally jump OUT of the moby wrap and/or the snugli when i bend over, so they are no help. have you ever tried to clean your house without bending. i cannot bend at the waist at all or his little feet push off of my thighs and i am now catching a baby. :) but i guess it's a good enough excuse to not have the cleanest house. it's not like it was always spotless before. Antony gets even more fussy on the week that Xavian is gone to his dad's. he misses his brother like crazy! already. :( poor baby. but eventually he might like it a little, alone time with mom and dad.
i've started to do at home preschool with Xavie again. We are doing it every day of the week this year. he can spell and write his name. recite his alphabet and recognize most of them. (all of them sometimes, i think he just pretends like he doesn't know other times just to irritate me. ;)) he can count to 12. i guess i need to work on that. :) i've been more concerned with letters and reading. prolly cause i don't want him to be a slow reader like me. we are learning signs to communicate with the baby and it's really fun and totally amazing how fast Xavie picks them up. it's made me think i should really work on learning my spanish so i can teach him now, while he learns so quickly. oh, he's way too smart. and i swear i'm not just saying that because he's my kid. the other day on his online preschool games, there was a game that would say four letters. like, here's ABCD in the questions click on the right letter. and each question would show 2 letters and you pick the right one. the first time he played it he thought about which letter they said and would click it. the second time, he figured out that they never said the same letter twice so the only question he had to think on was the first one, because then he would click the letter they hadn't asked yet! did i explain that ok? well anyways it blew my mind. it only took one game for him to realize that and then he'd whip thru it it less than 2 seconds.
So, Mark was suddenly way concerned that we hadn't sided the house yet and i could tell, so i looked on craigslist and found an amazing deal, got new vinyl siding for our whole house plus our someday addition for $400! i just had to go get it up in columbia falls which turned out awesome because my best friend from jr high lives in missoula! i hadn't seen her for 7 years! i picked her up and brought her to c falls with me to help me pick up the vinyl. we got to spend tons of time together traveling talking and taking care of my kiddies. she and her hubby will be trying for a baby soon, so it was way fun to have her around the baby and tell her all of the positive things! :) there really are a lot. Mark started putting the siding on today! yay!
also, my mom got me excited about decorating and remodeling stuff, so i finally added color, lots of color to my great room! yay! i just need to finish trimming it out.
Mom and i drove down to utah and stayed for a week. we saw all her family and i got to see a couple friends. i saw chacyne, and i'm sorry to say she is really struggling. she needs prayers. i saw leigh right before she moved to s.c. it was a great visit. i love her. i saw amy aka mo in manti. :) and i saw Trena! she met me in Gunnison and we stayed at her folks house. i thought about going to see your folks, Andy. but i didn't think they'd care to see me. and i did go visit Tanae real quick before leaving town. it had been 4 years since i'd been there to gunnison. i really don't like that town. :) but it was AWESOME to see treen bean. and brailey. brai and xae got along great! now i need to go see Andy! i miss you!