A New Chapter

Since today starts a new chapter in our lives, I found it fitting to be the day to start a blog. I've wanted to do it for a long time, but never taken the time. 


For starters: for those who don't know, and for those who do but are wondering, Eric has taken a new job with Fort Madison Bank & Trust. Today is his first day. We are excited because this is going to be a really great thing for our family. We have developed some great friendships with the employees from Lee County Bank, which we hope to hold on to. Some people don't understand why he made the move, but it was strictly a personal decision. We have nothing against Lee County Bank or it's employees. This was something we believe will help better our family. No matter where you go in life, you are going to have those few people who put you down or try to rain on your parade, but we hope those people will respect this decision because it has been very difficult to make. 


Onto happier things. Gage is 2 1/2 and is a ball of fire. He goes non-stop and at night he just crashes. He's starting to speak more in sentences (short ones, of course), but it's so fun to hear the things he has to say. He loves Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (walks around the house singing to it!), Toy Story (all 3), Finding Nemo, Dino Dan, Chuggington, and Cars. He has been going to daycare 4 days a week for 3 hours a day. This has really helped him with his speech development and playing with others (although this is something we are still working on, sharing is not in his vocabulary!). He is about halfway potty trained. He was doing really well for a while, but we've been so busy we haven't had the time to keep it up as well as we were. But, we are still working on it! 


He loves Grahm to pieces! He laughs at him and talks to him, sometimes even sings Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star to him. We bought him a "big boy bed" about a month ago and he's doing so well sleeping in it! Since he was born he's slept in bed with us (a habit I do not suggest starting to any new parents!), so I thought this would be really difficult. It hasn't been though. At night he knows when it's bed time and always tells me he's sleepy so we go lay down. We have to stay with him until he goes to sleep, but then he sleeps until about 6-6:30 in there then on weekends about that time he climbs in bed with us. I can take that, it's so much better than him laying horizontal in between us! Thank goodness for a King Bed!


Grahm will be 6 months on the 25th. Doesn't seem possible. He's changed so much recently. Last Friday he rolled over for the first time! Both onto tummy and onto back! Of course, I didn't see either move, but that's ok, at least he did it! He's so much smaller than Gage was at this age, so all of my clothes are off season! We've had to buy a bunch of clothes for him because he's in 3-6 months and Gage was in 3-6 months at 3 months, but that's ok, he's our little peanut. He loves him jumperoo and playing with his toys. 


Last Wednesday Eric and I along with another couple went to the NLCS Game 3 Cardinals vs Brewers game in St. Louis. Cardinals won, of course! We had so much fun, it was just what we needed after a stressful beginning of the week! 


Saturday the 8th we took the boys to Roger's Pumpkin Farm in Lomax. Gage had a lot of fun running around looking at the pumpkins, he and daddy went through the corn maze then we picked out all of our pumpkins and headed home! We always have a great time there. We even took a few pictures while we were there, it's so beautiful!


We are so excited that the Cardinals are headed to the World Series! They were ahead last night 11 to 6 when we finally called it a night and went to bed. I'm ashamed to admit that we didn't watch the whole game, but we were so tired and they
were so far ahead, we were sure they'd win! :)