Faux family update

It's been six months since my last post.  So much has happened, I am not even sure where to start.

I guess we will start with the fact that my teeny baby turned one! We just had a small celebration at our house.

At one Addy is starting to get sassy.  She loves to run on her tip toes, imitate her brother, and love on her Daddy.  She doesn't know very much language yet, but is very vocal anyways and can manage to still get what she wants most of the time.   I call her socially aggressive.  She yells hi at everyone she comes in contact with, and will continue to yell until they acknowledge her existence and cuteness.  And she will get right down in your face to make sure she has your full attention.  She sure is adorable, and very, very loved. 

Finn also had a Birthday! He turned 4! We also just had a small party at the house for him with a blue's clues theme. I made up some handy dandy notebook and we played blues clues, and then made some rock candy.

At four, Finn loves being outside - especially in water, running, reading, playing with cars and playing with friends and cousins.  He is sad that we are on summer break, is talking about his classmates, and asking to go back to school.  He is doing so well with therapy, that we are in the process of trying to reduce his hours for therapy at this time.  My plan is to continue to wean him down, until he is hopefully free of needing any outside therapy by the time he enters kindergarten. 

We also got family Photos.  I love the photos of the kids!  The family ones aren't my favorite, because I look really fat, and Colin looks really unhappy.  He hasn't been happy for awhile.  He tried to tell me, but I didn't really take him very seriously because I was happy within our marriage,  so I assumed we were fine.  Denial is never actually a helpful coping mechanism, in case you are wondering.  He recently considered leaving me, but ultimately decided to stay and work stuff out.  We have been going to therapy, but I am not sure it has helped us as much as we have helped ourselves with working on open daily communication at home.

Hopefully, by next year 's family photos his smile will be a genuine one, and I will be a whole lot thinner. :)

I have been trying to focus on self care lately. Eating right, exercising and listening to music.  I would still like to lose another 20 pounds, but I have shaved the first 20 pounds off my goal and that feels good. 

And, photo dump of the kids looking cute and enjoying summer. 

I really do intend to update more frequently, but as I keep saying that, we will see if I follow through.  I am going to be going back to school now that the kids are more self sufficient and I am going to try to shove the six more classes I have into the next six months, then hopefully I will be done.  I am likely not going to go on to get my masters or try to change careers in my life at this point.  I am going to just focus on my marriage, myself, my children and being the best nurse I can be.