The end of summer already!!

Well I’m way overdue for an update so here is one. I will try to make it as quick as possible!

Graysen has been doing great with potty training (not making this a separate post this time). She hasn’t had an accident during the day in about 5 days or so. When we are out she will tell me she needs to go potty and is actually telling me a good length in time before she actually has to go, so we have time to get to a potty! When we go to the Y she will go potty at home before and then when I get done with the Y I will take her to the potty and she goes just fine! I think I’m going to put her in panties here soon! I will just make sure I have change of clothes and plenty of wipes in case of an accident! Night time can still be an issue. Sometimes she will wake up in the morning and just play in the room before I even know she’s awake and so she’ll go in her night time diaper. This morning was a different story though, she actually woke up at 5:30 and told me she needed to potty so we went potty and then she went back to bed!! So it’s a working progress for sure!

This lil’ lady of mine is talking so well! She is putting 5-6 words in a sentence now. “Momma me play side (outside) wif Annabelle.”  “Momma me hungry, me eat ummm” hehe She is still referring to herself as “baby”. If you ask her what’s the babies name she will tell you “Grayhen” (missing the S sound). She can count to 10 just not always when you want her to and she’s doing great with her ABC’s.. again when she wants to! At her birthday party Mrs. Shirley asked her, Graysen how orld are you? Graysen said “uhh two..” and Mrs. Shirley said “you are TWO!” and Graysen’s reply “Yes Shirey (Shirley)”. She does great with her colors as well!  We rearranged her room so that a lot of her toys are in her room now. Before it was so crowded with the changing table and all that stuff, and since we don’t need that anymore we took it out. So now she is playing a lot more in her room by herself. She will shut the door (and lock it ) and just play. I will check on her and when I knock on the doory she will say “Ummm Yes Momma?” haha I wil ask “Graysen can I come in” And she will respond with a “Otay momma, coming” and she will unlock the door for me and let me in! Really, she’s just growing so fast and it makes me sad just thinking about it!!

We did recently have a few weird weather issues. We had an earthquake which is extremely rare for this area. Actually so rare that a few months ago Brandon and I were reading that Chesapeake VA (where we live) is listed as NUMBER ONE of being the safest city from ever having an earthquake haha, I guess they wiped that one off the record! The earthquake was quick, and didn’t cause any damage to us or our surrounding area. Most will say it was very mild but definitely felt! Then of course Hurricane Irene… I understand that the people here want everyone to be safe, but they really just freak people out! This was our first “real” hurricane that actually made land that we’ve been in and I’ve been in worse thunderstorms. The states north of us got a lot more flooding, and even VA beach got flooding but we didn’t get anything that wasn’t gone the next day! I enjoyed the rain, but it wasn’t as bad as they were predicting it to be.

Graysen’s Birthday and Birthday party fell on the day of the hurricane. I decided not to move it due to the fact that if it was supposed to be a bad Hurricane Sunday wouldn’t be a good idea because of “aftermath”, and putting it off a week was not going to work for me. One, we already had the food, and two I was already so behind in school trying to plan this party, get it in order, get the house clean for it, KEEP the house clean for it…. I wanted it done with and wasn’t really too worried if everyone decided not to show up! This was basically the case! Brandon’s parents made it, our good friends Steve and Melissa, and our neighbors. Even though there were no other kids (yet again) it was actually perfect. Graysen (at this age at least) is a total show off and the number of people we had over was already overwhelming for her. I’m glad we didn’t have much more than what we did! Food wise though, I do wish we had more people haha because of the storm we did lose power for two days and lost all of the left overs and everything else we had in the fridge! Overall the birthday party was great, and Graysen had fun, it’s one we will never forget!

Can’t remember if I mentioned the new dog in the last blog post, but we did get a new dog. She is a Newfoundland – Lab mix, and she is a DOLL! She is starting to listen very well and as I train her Annabelle is slowly starting to do the same things, which is exactly what we were wanting! Annabelle hasn’t chewed up one toy/item/sock since Daisey has been in the house with us. Of course Daisey is a pup so I have to stay on her, but Annabelle has taken the mommy role and has been an excellent dog! They keep each other company when Graysen and I are out of the house, and Annabelle just seems so much happier! Miss Daisey has been a great addition to the family!

Only 11 weeks old and as big and Annabelle, OH BOY!

School is already kicking my butt! Being full time wasn’t the BEST idea, but I’m doing it! I was a little stressed out because they still hadn’t put an open lab schedule up for my Anatomy class, and the last Anatomy class I living in the lab, and that’s how I got such good grades. Since I hadn’t been able to get into one open lab Minus my first time being last night I was getting really worried about my upcoming grades. They finally got an open lab up for Sunday so I’m a little less stressed now! History seems to be very easy (because of the great story-telling professor I have), math is math, and my sociology class seems to be tedious, but it’s still a lot of work and tests… and tests on the same days… UHG! We’ll see how it goes!

Last and not least I just started this couponing thing. I won’t be the extreme one that goes around finding deals every day but I am going to start trying to save more money. My first trip went extremely well, for it being my first time. I basically cut our normal shopping trip in half by just using coupons and getting stuff on sale! There were only a few items that I needed that weren’t on sale but otherwise everything else was! We’ll see how that goes!

Thanks for checking in!