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arating them from one another then in the alcove of our foyer we will create a new door which will be the fourth bedroom s entrance obviously construction will not be done respectively the new door will be cut first and then the wall will get filled in i ll share pictures later and then my description will make clearer sense we will have the absolute best help at achieving all this master mind construction that goes far above our knowledge i know how to hammer a nail that counts for something the same contractor that moved my sister s garage will be here helping us i could not be any happier about having him in our home even if he was ty pennington himself his sidekick helper a k a my brother in law is going to be helping too thanks dan so what the heck i am just going to lay here relaxing over a sudoku game played on my ninetendo ds and allow myself to feel giddy and dream soaking in the excitement i feel about being one day closer to finishing my little baby s room sleep will come eventually and this feeling i have in my heart i never want to forget you know it s pretty much amazing being able to plan a nursery and to have one available to provide for so many different reasons feeling so thankful for my blessings posted by kristen at 11 25 pm 3 showin comment love labels house pregnancy 2 therapy friday october 8 2010 i was thinking when was the last time i wrote a post about cayman and her therapy sessions it s been awhile could it possibly be as far back as may when i posted to show off her improved abilities in walking with her walker the continual improvements in that area came in small leaps she slowly built up her endurance and could walk farther with each month but still too weak to actually push the walker by her own strength a little over a month ago she surprised us one day when we let go of the walker and cayman pushed it all by herself with champion steps taking her a whole two feet all by her own strength that s my girl by that next week she was up to five feet and i did not take a single video of it i know gasp gasp i was too busy cheering to hold a camera steady almost a month ago cayman stopped completely wants nothing to do with the walker now the very site of it upsets her she kicks her feet struggling to get out of our embrace if we carry her toward it and if we push through her struggles i know what meanies huh she ends up in tears poor little sweetheart this reaction makes me think she is afraid of it i have only seen this kind of behavior in her when we have approached animals too close for her comfort level but i have no idea why she would feel afraid she has not ever fallen while using the walker far as i know from my objective point of view there was no negative encounter with it if anything it was quite the opposite of an experience the more she progressed in walking independently with the walker the more excited mike and i got with cheers and so many hugs and kisses she loved the attention giggling the whole five feet she could push the walker before she tuckered out oh how i wish i had it on video the very memory of it makes me smile the way she was so happy and silly while walking all by herself with the walker of course it felt like she was walking all by herself because we were not pushing the walker along while she took her steps happy things and now the walker makes her so sad i wish i could understand why she kind of followed this same pattern of regression with independent sitting as well before she fully conquered it someday she will get there in walking in her own time and in her own way the walker is still around visible if she wants to see it but we don t push the issue once in awhile i get it out and put it in the center of the room and leave it be most of the time cayman crawls around it ignoring it a few times she has approached it to push it forward and backwards while sitting down or standing on her knees but if i dare sneak in and try to help her stand up to it the struggles begin this is the part of parenting when i wish my child came with a manual is it a stubbornness that we should push through and keep forcing the issue of the walker i know she is strong enough to do it yet that doesn t feel right to me i know my little cayman and i am going to stick with my gut feeling and not push it i feel confident that she will get there someday in walking in her own time and in her own way pushing it will only make her more resistant and create a negative experience out of something as beautiful as the gift of walking but there is one more mommy trick i have been doing this subject is not completely a closed matter an approach to this from a different angle so s to speak since cayman loves watching videos on my laptop we sit together and watch the videos i took of her at therapy back when she did walk with her walker we point together i narrate the happenings out loud to her look cayman there is you and miss jodi and you re walking look at cayman walking you go go go so big i ll say with an enthusiastic smile cayman usually smiles back and watches intently like i said in her own time in her own way she ll let us know when she s ready and i ll be sure to get a video of it this time the update doesn t stop there there is progress in other areas and one big one happens to do with walking yes i did type that correctly and no you did not misread it sounds contradictory i know while cayman has regressed in walking with a walker she has progressed in walking along side stepping a bench at therapy and at home it s the couch i have a video of that posted below also in the video you ll see cayman giggling and babbling into a toy microphone that s another huge improvement for her she s been mimicking some sounds and taking turns to produce purposeful noises into the microphone is new as of just this week and the last segment in the video you ll see cayman swinging that s her favorite part of therapy in fact it s so much fun to her that the swing is taken down and hidden out of site before the therapy session begins we have learned this little trick keeps her more cooperative and focused if all that swinging fun is not hanging there distracting her then it s brought out at the end as her perfect reward system for working so hard happy viewing posted by kristen at 6 00 am 13 showin comment love labels milestone therapy mysterious tree thief thursday october 7 2010 i rarely walk on the other side of our backyard s fence there s nothing much there just some more yard trees and more landscaping stuff that needs tore out and redone i love our house really i do even though i feel overwhelmed by all the improvements it needs and i dream of what it would feel like to move into what realtors call a move in ready house with everything already done but there is a sweet side to having a house that needs personal touches and some tlc it s fun dreaming up the changes when one project is finished it feels extra good to mike and i on one side of our fence it s a rather beautiful journey first step over our bumpy tree roots and some more ground vines and you reach the far back side which is lovely there is more open yard there belonging to us and if only click drag and drop worked outside of photoshop i would stretch the fence to enclose this part of the yard too having it blocked off feels like a waste of a yard as it is right now and do i dare admit that i am a peeping neighbor i love to sneak a look around the back side of our fence and gaze into my neighbor s backyard they have beautifully pruned evergreens surrounded by some of the greenest grass you have ever seen and mulch that is a deep clay red so pretty i have told mike let s just tear out this fence it would be the perfect view from the stretch of windows across our family room s wall that opens to the backyard plus without the fence we would have even a wider area out there for playing wall of windows overlooking our backyard someday we might just get ambitious and tear that fence out but there is bonuses to have a backyard fenced in too so maybe not we re still teetering on the idea it had been awhile since i went on my little walking peeping journey to the other side of our fence so a few weeks ago cayman and i lifted the latch and opened the gate where you going mike called out to us just walking to go see the pretties i told him mike joined us as were walking i said it looks different over here doesn t it perplexed mike responded yes it does pausing for a moment then he blurted out where s our tree i looked a little to the left and there was a stump a whole entire tree of ours is gone weird huh we didn t cut it down we didn t order to have it cut down either we had thought about it once when mike learned that that tree kept him from being able to get the dish we have tried to solve this mystery thus far turning up no answers dear mysterious tree thief we don t mind at all that you took our tree we were not too attached to it anyways we would have appreciated a little heads up about it and if you would like to come back and take the stump as well that would be really peachy oh and there are two more trees you can have just don t send the bill to us and we ll call it even posted by kristen at 10 00 am 7 showin comment love together moments captured a gift to be cherished wednesday october 6 2010 i ve said it before but it still remains true there are just some pictures even when blurry that will never be worthy of the recycle bin when they capture the happiness when they capture the moments that feel beautiful to me they will always be keepers always in my heart and in my hard drive photos taken september 2010 posted by kristen at 6 00 am 8 showin comment love the back yard tuesday october 5 2010 we have a lovely backyard so much potential lies back there i see it as a place to relax in someday eating supper outside on the patio when we build one watching the children play on their swing set when we get one roasting marshmallows in the fire pit when we buy one so many many glamorous ideas we have for our backyard but first things first we have to claim it as our own you see something else has taken over our back yard and has been owning it long before we moved in ground vines they grew everywhere along the fencing along the house up the house even making their way under the siding not good not at all in my opinion there was nothing pretty about their appearance they looked messy icky and were a huge habitat for bugs even the professional exterminator could not fully manage our bug issues my dear sweet mike has been back on laundry duty while i recover from the trauma of my one on one encounters with spiders in our dungeon of a basement hey it can t all be as pretty as our refinished hardwood floors it was time for the bug kingdom to be removed and finally claim the backyard as ours and hopefully those nasty bugs will not find our house to be so attractive to snuggle up with anymore that s my dad in the photo he brought with him all his big fancy tools to help us conqueror this massive job dad did most of the work bless his heart mike had himself some fun with a chain saw in case you were wondering nobody got hurt i was busy trailing after a really cute toddler that i did not get back out to the roadside to capture the final photo of the pile it had grown to more than double this size and here s some before s and after s i don t want those beautiful window panes to be covered up ever again imagine what an improvement this change has made from inside the house as well peering out those windows it feels so spacious and bright now it s also made me realize how dirty my windows are eek bare and plain is what our landscaping will likely be for awhile you know the whole financial thing but you know what else bare and plain has me smiling rather contently right now i love having all that overgrown stuff gone my once jungle of a back yard is now a fresh clean slate so much scope for the imagination as anne would say what will it become next this feels good to me thanks dad for your help posted by kristen at 6 00 am 13 showin comment love labels house sleeping monday october 4 2010 does it ever get old watching your babe sleep 30 months later and i am still there posted by kristen at 2 00 pm 12 showin comment love a work day at our house saturday october 2 2010 that has left me smiling more to come posted by kristen at 9 49 pm 2 showin comment love date night friday october 1 2010 it s friday evening mike and i are going out just us the community theater is putting on a play anne of green gables you might have picked up on the little detail before about how much i love anne of green gables it s not really mike s sort of thing and i even gave him the option of not going his mother and i would go together instead but no he said he wanted to go to be with me awww i know be still my heart but then i thought and then i bursted the sweetness by putting a stipulation on it now if you go you have to promise not to crack any sarcastic remarks about any of it no matter how chicky it seems to you he smiled at me tenderly and said no hun we re going to be kindergarten spirits tonight what a smirk came to my face as i realized what he was trying to say um i think you mean kindrid spirits sweetheart posted by kristen at 5 03 pm 9 showin comment love nesting is in effect thursday september 30 2010 if you re going by most of the photos i share you might think my house is beautiful and always organized and with a laugh i would say yep you re right but then i would have to reveal the truth and the truth is my pictures are a little deceptive i choose to share the pretty parts of our house the parts that have the hardwood floors finished and sparkly new in appearance the parts where the wood trim is freshly painted and the walls breath modern color back into this 1947 house but there is so much more to it though so many areas that are not glamorous but actually right down ugly the exterior condition is probably the worse part and on the inside there is so many more areas that need attention and updating too this sort of thing requires a whole separate budget of its own which we have not had we have been reeling a bit financially from an unexpected summer of many expenses thank god for mike s stable job and even feeling thankful for the head ache pain of insurance because without it it would be worse so much worse and thanking god also that we booked our vacation this past summer before all these hospital episodes took place i would have promptly put my foot down and resisted the idea when mike said let s go on vacation and you know vacationing is one of those things that s easy for me to put off for reasons like the busy ness of life or not enough money or feeling too stressed to wander further away from the most trusted hospital we know but it s also easy to regret later on there is value in getting away as a family and experiencing more of 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