Where is My Head?

Wow, April 5th is the last time I blogged? Where is my head? I can't believe I have neglected my blog! I have absolutely nothing else going on, how could I have let it go? JUST KIDDING! I really love to write but it's an afterthought in this busy life I live and love!

What's going on with The Browns you ask? I thought I heard you ask....if you didn't, I'm gonna tell you anyway! Neely has moved up to the Baby 2 room at our child care center. My very last baby has been promoted from the infant room and has made her move to the BIG baby room. She will now make the rounds like her big bro and sis have. She is also walking. I should have posted a blog just about that, my LAST baby learned to walk. She started taking her first steps just before she turned 9 months. By 10 months, she was walking all over with no trouble at all. It's so cute to see such a short person walking around this house trying to keep up with the big kids!


Colin had his Pre-K graduation ceremony in late May and it was really great! Colin didn't have a starring role but he made it through his lines just fine. He said, "My name is Colin......My name is Colin Davis Brown and I can count to ten...1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Oops he forgot ten as he rushed back to his safe chair on the stage. Then, during his next scene he said, "Do you want to go on a spooky walk?" just before the kids performed a Halloween hand clapping number. For him, that was a HUGE step. He isn't shy at all when it comes to sports but he doesn't like to be on display and be in the spot light. He gets very embarrassed. He was very uncomfortable and fidgety but so brave on that stage, and SO handsome all dressed up I might add.
 

Olivia...well what can I say about that child? She is just different. I am going to have to be sure to remind myself as she gets older how much more attention she needs. I think she may always need a little more than Colin or Neely. If I don't take special care of her, I think she and I will go round and round when she is a teenager. She is just a different kind of personality and I think she always will be. She is emotional, extra needy but extra loving, and very, very sensitive. She is a complete angel for her teachers at school and for grandparents when she stays with them. But for her Mama, Olivia shows her true colors! Olivia will be moving up to the K3 room at the child care center in about six weeks. She has really grown tall and slim and has lost almost all her baby fat. She is a "big" girl now and wants to do EVERYTHING by herself. If you asked her, she could drive herself to school and she doesn't need her parents at all, until she does need them and then if you aren't there for her, watch out! Gosh I love her.

The grown up's that live here have put the house on the market, just over a month ago. It's been shown once and it's going to be a long road to get this house sold. I don't expect it to be any longer a road than most other sellers are traveling these days, but long none-the-less. I have mixed feelings about selling the house. Jason and I found this house before our wedding and found it in time to pick out everything for the interior. We closed on it just a few days after we returned from our honeymoon. At one point in time, you could find us doing some sort of home improvement project nearly every weekend. We love our house. We brought all three children home here. This is the only home we have shared as a married couple and it's so special to us. The day we hand over the keys will be a very sad day, bittersweet, I should say. It's going to be an even longer road to get to where we want to go. To build the house we want to build, it's going to mean about a year living in a small four room apartment, if you call them rooms, to save all living expenses. People keep telling us we can't do it, that it will affect our marriage living in close quarters with three young children. Well I refuse to settle for less than what we want and for the space we need in a house. I want the children to have plenty of space to spread out in now, and especially when they get older. Our next house will be our home until we are ready to retire and downsize and I am quite determined, I have heard. So you know what I say to people who tell me I can't do something...WATCH ME!

Check out our house:
http://www.trulia.com/property/3051541301-322-Laurelwood-Dr-Boiling-Springs-SC-29316