So, we've been here in Kenedy for 13 days now. Very busy days. I have basically been unpacking boxes, cleaning, and sweeping my floor seriously like 3 times a day..where does all this dirt/trash come from..Caleb absolutley likes to eat it, and then cough and gag until he almost throws up. So I proceed to stick my finger down his throat to get whatever it is OUT, only to repeat this scenerio again 20min later. I just don't remember Hannah eating EVERYTHING like he does. Anyway...so it's been busy unpacking and taking care of the kids. Jeremy has been working all day and then comes home only to fulfill the list I have created for him to do (things I can't do)...like move the heavy book boxes, move the book shelves, put boxes in the shed.....catch the MOUSE. Yeah...you read correctly, another mouse. I mean whats the deal....this makes 3 mice total in like the past 3 months..YUCK. With this one it's even worse....it was midnight and we were painting Calebs room blue..it's so pretty now, anyway, there was this big bag of trash on the floor that the "workers" left there....another story (they're still getting the house ready)..so we notice these ants all over the floor...I thought NO WAY am I putting my baby in this room.....so we spray and kill the ants, vacuum to make sure they're gone....then back to painting, I kinda feel something on my foot....so I wiggle my toes, then again...a MOUSE runs over my foot and down the hallway toward the rest of the house. You've got to be kidding me!!!! Long story short...a few days later when I was in Waco for a wedding...Jeremy caught the mouse!!! So the bug/pest/exterminator man is coming VERY soon to kill everything around.
The house is wonderful, it just hasn't been lived in really for like 3years....so we are discovering what works and what doesn't work, and evidently little critters, bugs, spiders, doodle bugs, geckos, water bugs have seem to taken residency. So I am being brave, but like I said bug man will be coming very soon to take care of this problem.
The church is great so far...I've only been here 1 Sunday so far, but it was neat. The youth here have a lot of potential....they are finishing up school and getting ready for youth camp, we have about 30 going so far. We have really sweet neighbors....one welcomed us with a letter and a giftcard to Dairy Queen. Then today our next door neighbor had her granddaughter here....she is only 1 week older than Hannah.....so they played in the sprinkler in the back yard....it was fun. There really aren't too many kids Hannah's age at church.....she has cried everytime I've left her (I guess which has been like 4 times so far)..but she seems to stop immediately. So I hope things will go well. She's always playing and excited when I pick her up....so I'm sure she's fine....I"m just being mom and don't want my baby to be upset EVER.
Another adjustment is at the house....the kids rooms are way at the other end of the house. I mean the house isn't huge, but definitely bigger than anything we've lived in before. So..we have the monitor in Calebs room....just to remind you, he has slept in our room every night of his life for 10mos, and now he's at the farthest end of the house. The first night was hard....he woke up at about midnight, so we just put him back in our room. Jeremy and I both bolted up out of the bed at his first cry...I grabbed Caleb, and Jeremy brought his pack-n-play back into our room (we were still finding the parts to put his crib back together) and we all slept together. The first couple of nights, we had Hannah's mattress in our room too....I think we just needed a few nights to all be together in this brand new place. Anyway....now things are great. Calebs in his room, Hannah is in her room...if she wakes up in the night she just comes into our room and I got put her back to bed. She's done really well though. So this whole adjustment has been an adventure.
Our parents are thrilled to have us closer. Waco is only 3hrs away. This past weekend I had a wedding to go to....so we woke up, ate breakfast, packed, drove to Waco, and got there in time to eat lunch....didn't even have to stop along the way. It was wonderful.
Ok, I think this is all for now....still no pics. Seriously they will come soon....we are mostly unpacked, but we still have to find little random things that you never know where they put them when they pack all your stuff away.
