6 months worth of an update!

wow i'm a little bit of a slacker... thats why i have facebook ;)

so since febuary...macie has gone from 3 months to 9 months. she has almost a 4th tooth coming through. thats only since last month that shes gotten almost a 4th tooth with another showing up. she went from rolling to scooting crawling and now walking. at about 8 1/2 months she took her first steps and just over the last couple days has been more consistantly taking 2-6 steps at a time. she also waves hi and bye to certain special people. and says just a few words. you have to listen closely to hear them. words like da da and bye and ba ba and ya. she climbs anything she can get on to herself. (which drives me crazy) she follows curtis and ari all over the house!

ari has finally been potty trained!!!!!! yay for ari!!! that actually happened a few months ago. right around april or beginning of may. she turned 3 and about that time admitted to what she knows like a few colors and shapes. before i had no idea what she knew. now its just getting her to learn the letters. she won't admit to remembering anything! she started riding a two wheel with training wheels bike! so now we need to get curtis a new bike cause his old one is going to ari.

curtis will be 5 in 8 days!!! he finished preschool able to read short words and count pretty well. he decided during the summer he was going to practice riding a bike without training wheels. he did pretty good at that til i wanted him to ride his bike a little more so i put the training wheels back on. he also started kindergarten last week. his first day was aug 16th. he loves it! he loves riding the bus to school too. he gets on the bus at the corner right outside the back of our house. he only has half day kindergarten but i guess that works. his teacher seems like she will do really well with him.

vaughns work is still going! still out of town.. right now they are working in chubbuck (near pocatello) they are hoping to be done there september or october. after there they have a job to do in meridian. vaughn says that one won't take very long. hopefully long enough to find a job close to home. i'm so tired of being a single parent all week. but for now they have been getting fridays off so he gets home late thursday nite! i think he got a raise in april or may. so nice!! he also just seeded the back yard so hopefully in the next week or two i will have more grass than stickers!

as for me i still stay home about half the time taking care of the kids. in may i had found out i was pregnant again. macie was 6 months but after the feelings i had about another and lots of praying i was excited for it. by july things were feeling different. i ended up losing it in july. 8 weeks along. that came just after praying that if i was going to lose it just to let it go so i wouldn't have more time to get attached to it and make it harder emotionally for me. i felt like it wasn't going to stay and my body was working on getting rid of it. it was sad a couple days after it happened but for what really happened i'm ok with it. i'm sad that i don't get to know who it was that i lost but feel like there was a good reason for it. vaughn says we are done with having kids. i tell him we will wait and see over the next year or two. anyway i have lots of pictures to put up eventually when i get them off my phone and to the computer. so keep an eye out for those!