Catching Up!

My laptop cord died two weeks ago and I just got around to sending it off to be replaced a few days ago. But I'm back online now. I had to delete the 889 items in my Google Reader. Sorry.

It has been an emotional couple of weeks. Lots of fun and summer vacation excitement. Lots to be thankful for and celebrate. A birthday. Sunshine like never before. And lots and lots of heartache and anxiety too. I am exhausted in a way I can't even put into words. I always know things are bad when all I can do by 8pm is lay down on the couch and watch a Lifetime movie - it's that needing to feel completely numb. And believe me, Lifetime movies numb and dull your brain into oblivion ha ha! I actually have some thoughts mulling around in my head that I'd love to blog about, but I feel so sensitive and raw right now, I'm not ready to put them "out there" yet. In the meantime, I'm so very, very thankful for good friends who are willing to listen and put up with my CRYING. I know it has to be hormones, because I can't remember being this weepy... ever.

So, other than crying... what HAVE we been up to? Well...

The girls have run outside in their pajamas and bare feet first thing every morning to play on the swing set before it gets too hot out.

Henry is running around like a cutie pie maniac, getting into EVERYTHING. I always say how 16 months is such a hard age, because they get into everything and don't listen AT ALL - I say that, but I forget how true it really is! But if you catch Henry with something he thinks he isn't supposed to have, he immediately hands it to you like "here, I was just picking this up to give to you!"

He has been SO funny! The Babycenter email this week said that he is trying to hard to find all the tricks to make us laugh - and they are right! His favorite trick right now is putting on other people's shoes, hats, necklaces, etc.

My friend Sarah came all the way from Kansas to visit us last week. Her hero husband is deployed to Afghanistan, and she needed some distraction - believe me, 7 kids 7 and under in a 1,300 square foot house is VERY distracting! We had the best time, though!!

I haven't even gone through, much less had time to edit, all of the 400+ pictures I downloaded off my camera today. But I will, and then I'll post more.

Also a very special girl turned SIX, which deserves a post of its own!