It's raining and Dax is asleep

Rowdy


Roxie

So because of the weather and my son's long nap I thought I better write a post except... I had no idea what to write. Then it came to me... actually one of our new kittens jumped up onto the window sill and I remebered that they are the newest addition to our family.

I knew we would need kitties when we moved to the farm and there haven't been any kitty residents here in several year. We also had a mouse which is the quickest way to get me motivated to find some cats. Luckily Dustin's parents and their neighbor had 2 kittens dropped off at there houses which is how Roxie and Rowdy came to be ours.

Dax is in love with these kitties and will often crawl as fast as he can to the window to check them out. Roxie could really take or leave him but I think Rowdy loves him almost as much as Dax loves Rowdy. :-) Rowdy will rub on the glass of the window as Dax beats his chubby little hands against the pane. It really is so cute.

I sure hope they don't live up to their nickname (given by Dustin) of coyote bait....

back to school, in daycare and enjoying our new house!

I might cry! I had a more than 4 paragraph post written and all of a sudden it disappeared! NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!! All that remained was the title.... that is total crap y'all! It was a good one too! Let's see if I can recreate it....

Well I'm back to my 4th year of school. We are moved into a beautiful new building and I'm sharing an office (with walls and a door that can't be made smaller!!) my buddy Lynnette. Oh how I love 'living' with her each day. okay so this year is going well... ok that might be just a slight fib... it's going good now but ya know when you feeling like you're just barely hanging on with your finger tips? Oh yeah that was me the last umm 3 weeks? This week is feeling better, like my head if getting above the water. I think that is the start of every year just getting things back in the swing of things. So I must tell you, I'm trying to have a better attitude this year in so many different ways. I really believe that deciding how you want to live makes a big difference. I am deciding that especially with work I am going to have a good attitude- I want to be more positive, I want to be more of an encourager and remember to smile more. I'm hoping it works because I think that it will. SO if I start grumbling too much remind me to see the sunshine for the rain because that's what I'm gonna try to do. It's gonna sprinkle but I'm going to try to see those little rays of sunshine coming through. :-) CAN YOU BELIEVE I've BEEN HERE FOR 4 YEARS?!?!?! WOWZA!

Daycare... Daycare... DAYCARE??? Oh my gosh! Yes, Dax is in daycare and we are so blessed. The daycare is downstairs in our gorgeous building and we are blessed with some WONDERFUL ladies to love on Dax when I can't and to take care of him when I need to be working. I am just so grateful for that. I was truly worried that on the 2nd week (or 2nd day) of daycare that Dax would burst into tears as soon as we saw the building. That hasn't happened, in fact I'd say (if he could walk) that he has a little pep in his step. He really does love it. He was some sweet little friends including cutie Ruby who calls him D-aaa-x in an airy little voice and Ty who has some serious conversations with Dax (I guess it kind of sounded like they were cussing eachother out last week).

Speaking of Mr. Dax- he is growing like a weed! He is a speed racer crawler, walks around all the furniture, has stood by himself, but thank goodness still likes a good cuddle! Oh he is such a sweet boy. Can you believe that in just 11 short days he will be 11 months? WHAT?!? No way Jose, I'm sorry but I'm not ready for this but he really is just so much fun. He says Mom (when he is upset), Dad, dog and kitty but Dad and dog are for sure his favorite! He loves the "d" sound. Dad and dog are almost always coming out of his mouth. :-) As soon as we get out of the car at home he is already looking for Dakota. He is in love with her and can't get enough of watching her. We walk past the window and he says 'dog, dog, dog' it's too cute. Oh and he's mastered the two steps from the living room to the dining room. It was kind of funny though because when we tried to get a video of him mastering the stairs he of course tumbled down them (don't worry they are well carpeted and padded). He does this super cute crab walk down the two steps- oh I am giggling now thinking about it! It really is too cute!

Okay the house, I'm going to speak for the three of us and say that we are getting pretty settled in. The only room not set up is the 'man cave.' Maybe that will be his winter project. :-) It is SO nice to have so much more room and not feel like we're on top of each other all the time. Dax love crawling all over and thinks it's funny to crawl in a circle around the kitchen. Going to start some landscape projects soon- there were some scraggly (is that a word?) juniper bushes that just need to go so Dustin is excited to pull them out. woo-hoo! Already took the 'before' pictures.

Okay now for some pictures...

We moved!!

Woo-hoo we don't live in Colville anymore! No offense to anyone from Colville but I was ready for a change. :-)

I totally did not realize how much more work moving with a baby would be. Oh my goodness! Every other time I have ever moved (this was my 11th move since 2006) I have been unpacked and ready to roll 2 weeks later. Here we are, 2 weeks later, and I still have boxes to unpack and pictures to hang on the wall. Oh my! I know it's not a big deal but since this is my Grandma's old house I really want to get our stuff up so it feels even more like our house. So far it's working :-)

Dax is in 7th heaven living here. He has lots of room to crawl around and his toys are all accessible instead of stashed in different places. We are very blessed!

Okay short post but just had to put a new one up :-)

Blog stalker

Hello, my name is Becky and I am a blog stalker.

Ha! I love reading blogs and not just those of people I know. I read blogs of people I don't know and probably never will know. I just love reading how people write about their lives. I have several blogs that I read on almost a daily basis because the writers have a way of writing that keeps me coming back. I also follow a few blogs of family members to keep up on what is going on in their lives. I love writing my blog and I wish my blog was written as interstingly (totally not a word... at least I don't think it is) as those blogs that I stalk. I used to think it was weird that I was a blog stalker but I have found out that I have several friends that are blog stalkers as well. So I guess I'm not as weird as I sometimes think. :-)

SO do I have any blog stalkers??? Huh Huh do I, do I?

Dax is now quite the crawler. He definitely took is slow as I have told him many times that I need him to wait until we move. He didn't listen to me so much as we are still in the small house... but very soon we will be in our big house. Ooo that doesn't sound quite right haha! He also has 7 teeth! Holy cow! He pulls himself up on anything that will sit still long enough and we have started using the word "no" with him. He also now protests when I take things from him. Gosh I already miss those days of not caring one bit when I peeled something out of his fingers!


Okay here are some new pictures from this month!

8 months!

Dax is 8 months old as of yesterday! What in the world? I think every month I can't believe another month has gone by. I am SO in love with this little boy! He now has 5 teeth, is pulling himself up to stand, trying SO hard to crawl, can say Da-Da (even called Dustin Da-Da once) and Mom. That's right, he doesn't say ma-ma-ma it's Mom. My Mom says he's called me Mom before but I think it just happens that sometimes when he says Mom I'm holding him. Soon enough!

It is totally insane to me that it's already almost the end of June. I am LOVING being on summer break with Dax. It is so nice and relaxing to not have to think about anything else except him and Dustin... oh wait and cleaning... laundry... packing... dishes... moving... moving... moving.. Ha!

Ok y'all I better get off of here. Sorry this is short! :-) That seems to be my life.

I have a big boy!

So my wonderful cousin pointed out how crappy we both are at blogging and I SO agree. I'm hoping that this summer will bring more blogging but.. well... ya never know...

Dax learned to clap last night! He gets so excited probably because I of course say "Yeah Dax" everytime he does it. It is just so cute! I am so amazed at all the new things he does everyday. Some of which I don't even think about because they just happen. He is such a boy too. He would much rather play with hard plastic things, chew on everything rather than snuggle with anything soft... except Mom... and any other person who will snuggle with him... okay he does like to snuggle but not with toys. :-)

Dax LOVES food especially sweet potatoes. He will eat almost anything except peas (those don't last 2 seconds in his mouth) but will get bored with it or just be done eating before we get through a jar. BUT if you are feeding him sweet potatoes he will eat the entire jar! It's the food that gets sent with him to the babysitters because I know he'll eat it like a trooper. He is also a very noisy eater. You know for sure if he likes what he's eating because he will tell you! It Mmmmm as you put the spoon in and some other happy noise that I can't spell as he's swallowing. So much fun!

SO did y'all know that when a baby is teething they can get a hemotoma on their gums? I didn't know this until Dax got one and I took him to the Dr. He has a collection of blood between his 5th (yes I said 5th) tooth and his gums. While it doesn't mean anything bad for him I'm glad I went to the Dr. because when it does break through the blood will come out and that would TOTALLY freak me out had my Dr. not said it was totally okay. OOO THUNDER (sorry side note) hee hee! I love my Dr. He is so nice and played with Dax for a little bit and commented on how much he has changed. Truly I don't hardly except him to remember us from visit to visit because I know he is a popular Doctor and sees a lot of patients but he seems to always remember. In fact at one of our appointments he said "hey saw you at Super One last week but didn't get to say hi to you before you left" I love that! :-) It probably helps too that Dax is probably the only Dax he has as a patient. hee hee!

Okay here are three pictures from May... June pictures are still on my camera... I know.. I'm bad!

Oops! Got a little crazy with the carrots!


Pulls himself up to his knees on the crib rail!

loss

Isn't it strange how just when you think nothing could go wrong it does. This past weekend one of our family friends died. It was a tragic death and one that will be with many people for a very long time. I won't mention his name because I don't think that is right or fair to his family. And really this blog isn't about this one occurance.

When I found out about this persons death I was actually on facebook. I was stunned. Floored. Crushed. And my first thoughts went to my Dad. My Dad is such a great guy and worked very closely with this guy. They even commuted together this winter. My Dad, like many other people, has lost many people in his life. I have gotten to tell him twice about two of his friends dying. When I found out about our friend this first week all I could think was I CAN'T TELL MY DAD, I can't do it again. My parents were up camping and I was afraid they hadn't found out yet. I was afraid I was going to have to tell my Dad AGAIN that one of his friends is no longer with us. All three have been from tragic accidents. Nothing anyone expected to happen.

When I was a freshman in high school I came home with the news that one of my friends dads and my Dad's friend had been killed in a logging accident. Two years ago I was home sick from work when I got the call that one of my friends dads and again, one of my Dad's friends was killed in another logging/trucking accident. Both times I remember what my Dad said to me when I broke the news. When I was a freshman he called me a liar. I had no idea how to react to that. It was the reaction he should have had and the one I would have if one of my friends died. I wished I was a liar at that point. I will never forget sitting in that funeral and watching my Dads shoulders move up and down while he was crying several rows in front of me.

Two years ago I was at my parents house feeling icky so I didn't go to work. I answered the phone and it was a dear family friend who was surprised to hear my voice on the line. She then told me that our other friend was no longer with us. I remember sobbing in the phone. When Dad got home I asked how his day was then told him I was going to ruin it. This time he didn't call me a liar, he said that sucks, what happened and we both cried.

I hated, hated being the one to pass that news onto my Dad but I also didn't want him to find out any other way. Finding out on facebook (not that he has one), in a public place caught off guard or just by random accident is not the way to find out your friend is gone.

After I got off facebook Sunday I wanted so badly to jump in the car and go to camp but with a baby that wasn't really a good idea and I really didn't want to ruin the weekend. Instead I messaged a friend at camp and had my Mom call me. Someone needed to at least have a heads up of what had happened. When Mom called she said Unfortunately I already know why we're talking. While I was still so upset it felt like a weight was lifted. I didn't have to find the 'right words' anymore. There are no right words.

I have wanted to write something on here about this since Sunday but I didn't know what to write because if anyone who knew these people better than I did read this I didn't want them to think I was makin light of the situation or make it about me. It's not.

My thoughts and prayers are with our friends family. I wish there was a way to ease their pain.