Oklahoma Adventures Week 52

July 27th - August 3rd

We've lived here for 1 year officially! Looking back now the time has gone by really fast and I think we're in for another speedy with a new addition to the family coming soon and Morgan only having 2 semesters left instead of 3.

This week has been very busy. We'll start with a few Logan moments. :)I've been trying to let Logan be more independent with his eating, he seems to do better that way. We also have a CD that we listen to in order to keep him from getting bored and distracted and it just happens to play "If you're Happy and you Know it" and one of the things it says to do is "cover your eyes" (peek-a-boo) and it was too late before that part came on and with PB&J covered hands, Logan quickly obeyed the song and ended up with PB&J all over his face, hair, eyes, well as you can see just about everywhere. It was hilarious.
We've still been working on the toddler bed sleeping issue since we now only have about 6 weeks to get him weaned from the crib...maybe a little longer depending on how long Damon will be in our room. We have to wait until he's really tired and ready for a nap..which also means he's getting pretty cranky too. I used to sit in there with him until he fell asleep then I would leave, it was taking less and less time, so I stopped sitting there, but if I didn't close his bedroom door he just gets out of bed and runs around the house and thinks it's a fun game. So, I put him in bed, close the door and turn on the monitor in case he hurts himself, the first couple times he did not like that, but after a couple days we made some progress and I at least found him asleep in the middle of his floor (above picture). The next day however, was even better, after playing around in the room for a while, he actually climbed back up in his bed and fell asleep, it was wonderful...then the weekend hit. Oh well, I guess we'll have some more work to do next week.

Morgan is officially done with his 3rd Semester and clinical hours for the summer, so he'll have a couple weeks to enjoy. An opportunity came up for his Fall semester that is going to be a huge blessing to us. His instructor asked him to teach a class for Radiation Therapy students for half a semester, so he'll have a job for the Fall and he only has to teach 1 day a week for 8 weeks, but will get paid for the whole semester. We're really excited for this since I will be quitting my job when I have Damon (YAY). This Fall however will probably be the hardest semester yet, so it's going to be really good that I'm not working and we won't have that extra stress around the house and I can really focus on our family.

In other news which we didn't want to bore you all for the past 6-8 weeks with the details, but we re-modeled our bathroom. We've been thinking about doing it for quite a while, and then Good ol' Uncle Sam gave us a little extra incentive to just get it done now before the baby and before Morgan's schedule got even crazier and harder. There were a lot of reasons to do it and a lot of reasons not to, but in the end, we felt it was the right decision to get it done. We have learned so much and blessed to have some of these projects to work on together and learn from. Morgan is truly Mr. Fix-it now and did such a great job. He ended up doing most of the work while I watched Logan and kept him out of the way. There were definitely times it was a challenge and a trial, but we had some great times working together too, especially towards the end. We were determined to have it finished this week and on Thursday we relished our success. It's not perfect, but it's definitely and improvement and we're very pleased with our project. Here are some before and after pictures.

And a brief video unveiling the finished product (well except for a few paint touch-ups)