The first item I wanted to share with you is in the picture below.
Drew decided he wanted to try to ride his bike without training wheels! His timing wasn't the greatest, Jim was in the middle of mowing the yard when he decided he HAD to try RIGHT NOW! It was one of the moments that you want to say no but think that you should not squash their excitement over something. So Jim stopped mowing and took the training wheels off and then helped him as JC and I watched. Jim was rushing to get the grass mowed before a storm was going to come through that evening and Drew knew that. The really funny part was that as they were going along Drew told Jim it was raining on him, now the rain had not started yet, but Drew insisted that he felt rain. As it turned out it was actually sweat dripping from Jim onto Drew's head! Needless to say they both had to have a bath that night! I think in this pic Jim had just told him it was sweat hitting him and not rain!
Now let me share the excitement and drama of our weekend! We have acquired a new old vehicle! It is a mini van so now I officially look like a soccer mom cruising around town! It is a very old van with many, many miles on it but we bought it from some friends and know that it was well cared for and loved on! We still have my car. We hope to be able to drive the van for 2 years and then the car will be paid for. At that time we anticipate buying another newer used van. Drew loves the van, to him it is as good as a new one! It is so nice to have room to move around and put lots of grocery bags! Now let me get to the drama part of things. We acquired the van on Saturday night. After coming home from getting it and putting the boys to bed Jim and I were enjoying some quiet moments as we got ready for bed. We were talking about how great it was that we had gotten the van and how it would help us to keep from running the miles up on the car so badly. Suddenly I heard something that sounded like dripping water. I told Jim to listen. After a moment in horror I tell Jim he has got to get in the attic immediately! You see we have a roof that leaks and really needs to be replaced but we need it to last another year before we can afford to replace it. The leaks have been fixed but a new roof is needed. Also we installed a new tankless water heater last week. So we did not know what to expect to find when Jim reached the attic. We ran for the garage where the attic stairs are. In order to get the attic stairs down the vehicle in the garage has to be moved back some. The van was in the garage because we had gotten it all ready with the kids seats in order to go to church in it on Sunday. Jim got in the van and it would not crank! At this point I am beginning to panic b/c there is a leak up there and now the new vehicle will not start! So Jim put it in neutral and eased it back and then went to the attic. It was our new water heater leaking from one of the connectors. Jim attempted to tighten it and the plastic piece broke. So the water heater had to be turned completely off, meaning no hot water for the night. It would be Sunday before the piece could be replaced. So we moved on to the task of dealing with the van. We discovered that a light had been left on in it so we believed the battery was dead. We jumped it off and pulled it back in the garage and went to bed very exhausted and after midnight! Sunday morning broke and we were up early trying to get ready for church. We took COLD showers, not fun and prepared to go to church. Jim went out to check the van and it was dead again. So we decided it was not a good idea to jump it off and take it to church but that we should go in the car and deal with the van after church. We load up in the car, trying to explain to Drew why he cannot ride in the new van. All was good until we tried to lower the garage door, and now it would not work. So Jim goes into the garage to determine what was wrong with it. Now we are getting a bit frustrated, we just replaced the garage door and the opener this last year. After about 5 minutes of no luck in determining what the problem was, Jim looked at the sensor and realized a moth was on one of the sensors. He got it off and the garage went down as it should. At this point I was laughing hysterically in the car. I just felt there was nothing else I could do but laugh at it all. I told Jim that God must be up to something really special at church that day because Satan did not want us there! Thankfully my dad came by when they got out of church and fixed the water heater. We actually had hot water when we came home from church. Then after lunch Jim worked on the van and ended up having to buy a new battery, but now it runs great! We felt like we had navigated some very stormy waters and had done a good job of being dependent on the Lord through it. Now today we had another curve thrown at us in that another connector on the water heater broke. Both of the pieces that broke were plastic and have been replaced with brass, so hopefully we are beyond the issues with it. I will say that I freaked out a whole lot more today then on Saturday and Sunday. Of course this time was a bit more traumatic because it actually ended up leaking into our bathroom ceiling. The damage is minimal and can be covered with paint, eventually. I pray that we are beyond these house issues because we are out of money!!
Now on to some good stuff!
I missed the 7 week update that should have come last Tuesday so now I am doing an 8 week update! JC is 8 weeks old, he will be 2 month on Sunday. I cannot hardly believe it. The last week has brought some issues and changes. Issues are that we had to switch bottles. He was having too much trouble with the Avent bottles causing him gas and discomfort. He is now using Playtex VentAire bottles and doing much better. After we made the switch to these bottles he has slowed down on the amount of formula he is taking. He is now only taking 6oz at a time. I think that perhaps on the old bottles he was spitting so much of it out and struggling that it was taking more of it to satisfy, so we are glad that now he is eating better and not quite as much since that stuff is expensive! He is on a really nice schedule now. He takes a night time bottle around 6:30-7:00pm and usually stays awake until about 9:00pm. He will then sleep until 3:30-4:00am. At that time he takes a 4oz bottle and goes back to sleep until about 7:00am. So we are getting more sleep at night which is very nice! The pictures below are one from last week and one from yesterday, so I am kinda making up for the 7 week one by posting the older pic!
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