Our Weekend

We had a nice warm weekend this weekend so we got to enjoy some outside festivities. We got out Joey's bounce house and let Tanner on it for the first time. He didn't fall in love with it. Maybe when he's on his feet in a few months.

We went car shopping and got a new vehicle. It's a 2006 Saturn Relay. It's basically a mini-van inside, but looks a little more like an SUV outside. I don't really love the way minivan's look on the outside, so this was the perfect solution. We got all the room we need, especially with all the traveling we do.

The other thing we're working on now is Earl's motorcycle touring business. He's starting a business on the side for motorcycle tours. He's got the website almost built and even has some tours lined up. Now all we need are customers!

Tanner's sleeping is gradually getting better again. I'm hoping, anyway. The last 2 nights, he's slept one 3 or 3 1/2 hour stretch. The rest of the night is 1-2 hour stretches, but this is progress. I've been going months now on 1-2 hour stretches of sleep at night. Not sure how I even function, it's miserable. I shouldn't even be able to remember my own name from this exhaustion. But hopefully it's getting better. He's as happy as ever, so the lack of restful sleep doesn't seem to be affecting him at all. He really is so happy. And loveable! I seriously fall in love with him over and over every day. As I do with Joey, but Joey's easy to do that with: he's teaching me so much and learning so much. He has such a wonderful personality, despite his phase of whining. I'm hoping he's growing out of that soon.

Tanner is holding on to things and thinking about cruising, but he's not doing that yet. Any day now. For now, he really enjoys cars, and emptying out all the toy buckets in the playroom.

Joey's still loving TaeKwonDo and got his first stripe on his belt last week for memorizing his TaeKwonDo promise (not sure if I already posted that in the last blog). Joey has also been planning his 5th birthday party since the day after his 4th birthday party last summer. And it hasn't changed much at all. He's planned out specific decorating ideas and everything. He's a planner!