Dear Carlie Joy,
How are you doing?! Are you having fun in Idaho with Dad? I bet you are having a great time with your grandmas and grandpas, too. We miss you! On Monday night, after spending our first day without you, AnnMarie said, “I miss her already!” She was talking about you. I’ve been going through the pictures of our trip to Leavenworth last weekend, and I found this cute one of you in the Nutcracker Museum! We love you and hope you have a good rest of the week.
Love,
Mom
We live in choo choo train range. We hear a train whistle almost 3-4 times p/day. Gabe loves it, and today he said “ooh ooh aaa” when the train went by this morning (making sure to hold the ‘a’ out extra long). He’s into everything right now, and sometimes (most times) I want to pull my hair out, BUT he’s trying extra hard to be a big boy even though he does NOT like to be away from me for a second.
I’ve been teaching piano lessons in our home since September. I have almost 15 students and most of them come on weekdays between 6-7:30 am. These time slots allow me to do something I love without interfering with my motherly duties. As long as I go to bed at a good time (unlike tonight :P), I do just fine during the day, and it’s amazing how my little ones consistently sleep through lessons each morning.
Inevitably there have been a few times during my once a week evening lessons when Gabe has been in need of my attention, and even though my husband is here, he clings to me with a death grip that can’t be removed. He’s going through some major stranger anxiety right now, and I’m not exactly sure how to help him other than to keep integrating him into normal every day encounters and to keep being patient with his uneasiness in regards to pretty much any social situation!
In the meantime, we’ll keep helping him to discover the world around him. He’s at such a cute age right now, and I love trying to see the world through his eyes.
The sun decided to say hello on Tuesday. It felt so amazing to bundle up the kids and send them outside - except for Mr. Gabe was being a stinker and kept taking his coat off every two minutes. I really wanted to try out my new camera, too…which I did. I’m so excited. Cheers to learning a new device! Yikes.
The girls are writing something like, “piano lessons available, only day to sign up is now.”
Piano lessons are NOT available at the moment. Funny girls. This piano teacher’s cup over-floweth. ;)
These January skies here in the canyon have been soothing.
This is Gabe being 19 months old and being stressed out about it (j/k). Our boy has a concerned look most of the time, but I’m hoping he’ll soon relax and enjoy himself a bit more. I think a puppy might be in our near future.
