Yes, that's right, Allen is not coming home tomorrow as planned. The day before he was to leave he is told to stay another week and in case you haven't been counting (I certainly have), that makes 5 whole weeks that Allen has been in Japan!
As hard as it was for me to come to grips with the fact that I had to wait another week to take regular showers, go to the bathroom by myself, enjoy a meal at the actual meal time, get the house properly cleaned and just take a much needed nap......it was ten times harder to watch Austin crumble. Oh, it just made my heart ache! The poor little guy was so excited that Daddy was finally going to be home tomorrow. He had painted a welcome home banner, made cookies and made sure Mommy had the ingredients to make one of Daddy's favorite meals for dinner that night. I'm getting emotional now just thinking about how his face looked when he heard Daddy wouldn't be home yet.
But we'll make it through, maybe not with flying colors, but will make it:) And we really want to thank all our family and friends who have made these past weeks much more bearable. Grandma and Grandpa came out to visit and go to the depot with us one afternoon, my friend Lisa spent a evening with us and stayed through bath and bedtime to watch a movie with me and I so appreciated the company. And Nana, bless her, came on a day unbeknownest to both of us that I would have to do a lot of unexpected running around and she was gracious enough to babysit on a day she was supposed to be relaxing and visiting with us! Our neighbors who snow blowed our sidewalk and watched the boys when I had to run to the grocery store so I didn't have to take them out in the cold. And an especially big thank you to my little sister Sarah who spent many nights at our home helping me take care of the boys when they were sick and sassy and sad because they missed their Daddy. THANK YOU!!!!!
I feel for Daddy because he has missed some big milestones while he's been gone. Connor started crawling and now he can pull himself up to standing on the furniture. He's been eating finger food on his own and using a sippy cup. He's such a little chubba lubby:) He loves being naked, well both my boys do, we usually have naked time during the day, just for them of course! Austin can count up to 20 and pretty much has his ABC song down pat. Austin does his calendar every morning after breakfast and signs his name (with my help) on his dry erase board on the refrigerator each day. He has been a master builder lately, building extensive cities out of his duplo's all on his own. It's quite impressive.
Well, I'm going have glass of tea and try to relax before one of the boys wakes up:)
But we'll make it through, maybe not with flying colors, but will make it:) And we really want to thank all our family and friends who have made these past weeks much more bearable. Grandma and Grandpa came out to visit and go to the depot with us one afternoon, my friend Lisa spent a evening with us and stayed through bath and bedtime to watch a movie with me and I so appreciated the company. And Nana, bless her, came on a day unbeknownest to both of us that I would have to do a lot of unexpected running around and she was gracious enough to babysit on a day she was supposed to be relaxing and visiting with us! Our neighbors who snow blowed our sidewalk and watched the boys when I had to run to the grocery store so I didn't have to take them out in the cold. And an especially big thank you to my little sister Sarah who spent many nights at our home helping me take care of the boys when they were sick and sassy and sad because they missed their Daddy. THANK YOU!!!!!
I feel for Daddy because he has missed some big milestones while he's been gone. Connor started crawling and now he can pull himself up to standing on the furniture. He's been eating finger food on his own and using a sippy cup. He's such a little chubba lubby:) He loves being naked, well both my boys do, we usually have naked time during the day, just for them of course! Austin can count up to 20 and pretty much has his ABC song down pat. Austin does his calendar every morning after breakfast and signs his name (with my help) on his dry erase board on the refrigerator each day. He has been a master builder lately, building extensive cities out of his duplo's all on his own. It's quite impressive.
Well, I'm going have glass of tea and try to relax before one of the boys wakes up:)
