
So I don't really have many picture to share.
We are absolutely in love with San Marcos. Everyone we've come across has been really helpful and nice. Jackson and Aiden have seemed to make a pretty easy transition. They are of course loving all of the extra space they now have.
The neighborhood is even better than we could have imagined. There's a great mix of ages and races.
The neighbors to the right are two college guys at Texas State. One of them introduced himself to me. His name is Tyler. I told him I was Teela and you know what he said? "It's nice to meet you, Ma'am."
"Excuse me?! 'Ma'am'??? I'm only 26!" *sigh* So now I refer to them as kids. Heehee. It's the little things that make me feel better. teehee Anyway, they seem very nice.
We think someone should be moving into the house on the left in just a few short days. They are nearly finished on the house so the sod should be going in shortly. We think it's an older couple that will be moving in. It's a much smaller house (like just over 1000 sq feet).
But then...across the street we have kids galore!! Almost all of our across the street neighbors have children. I don't think we've seen many kids near Jackson and Aiden's age except for...
The back door neighbors. Our yards back up to each other.
Anyway, again...it's a smaller house so our theory is...the Grandma lives there and takes care of her granddaughter/son during the days. We've seen the "Grandma" and I think I saw the daughter once. We have yet to see the little kid but we've hear her/him and we see toys out there all the time. Not to mention, the pack n play is kind of a dead give-away. We are assuming that the little one is close in age to the boys. We've never said hi to the Grandma out back yet though. She's normally had her back turned to us or something else was going on. ALSO (and the plot thickens) she's exotic!! She speaks another language and it's not espanol. Maybe she's Greek or French? Oh the possibilities!! :o) We can't wait to get to know them better.
We've still got so much stuff that needs to get done at the old place before Thanksgiving and the end of the month. SO MUCH. Hopefully we'll put a good dent in it this weekend. Wish us luck cause we are going to need it.
What else is new?
Jackson is now learning how to sign. My mom started teaching Jackson how to say "more" in sign language. I have to admit, he picked it up rather fast. Now he will sign "more" to us when he wants more food. Today I also caught him saying, "Hi Kitty." They are such little sponges at this age.
We've noticed that Aiden is the talker. He's the one who is saying new words all the time. He also loves to point to things and ask, "wus dat?" even though the w is normally silent. haha
They are both always wanting to learn new things.
They've also become more of little helpers than before. Now they seemingly want to do what you ask them to do. They like to bring things to you when you ask them to which is nice.
OH! BLOWING KISSES! (which is what they are both doing in one of those pictures above) They both learned rather quickly how to blow kisses! YAY! I love my baby boys kisses. Now they blow kisses to strangers from time to time.
They still have that wild streak. That stubbornness toddlers are so good at. We've had to start doing time out's every now and then. Most times they are really good children. Happy. Loving. But sometimes something gets in them and they can flat out be mean. When they get really frustrated they like to pull each others hair, yank on their clothes, and hit them on the head. Part of me knows that this is mostly the age but the other park of me knows that I need to stop that behavior now so that I don't have two little spoiled brats in a few years, ya know what I mean? I guess most of parenting is spent trying to find that happy medium. I do not want to be a militant overbearing parent but I also don't want to be a push over that allows my children to call the shots.
And I thought most of the worries would be over after pregnancy! HA! That's when the real tough work starts!!
Well, I know I could talk on for days but I need to get some things done before the kiddos get up from their nap. I'll post more updates later on. Love you ALL!
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Congrats on the "mam". I remember my first time... it was by a young buff 21 year old Clemson soccer player. I thought they thought I one of them until the mam came out. I nearly cried!!
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