Jared, Lucrisha, & Leylan

Well I am up and running again. If you didn't already know we had a laptop that was one of the first ones ever made...jk It sure did seem like it though. Then lightning decided to hit a tree in our front yard and run through the ground into the house. Short story is we are having to replace several things inside and make repairs outside as well. We took advantage of the tax free weekend and got a new laptop...finally. I want to put up new pictures, but there are way too many to go through tonight. Jared told me I can't stay on this thing all night.

My life sure has had plenty of ups and downs since I've blogged recently. Leylan is talking, walking, and biting. He started walking at fourteen months (12 months adjusted age). Back to the biting thing, what a joy it is to have a kid with about 12teeth bite you. This is part of his attitude he pitches. He thinks that my shoulder is his method of releasing his anger. I need some smart mommy ideas on how to get this kid to stop biting. We have tried the saying no and stopping him. Then Jared forced me to start smacking his little hand. The last resort was to bite him back. Jared has done this a few times. I tried it and all it did was break his heart. I am definitely hoping this is just because of the teething. I'm hoping he doesn't follow Ashley's footsteps and use this as self defense all through childhood. She was a mean biter.

I have a head of things that I need to get out. However, I always have to edit myself in hopes not to offend someone. So my brain is not in editing mode tonight, so I will stop until I have more brain power left in the day. Don't worry updated pictures will be coming soon. I would also like to say thanks to the people that care enough to read this little blog. I didn't really realize the amount of people that did until I stopped doing it and everyone was asking me about it. So Thanks for making me feel cared for.

Leylan currently has five teeth. Well two are completely in and three are well on the way. He is sitting up by himself now. The little guy is getting so strong. He acts like he wants to take off when sitting, but we haven't had any movement yet. So in other words no crawling, pulling up, or talking. His teeth seem to be progressing like normal, but the motor skills not so much. Which goes back to our last physical therapy visit which was a much more pleasant experience than last time. It could have been the fact that Jared went with me. It was in December, he was 7 months at that time. The therapists told us he was doing stuff that ranged between 4-8 months. That he was doing well and they wanted us to have more belly time with him. I know it will only be a matter of time before all these things happen.He doesn't have to go back until June. At that point he will be 13 months...CRAZY.

I have been working what seems like all the time. I know that I don't. Their are plenty of people that work more hours than me. I'm guessing it's because I'm a "MOMMY" now and I want to be more of that. My workdays go as following: wake the little guy if he hasn't already then spend probably twenty minutes in the morning with him then off to the sitter. Then by the time I get home, Jared is rushing me to get him in the bath, and feed him. Then Leylan goes to bed. I know that my days will hopefully soon get shorter. I am just in hopes that happens before my little guy has done all his firsts. That would kill me.

The other day we were at Joe and Edna's and Edna had her camera. I was looking through the pictures and saw some of Leylan's hospital stay. There was a video of him on there. I started playing the video and had a brake down. You would like that emotionally I would have had plenty of time to heal. Edna said it seems like a bad dream. I couldn't believe how much sadness I still feel looking back at that.

There was much more I wanted to get out tonight, but my brain has apparently fallen asleep. So I will just have to cry to you all later. Please pray for me.