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Weekly Happenings: This past week was Joseph’s spring break. I was a bit apprehensive, to be honest. I’ve kind of gotten used to him being gone to school for three hours a day and not having to come up with ways to entertain him all day (and with how much of my time Abigail requires right now, it’s sort of hard to find a way to give him one-on-one attention). Luckily, we did okay. I’m glad he had spring break this past week because it allowed us to start trying to adjust to Daylight Savings Time, which started this past Sunday. I think we’re almost adjusted. 😉 One bonus of DST: we were able to go to the park after dinner last night, since it was still light out. We also went earlier this week and met up with friends to play, but it was nice to be able to go with Paul, too. I also ended up taking Abigail to the doctor because she was still having some digestive issues that started up shortly after getting her immunizations. I wanted to rule out an ear infection (the only reason I could think of for her still having issues). Thankfully she didn’t have one. The doctor gave me some probiotic drops to put into her bottle once a day and that seems to be helping so far (fingers crossed). We’re not sure what exactly was causing it, but hopefully we’ve found a solution.

The Weekly Weather: We’ve had a few cloudy days and a few sunny ones, but all relatively warm. It’s been a nice spring so far. 🙂

What Paul’s Been Up To: In addition to work and school, he’s done some work on the sprinklers in our yards, repairing some of the pipes. He’s also made sure to give Joseph some one-on-one time, which I am incredibly grateful for!

What Sarah’s Been Up To: I took both kids to the library on Monday because I needed to get Abigail’s birth certificate and luckily the library is able to provide those (and I didn’t need to drag both kids to the Vital Records Office). Other than that, not much out of the ordinary…just keeping the small humans happy and healthy, which takes up most of my day. I wouldn’t trade it, though! 🙂

What Joseph’s Been Up To: Getting a lot of relaxing time in during break, mostly. Playing on his 2DS, playing with toys, a park play date, etc. One great thing he came up with was showing me his invention: “baby drool armor 4.0” (Abigial has been rather drooly as of late). He was basically walking around with a burp cloth tucked under his chin. Since it was large enough to cover his entire front, this was good “armor” for him. 😀

What Abigail’s Been Up To: She’s been her normal, happy self (which made the digestive issues all the more perplexing, since she had no other symptoms of anything else). She is now weighing in at almost 15 pounds, so she’s gained almost three pounds in three weeks (something we discovered at her doctor’s appointment). I had suspected that she was going through a growth spurt, but had no idea it was that significant. She’s also discovered how to get just her thumb into her mouth and will sometimes prefer that to the binky. I’m hoping it doesn’t become a habit (I didn’t mind the binky because that’s something we can toss out at some point…can’t exactly toss her thumbs, haha). Joseph sucked his thumb, but stopped at 8 months when he got hand, foot, and mouth (from the gym daycare) and it hurt to suck. I guess we’ll see…she IS only just approaching her 3 month old mark.

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Weekly Happenings: This past week didn’t hold many adventures that were out of the ordinary (just ordinary adventures, haha). Other than our typical stuff that we do, I took the kids to a park to meet up with friends before they move overseas for work, and Paul took the day off on Friday so he could meet with a flooring guy about installing wood flooring in our house (replacing the carpet downstairs and on the stairs themselves…we’re going to leave the carpet upstairs and just replace it at some point, just not this year) and take the Mazda in for its 60,000 mile maintenance needs (oil change, etc.). I sure was grateful that he was able to do that. Hauling both kids to Walmart to wait a minimum of 45 minutes did not sound appealing at all. I sure married a great guy! Also, we switched back to Daylight Saving Time last night. It’ll be interesting trying to put the kids to bed while it’s still potentially light out. Maybe this is why the kids have spring break this next week…the schools wanted to give us a week to recover from it all, haha.

The Weekly Weather: Spring sure has sprung down here, even though the official day isn’t until next week. We’ve had both sunny days and cloudy days, but they’ve all been relatively warm. Today is supposed to be cool (in the 60s), but then it’s supposed to warm back up. Paul pointed out to me that since we’re so far South, the seasons (especially the growing seasons) don’t always match up with the calendar.

What Paul’s Been Up To: Work, Scouts, school, the aforementioned meeting with the flooring guy and oil change…oh, and he ripped out the old tomato plants and planted the new ones. It was quite the undertaking since he changed up how the wire fencing was (and had to pound the metal stakes holding it into the ground) so that it’s possible for us to walk all around the planter, making it easier to get the tomatoes that may grown towards the back. He also moved my desk into our room so that there’s more room in the loft for kid stuff (it’s now officially just a playroom) and put together some new bookcases (also in our room) to replace the one that has been worn out for a while. I’m so grateful for all the hard work he does for us!

What Sarah’s Been Up To: Not much, really. Other than taking the kids to the park, my week was pretty much the same as it usually is. I did move the stuff from the worn out bookcase to the new one and also cleared out/decluttered the tall brown bookcases so they could be used to hold more useful stuff, rather than a lot of picture frames (I took all the pictures out and put them in a photo album) and nick-nacks.

What Joseph’s Been Up To: School and hanging around the house for the most part. He really enjoyed the park play date because a lot of people showed up to say goodbye to our friends. He’s excited to be off this next week for spring break, but I bet by the time the week is up, he’ll be ready to go back to school. 😉

What Abigail’s Been Up To: The main thing is that she has really started to fight being swaddled (and I noticed that she gets really hot when all bundled up). Last night we tried just putting her into a regular sleep sack which leaves her arms free. She seemed to do okay with it, not waking up a whole lot more than normal. It might take a few days of getting used to, though. Also, I switched her out to 3-6 month clothes as opposed to the 0-3 month ones she was in. I noticed they were getting kind of snug on her. She seems even happier than her normal happy self. 🙂

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Weekly Happenings: It’s hard to believe that we’re already a few days into March. Time just seems to be moving faster and faster. This past week contained a couple of nights where Abigail and I went out for a couple of events (a baby shower and a Relief Society activity), fun days at school for Joseph (it was Read Across America week), and a big milestone for Abigail (a change in sleeping arrangements).

The Weekly Weather: It’s been a mix of warm, cool, and rainy (yesterday it rained pretty much all day). We’re supposed to get more of the same this next week as well. I know it’s not spring according to the calendar just yet, but I think spring has hit South Texas!

What Paul’s Been Up To: He’s been busy with work, projects and exams for school, and Scouts. He also did most of the moving around of stuff as we moved Abigail from our room into hers.

What Sarah’s Been Up To: As mentioned before, I attended a baby shower for a close friend and also attended the Relief Society birthday dinner for our ward (celebrating the anniversary of the organization of the Relief Society for our church). Abigail came along with me to both and did stellar. Other than that, it was a pretty average week for me.

What Joseph’s Been Up To: As mentioned before, it was Read Across America week, which meant that there were several fun dress-up days that he got to do. The only one I got a picture of was “Nerd Day” because the result was pretty amusing. He also had a fun time going to Scouts with Paul since it was a fun night of playing video games for the boys.

What Abigail’s Been Up To: As eluded to a couple of times already, we moved Abigail out of our room and into her own on Friday. Saturday, Paul hung some shelves and some decorations. It turned out pretty cute. She’s doing fine there (she’s really too young to know much of a difference yet, so I think it was a good thing for us to do at this point) and we have a monitor that has two receivers so that I can have one in our room and one downstairs.

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