Well, it felt like this last week, the summer really began for me. The last day of school for us was May 25th...however, it's been full steam ahead since this last week. We had a wonderful Family Reunion, I worked the following week, gave my 1st ever staff training the week after that (with my DAD as an attendee!), and interviewed for a new opportunity. I'm so thankful and excited about this new adventure, which will start officially July 25th of this year...I will be the new school counselor at Kissam Intermediate (grades 3-5) for Chapel Hill ISD. It's definitely bittersweet as I will really miss the boys and my fellow co-workers at Azleway. But I have to admit I'm super excited about being an elementary school counselor at Kissam!
We've had some visitors this week which has been really fun. My cousins Lauren & Bre came on Tuesday and all of us girls went to the zoo Wednesday. It was a great time had by all, and Moriah loved seeing and "talking" to all the animals and riding in the wagon. If only I'd let her climb the fence to get into the duck area she would have been happier. ha! She was reaching for them and "quacking" to them and wanted so bad to get in there with 'em!
Little Miss Moriah turned 17 months on Wednesday and I can't believe it! She is walking all over the place and has quite her own agenda with plenty of things to tend to! She still doesn't care to be cuddled, held, and kept still too much. She much prefers to walk all over the house shutting doors, trying to get into cabinets, pulling toilet paper down from the roll, throwing things in the trash, attempting to dig in the trash, etc. She LOVES being outside and absolutely loves water. Her favorites are playing outside in her Dora sprinkler or little swimming pool. We met Emily, Halle, & Whitney at the splash park Monday and I wondered if she would try to avoid all the water spraying things, but she actually gravitated to all of them and the wetter she got, the better!
The only problem is that between all the moisture from her water ventures and also teething this week, she came down with quite the wicked diaper rash. Poor baby got blisters on her bottom and it just looked horrible. We've been doing all sorts of home remedies and creams recommended by the facebook moms and it's looking better. The 2 teeth on either side of her top 2 big ones are cutting through the surface, so maybe we'll be up to 6 teeth soon!
We took pics with Emily yesterday in Jville and I can't wait to see them! I can't believe the last time I had her pictures made was before she was even walking. Wow, talk about a bad mom ; ) Moriah was so busy yesterday walking all over the place I could hardly keep her "on the set" for her pictures. I'm sure we were quite the scene between me chasing her all over the studio, encouraging, prodding, and pleading with her to look at the camera, and even sometimes reverting to doing that annoying "trying- to-get-the-toddler's-attention- in-Crazy-Enthusiastic-Voice." Yes i know. Sometimes we do things we never thought we'd do to try to get a good picture. Poor Emily. Nevertheless, with Emily's talent I know we will have some good ones!
Esteban has been with us for 3 weeks now and is doing great. He has been working hard at his job, helping around the house, and he really is a joy. He adores Moriah (or "Sissy" as he calls her) and loves to play with her and talk to her. We are about to initiate an "Esteban Cooking Night" where he will cook a meal for the fam so I'll have to report later how that goes!
Raina is visiting us for the weekend and it's been great to have her. She is such a sweetie and we are proud of the young lady she is becoming. Well, I hear Mozella stirring and I think Raina is waking as well. We are about to do some shopping for Tootsie's birthday if we can all get dressed and out of the house!
The summer is off to a great start!
