Middle of winter, let's go check out the beach!

Because we probably won't make it out a lot once tourist season starts. Look at me, whining about tourist season already! 

We went and checked out Henderson Beach State Park. 

I thought it might be a little warmer, but it was a very cold breeze blowing all day, so we didn't stay too long. 

The water though! Holy smokes! This is even on an overcast, cold day. And the water looked beautiful. 

Definitely can't wait to come back in warmer weather!! 

That post where you go to brag, and you end up eating your words.

That's what this post will be here, any minute now. 

A Facebook friend of mine posted about how her daughter was doing really well potty training. Our daughters, along with another Facebook friend all had baby girls around the same time, all having had boys first, who are also close in age. (Funny is I've never met either in person, but thanks to Facebook, feels like I know them!) 

Anyhoo, we have had little signs here and there maybe, I could try to start Callie potty training. She's very verbal, interested in the potty, and even sat a couple times on her brother's potty and did a pee pee. 

I was definitely not ready before, even though I could've tried. Wilson's barely been potty trained, and had a couple hard core regressions. 

So today Callie got her own potty. We got her to go pee pee in it. Annnddd she's been wearing her undies for about a half hour now and they are still dry. *cue dramatic music* 

Anyhow, I know as soon as I hit post on this baby, she is going to totally just soak those adorable cupcake training panties up! So enjoy! 

Wordy Wednesday

Well, I thought it might be wordy, but now my mind is drawing a blank. 

There are a couple things on my mind. Mostly, what's in the future for us all. 

Wilson has an appointment tomorrow to hopefully get a referral for more services. 

He is still behind on his speech, and I think he needs occupational therapy. 

He's been telling us sometimes that stuff is "too loud" and I'm wondering if he has some sensory issues. 

So hopefully tomorrow we can get the referrals started for all that. 

I would really love to put him in a part time enrichment program, so he could be with other kids his age, but I'm having a hard time finding anything that could work for him. 

I'm also worried that come preschool  time in the fall, he might not like it, or be overwhelmed, or they will tell me he's really behind... :-/

Guess we will cross that bridge when we come to it....

If he does end up being delayed, the elementary school actually has a special needs preschool, so I may look more into that.

It's a little frustrating though, because it's going to involve a lot more appointments, and a lot more evaluations. Which can be challenging for us, when Andy's schedule changes a lot, we are a one car family, and I have to figure out what to do with the little miss. 

Ahhh, life. You sure keep us on our toes, don't you? 

Anyhoo. It's getting to be bathtime, but I'm trying to wait as long as possible, because Andy's sleeping and I'm worried they will wake him up, since the bathroom is next to our room.... 

All settled in the house.

My in laws were able to get so much done for us. Everything is hung up, boxes broken down and dragged out to the street, all our miscellaneous stuff put out in our storage shed. 

I snapped a couple pictures of our main area of the house. 

None of the bedrooms yet, but everything is hung up, although I think I need some curtains. At least for our bedroom. 

We still have small things here and there we need to work on. But basically it's all done! 

A couple weeks in.

Since getting here to Florida, finding the time to blog has been very scarce. Who am I kidding, before I barely would make the time, but when you are in the middle of a move, and two demanding children, well.... You end up blogging like me. Very, very sporadically.

We were able to have all our things in our house for Christmas, and I even got a tree up and some decorations. The kids got their presents, and that was something I was really worried about. I was worried their presents would get "lost", but luckily, that didn't happen. 

Our best present was picking up my in laws on Christmas Eve. They are such loving, warm people. I admire them for so many different reasons. But mostly, because they came down to help us with everything. From doing yardwork, hanging up all our pictures and knick-knacks, folding the never ending laundry, getting up with children and letting us (ME) sleep in an extra hour or two, to doing dishes, cooking dinner, playing with their grandchildren, taking out the trash, baby sitting so we can snag a couple dates and just getaway just the two of us.

Seriously, I LOVE them! We have such a great relationship, and not only are they my in-laws, they are my friends. So I feel like I get the best of both worlds.

Whoops, did I make this a post about how much I love my in laws? Well, they definitely deserve it!!

Also, did I mention we have 10 more days with them here? I might have a different blog post up after they leave. Just kidding. We will miss them a lot and be grateful for the time we got to spend together as a family. I got really lucky when I married Andy, because I picked up some really awesome in laws.