Thursday, January 31, 2008

Yes we have a crawler

Daniel is now doing a full crawl! He has been doing the dead man crawl for about a month now but in the last couple days he has started doing a full crawl and has his legs and arms all coordinated. There is no stopping him now. He is all over the house, and his favorite thing to do right now is to go for the Xbox and pull on the controller wire until it unplugs which makes Elijah crazy. I have to laugh when he does that because of course Elijah did the exact same thing when he was a baby. Daniel looks really cute crawling and him and Elijah have started playing together more which is a lot of fun to watch. Daniel is also doing some cruising. He has a hard time pulling himself up all the way but if we stand him up and put his hands on the coffee table he does do some cruising. He is pretty unsteady though.


Daniel is still making it pretty difficult to leave him anywhere. I went to a MaryKay lipstick party at my friend Janice's home yesterday and I left Daniel with Doug. I was gone for an hour and a half and by the time I got home it looked like poor Doug had been through a battle zone. He just handed me Daniel and went to bed.

I wanted to give a little financial update. I have postponed looking for a job. We were able to get a forebearance on Doug's student loan for 1 year and that saves us $367 per month. Our neighbor who has a tree service business also approached us and asked if he can use half our backyard for storage of some of his vehicles and cut wood for firewood and offered us $200 per month so I think we are going to take him up on that offer. So praise God our prayers have been answered, for now we are doing ok.

5 comments:

Kindra said...

WOOHOO for Daniel!!! Now you are in trouble!! Too fun though.
Also what a blessing about the extra money and the guy who wants to use your yard...isn't God good??? I love when He answers prayers in unique ways!! ~ Kindra

Janice said...

God always provide when we need it the most! I love that about him - but it also makes me crazy because it's His timing and not mine!

Janice said...

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love, Janice

Anonymous said...

We are doing better. We all still have a bit of a cough and it has been hard to get motivated again. It really easy to get used to being lazy! I have also been very unmotivated in my blogging. I hope that changes soon. Thank you for your blog though, it always blesses me to read it.

Anonymous said...

Hi,
Well I finally found some time to catch up on your blog. I really am happy to see that Daniel is crawing. You really are in trouble now. Do you need some help with the baby proofing the house. Poor Elijah, now he has to put away all those tiny toys he just got for his birthday.
love always,
mom