We've been busy!

I had to recreate yet another shopping cart for Motherhood Naturally Publications - the last one I used was not filling all of my needs. I don't think there is anything more time consuming and hair pulling than having to move all of your products between three carts over the course of a few months. I am back where I was originally and was happy there but wanted to 'explore' other options. I'm glad I did - now I have a pretty good idea of what other carts will do, how to install them and use them and maybe I can use that to help someone else someday.

My husband brought home several grocery bags from our local store filled with apples and cherries unsuitable for sale due to bruising, soft spots of wrinkling skin. The owner had just given the apples to him because he couldn't sell them, so my husband took them so we could juice them! We've been enjoying fresh juice each morning now and I know the apples don't have the best nutrition content anymore but they're still better than juice you'd buy in the store. Not only that, the kids and I were starting to come down with a cold, but with our favorite juice recipe we're kicking it in the bum!

My oldest daughter turned four yesterday, but we had her birthday party last weekend with family. She's into pink, princesses and butterflies so guess what she got for her birthday? Pink, princess stuff and butterfly stuff. She's in heaven. My grandma also got her a babydoll that cries, laughes, coo's and whatever else. My daughter, being such a huge help with our youngest, is in heaven being able to play with a baby that SHE is totally responsible for. :-)

My son, the 2.5 year old is going to start speech therapy whenever the therapist calls me to schedule the appointment. last week we took him in for a developmental assessment because he's 2.5 and still has a max of 15 words and doesn't even say them that well (he'll say car, but he won't put the "ar" on the end more like "cah", and that's common for him. he doesn't 'finish' his words). He DOES communicate with us, just not with words. The assessment showed that he was on track developmentally and had no other delays though, thank God.

Kaitlyn is six months old now. She is cutting four teeth - both front upper teeth and the lower. She's really doing well with it, and she cracks me up because she is so curious. She'll play with one toy, her hand might brush another and instantly she turns to see what she touched and rolls over to play with it. Different colors and textures really intrigue her, and she'll stare and touch the color or texture for a few minutes in very deep concentration as if she's memorizing it. I'll put her toys in a circle around her, and she'll 'do her rounds' rolling around to examine each one of them.

We got our seeds and I started some of the early starters. A local freecycler offered her flower pots so we picked them up yesterday so we have extra containers for our early starts before they can go in the ground, because they are going to outgrow their itty bitty plots before long and it's still too cold to put them outside. We are expanding our garden this year and adding many more tomatoes, peas, green beans, carrots and beets. We're adding onion and some different herbs, and are trying lettuce, broccoli and spinach. I have my usual herb garden started already too.

Well I'm going to take the kids the the library - I'll try to write more tonight.