Back from Florida

We made it back to Virginia in one piece, yea! We went to visit Logan's dad and stepmom for Spring Break in Florida. It was a lot of fun, but I'm glad to be home. Asher is quite a handful at our house where there are no hazards to his health, and he is double trouble in an environment that is fraught with danger (i.e., lots of little breakable objects, candles, nuts in shells, old, fragile books, etc.) Suffice it to say we spent a great deal of time in the great outdoors, exploring the retirement community. Even there he tried tirelessly to ride in other residents' golf carts (cucks (trucks), as he called them) and attempted to remove one of those giant glass balls from its pedestal in someone's garden.

The child never stops moving! He runs from the time his feet hit the floor in the morning, until he is put into bed at night. I would love to strap a pedometer on him to see how many miles he racks up in a day. I lost three pounds in five days chasing him around.

It's amazing to see how his mind is developing so rapidly, in addition to his physique. We went to sign the final papers on our house today, and as we were walking up, he said, "bloon, bloon". When were there a month ago, there were balloons attached to the sign out front that he was fascinated with, and he remembered where they had been! His vocabulary has increased to over 50 words, now including ma ma which he says constantly. It's going to be hard to go back to work and leave him next week :(.

Training up our child

Right now Asher wants to go outside, and I want to teach him to be neat. So I keep telling him, help mommy pick up the toys, and we will go outside. I start putting the toys in the bin, he helps for a second then dumps the bin out, I walk away and tell him we will go when the toys are cleaned up. We have done this three times now. Are my expectations too high? I don't like discipline and training, they're hard :).

Well, here we go

I have decided that the time has come to keep everyone informed of our super-busy and important lives, ha. I really hope that I am committed to this blog because I love to read everyone else's. Though Logan is a photographer, we rarely have pictures of ourselves (or Asher), and I hope to improve on that, too.

This weekend (and all last week) we are waiting to hear if we are approved for our home loan, and if we are, when we will break ground on our new house. This whole experience has been a roller coaster ride of emotions, and embarrassingly enough, breakdowns on my part. My prayer has consistently been, "Lord, if this is not your will, no matter how much we want it, I pray that you would not let the loan go through." So now we wait, on the Lord's answer and the direction for our future. We don't have a plan B, except that we are moving from Danville, so I hope the Lord enlightens us soon if this is not his will.