March 23rd, 2009

I sure love this child. He still has his moments, but all in all, he's just a neat little boy who has suffered greatly and needlessly at the hands of adults who should have never had children.
We went shopping on Saturday and Tosh bought him some Carharts. He told him that when you have your Carharts on, you aren't allowed to cry! He's SO cute in them and he just loves to wear them. He told me that he wanted to wear the pants that he couldn't cry in! ;) When he fell and started to cry, I reminded him that he had his Carharts on and it was an immediate fix!
He adores "his" horse and wants some boots and a hat...and he reminds me every day.

I think that our biggest problem has actually been in getting our own daughters to embrace him. They were all on board and excited about having him until he got here and they found out how difficult it was. McKenna is quite jealous and has made it no secret. We are trying to give her time to adjust and make sure that we pay attention to her as well, but it's a big change for her and it wont come easily. Savannah has taken on a more responsible role and she is actually (usually) very good with him. One positive thing that I've noticed is that the girls aren't fighting NEAR as much with each other now! This is good. I think that they really just need time to get used to things. I remember how hard it was for me at 10 when my sister came to stay with us for the Summer. I loved her, but I was very jealous and hurt that my parents paid so much attention to her, when I got so little. I want to make sure that my kids don't get hurt, but I also want them to learn to share...and appreciate what they have. This isn't going to be easy.

My computer is toast. It's funny, because I have been complaining so much about it not charging that my husband finally gave me the "go ahead" to buy a new laptop. I ordered it last night.
Today, his dumb Boxer dog stomped on my computer and ruined the screen. I'll have to use an external monitor to get my stuff off of it, but I'm SO thankful that my new one will be here Wednesday! It's a Compaq Presario. I hope its a good one. It had rave reviews.

Hmmm..let's see. McKenna talked her dad into a new dog. We're going to look at a "nice little dog" tomorrow, but I'm not thrilled. We do NOT NEED five dogs!
Well, that's it for now. I wish I could just report that we will get to keep "A", but I know better than to get my hopes up.

Lis