Ch-ch-changes!

Wow, it's been nearly 2 years since my last post. Shall we try this again? New year, new beginnings and all that jazz, right?

So, I guess I need to reintroduce and update on the cast right? Especially since we have a newish addition to the crew.

First of all, we got the house and we LOVE it!

I've made some improvements to myself. I started Weight Watchers back in August and to date I've lost 29pounds and still going after an up and down month of December. I'm glad to have the holiday treats and temptations in the past. I'm also going back to school. My ultimate goal is to be a labor and delivery nurse. When I was younger, I was interested in nursing but got rather icked out by many bodily fluids. 4 kids later, I've gotten passed the easily icked stage so I'm going for it! So I'm headed back to UT and in about 2 years I should have my Clinical Nurse Leader degree.

Oh that's right, at last post we had only 3 kids. Now we've got 4. On December 10th, 2009 Matilda Mei Christ was born. It's very bittersweet to me that my LAST baby is nearly 13 months old! She mastered walking about a week after her first birthday and now she's a dancing fool. She's such a good baby. I said it with Wyatt and I say it with Tilly, if all babies were this good, many more people would have larger families!

Seeing her middle name also brings me to another update. My little brother Dusty passed away unexpectedly from an asthma attack in October of 2009. His death has really shaken my family up in so many ways. He was such a fun uncle to my kids before his death, we decided to give a small nod to him when we named Matilda since she missed out on meeting him on earth. He was a big fan of anime and the Japanese culture so we put a Japanese spelling to Matilda's middle name.

Wyatt is now 2 and a half. He's such a fun little guy. He's definitely a man's man. He loves trains and tools. He's such a great helper, you can often find him with a broom in hand. He was even more excited to play with the broom at the YMCA gym than he was to play with the giant bin of various balls! He's been going to speech therapy since shortly after he turned 2 and he's trying so hard to say more and more. He has an appointment with an oral surgeon on January 19th to see if he needs to have his tongue clipped. He's tongue tied and his speech therapist thinks that this may be causing his speech delay. He's very bright and intelligent, he totally understands what's being said to him but he has a difficult time expressing himself verbally. So, fingers crossed that the tongue clipping helps him catch up.

Sophie will be one whole hand full of fingers old in just 2 and a half months! Time sure does fly when you're having fun. She's my little mother hen. She's such a great big sister, sometimes too helpful if you know what I mean. She's in preschool right now and she loves it. I'm so excited for her because her best friend at preschool will also be going to kindergarten with her next year. She's a lot more interested in letters and writing than Hannah was at this age. It still surprises me how different kids can be even when they're raised in the same home.

Hannah is now 9 and in the third grade. She's so excited to finally be learning cursive and multiplication. That girl is such a math whiz, she loves it and understands it very quickly. She's still on the YMCA swim team and still is just doing it for the fun. She hasn't gotten competitive about it, but that's OK. I'm just thankful she's still doing it. Her practices are up to 4 one hour sessions per week now, it's such great exercise for her! I keep telling her how lucky she is to have a group sport she enjoys, it's a lot more fun than my current exercise regime of walking the elliptical while she swims.

Joe's still Joe, a great husband and father. He took 2 college classes over the fall semester and aced them both! I'm so proud of him. He's really been my inspiration for getting myself back to school. If he can pull off 2 A's while working and playing dad than I should definitely be able to do it while being just a mom, right?

Well, I hope you've enjoyed the update. I really need to maintain this blog. There are so many moments in my life that my kids provide great entertainment. I always mean to write it down and sometimes I do but never in the same place. Facebook has been a good venue to share mini snipits but often times it's hard to summarize our happenings in Facebook's limited character length, we all know I can be a bit wordy. Thanks for reading and please leave a comment so I know that someone is actually "listening" to me.