Our latest adventure...

Ok, so it's been almost two months since you last heard from me - but what a two months it's been! There have been so many little moments when I've thought, "I really ought to blog this," but it kind of got to the point where there was so much going on and I didn't feel like sitting down to type an online epistle about everything. Anyway, long story short, we got a job transfer and moved back to Houston about a week ago. We're just getting settled in to our dirtier-than-we-expected house and I'm trying not to let the cleaning bee in my bonnet get the best of me. Meaning, I'm trying to focus on getting one room really clean each day instead of getting A) so obsessive about it that I stay up all night cleaning or B) so global and overwhelmed about everything that I just ignore it entirely.

On top of yet another move just four months after relocating to Beaumont (was it really only four months?!), and in the same day, Dallin turned two, decided that he was too big for his crib, and decided he hates wearing diapers/pants/clothing. That's been a pretty big adventure in and of itself. We've resorted to cutting all the feet out of his jammies and zipping him in backwards so as to avoid the whole midnight stripping thing and sadly, once he gets his clothes off, there's no keeping a diaper on him. Tom even tried using duct tape to keep him from pulling it off but he still managed to shimmy out somehow. *sigh* That kid. It's a good thing he's cute.

We also got a dog. My brother's going to be deploying to Afghanistan in the fall and his family is going to be living on base in North Carolina while he's gone, so we volunteered to take one of their dogs until they have a place for him in a year or so. He's a 5 year old, 100# white lab and about as sweet and sedate as they come. It's been really fun seeing the boys with him and everyone's getting along great. I think one of the most exciting parts though has been Logan's lack of an allergic reaction. Granted, he's been getting four allergy shots per week for nearly a year but you can't appreciate how allergic he was to dogs. It's just been really exciting to feel like somehow, everything we've been doing is working and that he's got a shot at enjoying a normal life instead of being limited by his allergies. I've got an order for labwork to see how his food allergies are coming along, so I'll keep you posted.

I'm sorry for the lack of pictures on this post. There are some on my now-functioning camera downstairs but it's 7:40 a.m, the boys are waking up, and I've got a hot date with a treadmill at 9. However, I wanted to post this video. It's meant a lot to me through all this.