The Barnards

During the actual moving process I didn’t take any pictures. 1.) for the the obvious reason, I was a bit busy mostly directing where everything was to go. 2.) I felt terrible.

Approximately 36 hours before we were supposed to move I started feeling a bug coming on. No matter how much I tried to ignore it over the next few days it was not going away. Sunday I stayed home from church and then Monday I woke up and had no voice. This lingered through the week. And after several calls from my mom offering to come down to help with the kids so I could rest, I finally decided getting better was more important that my pride and said yes I needed her. After about 1.5 days of rest I was feeling better already. I am so thankful for my mom coming down to my rescue.

Also a big thank you to all of our friends and family who helped in the moving process. Miss Laurie came and took Deacon for a day out. He was so excited to get to spend the morning with her and it was nice to have him out of the way while things were being moved. I stole this picture from her

Both of our parents and Landon and Julie came down to help all weekend. I don’t think we could have done it without them. We had a lot of help to pack up and unpack the truck and then they helped us put so much away. Our kitchen and kids rooms were pretty much done on Saturday, simply amazing.

Here are a few pictures I did get after we had everything moved in.

Deacon and Landon were playing baseball and having Julie be their announcer. Although in this picture it looks as though Deacon is about to beat Landon over the head with the bat.

My mom is usually the gift buyer in our family by one of the first things my dad bought for both of our kids was a piggy bank. Every time they come to visit he gives Deacon money to put in his pig, which is one of Deacon’s favorite things to do.

Deacon had a dentist appointment this week and unfortunately it was during both kids usual nap time. With Bible study, MDO and other things going on that was the only time we could go. I fueled myself up with a Sonic diet coke that morning so I was ready to take on the task.

Deacon loves going to the dentist, primarily for the waiting room. Most of our wait he sat in the tree house watching a movie.

Since he had a full check up last fall all they had to do this time was clean his teeth (with chocolate toothpaste…yuck!) and make sure everything looked good.

He was happy to hear that he didn’t have any germs in his mouth and picked out this for prize.

Finley watched very intently the whole time and of course found it funny at times. She thinks everything Deacon does is funny.

One thing that I never did with Deacon to was encourage him to play by himself. Mostly because I worked until he was 18 months old so every waking moment I felt like I needed to entertain him or be spending time with him, mostly out of guilt. Before I had Finley I was still trying to force encourage him to play by himself. He has gotten better in the last several months, but according to him he isn’t playing alone (imaginary) Reed is usually always with him. Whatever it takes!

With Finley I decided to start encouraging alone play time much earlier.

She honestly does enjoy sitting in her bed playing. It doesn’t last long but I can get a lot accomplished in 15 minutes while she is in there playing away.

I find it so funny the things I am already doing differently the second time around.

Every night before I go to bed I check on both kids. Usually it is just to make sure they are breathing, because I am paranoid, and cover Deacon up since he does not want covered up while he is going to sleep. However the last few nights have been interesting because we never knew how we would find Deacon.

He has always been a crazy sleeper
but now he just adds an element of surprise at night for us.