Peters Family Update

I have a friend who writes the best blogs on her facebook. She kind of updates us all on her life and her kids. I just love it. So I thought that I would try to just be better about doing a whole family update every once in awhile. Here it goes! Lily is very ready for school to start. She will be doing co-op every Thursday and we will be doing a mixture of different curriculums at home. I have to admit that doing school work with Lily is one of my favorite things. I think it brings the best out of Lily. She is a very hyperactive and often challenging child, but when she is focused, she is brilliant and funny and a true joy. I love watching how quickly she learns and she loves school. She always wants to do more than one days worth of work. We are also going to be getting her signed up for girl scouts this year. I hope that she gets a great leader. I think she will make some great friends through that.

Valerie is the funniest little child ever. I love that she is still my cuddly baby girl. I have never seen a child smile so much and so true. She is always giggling and making silly faces. She truely has her daddy's goofy personality. I think she is much harder to teach though. She is so stubborn and she does not like showing off like Lily does. She does things when she wants to! One thing she really loves though is drawing. She is so much better than Lily was at this age. She makes circles and straight lines like crazy. She even writes the letter V for her name. We have had a really fun time lately with her speech. She is talking so much, but she definitely has a hard time with saying certain words. Valerie had a hard time saying Daphne. At the beginning, she was calling her Baby Daddy...lol. She just couldn't get the right sound so we practiced and she started calling her Dappy...so then we all started calling the baby, Dappy Duck. :) Now she has been working really hard and she calls her...Daaaa____Ne. I think it is so cute!

Daphne is our sweet little baby. I can't believe that she is already 5 weeks old. She definitely loves to smile and she loves car rides. Really if she is ever crabby, a car ride fixes that. This is very good since I love to be busy and on the go. She also loves to breastfeed...sometimes more than I like. lol. She is sleeping great at night. She really only had a problem for the first 3 or 4 days after she was born. I love having a baby again! I realized today though that both of the girls were rolling over by 6 weeks and I have hardly even layed Daphne on her belly...she is not a belly baby like they were and Jason is really letting her get her way in that. lol.

Jason is doing good. He is working a lot, but his job is pretty flexible so he can take off when we need it. That is wonderful. I actually really hope that it picks up more so he can hire a second employee, but I don't think that is going to happen this year with the economy the way it is. Everyone just can't afford to get their carpets cleaned every 6 months.

As for me, I really got my hopes up on selling our house and buying a new one, but houses keep going down in price and that scares me. I don't want to have to sell our house for too little, but I know we could probably make that up by getting a really good deal on a house. I think that we are going to take our house off the market. I just don't want to think about it for awhile. Our house really is big enough for us as a family. I think I just really wanted a bigger house so I would have more room for homeschooling and for having friends over. I love having playgroups and friends over. I really would use my house for that every single day!

Well that is pretty much all that is new with us! Just thought that I would share or atleast write this down for myself. I am not very good at journaling, but I love to keep these memories to look back on. :)