Its Official

Well we returned from Avery's driving competition on Saturday and we had a message on our answering machine. I am starting back to school!!!!! I have been unemployed for over a year now and even though I am enjoying the time with Jeremiah and watching him grow we have been looking into schools we want to send him to and I need to go back to work in order to send him there. Soooooooo - I have decided on a career change and I am going back to school to prepare for that! Its exciting since I haven't been in a classroom in a long time but I am looking forward to it! I will only have to be in class one day a week for 6 hours but then I will basically be doing labs the other 4 days of the week!!! This is a career that hopefully will allow me to work out of my house so that I can be available when Jeremiah gets home from school but we are thinking that by the time I finish training I can then start working and be ready to work from home in a couple of years when he is in school. Everyone please say a prayer for us since as I said its been a long time since I have been in a classroom!

On another note Jeremiah finally got a haircut the day we left for the competition and it was a fight all the way but my hat is off to the woman who cut it - despite all his fussing and yelling he has a very nice haircut AND she told him to come back and see her again! Now if we could just get him to let us trim his fingernails and toenails......

We are working on the potty training but its been an uphill battle all the way - there are so many other things he would rather do. He will go to the potty and use it but he is just as likely to do it in his big boy pants. We have been told to take him out of training pants and put him in regular underwear - anyone have any suggestions? Please feel free to chime in!

He is growing like a weed and wants to take karate classes but they have said not until he is potty trained so we are hoping thats incentive! He is big into Woody and Buzz and Buzz has a karate chop function so hopefully classes will entice him to use the potty (I have heard girls are easier than boys and it MUST be true because everyone I know that has little girls agrees that they weren't this hard to train!). I hope we won't be packing him off for college with clothes and depends!!!!!!

Jeremiah in the snow

Well we have had some snow here in the month of February and I have a few photos of Jeremiah in the snow. Our Christmas photos are lost forever it appears due to a malfunction with our memory card so all we will have of this Christmas is our memories of Jeremiah finding his "Christmas". He was so excited and kept saying "I got new toys and got to keep the old ones too!". He has gotten very expressive and we are hearing so many things these days - it is like there is something new everyday. He told me the other day that I needed to be quiet because he had something to say - please. We also hear "I DO IT MYSELF!!!!!!!" all the time! He has very definite ideas about things and he is sure he is at least 20 something! He wants to be a big boy so bad!

He is obsessed with "Toy Story" these days and all we hear is he is either "Woody" Jeremiah or "Buzz" Jeremiah. How funny!!!! He also celebrated a birthday in January and we had bad weather on his birthday. We are hoping there is better weather for his "Gotcha" day!

I am still job hunting - have had some interesting interviews in the last month but nothing yet. We are grateful to everyone who has been praying for us - as of today I am officially unemployed for one year and God has blessed us richly by taking such good care of us. We pray daily for his continued benevolence. I pointed the other day that since Jeremiah came into our lives I have spent less than 4 months working. Several people have said that apparently God has intended for me to have this time and truthfully I have enjoyed spending this year with him - I know it is time I will NEVER regret. Please everyone continue to keep us in your prayers.

Christmas time is upon us!!!!!

Well the holidays are here and Jeremiah and the rest of the family have all been busy getting ready. We decorated the tree (quite an interesting feat with Jeremiah's help - he wanted all the ornaments below 4 feet. So far he has been pretty good about not pulling things off but he checks everyday to make sure the tree is still there.

We visited the mall this past weekend and told Santa Claus what we wanted. Can you guess what it might have been???? When Santa asked him what he wanted he said "Chocolate cake and a Diego book!!!!". If we had only known we could have saved ourselves a lot of shopping!!!!!

The last two days haven't been very pretty here - overcast, foggy and cool so we took the opportunity today to make Gingerbread House (compliments of a kit from Walmart). He did pretty good - only wanted to eat the Christmas tree that came with it but finally decided the house needed a Christmas tree and abstained (I was proud of him!). Hope everyone out there has a safe, happy and healthy holiday - photos of Christmas party with Great-Grandmother will be the next thing we post!!!

Is it just me or is he too handsome for words???!!!!!

Yes he's ours and we're prejudiced - but can you blame us???!!!!!

More photos

Sorry folks but I had to make a second entry for the birthday photos.....as you can see from the first picture Paw-Paw is Jeremiah's buddy!!!

Halloween and Birthdays!

Jeremiah was sick at Halloween time this year with a sinus infection and ear infection so we elected not to go out trick or treating because of the weather and since we are "in the country" and not in a subdivision we don't get trick or treaters so we went to the church activity Fall Festival (where my camera died). I have a couple of pictures of him in costume (he absolutely loves Diego and now calls himself Diego Jeremiah).

My Dad celebrated his birthday on November 5 and our friend Betty B joined Jeremiah and myself and Jeremiah's Granny in celebrating at the Olive Garden. I am adding some pictures of Jeremiah "helping" with the cards and cake. Happy Birthday Dad/Paw-Paw!!!! We hope you have many more for us to celebrate!!!!

School pictures

We have been waiting for the proofs and have had trouble getting them delivered to our email, these were made in June but they are the latest professional pictures we have of Jeremiah.

The last one over to the right is my favorite but the photographer said there wasn't a bad one as far as he was concerned because Jeremiah was smiling in all of them. Don't you just want to squeeze those little cheeks???!!!!