Calm Before the Storm

Have I mentioned how much I'm dreading next month? I'm going to be so incredibly busy it's already stressing me out. To start it off, we have our month end closing at work next week, which means things are already busy getting ready for that. Then, we have to do account reconciliations which are always a nightmare and take up a lot of time, but to make things worse, this month we have to use a new format which means everything has to be converted over which takes up more time (meaning my flex days and weekends)...to make things worse, our boss scheduled all these team building things that are going to take up three solid days and then the week of my birthday we have this huge meeting that I'm in charge of, so there's another ton of stress piled up on me. I'm seriously dreading it, I'm not going to see my son much, when I do I'll be at the computer working, I'm not going to have time to make dinner or keep the house clean and it's just going to be bad. I can't wait for April. So today I promised myself that I wouldn't do any "work" work so that I can get things done to prepare for the storm to come...plus it's snowing (again) so I've been enjoying watching that.

Our family has had some ups and downs this week, my mom called last night to tell me she has shingles, no fun there! So she can't really be around the boys much, plus she's in a lot of pain so she needs lots of prayers. On the good side, we're going to the Sonics game on Sunday night, I'm pretty excited about that, it will be Timothy's first professional sports event. I wanted to find him a little Sonics outfit, but I haven't had much luck there yet...maybe Saturday. Brandon and I went to a couples communication class last night at our pediatricians' office. It was a great class, we really learned a lot so hopefully things will get better there (not that they were bad, but everyone can always use help communicating, especially with someone so different from yourself!).

On to the boy...Timothy is trying so hard to walk...he will do it now only holding onto one of my hands, but he has a death grip on that one hand so he's not quite ready to step out on his own yet, which is fine with me. He does love to walk though. If you even act like your going to hold his hands, he immediately gets up and starts to go! He's been giving more hugs and kisses lately, they are so sweet. Every morning when we go in there to get him up he just smiles and gets so happy and he has to give both of us hugs and kisses, it's so cute. He also learned how to make a fish face, I don't know how, but it's really funny. He's been trying to climb on everything and sometimes gets himself in some pretty funny spots...he is so risky! I think we're going to switch to a new daycare, we're going to check it out later today and see if we like it. It's really close to my office which means I could work better hours and spend more time with him and Brandon at home.

There hasn't been too much else going on up here. I posted some new pictures of baby Easton below, he's getting big too, almost one month old! We can't wait to see him. If I have time in the next few weeks to get on here I will, it may be at two in the morning when I'm frantically trying to reconcile stupid asset accounts...oh well, the joys of working.