sleepy town in the shelton house

Well Turkey day is what 2 days away and I'm not ready because that means X-mas will be here in a flash and I still have a few more things I would like to get. WHERE IS TIME GOING?? We all are doing good, Isaiah is still talking up a storm and is pushing his limits when it comes to getting up in the middle of the night to sleep with one of us. We are trying the same techique that we did to start him sleep through the night so hopefully in a few days we will be back to normal, if not I will be completely white headed! He goes through the episodes every once in a while so its gonna go back to normal I'm just hoping its sooner than later. I've been going through Boo's old clothes to give to friends and you don't realise how big your baby has got until you hold up a newborn outfit and realise that it would even fit his fat little legs, oh sooooo cute. We just got his school photos back from early november and he looks sooo sweet I'm going to try to scan it and upload it soon.. I still need to make copies to send out (yes I still do illegal things hahaha) so hopefully they will go out in a week or maybe when we send out our x-mas cards.

Johnny and I are doing great just been so busy at work it been hard to come home and get on the computer for more than 2 mins. Hope all is well out there!! LOVE!

OK so here goes

Ok so this is sad that I'm just now getting around to doing this, but I realise in this day and age we can't keep up with the people we love as much as we like or possible we don't make the time or effort to we let those things ride till later and later never comes so here goes... I'm going to make an effort to keeping the people that matter most up to date with the people I see everyday.

Novemeber 15th... we are counting down the days until the holidays. Being in retail I get to see both sides of what holiday means. Between work and getting things prepared and looking great for visits and our customers and really looking at the true meaning of the holidays for my family and others it can be stressful. This is the first year that Isaiah will kinda understand gifts and being really excited when he see's what "Santa" brought him make me sooo excited. Like any family we have been buying as we go, I have to admit I started back in the summer.

Ok I know you're looking for an update in the fam so here goes. Johnny is doing his thing at his store and learning allot as he goes. Its really nice to have someone in the same business that understands the stress of it all. His store has been growing (KUDOS to that) and he has a really great group of people in his store that are a good mix for each other. Other than actually gaining a little weight FINALLY there is really not allot to report on him.

Isaiah is now 19 months. I CAN NOT BELIEVE IT!! He's talking allot and starting to run around like no ones business. He get stuck on words and right now its truck. Anything with wheels is truck. He still loves his mickey mouse clubhouse and wiggles, but we are now getting interested in Little Einsteins and Elmo (or Melmo as he refers to him). He's been moved up to the Toddlers 2 room and thinks he's the biggest man on campus. The girls at his daycare think the world of him and tell me that when they walk through his room he smiles at them like yeah look at me I'm a big boy. He's started to really test the limits with us and throwing tantrums. His daddy and I have totally different idea's on whats ok and what not nice but we are working through that thought to make a common ground to combat his little attitude (and yes for those who know me well he has my attitude and temper issue... go figure). We have been contemplating the idea of potty training although that scares me... even though I'm sure he'll be ok with it. Any ideas on what worked for your kids let me know!!!

I've been working hard trying to learn things at work. I really enjoy my job and the challenges that it presents. We have really hard and high expectation in our district, but I would much rather have that and the stress and structure it brings then lackadaisical ones that I have scene. Our store, in my opinion and I am biased, look sooo much better than others. Note that I have only seen 2 other districts but that still makes me think we have a great standard for our stores. My boss and I get along pretty well. He's hysterical to work with and that makes actually going to work better. ... lets see what else... ohhhh I FINALLY AM UNDER MY PRE-BABY WEIGHT!!!!!! wow that took a long long time.

So that gets you a little into what's been going on the last few months... I'll keep ya posted and hope things are great!