For the Record

I don't keep baby books. I just don't. Heck, I haven't printed out pictures of the last four years either. I am bad about that kind of stuff. Jordan had her 4 year check up on Monday and because I don't keep a baby book, I have nowhere to jot down the important stuff. She weighed in at 33.5 lbs and 39 7/8 inches. This is HUGE. Wanna know why? Because, while her weight followed her usual growth curve (25th percentile), her height is in the 50th percentile. My Jordan, who started out in the 10th-15th percentile for everything has actually grown. A lot! To put it into perspective, she was still wearing a 2T last summer, now she is growing out of 4T. Right before her 3 year check up, she hit a little growth spurt that moved her up to the 30th percentile. And she has just kept growing from there. Yay Jordan! I thought that the 4T stuff she was wearing all summer was starting to look a little short. Now I know why. Thank God for The Childrens Place, with their slim fitting clothes and adjustable waists. I don't know that Jordan wouldn't own a pair of pants were it not for TCP.

Now, more good news...we got my pictures! The external hard drive wasn't recoverable, but my old computer was. So now it is all on Scott's laptop and being transferred onto Carbonite.com as we speak. What a relief! First order of business is to get some pics printed off for Jordan's birthmom. She is probably beginning to think I forgot. Then I am printing them off for me.

Now if only we could get the roof on this house replaced and the Honda up and running we would be set. It has been the summer of bad luck for us. Since the van break in, it has been one thing after another. But you know what? We are healthy, in a strong family, with parents who love us and kids who adore us. It can't get much better. Well, I wouldn't mind a million dollars. That would be better for sure :)

Vent

I want my pictures back! Not only that, I want some free time to actually post them! My time is no longer my own. I have zero time. None. Zilch. Jeremiah is the destroyer of all things possible. Yesterday I found him pulling his crib around the room. Pulling it. Like, you know how you pull a wagon behind you with one hand? That is what he was doing, only it was his crib. Just pulling it from one side to the other. Over and over and over. Good times. Micah puts everything in her mouth, so the filth that was under JW's crib was extra special. Between fishing stuff out of Micah's mouth, keeping JW from hitting her, and keeping her out of the toilet (barf) I am pretty busy. Add JW on to all of that, and Jordan who all of a sudden has a fascination with "Mom, watch this" then showing me how she can do some new trick or throw something across the room, well, I am beat. These kids have done me in. Maybe someday I will rise from this and be myself again. Maybe. I am betting that day will be April 24th...the day Jordan starts school. I will have 3 mornings a week with one less kid :) I am honestly a little sad about it right now, but I have been assured that the sadness will last about an hour haha.

Under a Rock

That is where I have been lately. I live under a rock. We have no cable so I never know what is going on in the world of Fox News. I kinda miss O'Reilly. I admit it. I also miss the weather channel. Something about me that you may or many not know is that I am a weather junkie. In college a friend of mine and I used to talk about tornado chasing after we graduated. Maybe our families can still do that some day. But, anyhow, this is a brief sonopsis of the crazy things that have happened this week. God is trying to do something. I feel like this is his way of grabbing our shoulders, holding us really firm, and making us look into our eyes while he tells us some super huge secret.

Last Tuesday the mother of all storms seemed to have just sat on top of our house. The true damage to North Augusta is confinced to a few houses on my street. Our neighbor's tree fell on our powerline, making the line snap in the attic. That meant than SCE&G wouldn't fix it, but we would have to call an electrician. So we did, and we got power back on Thursday night. Wednesday (the day after the storm) we had court to finalize Micah. All went fine. YAY! So now she is legally Micah Ruth Kennedy, not the name she was given at birth. Now back to the storm...we had water coming in the house in 3 different spots. The roofer came assuming we had some roof damage from the storm. Nope. We are just unlucky and bought a house with the worst roof the roofer had ever seen. The 70 mph downburst that came down on my house just made the water go in under the shingles that weren't nailed down, nor did they have flashing in the right spots. So now we have to pay for a new roof. It isn't covered by insurance because it isn't an natural disaster thing, it was just a stupidity thing.

After the storm on Tuesday we thought we were in the clear. Then our tenants called us Sunday morning to tell us that a tree fell on their house during the storm that night. Scott said it is major and goes all the way into the laundry room. $3000 damage! At least it is over the laundry and not over main living areas. So now we are fixing 2 roofs.

Theeeeeen, my external hard drive died. Now we have to pray that someone can get my pictures off of it. If not, I am going to just cry and cry. It has 4 years worth of pics on it. So it has been a rough week. Well, it has been a rough summer. In June it was the van being broken into and now the stuff from this week. Well, at least Scott has to go through it with me.