My new carpet!!!

We got our carpet!!! Yay!!! Me and mike stayed up late last night and put the carpet in the bedroom and I am loving it. It is so exciting to have carpet down there... it makes it feel like a real bedroom finally. I can't wait till we get the kitchen floor done so that we can put the carpet in the living room as well.

Javid trying out the new carpet (Lexi was still asleep) 

Reaching for daddy's hand

Got it! 

Mike pulling Javid across the floor (you can barely see Mike's hand at the edge of the picture)

And now they're watching a show together on Daddy's phone... Silly boys

And of course, Javid's got his tongue out! 

Gymnastics

We decided to enroll Lexi in gymnastics this year and I am so glad that we did. She absolutely loves it! She is the only two year old in the class, the rest of the kids are 3, but she does wonderfully. It makes me so proud of her that she can sit and listen and take direction right along with the older girls. I love to take her every week and see her improve. Totally worth the drywall that we traded the instructor for in payment for classes and the drive to Soda once a week.

These were all taken the first week. She now does all these things without help!

Brother and Sister

I right now just want to brag about how wonderful my kids are. Alexia is such a great big sister, that girl loves Javid like crazy and amazingly he absolutely loves her too. I say amazingly because for one she's two and we all know how gently and nice two year olds usually are, and for two... she's a little extra rough with her love. But he loves her! He can be crying and she'll go start talking to him and he's fine. She had him laughing like crazy the other day and all she was doing was jumping. I love it!! And she is so loving and helpful and extremely protective. The other day I was holding him and he was fussing and she said, "Mom, he doesn't want you, he wants me!" So, I put him on her lap and.... yep, you guessed it! He stopped fussing.

Home Improvements!!!

So, for anyone who has ever been in our house it is a major fixer upper! And that's putting it nicely. When we moved in the basement was pretty much uninhabitable, there was one bedroom, a kitchen that was pretty much taken over by a relatively small table, and a bathroom that was so small with a tiny short sink smack dab in front of the toilet(you could literally wash your hand while sitting on the toilet without any trouble), no shower, and awful stained carpet everywhere. Not complaining mind you, I am totally greatfull for this house. I am just saying all this to illustrate how far it has come and how far it is going soon(hopefully soon). So, we have now lived here almost 3 years and in that time we've gutted the basement, framed and dry-walled one bedroom downstairs, expanded the bathroom, added a shower, tore up most of the carpet(all but the living room is now hard floors), we've moved the door to the room that was the upstairs bedroom and turned it into a dining room/computer room with refinished hard wood, and completely replaced the floor in the mud room. Now I'm really writing this post because I am so excited about the most recent improvements.... Kitchen floor(currently we're refinishing the hard wood), and the pantry!!! I LOVE my new pantry. It is right off the dining room in a space that used to be part of the mud room. There is also a little loft type area right off the pantry over the stairs that is to hold totes and other such storage items. I so love having this pantry and I am so thankful that my husband was able to build it.

Here are some pictures also of Alexia helping Mike sand the kitchen floor. She just loves to help her Dad use tools.

Javid 4 Months

Well, Javid is now 4 months old. Wow how time flies. We went to the doctor last week for his 4 month check and I decided that since I don't have a little baby calendar thing for him like I had for Lexi that you write down the weights and stuff I would just do that on here. So, at 4 months Javid is 25 inches long and we think 15 lbs 15 oz. Now I say we think because Javid made it very hard to get an accurate weight. He has not really been one to  hold still for very long, he is always moving. At about 3 months he figured out how to roll over and he is very strong. Well, when we put him in the scale he immediately started trying to get out. He started lifting his head up (got it up over the 4 inch lip that's on the scale) and was trying to sit up, roll over, or whatever. But he refused to hold still. He did succeed in rolling onto his belly while in the scale. So our best guess on which reading we were getting that was the most accurate was 15.15.