Cory and Owen

Cory's buddy Owen came and played for a few hours today while his mommy was in school and his daddy was headed home from a trip. It was the first time Owen has stayed here alone, but he has been over to visit a bunch. The boys did very well together! They actually played with each other - which basically entailed them giggling at each other and running away. It was pretty cute.

Warning: I am going to go off on a tangent.

I am all set hearing about the Swine Flu! Goodness gracious! Yes, it's a nasty illness. Yes, people have died from it. But come on. I am NOT going to live my life in fear of this craziness! What's the point?! Honestly, I don't know a whole lot about it. I refuse to listen to the media or the radio - if they start talking about it, I shut it off. I don't need a bunch of media-laced blechiness (yes, that's my new word of the day!) filling my brain with fear. I won't do it. NOT going to happen! I truly believe in the power of the spoken word. God says that life and death are in the power of the tongue. We need to stop speaking death, disease, sickeness, trauma, depression, and start speaking words of health, healing, wholeness, and stregnth. Seriously. Really. Do it.

OK. I'm done.

Totally changing the subject once again...I just recently found out that my mom and my grandmother have actually purchased plane tickets to fly here for Cory's 2nd birthday!! YAY! I'm sooooo stinkin' excited! That's the best news ever!

Finally...an Update.

OK, so apparently I need to work on my frequency of blogging! I get so sucked in by everyone's stories on their blogs that I run out of time to update my own...not to mention my "story" seems to uninteresting and unimportant compared to the trials and tribulations that others are going through. BUT, in the long run I just want to document the story of our lives, so that's what I'm going to do. This will be the first "official" post of my second go at this blog, lol. Here we go:

Cory is now 22 months old. I can hardly believe that he will be 2 in less than two months! Sigh. I love him. He still fascinates me each and every day. He's totally into airplanes and helicopters, diggers, bulldozers, buses, trains, trucks...basically any thing that moves and makes loud noises!

We recently turned his car seat around in the car, so now he faces forward. It was a HUGE deal for him. He would cry every.single.time. we parked the car. Car rides are no longer relaxing and quiet - he is constantly pointing out buses (which also includes UPS trucks, or any type of delivery truck for that matter), balloons (mostly the ones tied to cars at dealerships), and his current most favoritest-favorite, "DIGGERS!". :)

His vocabulary is expanding daily, which is very nice to see. I was thinking of typing out a list of words that he can say, but I think that would be silly because there are so many of them now! I think my favorite word that he says is "helicopter" because he pronounces it "happy"! It's so darn cute! My other favorite thing his does is when he quacks like a duck...it sounds more like he has a bug stuck in his throat and he's trying to clear it, lol! I have to get it on video.

As for Sean and me, we are very happy to finally be able to get outside again! It's nice and warm out there now and it feels fabulous to get the house opened up and air out all of the nasty old winter-ness! We are looking forward to our summer vacation to Maine and having my family visit for Cory's birthday.

Lately, we've heard some pretty heart wrenching stories concerning friends and acquaintances and their families - we're very blessed to live the life we are living and know that God has many great things in store for us. I know sometimes it can get easy to take our lives for granted and I am grateful for the chance(s) to remember how blessed we truly are.