I Miss Daddy

I'm so glad that our house finally sold and that we're all together again. For about a month before we joined Brian in Nashville, Carter would randomly get sad, put his head down, and say "I miss Daddy". It was getting hard on him only seeing Brian on the weekends. Carter is completely obsessed with Brian. If Brian is around, he's the only one that can get Carter out of his carseat, carry him, or just about anything else.

Rylan still isn't walking and isn't really saying much yet (sometimes it seems like he's saying mama or dada or night-night, but it's not consistent). It almost seems like he was holding off on all that stuff until we were around Brian all the time again. He's been getting a lot more confident with cruising and climbing the last few weeks so it shouldn't be long until he's walking. I'm glad Brian will be around when Rylan goes through the next set of milestones.

It's also nice not having to keep the apartment perfectly neat and clean. I had to be ready to leave the house with very little notice for showings so we had to keep everything picked up and clean. It's hard enough to get the boys and dog out of the house in 30 minutes. I didn't have time to also pick up. We had more notice for most showings, but there were a few that we had less than an hour notice.

It was so hard keeping everything neat with two little boys who love to dump buckets of toys out and only have an attention span of a couple of minutes per toy. Carter definitely watched more television than I'd like because there were times I was just out of energy and wanted him to not make another mess.

The hail storm and damage didn't help with selling the house either. We still had showings even a week after the storm but I wonder how much that kept people from being interested in the house. However, the damage was so extensive in west Knoxville that it would of been difficult to find a house in the area that didn't have some damage.

Being on my own with the boys was hard too. I was scared to death at first about it, but we found a groove and it ended up being better than I'd expected. Baths and bedtime were the hardest part but it eventually became routine as well. I would usually put Carter in front of a movie for 15 minutes while I nursed Rylan and got him to bed. Then I'd read to Carter for awhile and get him down. It's a lot less time consuming now that Brian is around to put Carter to bed while I feed Rylan and get him down.

I'm so glad that life is back to normal for us, even if it is in this little apartment.