36 Weeks

Justace is pretty mobile. He doesn't crawl very much but he will if he really wants something on the other side of the room. Mostly he loves standing up. If you put him down he will find the nearest piece of furniture and use it to pull himself up and stand. He also walks around using furniture and adult legs as a guide. He attempts to stand on his own but can't quite do that yet.

I plan on hopefully taking Justace to the baby gym tomorrow morning. Haven't been yet but I figure we will try it and if he likes it it would be a good place for him to go play once a week.

I'm not sure why...it might be teething or maybe his new standing skill...but after months of wonderful sweet hours of sleep at night Justace has regressed back to waking up every night. Usually if we're lucky he only wakes once but it takes 30-45 minutes for him to get back to sleep again and if we're not lucky he won't go back to sleep at all or he wakes every hour or two and whines. I've taken to sleeping on the couch with headphones on when he awakes at night so I can get some sleep on nights I have to work in the morning.

I love animals but I think we may have gone overboard. They are driving me slightly crazy. Between Justace screaming, Frankie tearing up every box in sight and getting into everything, Aspen peeing and pooping all over the house and Pip suddenly running off every time I open the door because I think he has a new little girl friend down the street I'm about to lose it. The dogs need outside play time to get their energy out but they are cooped up inside because of the cold. Bella I think has decided to voice her disapproval of the new puppy by peeing. I went to grab a pair of pants for Justace today and discovered all his pants soaking wet with piss. My patience is wearing thin.

Josh celebrates his birthday tomorrow but we went out tonight to Buffalo Wild Wings. It was delicious. Good food and good friends and the babies even behaved for the most part. We gave Justace a small hot dog bun a piece of celery and he was good. My plan was to buy Josh a gun cabinet but apparently they were almost all sold out at all the local stores and didn't have any in my price range so we will have to wait for that. Instead we both got concealed carry permits for our guns and holsters to wear them as well as a gun cleaning kit.

We got our taxes back and are going to be using it to pay off some of our debts. Once we do that we should have $300 less a month we are paying toward debt so that will help a great deal I think in slowly allowing us to get back on our feet financially again.