BALANCING ACT!!!!

Aren't are whole lives just a balancing act?

Well we have been doing a lot of falling off and a lot of balancing lately in more than one way. I'll talk about the best part first!

Thomas is WALKING! That's right, my 10 month old is walking!!! I am shocked still when I see him walking. He even stands up by himself without holding onto anything. He thinks it's the greatest thing ever, sometimes laughing so hard he falls over from the laughter of just walking and everyone being so excited about it. He LOVES walking around playing with balls, throwing them, holding balls bigger than himself and walking. Just walking. The kids like to hold his hands and walk around with them, but all of them hysterically laugh during the walking, so it doesn't always last too long. It is so Fun though. He is a huge fan of balls, Isaiah never was, so this is pretty interesting to me. He throws like a Pro, and again laughs whiile we do it. He still is shaky on the walking, but is doing so so well!!! I don't know if I have pics of him walking, but I know I do of him playing ball.

Isaiah is riding NO TRAINING WHEELS. Another of our balancing acts. He was SO SO SO Scared to do it. It was a very dramatic ordeal. (the first time around). This is the way it went.

As you all know Isaiah is no tiny boy. He is a big boy, he has broken 2 sets of training wheels, almost broken Angel's training wheels on her bike and the bike at my mom's house training wheels do not stay on well. With that said, I told him No more training wheels, we can't keep fixing, keep buying and keep repairing the training wheels. :( He cried lots of tears over it. After a few, "you'll be fine", "we will help you" and "it's nothing to cry over." He tried. I heard this a lot, "Mommy don't let go, Mommy don't let go, Mommy I said don't let go." Instead of using breaks he puts his feet down to stop. He was very dramatic, "I don't want to do this anymore" "I want the wheels back on" and " I don't want to try" . We still made him try and try again. Did not put the wheels back on and didn't give into all the tears. This was all the evening of my mom's birthday. The next morning he said to me "Mommy I don't want to act like a baby anymore, I want to ride my bike without training wheels, I won't cry, You will help me, It will be fun, You will let go and I want to try in the grass first." And AWAY HE WENT!!! First time "You can let go MOMMY!" :*****( (mine this time) and off he was, riding his bike by himself. We have had a few spills since then, but it has been GREAT for everyone. He is so proud of himself and we are very very proud of him. What a BIG boy I have!!!! I can't believe it. :)

We are also balancing life, the kids, the jobs, the bills, the activities, the birthdays, anniversaries and babyand other showers. Life can be so overwhelming sometimes, but I just look at it like my boys up here, sometimes we fall, but somehow, someway we ALWAYS get back up again. Being tired all the time and complaining doesn't help, just taking it one day at a time and trying to balance it all, not by myself, but with Lots of prayer and Lots of loving willing people to help me out. Thanks for reading, I will be blogging MORE!