Buchholz Family Homestead: Rain, Rain and More Rain...

Wow, everyone in Iowa knows that we could use a few days without the rain. We haven't been outside much but when we have Kypton is loving it. We got a small pool for him last weekend...then the rain just wouldn't let up!

Let me back up a little here to recap the last couple weeks...

Kypton and I spend a lot of time playing as you can imagine, mornings are typically calm and relaxing before nap. It's all about reading and the new favorite app of Elmo. Mind you he will leave it running on the ipad and move on to something else. However, if you choose to turn it off (because Elmo doesn't get annoying or anything) he runs right back over and says, "Elmo!" Then you have to turn it back on....

Afternoons are spent either walking or lately a lot of playing inside because the last two weeks have been sooo rainy.

Last Saturday my sister got married (Congrats to them!) The rest of Saturday was cold, however, we went to Dan's brothers for a bonfire and Kypton stayed with my parents for the night. Those nights are few and far between as its so lonely when you get home and he's not in his room :( Sunday, we went to get him and then did some grocery shopping, and I'm talking three different stores and three hours. I am all about saving money on groceries if possible but sometimes we cant get everything at one store so we have to go to another. Either way it made for a long afternoon with Kypton. We grilled with my brother and his wife Sunday night, and Monday was all about relaxing. Dan did work a little while Kypton napped but it was still relaxing.

Now for this week it has been so rainy we have been inside a lot. Yesterday, we were literally walking out the door and it started down pouring! aghh, that made for one very unhappy little man as he was set to go bye-bye. After a meltdown he decided to watch out the window for a little bit then it was a good time to cuddle with Mom (I'll take that :) !) This morning I didn't take any chances, it was sunny when we got up and still sunny after breakfast so we got ready and headed out for a walk. I knew if we didn't get it in we wouldn't get one in as there is 70% chance all day today!

This walk was different than most as we were on our last leg coming down our street a neighbor mom was out. I had seen her kids out and they are pretty young (4 and 2) and some other kids but never her. She stopped us and said hi and we talked for about a half hour. I learned that she stays home and she is a former teacher so she does some home schooling for their 4 year old and she will homeschool him for kindergarten. I also found that there are a lot of SAHMs on our street. They are down a couple blocks but it's nice to know they are there and they have kids around Kypton's age.

This is funny because at the beginning of the walk and we were gone for about 2 hours. I was thinking how nice it would be to live in a smaller town, but still close enough that our kids could go to Des Moines Christian (and I didn't have to drive forever to get them there) but have a neighborhood with parents our age and kids the same age as ours and okay let me be really real for a minute (Dan just laughed at him when I told him this) I want a street like Desperate Housewives! I want that close group of Mom's that stay home, that their husbands hangout and the Mom's hangout after the kids are off to school. I know we have a while until the kids are in school but for all the Mom's or even those who want to get married and settle down with a family. I would think you know what I'm talking about and it's not that unrealistic to want...is it? So, yeah after talking with her it made me realize that yes it can happen.

Either way..enough of my day dreaming....here are some photos from the last couple weeks...

Hanging out on the stool that Uncle G made for my room!

We love Teddy!

Cheese....

My hat, my PJ's, Dada's shoes, and my Belly =)

So, on one of our walks I give him his sunglasses, and I get home, look at him and this is how he put them on and wore them for the walk...haha...I guess whatever works...