Good, Bad & Ugly

Okay so here is the good:

1-- We closed on our land today and now we are officially the proud owners of 3 acres. The process was painless--thank you Lord! Not one issue--that is a first for us! WE love the previous owners so much, and the realtors were so wonderful. Their realtor even bought Kevin and I a gift--a beautiful wire basket full of ivy--real ivy. I love it.

2--second good: Eli's skin is looking so good. The eczema is actually healing. I haven't seen him scratch in 3 days! Praise God for that. I'll show you a picture later.

Here is the bad (not really so bad, though)

1--We are not going to move the farmhouse. After much prayer and lots of professional input, it would cost us more to move that house over and restore it than it would to build a new one. Just to move the wires it would cost us around $12,ooo. We can't in good conscience spend that much money for 3 companies to take down 12 wires for about a half an hour. Wasteful? I think so! So we are going to begin building as soon as our house sells. I was a little sad over it, but excited to build something that we will live out our lives in.

(that's all the bad)

Here is the UGLY--

REady? I put Eli down for a nap today and he never quite went to sleep. About a half hour later I heard him talking and fussing. I peeked in the door to find him half naked. And then I smelled it--oh, no. How did he get his pants off?! He was sitting with his diaper in one hand and a fistful of, yes, you guessed it,
C-R-A-P in the other (I won't dress it up and call it something less gross). This is a first for me. I have never had a baby take off his dirty diaper and play in it. I thought my children were above that sort of thing! He just sat there and laughed as I stood there gagging and wondering how I would touch him. His shirt was covered in it. I somehow got his shirt off without getting it in his hair, and managed to stick him in the bathtub without getting anything on me. As I was giving him a bath he stood up and just as I was about to make him sit back down he peed all over me and the side of the tub, and even tried to grab the pee to play with it, laughing in the discovery! Nothing like soaking in a warm bath full of your own filth! Right ? So, that's the ugly.

Sweet "E" with healthy skin and quite happy!

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I particularly love this picture--"it's just a little pee, mom"

Here are just some random pics of the kids, etc.

Breakfast at the Chisms

waffles with berry artwork--lexi's cross surrounded with hearts

Her beautiful, berrilicous butterfly