So. It has been an extra long time since I've updated this but I'm going to try to keep it updated and use this as a form of journal keeping. Now, an update on life with the Terry family. We had our second child on March 31st 2009. It was a little boy. He was born at 12:04 p.m. He weighed 8 Ibs and was 20 inches long. He had lots of hair and was healthy and strong. His name is Alexander Joseph Terry but we call him Xander. The labor and delivery only took 8 hours. I was quite pleased since Addi took 14.5 hours and and 1.5 hours of pushing. It was only about 10 minutes of pushing with Xander and a lot less painful. The best part was that he was born 3 days before his due date. He was due on the 3rd of April. It was interesting because the day before when I was checked by the doctor they said I wasn't dialated at all. Then by 4:30 the next morning I started having contractions. I was so glad he came early on his own. We are so happy that he is here. He is about 7 and a half weeks now and is smiling like crazy. He smiled (his first awake smile) on mothers day, May 10, 2009. What a great gift. Addi ended up being diagnosed with tonsilitis a day before he was born so she came to the hospital once but couldn't get close to him. I was really sad that I wasn't able to take care of her but Grandma Weidner did a good job of making her feel better. She has had a bit of a rough time adjusting to the baby but i'm sure that is normal. She is much better now. I found her sitting in front of the carseat he was in reading to him the other day. I just had to take a picture it was so stinkin cute! She is a really good big sister and is helping mommy lots and lots. Sometimes a little too much but I know she just wants to help. She is 2 now and we are working on potty training. Tomorrow we are going to try a strategy that Auntie Shannon told me about. We are going to put her in the big girl underwear and just let her figure things out. The hope is that she will decide she hates being wet and will come and get me instead of going in her pants. I bought some of the plastic pants to put on over it so she doesn't make a huge mess. She has been horrible at taking her diaper off if she doesn't have pants on. She is no longer allowed to wear dresses (other than to church) until she learns to go potty. Well. We still don't have a house yet. We found one that would be perfect and put an offer in about 4 weeks ago. The bank went out and did a BPO and then the listing price was increased 6 thousand dollars. We are still waiting to hear from the realestate agent selling the house as to what is going on. They were asking 220,000 a few months ago and then when we decided to go look through it they were asking 190,000 so we offered 175,000 since it is a short sale. Then I looked last week at the MLS and they relisted the property for 196,000. The thing that gets me is that they said that we were the only offer. That lasted for 2 weeks and then the next update was that we were the highest and best offer. Then they increase the price? Why?? Well . We will just have to wait and see what happens but we have been praying that if this is where we are supposed to be that things will work out and the bank will get back to us so we can give them a counter offer. Hopefully the good feelings we have had when praying at home and in the temple about this house will mean that it will work out. It is just perfect for our family and it is in a great area. We have been working and saving for so long that I just want to be done and have a home of our own where we don't have to worry about where we are going to have our kids sleep. We love our neighbors and this place we are in now and are grateful that the Lord has blessed us with it but it is time for us to move on. We are out growing this apartment. I hope we have the patience to get through all this waiting and that the realestate agent responds sometime next week. Well. I will keep this blog updated and post some more pictures.