Life in Rexburg
Well, we have (for the moment) decided that we will be staying here
in Rexburg to go to school. Dean has changed his mind back and forth so
many times about going to school in Rexburg or being a police officer
in Wyoming, but we think (and really hope that we won't be changing
minds again) that we will be staying here. Today I'm turning in my
application to be a night student, so in January I'll be able to take a
class or two in the evening. I'm so excited! And very nervous. Things
are going to be very busy for the next four years.
For now though things are not busy at all. Dean is still technically on leave, and it's been nice having him at home all the time... but it also gets a little monotonous. He has been going to the temple almost every day that it has been open since moving here. I think he's making up for lost time. When we were in Colorado we found it very difficult to make it up to the temple and we didn't go nearly as often as we should. But I think in the last month Dean has gone enough times to make up for all of the missed times for the past three years. I've gotten to go a couple of times too, and it has been nice.
So other than the temple we have very little else to do other than take care of kids. It's all pretty much the same for me, but Dean gets cabin fever. Pretty much every day since we've been here we've taken the stroller out and gone for a walk. Rexburg is a fairly flat city other than the huge hill that BYU-I sits on. We've walked all over campus, to the parks, through the stores, up to the temple on the top of the hill, and all the way from one end of the city to the other. It's a pretty small place, but we've found things here that I never knew they had. The weather can't seem to decide if it wants to be warm and sunny, snowy, rainy or deceptively sunny while really being freezing cold. Every day seems to be different and we've walked in it all.
The kids have handled the move well, they both seem to be happy and well adjusted and completely at home. Andrew is now completely mobile. He's not quite crawling, but he's incredibly close he gets up on his hands and knees and then dives forward on his face. Sometimes he'll even move forward with his knees, but his hands don't move. He'll figure it out soon. But even without being able to crawl he can roll and scoot and rotate and get pretty much anywhere he wants. I have to keep the floors cleaner now because he will find the one thing that I missed and have it in his mouth in a matter of seconds.
DJ has been so good lately. He still throws those two year old tantrums when we don't let him have his way, but between tantrums he has been remarkably obedient. I am always so impressed by how good he is. When I ask him to do something even when he's in the middle of doing something else he'll drop whatever it was he was doing and run off to do whatever I asked. If he's doing something he shouldn't be doing, I only have to ask him to stop and he does almost immediately. Sometimes he'll cry about it afterwards, but he'll do what I said first.
It is so much fun watching DJ and Andrew interact. We still have a problem with DJ taking toys away, but he'll usually try and give him another toy in it's place. I'll often leave them in DJ's room to play while I go run to do something like dishes or something really quickly and from the other room I hear peals of laughter from both of them. It seems that whenever I come back in the room though they stop... I always wonder what the joke was that I missed.
For now though things are not busy at all. Dean is still technically on leave, and it's been nice having him at home all the time... but it also gets a little monotonous. He has been going to the temple almost every day that it has been open since moving here. I think he's making up for lost time. When we were in Colorado we found it very difficult to make it up to the temple and we didn't go nearly as often as we should. But I think in the last month Dean has gone enough times to make up for all of the missed times for the past three years. I've gotten to go a couple of times too, and it has been nice.
So other than the temple we have very little else to do other than take care of kids. It's all pretty much the same for me, but Dean gets cabin fever. Pretty much every day since we've been here we've taken the stroller out and gone for a walk. Rexburg is a fairly flat city other than the huge hill that BYU-I sits on. We've walked all over campus, to the parks, through the stores, up to the temple on the top of the hill, and all the way from one end of the city to the other. It's a pretty small place, but we've found things here that I never knew they had. The weather can't seem to decide if it wants to be warm and sunny, snowy, rainy or deceptively sunny while really being freezing cold. Every day seems to be different and we've walked in it all.
The kids have handled the move well, they both seem to be happy and well adjusted and completely at home. Andrew is now completely mobile. He's not quite crawling, but he's incredibly close he gets up on his hands and knees and then dives forward on his face. Sometimes he'll even move forward with his knees, but his hands don't move. He'll figure it out soon. But even without being able to crawl he can roll and scoot and rotate and get pretty much anywhere he wants. I have to keep the floors cleaner now because he will find the one thing that I missed and have it in his mouth in a matter of seconds.
DJ has been so good lately. He still throws those two year old tantrums when we don't let him have his way, but between tantrums he has been remarkably obedient. I am always so impressed by how good he is. When I ask him to do something even when he's in the middle of doing something else he'll drop whatever it was he was doing and run off to do whatever I asked. If he's doing something he shouldn't be doing, I only have to ask him to stop and he does almost immediately. Sometimes he'll cry about it afterwards, but he'll do what I said first.
It is so much fun watching DJ and Andrew interact. We still have a problem with DJ taking toys away, but he'll usually try and give him another toy in it's place. I'll often leave them in DJ's room to play while I go run to do something like dishes or something really quickly and from the other room I hear peals of laughter from both of them. It seems that whenever I come back in the room though they stop... I always wonder what the joke was that I missed.
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