Season of Joy

My little Sloane-Izzie is very healthy. I'm so thankful for her and her developing personality. I knew when I was pregnant with her that she was different. She seemed so mellow. She has proven to be completely opposite from her sister. They may look similar, but they are completely different in many ways. Holynd was always barely on the charts at the doctor. Sloane is still hanging on to the 95th percentile in height, 70th in weight and 60th in head circumference.

She my little chubby-chubs.

Holynd would always take a bottle when needed. Sloane will hate you for a week if you try and stick a bottle in her mouth. Holynd slept in a bouncey chair for the first 7 months of her life. Sloane has preferred her crib from the beginning. Holynd HATES the car. Sloane loves to go on drives. Holynd never drooled. Sloane... well, she's a drooler. Holynd is dramatic, loud, excited, crazy, social and talkative. Sloane is quiet, reserved, content, shy and loves to be cuddled.

Sloane also has this weird long hair and likes to stick straight up. Not sure what to do about that.

Life at the Peterson household has fallen into a pretty consistent pattern. We are definitely loving our little season of joy. Matt's new job is going really well. He's loving school and is finding it easier to study now that work is consistent and successful. Sloane is completely over her nightly colic. Holynd is, well, hilarious.

We're trying hard to find time to do the "little things", scripture study, FHE, family prayer and even dates for just mom and dad. ;) Now that a lot of stresses are taken care of, we're trying to keep ourselves in-check and plan for the future. I don't think any babies are in our near future... but maybe a house or a yard would be nice :). (Not too soon though. I'm not ready to have a driveway that I (By "I" I mean "Matt") would have to shovel or a lawn to mow. HEHE! I'm also not very ready to have to leave neighbors and friends.)

I'm trying hard to not forget what we learned from our recent trials. I'm definitely more grateful for everything I have. A year ago, if you had asked, I would've told you that I would never be grateful for the things I had to go through to get to where we are today. Now, I'm overly thankful for those trials that we were given.