groundhog day!

well, i have to say that i feel like our lives are not boring, but i do feel a little like the movie groundhog day. we don't have much variety in our lives. we eat breakfast at the same time, snack at the same time, nap at the same time, milk at the same time, dinner and bed at the same time. a bath thrown in here and there and maybe a trip to the park. since we were all sick life has gotten back to normal. delia has her alphabet down pat (uppercase...she still gets confused on some of the lower case) and her numbers 1-10 too. zannah is a scootin machine and is getting up on her knees and starting to rock. she has definitely discovered the cats and this is serious motivation to get across the room as quickly as is possible. our main news is that delia is no longer in cloth diapers. the first straw was that i was having trouble getting them fastened tight enough around the legs so that she didn't have huge pee leaks. we were having accidents almost every day at least once. this is very frustrating bc i would have to change her clothes and her diaper wasn't as wet as it could be, but needed to be changed. so my laundry was nearly doubling! laundry is one big bane of my existence. i don't mind doing it if i had a folding fairy, but i don't. so i really despise doing laundry. the final straw was when we had a warm spell here in NC...it has been a long long time since it has been warm here! we've been in sweat pants and jeans and long onesie pajamas for months and months and months! so we had this warm spell and put on shorts. well, the legs seem to gap open on her and one night she comes walking over to me and hands me a little round nugget of...POOP! uh...gross! she had pooped and it came right out the leg hole. i thought this was maybe a fluke but then it happened again and she basically knelt down and all the poop rolled right out of her leg holes! i changed her diaper and put a disposable on her and that was that. i have such mixed feelings about this. for one thing...this was my main contribution financially to our family...saving us money by using cloth. but it is a lot easier to only have half the number of diapers to wash every day. i know i need to potty train her, but i just envision being in the grocery store with her and zannah when she announces she has to pee. zannah is NO WHERE NEAR walking...having to wrestle them both in to the bathroom and help delia get her pants down and do her business while trying to hold zannah...uh...no thanks. i think i will wait until she can walk. ugh. is this the right thing? i don't know. but for now it is.

other than that we are still praying for chris to find a job in franklin that can support our family and just watching the girls grow. i have been cross stitching christmas stockings and am about 2 hours from finishing delia's and then i can start suzannah's. at this rate i should be able to finish all 4 by christmas this year! as soon as i am done, i will def take pictures and post. but for now...here are a few of the girls!