Where in the world are the Rhodes?
Well, we are here for a little bit and there for a little bit and if you don't watch out we just might come knocking at your guestroom door! :)
No, really, if you have to be homeless this is the way to go. We can't complain one bit! We sold our house in two months, moved out a month later and now are buyers looking for THE home. Correction- THE house- because a home is what you make of it!
We started out staying with the King family for a week starting on May 7th. As May 16th arrived, we packed up our bags (but left a few things at Grandma and Pop King's house) and headed off to visit with Gamma and Poppy Rhodes. After a week at the Rhodes house, we headed back to the King headquarters where we so nicely volunteered to house sit for Grandma and Pop while they were off to St. Louis to visit more family! We'll stay here for one more week and then return to Gamma and Poppy's house for another visit! Did you follow all of that? Well, we have hopped around a bit but we have enjoyed all of the family time. How nice it has been to have help with Tucker (especially since he is finding lots to get into in homes that aren't his), have had yummy homecooked meals prepared for us, coctail hours most nights (thank goodness for wine in the stress of all of this), and wonderful hosts!
We must say that Tucker has handled this pretty well. He has his moments of confusion and concern over his things and our house that we left. Occasionally he wants his house but other wise he has really enjoyed staying with grandparents. Talk about getting a bit spoiled!
Tucker has had some great changes though! Other than the fact he has left the only house he has ever known, he has ventured into the world of becoming a three year old! Yes that is right! Come July 4th, our sweet baby boy will be THREE!!! Wow! And we have started to see some of those changes. The most important one has been potty training. Yes, we started last summer but have finally taken the plunge into full time training. He has done relatively well- considering we started out bribing him with Disney Cars every time he tinkled. Let's just say we have just about every character from the movie plus some characters that we aren't really sure who they are! We have since moved on to receiving gummies after visiting the potty and are doing well with keeping our pull ups dry. We decided to try using pull ups since we are in other peoples homes and Mommy would die if he tinkled on someone's rug! But he loves the pull ups and we work hard to not lose the picture on the front (the one that disappears when it gets wet). We are taking it one day at a time and hoping we are completely trained by the time school starts at the end of the summer. We are also starting to see a bit of a personality change! Tucker's humor is changing. He is getting things in different ways now and even having a bit of a sassy mouth when he doesn't want to do something! Talk about MISTER INDEPENDENT! Must say it is quite cute at times. I am sure the cuteness will fade very quickly with the sass increasing! Oh what the summer will bring for us!
First snap shot of the summer....
One of my favorite pictures of Tucker with sweet Sarah Catherine.
Little do they know, they'll be married one day!
This picture was taken on the porch of a house we have under contract in Jasper! More details to come as things become more official and set in stone! We are very excited about the house and hope we won't be homeless for long! Hoping for a closing date by mid-June!
