Another Update

Katianne has been living with us for a few weeks now. We are loving it!! We moved Jaxon into our room and Katianne has the Dallas Cowboys room. I'm sure she's loving that. The worst part for her? I think it's sharing the bathroom with the boys. She hasn't complained, but I wouldn't want to share with them! ;) Everyone asks, "So how is it having a live-in babysitter?" Honestly? I wouldn't know. She only babysits for me on "my day" and I pay her. The other days, she's working and going to school. So, I don't know how that is. But, I do know that we love having her here!!

On Monday when I came home from the office, she told me about how she played football with Evan and she even wore her football jersey. I said, "You know that now every time you play football, you're going to have to wear that, right?" She just laughed. When Payton got home, Katianne said, "Hey you guys want to finish our football game?" They were super excited and went to get ready. She was talking to me in the kitchen when I see them come down the hallway with her jersey in their hands. They went to her room and got it for her. She laughed and I said I told you so.

They were outside playing away when it started raining. They were still outside dripping wet! At one point, Katianne was hiking the ball to Evan and Payton was on the other side ready to tackle whoever ended up with the ball. Katianne pulled a fast one and pretended to hike it, so Payton went after Evan, but Katianne ran it in for the touchdown. Payton had to let her know that she was cheating and he told her all about the rules. She just laughed at him.

At some point, the water hose got turned on and it turned in to a massive water fight between Katianne and Payton . . . in the rain. Aaron and I were inside just laughing at the two of them. Aaron said, "What in the world are we going to do when she moves out?" My answer . . . I'm not sure.

Last week, she was working late and I was tucking the boys in. Payton said, "Mom, is Kate coming home tonight? When is she going to be home?" I told him that it would be late. He wanted to know what time and if she would be here in the morning. I think he's really grown to like her. Before she moved in, she was just their babysitter, but I think she's becoming more like their sister.

Tuesday morning, she had her ipod on and she was singing in her room. It was quite funny. Evan started to go down the hallway to our room when he heard her singing. He stood there for a minute and listened to her sing. Then, he turned back and looked at me and just kind of laughed. It was so cute!!

I love it that when she gets a few minutes, she's cleaning. My house is almost always clean! She had the day off yesterday and was going to go to Abilene to hang out with some friends. I went to the office, but when I got home, everything was clean. She cleaned my house before she left. One day she had my kids cleaning spots from the carpets! I came home and they told me how she taught them to get the stains up. Evan just came in with the "stain remover" and said he was looking for spots to clean. I love it!!

We are helping her with a budget and how to balance her checkbook . . . not her favorite thing to do but she's doing everything we ask her to do. She was only supposed to be here for a few weeks, but we were so excited when it turned in to longer. She's supposed to move in to her new apartment on Oct. 10th. I am secretly hoping that she doesn't. I would love for her to REALLY get on her feet financially and be able to buy stuff for her new apartment. I love the joy that she has and how it just fills the room when she walks in. She was kind of in a sad mood on Sunday and it was hard to take! She talked to me for a long while and it felt good to have a "friend/mother/daughter" kind of talk.

So that's our life with Katianne. We love it and I'm secretly wishing she could live with us forever!