Move and New Job

I am finally taking a few minutes to update our faithful readers on the goings on of the Stone Family. A lot has happened since I last posted on May 27th. The two biggest of those are we moved and both Bert and I have started new jobs (so maybe that's three things). I am now working as a CNA at a Veterans Home in King, WI (near Waupaca if you know where that is). I did two weeks of inservice classroom training which held during day-shift hours, one week of evening mentoring (1:45-10:15 pm; or 1345-2215 since it's a Veterans home) and I am now 2/5ths of my way through my Night shift mentoring (2200 - 0600). I am pretty tired but luckily I have a nice mother and cousin who help out watching Wyatt while I get a few hours of shut-eye after I get home in the morning (daycare lady has vacation last week and this week). Next week Wednesday I start my third and final mentoring on Day shift and then starting July 16th I am on my own. Scary!

Bert, unfortunately, is back on the road driving Semi. The mechanic industry isn't really hiring right now and driving helps financially quite a bit. That makes grandma and grandpa-care very invaluable to us which we are tremendously thankful for. Anyway, Bert has finally gotten through his new employment training and on the road steadily. He just took a load to Orlando and now is on his way to South Dakota.

Wyatt is doing very well. He has more freedom at grandma and grandpa's house. Oh yeah, I'll take a quick step back. We have moved to Amherst, WI and in with my parents for the time being. This, again, is partly for daycare purposes, but also because Bert and I wanted to get a feel for the area to see where we would best like to live. We have long terms plans on what we want to be doing and where we will be living but we are still undecided for the short-term (except living with my parents). Anyway back to Wyatt. We finally consider him a WALKER!! He took his first unaided steps the day before he turned 15 months but, because of his dynamic crawling skills, it took him a little over two months to realize walking might be a better option. He still does a good bit of crawling but he now knows how fun it is to walk, too. He does use every opportunity to practice that skill as well. I've taken a few fun pictures of Wyatt exploring his new house, so enjoy.


Helping Grandpa mow the lawn (don't worry the mower was not running they were just pushing it).


How did you find me, mom!


Helping grandma vaccuum the floors.


Look at those clothes go round and round fast ( The front loading washing machine is one of his favorite things to watch).


Where did my tractor go?


I found it!