A Typical Day in the Allen household

Just a glimpse into our crazy lifestyle. Justin's job requires him to travel...OFTEN! Just today, I drove him to the airport at 6am with all three kids in tow. He'll be gone for 10 whole days. Saying goodbye is so hard...I'm not a crybaby type person, but the tears well up every time I see him walk through the doors towards airport security. I handle him being gone pretty well for about 4 days and then it seems like my limit has been met and I'm so grumpy with the kids and things just start to go downhill from there. The problem is we do this 2 and 3 weeks a month. Not all of his trips are long, but most are 5 day trips. I'm trying to be open minded towards trials and realize that this could be a growing experience, but that doesn't seem to be helping much.
Tannon had his 12 month appointment yesterday. He weighs 22 lbs and is 29 inches long. 25th Percentile for everything (whatever that means, I took stats in college, but this bell curve is way off if you ask me). He's the epitome of Fat Allen Baby...Love him to death!!
Alyssa had a speech evaluation today. She did really well, but we've determined that she is behind on 2 sounds. C sounds like T and G sounds like D. Our health insurance won't pay for the therapy, so I'm trying to see if she's behind enough for the free preschool at Litchfield Elementary. If not, then we'll be shelling out the big bucks for someone to put a sucker in her mouth and teach her to speak using different muscles and hold her tongue down.
Jayden is doing well in school. Justin and I went to his curriculum night last night and we are so excited for the things he'll be learning this year. It seems like he's come so far in only three weeks. His behavior has improved and he seems to really like school and his friends. Everyday after school he asks if he can run from Maggie Francom's house to ours because he has "too much energy". I decided to let him even though its 105 in the afternoons. Well, Justin decided to let him yesterday too and a lady cut him off and asked Jayden if he wanted her to call the police because this man was following him. Jayden said, "He's my dad, don't send him to jail!" Justin was frustrated with her, but completely understanding at the same time. I mean a man in a car with out of state plates (utah for company car) following a kid that is running? I'm glad she did stop, she had the right idea to protect the kid and all. Jayden was crying and really upset though. We had to have a stranger danger talk once again.
Anyway, that's been life for the last little while.