Hi all!
It's been a "busy" last couple of days. Tori went to stay with her Maw-maw (MIL) who lives across town from Sun until this morning. She LOVES to spend time with her Maw-maw. Mary took her to the beach and they played and played. It was really good for her. And quiet around here for us.
Jack had a great time with some one-on-one time with Mommy and Daddy. He FINALLY says Mommy!!!!! He said it once when he was about 13 months old, he toddled up to me, laid his head on my knee and said "Mama"... then never again.
Everytime I'd say Mommy to him, he'd smile real big but won't say it. He's been saying it all weekend! Makes a mommy's heart swell. He's been saying Daddy for months the little devil. He also did the sweetest thing to day. We were playing (everyone else was taking a nap in the house and he'd decided that 25 minutes was enough
) and he climbed up into my lap, I was sitting on the ole birthin' ball. I started lightly bouncing and he just smiled and smiled. When I stopped he reached out his hand, lightly patted my face, smiled so sweetly (as if to say I love you) and leaned forward and gave me a "closed" mouth kiss, then hugged me and laid his head on my shoulder. I was almost in tears. He loves for me to give him kisses but he's never tried to kiss me before.
He was so happy to have us to himself for two days but he missed Tori too. Early this morning when he got up, David said he was walking around the front room near Tori's door and kept yelling his version of her name. He missed her. They played pretty hard together this morning. Tori took an almost 4 hour nap today (and she napped really well after the beach yesterday apparently too) guess she was tired.
Last night I FINALLY got David to take some more belly pictures. We actually had a lot of fun with them. Took some really "artistic" pictures that will only be for us.
"You deleted those off the camera right Clark..."
I have to get the for public consumption pictures off the laptop and on to my computer so I can post some of them on the yahoo group. Of course David has to switch over my Harddrive first, he's replacing my current totally full 19 gig HD with an 80 gig HD. It's about time! He's been saying he's going to do this for weeks and I've hit critical state on space for the last week.
Radish has been in constant movement. I know its a good thing to have lots of movement but how about a little less at night when I'm trying to sleep??
He's definitely changed position because he isn't as low as he was about a week ago. Great he's going in the wrong direction... but at least he isn't currently sitting on my bladder.
Fun to see IKEA mentioned. Not that long ago we were driving by our IKEA and they had just started building a new larger building next door. I think it was less than 2 months later and we went by again and the orginal building has already been demolished!! WOW that was fast! I need to go in and check out the new building. All the shelving in the kid's bedrooms is IVAR from IKEA. :LOL Great stuff, so versatile and we've had it for 7+ years.
Caroline- I'm so glad to hear that the contrx stopped. It's always a sudden aack when they are totally different from previous B-H and it's too "early".
Kara-
Happy Anniversary to HeatherB and MamaAcorn. Our 10th
anniversary is the 30th. Have no idea what we are going to do... before we had kids we talked about going to Hawaii or Scotland... guess that's not going to happen.
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Plantmommy congrats on your ribbons. :LOL about the gumballs... sounds like my DD.
Chrissy- That is soo sweet of your DH. It's amazing how thoughtful they can be out of the blue. And I can totally understand the frustration with potty t/ling. Tori goes in her potty seat 99% of the time... we are still working on the pooping though. She went poop in the "Big Potty" at Maw-maw FOUR times over the weekend and then went in her panties today when she got home.
And you ask her where do "stinkies" go? "In the potty". (then why do you go in your panties??
) I so regret not encouraging her when she turned 2 and wanted to use the potty seat. The potty seat came in the mail one night, she dragged it into the living room and wanted us to open the box. She knew what it was for, and she went in it that night. I went into labor and had Jack the next day. I hid the pottyseat when we left for my OB appointment (I was pretty sure I was in labor). I didn't want my mom or Mary my MIL to have to worry with trying to potty t/l Tori while I was in the hospital (in hindsight, why
they both did it before with us :doh :doh) and I didn't think I'd have the energy right after labor and with a newborn. Live and learn.
Sarahb- glad to here that your little one is doing well even with low fluid. Hoping she stays sticky a little longer.
Savannah- I hate when a post disappears, and its never the short one.
Isn't the Diapering forum dangerous... major time suckage there. You think "oh I'll just pop on for a few minutes"... next thing you know it's 2 hours later! :LOL You won't regret CDing twins. I know a woman that has two sets of twin boys under the age of four. She cloth diapered all of them. She posts occasionally here, her username is Punky and her first anme is Krista. We were on a board together that imploded and it wasn't pretty, so you *might* not want to mention my name specifically.
She might not hate me but I wouldn't want you to get any backlash.
But I bet she would be very helpful about what worked for her.
Anna- So glad that Jerome made a decision on the student teaching. I know have the decision done is a relief. And good to hear that your boss was positive about your decision to not go back. And great sig line.
HeatherB- we will definitely have to get together when you get back. I think we are getting a get together organized of Houston moms from the Diapering board. We started a yahoo group to. I'll send you the link when you get back.
Ype the B&J is the one on Kirby in the village. Way too close for comfort. :LOL :LOL Between B&Js and Maggie Moos there in First Colony... I'm dead meat. :LOL At least my favorite frozen custard place is up in Katy and I hate dealing with I-10. :LOL Ooooh frozen custard... uh-oh I feel a roadtrip coming on. :LOL
Okay I just wrote a book and David is impatiently wanting to go to bed... and he's offered to give me a back rub! So I'm off.
My DH and I are celebrating our 5 year anniversary on Saturday. 
