Alyssa learned yesterday how to zip up a coat or sweatshirt by herself! My mom was over and when Alyssa said that she could do it herself my mom replied, “No, you can’t!” Nice encouragement, Mom.
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Christi left for Raleigh, NC yesterday and I’ve had the kids all by myself. Christi left the house clean, but we didn’t have any bread or juice. We could’ve gotten by without bread, but juice!? No way! So we made a trip to the grocery store. That made me anxious. Things went well until our ride home when Alyssa announced she peed in her car seat. And I have a “thing” about body excrement. So I overreacted. I won’t tell what I said. When we got home I “had” to wash the fabric for the seat which meant I had to disassemble the thing! Seriously, I had to take the bottom off. I wouldn’t have done it, but the directions told me how. So I washed that but it wasn’t dry by the time my mom got over, so I didn’t have the seat together yet and we were going out to dinner. Dinner with the kids, even with Christi, makes me anxious. I took 2 Xanax about 5 minutes apart and had I beer at dinner, so I wasn’t stressin’ too much. Oh, when my mom called from the airport I had both kids screaming. Ugh. And then my mom said that Christi parked in the wrong section and it cost $24 for her to get out. Christi left a $ 20 but Mom mentioned that it didn’t cover it and she sounded like I owed her $4 when she got to my house. Well, on the way to dinner I tried to give her the only dollar bills I had, 2, and she’s like, “Oh you don’t need to pay me.” Which was the opposite of what I was expecting. So that was relieving. Then she added “And that wouldn’t even cover it!” in a joking, but knowing my mom maybe not so joking, way.
Bedtime went pretty well. Joel went down but woke up ~15 minutes later. I just had to rock him for a minute or so and he slept the rest of the night. Alyssa started screaming because she wanted 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5 kisses. I complied. And she went to sleep and that was that. She woke up sometime around 7 and wanted to watch Dora so I turned that on and laid in bed awhile longer. So today had been going pretty well so far. There was something I wanted to write about about yesterday, but I can’t remember. Oh well, maybe it’ll come to me.
Last night, while I was waiting for Alyssa to chug her chocolate milk before bed, I asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up. She thought for a second and said, “a rainbow!” Then added toddler-speak for, “Then, after that, a flower.”
I think I’m addicted to the Wii! We only have two “games” (Wii Sport and Wii Play) but that has been plenty for me so far! I’m currently trying to get all gold medals on Wii Play.
Last night was really bad. I had to get up with both kids several times. And for each time I got up with the kids, Christi gets up 10 times. So it must have been really bad for her!
Joel is pulling himself up onto everything. I think it’s most funny when he uses Lexi for leverage. Other times he grab my legs and plant his face between ‘em. It’s cute, except when I’m Wii-ing. (Addict, remember?)
Alyssa is getting good with her letters and can count to 13. Then it’s like 15 and then 20, or something like that. She knows her A, D, M, G, L, J’s really well. (Alyssa, Daddy, Mommy, Grandma, Lexi, Joel/Joey) She can play Wii bowling and just this weekend even started hitting some of the targets in the shooting game. I still have a hard time understanding her sometimes, but that’s more my fault than hers.
Well, I gotta run home before I die. (It’s snowing and I don’t have Christi’s car.)
I wanted first to write that Alyssa, for the first time, fell asleep while I was reading to her. It was so adorable!
Joel had tubes put in today. It all went pretty smoothly. It was quick too. Right after surgery they had him in the recovery room and we could hear him crying. We shut the door to the exam room and trying singing and jiggling keys so as not to hear him. It didn’t really work.
As soon as he was back in Mommy’s arms he stop crying. A sweet moment. (Not that I’ll remember it.) (sigh)
Ugh. I’m sick. I have a cold. It sucks.
Last Saturday Christi and I went to dinner and a movie with the St. Amours (Amy and Bret). Dinner was at Texas Roadhouse and was delicious. I got the ribs with the side salad and sweet potato loaded. I don’t care much for their 1000 Island dressing, but the rest was great. I couldn’t eat it all and couldn’t take it with either because we went to a movie after.
The movie was 1408 and must’ve been the worst movie ever. It was really bad.
Alyssa has reverted back to “Mama”. She used to say “Mommy”, but recently it’s been “Mama”. I don’t know why.
Joel’s been eating “real” food for a week (?) now. He seems to really like it. He’s always fussy when we’re done.