Not much. I haven’t been in a blogging
mood lately, as I’m sure you’ve noticed. Nothing terribly
exciting has been going on, just life. I’ve spent a lot of
mental cycles trying to figure out why first Eve, then Lex, got
really horrible diaper rashes. I think I’ve got the cause
figured out (bad inserts in the cloth dipes) but the poor boy
has been in disposables and slathered in diaper cream for
several days now. If only he’d learn to love the potty :) Once
the rash is gone (and it’s a really bad one!) I’ll try him in
cloth again with the new inserts I just bought. Fingers crossed
we can keep all the little bottoms happy and healthy going
forward :)

We’ve had sunshine and
thunderstorms every day for about two weeks now, and the 10-day
forecast looks about the same. Blah! At the moment it’s sunny
and thundering. Crazy times!

We had a
nice weekend, rain aside. In a brief moment of sunshine we had
dinner with my grandparents by the lake. It was the one day in
forever that Lex chose to wear his sneakers instead of his
crocs and, of course, he walked straight into the lake! So he
spent the rest of the evening in soaked pants, sock, and shoes.
Eve got mad because I wouldn’t let her walk into the lake too.
She’s getting a real personality lately. Alan’s parents braved
the weather and came up to visit on Sunday. We were hoping for
a nice BBQ dinner, but the thunderstorms prevailed and we got
pizza instead. Maybe next month or the following we’ll get some
sunny, dry weather. (though my plants are LOVING this weather!)

Actually, there is some big news that I
just remembered I wanted to blog about. Eve can talk!! She’s
got a whole bunch of words now, including “happy,” “walk,” and
“Lex.” Well, “Lex” is more like “yeck!” but she’s trying. She
also says a somewhat passable “thank you” and even uses it
appropriately sometimes. The other day Lex gave her a spoon
(another favorite word of hers) and she said “dah do yeck!!”
With gusto! She’s funny and silly and becoming more and more
strong willed by the day. Always a pleasure though. She walks
around at my WW meetings saying hi to everyone :)

I’ve been kind of meandering though life these
days. We don’t have much of a routine, so some days we’re just
hanging out at home, but other days are jam packed with
playdates and playgrounds and all that stuff. The WW thing is
going, slower than I’d like, but going. I struggle most with
motivation… and my desires to drink Coke! Ahhh… yummy
delicious toxins… :) Since I’m the only one who seems to have
a problem with my weight (several docs have said not to worry
about it :/ ) some days I find myself really motivated and
other days not so much. I’ve started feeling a little sciatica
pain again too, which worries me. Perhaps from the increase in
exercise?

I went for a walk this
morning with Lex in the backpack. That’s a good workout! I
liked it though because we could talk. When he’s in the
stroller I can’t hear him. I let him choose which direction to
go each time we came to a decision point. As we turned down one
road he said “This road has a drain. A blue and brown drain.”
Sure enough, when we got to the sewer drain it was brown (of
course) with blue spray paint. I said, “you have a funny
memory” and he said “we were looking for wolves at the zoo, but
we couldn’t find any.” A true story from our trip to the Ross
Park Zoo. Alan teases me for verbalizing my streams of
consciousness and I think Lex has inherited that from me. Or
perhaps it’s a toddler thing that I never outgrew.

We had a terrible WW meeting this morning.
I’ve been taking them to afternoon meetings and they do ok, but
I thought I’d try a morning meeting instead. Lex didn’t sleep
much last night (perhaps diaper rash related) and Eve slept
right up until the meeting, so she was hungry and he was tired
and they both just walked around and made noise. He was cute
though because he walked around reading all of the posters on
the wall. Full volume voice, but reading really well. We ended
up leaving a few minutes before the end.

I think this post just proved my stream of consciousness
point…. so here’s a picture to close. What’s a blog post
without a picture? :)