Not much. I haven’t been in a blogging
\n mood lately, as I’m sure you’ve noticed. Nothing terribly
\n exciting has been going on, just life. I’ve spent a lot of
\n mental cycles trying to figure out why first Eve, then Lex, got
\n really horrible diaper rashes. I think I’ve got the cause
\n figured out (bad inserts in the cloth dipes) but the poor boy
\n has been in disposables and slathered in diaper cream for
\n several days now. If only he’d learn to love the potty :) Once
\n the rash is gone (and it’s a really bad one!) I’ll try him in
\n cloth again with the new inserts I just bought. Fingers crossed
\n we can keep all the little bottoms happy and healthy going
\n forward :) <\/p>\n
We’ve had sunshine and
\n thunderstorms every day for about two weeks now, and the 10-day
\n forecast looks about the same. Blah! At the moment it’s sunny
\n and thundering. Crazy times!<\/p>\n
We had a
\n nice weekend, rain aside. In a brief moment of sunshine we had
\n dinner with my grandparents by the lake. It was the one day in
\n forever that Lex chose to wear his sneakers instead of his
\n crocs and, of course, he walked straight into the lake! So he
\n spent the rest of the evening in soaked pants, sock, and shoes.
\n Eve got mad because I wouldn’t let her walk into the lake too.
\n She’s getting a real personality lately. Alan’s parents braved
\n the weather and came up to visit on Sunday. We were hoping for
\n a nice BBQ dinner, but the thunderstorms prevailed and we got
\n pizza instead. Maybe next month or the following we’ll get some
\n sunny, dry weather. (though my plants are LOVING this weather!)<\/p>\n
Actually, there is some big news that I
\n just remembered I wanted to blog about. Eve can talk!! She’s
\n got a whole bunch of words now, including “happy,” “walk,” and
\n “Lex.” Well, “Lex” is more like “yeck!” but she’s trying. She
\n also says a somewhat passable “thank you” and even uses it
\n appropriately sometimes. The other day Lex gave her a spoon
\n (another favorite word of hers) and she said “dah do yeck!!”
\n With gusto! She’s funny and silly and becoming more and more
\n strong willed by the day. Always a pleasure though. She walks
\n around at my WW meetings saying hi to everyone :) <\/p>\n
I’ve been kind of meandering though life these
\n days. We don’t have much of a routine, so some days we’re just
\n hanging out at home, but other days are jam packed with
\n playdates and playgrounds and all that stuff. The WW thing is
\n going, slower than I’d like, but going. I struggle most with
\n motivation… and my desires to drink Coke! Ahhh… yummy
\n delicious toxins… :) Since I’m the only one who seems to have
\n a problem with my weight (several docs have said not to worry
\n about it :\/ ) some days I find myself really motivated and
\n other days not so much. I’ve started feeling a little sciatica
\n pain again too, which worries me. Perhaps from the increase in
\n exercise? <\/p>\n
I went for a walk this
\n morning with Lex in the backpack. That’s a good workout! I
\n liked it though because we could talk. When he’s in the
\n stroller I can’t hear him. I let him choose which direction to
\n go each time we came to a decision point. As we turned down one
\n road he said “This road has a drain. A blue and brown drain.”
\n Sure enough, when we got to the sewer drain it was brown (of
\n course) with blue spray paint. I said, “you have a funny
\n memory” and he said “we were looking for wolves at the zoo, but
\n we couldn’t find any.” A true story from our trip to the Ross
\n Park Zoo. Alan teases me for verbalizing my streams of
\n consciousness and I think Lex has inherited that from me. Or
\n perhaps it’s a toddler thing that I never outgrew.<\/p>\n
We had a terrible WW meeting this morning.
\n I’ve been taking them to afternoon meetings and they do ok, but
\n I thought I’d try a morning meeting instead. Lex didn’t sleep
\n much last night (perhaps diaper rash related) and Eve slept
\n right up until the meeting, so she was hungry and he was tired
\n and they both just walked around and made noise. He was cute
\n though because he walked around reading all of the posters on
\n the wall. Full volume voice, but reading really well. We ended
\n up leaving a few minutes before the end. <\/p>\n
I think this post just proved my stream of consciousness
\n point…. so here’s a picture to close. What’s a blog post
\n without a picture? :)<\/p>\n
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