January 6, 2008

Well good afternoon everyone! Another busy week here in crazyland - made more hectic by my recent addiction to electronic scrabble.

We all went back to work/school on Wednesday. Morgan had a good week, but he usually does after a vacation - probably because he's so excited to leave the house! I told his teacher how much he likes the swing at home and she says they don't have swings at school. What school doesn't have swings??? I asked Timothy if his school has swings and it does. Weird! Maybe I'll write the principal...

Jocelyn got to visit her new school this week and to say she loved it would be an understatement. I got an email from the director afterwards who said she certainly anticipated no problems! haha. She's all signed up for Mondays and Wednesdays. We did the later session (I think it's 11 - 12:45) because Jocelyn tends to sleep in in the morning and then be a BEAR, so she'll do better a little later I think. Or at least Josh will do better getting her out of the house!

Oh this is funny - Jocelyn calls me running on the treadmill "going in the stroller" - I guess because the only time she's ever in a stroller is when I take her and Jesse out in the jogger - hahaha.

Jesse is starting to use mama in a way that makes me think he knows what it means, which is just adorable. He's trying lots of new words, though his fallbacks are no and ut-oh and da? Da? means anything that he's pointing at. I think it started as door because that's usually what he's pointing at, but now it pretty much goes for everything.

He's big into imitating, which of course thrills us. He LOVES the vacuum and now REALLY LOVES his play vacuum! He was imitating me while I was doing yoga this morning and it was just too cute!! Jocelyn was trying to do it as well, but she was actually doing a pretty good job. Of course, she was nekkid from the waist down, so downward facing dog was not a photo-op - hahaha.

So the reason that Jocelyn was nekkid from the waist down was that she takes her pants off every time she uses the potty - which she does all on her own! She hasn't had an accident all week and even wakes up dry. Yay Jocelyn! Josh has stopped putting a diaper on her to go out even.

Jesse has found a new love - himself. My mom refinished a full length standing mirror for me that goes in my bedroom and Jesse likes to play peekaboo with the baby in the mirror. He plays peekaboo by putting his hands on the top of his head and then pulling them off and yelling boo. hahaha. I can't quite tell but I'm starting to think that he's getting that it's him. Not quite yet but sort of...

Timothy had a friend over this week. He has nice friends. They played well together and then Josh drove him home after dinner.

Oh, so I was nursing Jesse today and Jocelyn lifted up her shirt and stuck out her belly and said to Josh "eat it daddy, eat the belly". hahahaha - he gave her a kiss on her belly button.

It was cold this week so I was mostly forced to use the treadmill. I did finally get outside yesterday and did a bit over 3 miles. Today my back was sore so I did a yoga video and then was feeling much better so did 2 miles on the treadmill. Of course when I was done it had gotten nice out, so I could have gone outside. Ah well. It's supposed to be warm tomorrow but I doubt I'll make it outside during the week until it starts getting light out again.

I guess that's it. It's been a while since we heard from many of you - time to ping!