Week 9 - part 1

Monday 8-6-07 M ate her breakfast and her lunch "ALL GONE" at daycare today! That is wonderful and we make a big deal of it when we pick her up hoping she will repeat this for the rest of the week. Supper on the other hand was a different story. We tried to get her to take one bite of pork loin and one bite of potato but she wouldn't have anything to do with it. So she had grapes and a piece of bread. That and I made a juice with lemonade and watermelon that she drank (without knowing there was watermelon in it). I may try that again. We spent the rest of the evening playing on the floor with the girls singing all sorts of nursery rhymes and kids songs. Very relaxing!

Tuesday 8-7-07 It was the busiest day of month end for me at work today, so T brought me lunch and we ate in my office. Nothing fancy - Subway - but it is nice to talk in person uninterrupted. After work we quick had PB sandwiches so T could bring M to see the Hall boys at Tikwando and Nancy came over to our house to spend time with L and myself. Nancy and I had a nice visit and L was doing pretty well until about 8pm when I think she realized this wasn't right - someone was missing and she wasn't getting held by Mom or Dad. When Nancy left I carried L around the house, Up and down the stairs, so I could talk on the phone to Jen without L crying. Lately it has been hard to schedule phone calls between the girls, me falling asleep on the couch and just plain too busy. Not that I want to wish summer away but I hope this fall or winter we can find 20 minutes to talk on the phone. Or better yet see her in person, which has been since her wedding and that was almost 3 months ago. The same goes for everyone else - I just feel like we get such short time with the girls in the evening that I shouldn't spend it on the phone every night so I don't call anyone until they go to bed and some nights my brain is asleep by then. Anyway T and M were home shortly and got M ready for bed and as she all her meals today she got two books instead of one. She thinks she is outsmarting me by having me read the two books and then she reads the same two books to me. I know what she is doing, but I'm so impressed that she can repeat the whole book back to me that I let her do it. Granted this is the third night in a row she has picked that book, but still I'm impressed. I hope she gets her memory from her Dad and not me. L was ready to eat and got to bed at 9:30pm. If she isn't already up she wakes up at 6:30am and ready for bed at 9:30 - I love her schedule!

Wednesday 8-8-07 Well - as you are probably noticing I am a week and a half behind and I am tired enough this morning to just give up writing, but I'm hoping I'm just stubborn enough to keep going. This morning both girls did well. L laid in her crib facing down scraping the sheet with her finger nails when I came to get her this morning. She must be tired also as I changed her diaper and she keep her eyes shut. When I finished feeding her she had a smile for Dad. L and I woke up M and she wanted to be carried in to our bed to watch Curious George (her newest cartoon obsession). She wanted Mom to get her dressed this morning and was excited she beat L. We got everyone in the cars driving out the driveway when we realized we were going to switch cars so T could get my oil changed. So I followed them to daycare and took his car and he took mine. Both girls were doing well when we left.