Updates

1. I, once again, get to wear the Mother of the Year crown. Last weekend Emma was sitting on the floor of her bedroom, I was sitting on one side of her, Scott behind her, and she reached over to the hamster cage. I grabbed her hand before she could stick her finger in, looked up at Scott to say something, and in that split second she managed to not only stick her finger in the cage but get the tip half bitten off by the little shit of a hamster. (I can't blame the hamster - it did look an awful lot like a teeny tiny carrot.) She's fine, didn't need stitches or anything, but it bled like a m-fer for 2 hours.

2. PICTURES! I finally have pictures! I'll post a few different posts over the next couple of days to get updated on our pictures, since we finally were able to get them off the camera. Something happened and the computer isn't recognizing the camera when I plug it in so we have to take an extra step and download them to the laptop, then move them over. Which I finally managed to get Scott to do this weekend since he's been working so hard lately. More pics coming soon!

3. Nursing: I quit pumping last week. I'm tired of it - I was getting two ounces in THREE DAYS. So I quit, and oddly enough, my supply seems to be back up and running. We may make it to a year yet.

4. My perfect sleeper has decided she doesn't want to be perfect anymore. Although, technically, she still is, since she's still sleeping through the night, and as soon as we GET her down, she sleeps 10+ hours. But the poor thing decided this week that she didn't want to GO to sleep, so we've been Ferberizing her the last day or two. Actually, I don't know if the method I'm using is Ferber or not, it's probably simple Cry It Out, but it involves putting her down and letting her cry for a successive number of minutes, and going in to comfort her and let her know we're here at intervals. Last night it was cry for 2 minutes, then comfort, then 5, then 10, and she was asleep before we got to the 15 minute period. She woke up happy as a clam this morning, so it's obviously not hurting her. This will probably take a couple of days and she'll be back to normal.

5. Alex got his yellow belt and sparring gear in Tae Kwon Do. He was very excited about the sparring gear especially, because now he gets to practice his kicks and punches ON OTHER PEOPLE. And he's really GOOD. If he can learn to control himself and be aware of things around him, he will do very well in TKD. He also asked about starting soccer again, so we're going to look into that.

6. This, sadly for me, will be Alex's last year in dance. We always said that as soon as he became aware of the stigma associated with male dancers that we would take him out unless he REALLY wanted to stay in. But he has been saying lately that he doesn't want to go to dance, and his little friend Spencer, who has 2 older siblings (one a teenager), has been making comments like "dancing is for girls." We don't want to teach him that Spencer is right, so we finish out the year. But after that we'll tell him that TKD, gymnastics and soccer (or whatever else he does) are enough for him so we decided to drop one of his activities. He's actually pretty good at dance, but if he were to continue it would be on his terms, and the type of dance he wants to do, and I'm pretty sure ballet/tap/jazz isn't it. Although with the way he can shake his butt I'd say hip hop might be the way to go. :-) And he stays in gymnastics as long as possible - it has really helped his flexibility. The other parents at TKD marvel at how flexible he is when they do stretches and such.

So that's it. Posts with pictures coming later today. I have shopping and playing to do!