Talk about a spurt

(hehehe...that sounds vaguely dirty...)

Ahem. Sorry. Anyway, not much to report except that I'm going for my MRI tomorrow, and it feels like whatever the steroids were supposed to do for my back they've finally started to do this evening, which means I can sit here and type this without standing up and hobbling around the room every 30 seconds. Hopefully the doc will have not-so-scary news tomorrow, like, news that can be fixed with not-so-heavy drugs or a shot to the back or something, as opposed to surgery.

In other news, Alex had a great TKD class - 3 stickers! He also told Scott, "Seriously, Dad, why did you leave your hair all over the sink?" Because Scott forgot to clean up his whiskers from shaving. It was very cute. And again, my little black anal-retentive heart melted just a little.

And in the actual "spurt" news, Emma seems to have hit a large-motor growth spurt. Not only did she officially start crawling yesterday, tonight she SAT UP IN HER CRIB. All by herself, pushed from her tummy to her butt. Again, very cute. And while I was cleaning out the hamster cage on the floor, she was (very adorably) peeking her little face over the bumper on her crib, after pulling it down with her little fingers so she could see what I was doing. I melted.

She went in to the doc today so we could check out what we thought was an ear infection, and we now officially have Emma's first illness. She had a little sniffly cold for a couple of weeks, and that turned into the ear thing. She's on antibiotics, but it's not bad at all. My mom and I took her in today and everyone who watched us would have thought my mom and I were going to the doc, since Emma was so happy and cheerful and giggly and smiley - and my mom is hobbling along on her cane and I could hardly walk because of my back thing.

Anyway, off to watch a movie. Can't wait for Emma's first word!