Jack likes his new fort....aka "Jack's house". Thank you Lori and Rob!!!

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The double stroller that Jared brought home is in great shape! I'm pretty excited to not have to worry about getting one of those now.

We watched ANTM. I kind of think Anya is going to win but I can't see her doing Cover Girl commercials with her ridonkulous accent. I'm glad Dominique is finally gone. Nice how they acted like they were getting rid of her because she looks like a tranny. Um....she has the whole time.

I can't belive what a sucker Erik is on Survivor. That dude will fall for anything!

Jack's been sleeping on the chaise for an hour and a half now. He didn't even wake up when Daisy was barking when Brooke got here. 

He's big into putting things to bed lately. He takes his little Elmo blanket that my mom made for him and will cover us up, or his Elmo, or his sippy or whatever and say "g'night....seep type!". He was following Jenky around this morning trying to cover him up and saying "g'night....seep type!". 

Yesterday he slammed Jenky's tail in the porch door and Jenky yelped really loud and then took off with his tail all puffed out. I followed him and picked him up and was petting him. He lost a huge chunk of fur from his tail. I told Jack that he hurt Jenky. Then for like the next hour he was following Jenks around saying "I sorry Jenky!". It was really cute. 

We watched The Hills last night. What the hell is Lo's problem? She's being such a snot to Audrina!  Why is Stephanie such a pushover? I'd have kicked Spencer out a long time ago. I can't believe he's going to go to Vegas and crash Heidi's business meeting. What a tool.

We watched Beauty and the Geek too. I'm so glad Joe's gone. Seriously...why did he talk with his eyes closed so much??? Hey Napoleon Dynamite....open yer eyes! Such a weirdo. 

Hell's Kitchen was interesting. Matt is such a doofus. He needs to go. Rosann too. 

Lizzie and Charlotte aren't coming now. They're not feeling well so their mom is going to take them to the doc. 

Jack's up now....and crabby :/

Jack's new sleep routine has been working awesomely! Night before last I put him to bed and he cried for about 10 minutes and that was it! I just kept laying him down until he stayed down, then sat across the room and shh'd him to sleep. He woke up once at about 2 and cried for about 5 minutes and then Jared went in and did the same thing. That time he cried for about 20 minutes. Yesterday for his nap he cried for about 1 minute. Jared put him to bed last night and it seriously took less than 3 minutes! I think he only cried on the way up the steps. I was going to get up with him last night if he woke up at all but he never did! This is going so much smoother than I thought it would! Now I think tonight when I put him to bed I'll sit closer to the door....out of his eyesight. 

Yesterday morning Jack and I went to Walmart and we were going to go to Cub too but he fell asleep in the car so I brought him home and he went right back to sleep in his bed! That would never have happened like a month ago. A few minutes of napping in the car would have replaced his nap for the day. Yesterday he napped for almost 3 hours though! So after I put him down I went to Cub by myself which was nice because lately he doesn't like shopping that much. My pelvis was hurting so much yesterday morning. It was hard to walk. Then when I got home I was starving because I'd only eaten some banana bread that morning. I sat on the porch and was too tired to get up and make something. Then I talked to my sister for almost 2 hours and didn't end up eating anything until almost 3!! 

In the afternoon we hung out in the backyard for a bit. Jared picked up dog poop and cleaned the garage and Jack played on his toys and finally mastered the ladder to his slide! I sat in the chair and did Sudoku's.  

We watched There Will Be Blood. It was kind of weird. I really hate the ending on most movies these days. Why is it so hard to put a decent ending in a movie? We still need to watch Grey's Anatomy, America's Next Top Model, The Riches, and The Alaska Experiment. 

Our computer's being wonky again. It's like the battery cord is loose again! GOD Dell....could you make bigger pieces of crap????

 Guess what else I made today that's currently baking and making the house smell delicious??

Apple freakin pie! 

My banana bread turned out perfectly and is really good!! I made a huge loaf too. Hopefully the oven will be nice to my pie as well. 

I watched Lost and Farmer Takes A Wife while Jack and Brooke were napping. What a crazy Lost episode. Where did Claire go? What was Kate off doing for Sawyer? That Josie chick on FTAW is gross. She won't last. She didn't even participate in the first challenge! How did Stephanie get sent home instead of her?

I got laundry put away, kitchen floor swept and mopped and some banana bread in the oven. Hopefully the POS oven won't burn it. 

I was going to have all 4 kids over today but now Rosemary's not coming. She hasn't been feeling too hot and is possibly getting teeth. Hopefully she feels better before her birthday party this weekend. 

It's supposed to be rainy all day so I can't even have the kids outside :( We played outside yesterday for almost 2 hours. It was really warm out.

We went to Applebee's last night for dinner. Then we stopped at Cub and got some cheesecake to bring home. It was delicious and I ate way too much :o) Jack loves cheese and wouldn't even try a mozarella stick! I peeled the breading off and told him it was a string cheese but he didn't believe me.

Tonight is movie night and we're watching There Will Be Blood. We also have Walk Hard but I don't think we'll be watching it tonight. 
We're also going to be implementing a new sleep routine for Jack starting tonight. We gotta start using some tough love and teach this kid to fall asleep without us should he wake up and to initially go to bed for either of us....and without physical comfort. It may be a long night but it's gotta be done. Hopefully it'll only take a few nights before he is used to it. 

The cast of this season's The Real World is a "hot mess". Especially Joey and Brianna. Yikes. Why would that dude even go on this show if he has a history of alcoholism? Ya ever seen this show dude? People booze it up quite a bit. His roomates are kind of dicks for peer pressuring him all the time too but he just shouldn't even be in that situation. Brianna is raunchy. Is she actually a stripper or does she just wear a lot of stripper clothes? We missed the first episode. Greg is a snob. And he calls everyone else stuck-up?

Last night's Survivor was pretty good. I'm glad it turned out the way it did :o)

 We cut our walk short on Saturday. It was so cold and windy. It snowed yesterday too and it's supposed to snow today. None of it's accumulating but still annoying. How am I supposed to justify flip-flop shopping? :o) It's getting REALLY hard to tie my shoes though so I need it to be warm enough to wear flip flops soon! Fortunately my feet aren't swelling at all yet....I just can't reach them so good.

Yesterday we got some chores done around the house. I got Jack's room looking like an actual room now! He loves it. He's got toys and books up there and I moved his roadway rug and cars up there. He likes to play in there. Now there's plenty of room in the living room for the baby stuff we'll be dragging out in a few weeks.

I went and worked at my mom's for a few hours and finished cutting the last of the ties. Thank god! I wanted to fist fight those ties. They're very frustrating to cut out and have been a VERY stressful job for my mom. Hopefully she finished them all last night as dude was coming to get them today. Jack napped on her bed while we were downstairs working and when he woke up, he got off the bed, opened the door and stood at the top of the steps and said "Mama!". It was funny. I had a feeling he might do that as opposed to sit in her bed and cry. Her doorknob is pretty easy to turn. He really likes being a big boy now. He gets mad when I break up food into little pieces for him!

Starting today I'm watching Brooke every day, all day! Barb got a new job and starts today. Her hours are regular hours now and her mom's starting to work full time too so she'll be spending quite a bit more time here. Jack already asks "Brooke comin?" everyday :o)


We watched the Big Brother finale last night. I really hate the whole juror aspect. I could care less what those people have to say. You lost....just vote. I would have been happy had either of them won so it wasn't too exciting. Kind of interesting though considering Adam had Ryan do all the dirty work. 

We started watching The Alaskan Experiment....I think that's what it's called. It's pretty interesting. 4 different groups of people are dropped in Alaska and have to make their way a few miles to their cabin or tent and then spend the next 3 months there roughing it. The father/2 daughter team is going to fight A LOT! I can't believe those girls sat around eating all the limited rations (sp?) while he was out fishing....and then fought over boot placement!

Jack's new favorite show is Big Big World. I tivo'd it for him a while back and he wasn't interested but now he loves it. He asks for it every morning!

Jared woke me up this morning to tell me Jack had woken up and come down stairs and woke him up. O_o WTF???? How'd he get out of his room??????? He woke up one time last night and I went in and put him back in his bed and he was back to sleep shortly after that. I guess it's possible I didn't close his door all the way but I just don't know if that's the case. His door would have clicked loudly into place had it been slightly out of place when I was shutting it. It's happened many times and I've cursed myself for not shutting it more quietly and risking waking the boy. I can't imagine he can work a doorknob already though. I know he can get the screen door open but his bedroom door????? Holy crap. If that's the case.......that's a new development I'm not sure I like.

Putting him to bed last night SUCKED!!!! He was hating it! He didn't seem like he was hating being in his big boy bed so I'm not totally sure what his problem was but he laid in his bed and cried himself to sleep. I was sitting right next to him. I offered him my thumb a few times but he pushed it away. I sat there so long my leg went numb and my back was starting to hurt so I ended up laying down on the floor. That's when he sat up and tried to get out of his bed. Which confirms that if I were to have left the room....he surely would have got out of bed and been crying even harder. I laid him back down and he stayed laying down but kept crying. Half hour of crying. Good times. I think maybe he had a stomach ache since he hadn't pooped all day. Who knows. I even was trying to keep him up a bit later in hopes that he would poop....doing bicycles with his legs like when he was a baby. Eventually, I had to put him to bed. He definitely had a ton of poop this morning though :/ I hope he didn't spend too much time with it in his diaper.

We went to The Eagle's Nest yesterday with Barb and Brooke. If I had laser beams for eyes....I totally would have incinerated a little boy yesterday. There was a big kid area and a 3 and under area. We spent our time in the 3 and under area of course. There was lots of cool stuff and Jack was having fun. He was kind of playing with this little boy and sort of following him around. I would guess he was maybe 4. Then all of a sudden the kid ran across the room.....then ran back and shoved Jack on his way by. I was like ok.....I'll be keeping an eye on that kid from now on. Then a bit later I see the kid throwing books way up in the air. Mind you, there's babies crawling around this area too. Where's this kid's mom? Nowhere to be found. One of the books lands in this little area that you have to climb through a hole to get in. It was like a big square panel with a circle cut out and kids would climb through the circle hole. Jack's peering in to see where the book landed.....and the bottom of the circle is probably at his hips.....that kid comes up behind him and starts trying to push him through the hole!!! By the time I get over there....he's successfully pushed Jack through this hole and Jack is bawling. I grabbed the kid by the arm and said "HEY! You DO NOT push!! That is NOT ok!!!!" He looked a bit startled and ran off. Little prick. His mom was nowhere to be found and didn't see it. Nice. So it took me a bit to calm Jack down but then he was off having fun again.

He discovered this other sort of big tunnel that I kinda think shouldn't have been in the 3 and under area. If he were to have gone all the way in and then decided he hated it.....It woulda been a pretty lame time for me to crawl in after him. Fortunately he didn't get too far in before he decided he hated it. But at this point....6 big kids (we're talking like over 7 years old) push past me and pile into the tunnel barreling past Jack. This really helps the situation. Then they decided they don't like the tunnel either (hard to believe.....it's in the 3 and under section ya tools) and barrel back out. Finally I'm able to get him out. More calming down. He's pretty clingy at this point and losing interest in playing at this place anymore and occasionally asking to go "bu-byes".

Then he's sitting in this fire truck sort of box thing that you can sit in and read books. It's near the window and all along the windows are a carpeted shelf. The truck had 2 seats in it and Jack kept climbing up on the seat to sit on the edge of the truck with his feet on the seat. I was about to make him sit down on the seat and he fell :/ Wedged himself in half .....sandwich syle....in between the truck and the carpeted shelf thing ...... getting carpet burn on the back of his neck. Good grief. So then we decided to pack it up and go out to the snack area where there's tables and have some carrots and crackers. Poor kid. Not exactly the day we had planned.

I was a bit annoyed with how many big kids kept coming into the 3 and under area. Jack was in the ball pit for a bit and was kind of ok with it. I was about to take a pic and realized my battery was dead. I went over to my purse and swapped it with a charged battery and by the time I get back a couple of big kids had piled into the ball pit and Jack was not happy. He had no interest in going back in there after that. Even when it was just Brooke in there. I did get one pic of him in this Little Tikes tree house thing that was pretty cool:

That's the only picture I got! Hard to believe, I know.

I have Rosemary today and then Lizzie and Charlotte this afternoon. Looks like we're gonna be stuck inside today. I might let Jack and Rosemary watch Jack's Curious George movie.

I vacuumed the living room and swept and mopped last night after dinner so all I have to do today is laundry.....and maybe wipe down the bathroom. We'll see how I feel. I feel kind of sore. I did some cutting for my mom yesterday morning for about 2 hours. My knee has been kind of hurting ever since. It better snap out of it before the 7.5K tomorrow!

We watched Survivor last night. Holy blindsides!! We also watched Grey's Anatomy. Why is George living with Meredith's sister????
We also watched The Real Housewives of NYC reunion. I hate Ramona. Ugh. She acts like a child. And she's dilusional. And Alex and Simon.......good grief.....they're dilusional too. Yea right they were misrepresented! They're totally all about social climbing! Weirdos. Why was he even on there???? He's not a housewife!

Edit:  We do have some of those safety door knob cover child-proof things. I just wasn't thinking we'd need to pull them out yet :P

Yesterday I heard this a hundred times: "Watch this!" "Kiki, watch this!".

Jack's been saying "blanket time!" a lot lately and I'm not sure where he gets it. We used to have blanket time when he was very little but we haven't used those words in about a year.

I ran into my uncle at the gas station yesterday and he said he had some baby toys for me. So I stopped by his house to pick them up. They belonged to his girlfriend's granddaughter. One of the toys he had was a Thomas The Train car thing where you push the little man down and then it takes off. Jack LOVES "Thomas Choo Choo" so he was pretty excited to see that. I also got a big box of clothes for Keira. They're pretty much all toddler clothes and like 3 pairs of shoes. This girl is pretty well set for a while!!

We watched Sweeney Todd yesterday and didn't really like it. We don't like musicals so we knew there was a pretty good chance we wouldn't like it. I watched Atonement the day before and really liked it. If I had been able to pay better attention, I probably would have balled my eyes out at the end. It's hard to watch movies with Jack around so I ended up pausing it a lot.

I'm so glad Natalie is finally gone on Big Brother. I think Sharon got screwed on the HOH competition. That "remaining couple" question with the hamsters was lame. She would have won if they didn't have that stupid question. Now we get to listen to them all try to figure out who the remaining couple is all the damn time on Big Brother After Dark. Awesome.

Survivor was pretty funny last night. I liked that whatshername spilled her bucket before even finding out what she would get so she got nothing :o)

I would totally watch a show just following around The Countess from Real Housewives of NYC. She was my favorite. I liked Jill too. Bethenny was ok. The other 2.....annoying. Ramona was such a biatch!! Horrible mother too. Poor Avery. I can't belive the way she attacked Alex and Simon! Yea he shouldn't have come but Alex is the one that told him it was ok and it wasn't the end of the world for pete's sake. I don't like that couple either but Ramona was way out of line. I can't believe the crap Alex and Simon were letting their kids get away with at that dinner party!!

Jack has been having so much fun with his new George. The other day we had the porch door open and he was coming and going. A few times he would toss George out onto the porch and say "bye George" "I love you George" and then slam the door. I told him George is probably sad now. Then I would open the door and he would go get George and hug him and say "sorry George". Then he was out on the porch for a bit so I peeked at him and saw this:

He loves to swaddle his "babies".

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I was supposed to have Lizzie and Charlotte yesterday but their mom Kim is really sick so they didn't come. Jared was working from home since I had that doc appt in the am so while Jack napped I went to down to my mom's to do some more cutting. She fixed a couple pairs of pants for me too. Today Rosemary is coming. I was hoping we could take a bike ride later with my mom....weather permitting. We'll see...it kind of looks like rain. Forecast says sprinkles so....if we do go...it'll prolly have to be a short ride.

I had this whole post typed up and Jack tossed a basketball at me and it bumped the keyboard and away went my post. LOVE WHEN THAT HAPPENS!!

 Sorry I haven't been commenting much. I've been reading though. Every time I log on this effer only has a few minutes of battery so I can only be on so long. 

We watched 3:10 to Yuma last night. I really liked it! For a western...it wasn't half bad :P Much better than The Asass of JJ.

We're going to breakfast at Keys this morning with my aunt Cathy and then Jack and I will probably go to Walmart to get a bunch of stuff. Then while he's napping I need to do that cutting for my mom. 

I'm pretty excited with what's going on on Big Brother :O)

Well, I'm outta battery already....and gotta go dry my hair. Hopefully I can catch up later this afternoon.

Jack has started saying yes instead of yea. It's funny.

Tomorrow is our 3 year anniversary! Jared's picking up Olive Garden and we're going to watch American Gangster. We party like rock stars! We also got The Assassination of Jesse James from Netflix so we'll prolly watch that this weekend some time. I read yesterday that Jay-Z and Beyonce are possibly getting married tomorrow. Great. Now we gotta share our anniversary with them :P

Our photos are still all jacked up :( I noticed last night that we have some old photos now that I know for a fact I deleted. WTF?? I did a system restore but I only went back a week and I know the pics weren't messed up like this 2 days ago so where'd all these old pics come from? Jared better figure it out this weekend :P

Jack has taken a liking to sitting in the chasie like a total goofball :

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I have Brooke today at 1:30, Lizzie at 2:15, and Charlotte at 2:30. It's nice out. Maybe we'll play outside with chalk.

Jack is annoying the crap out of Daisy. Poor dog. I sent her upstairs for a bit to get away from him but now she's back down here and he's throwing all his balls at her.

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Well, It's looking like we're going to cloth diaper with Keira. At least part-time anyway. Actually it'll prolly be more like 3/4 time since she'll be with me most of the time and I'm willing to do it. Not that Jared isn't....he's just not as excited about it as I am. He'll come around :P  We had talked about it a little bit before I even got pregnant with Keira because I had wanted to get the go ahead to buy supplies and make them. That kind of fell by the wayside though. It seemed like kind of a daunting task even given the fact that I wasn't pregnant yet. I just worried about spending the time and money to make them and then having them end up not fitting well or not liking the design. 

Amy called yesterday and Simon will be grown out of a pretty big stash by the time Keira comes and she's going to give them to us! She also has a big stash from our aunt and uncle that they'll be using next. What a relief! I really wanted to cloth diaper with Keira but having to make them all seemed like a lot of work (and REALLY does now that I'm pregnant) and we just weren't that gung ho about dropping a bunch of money on materials. Regardless of the fact that in the long run....we'd save money. Amy also got a huge case of disposable diapers when she was pregnant that she ended up giving to us so we have a pretty good stash of those too. Maybe once we get going on it after she's born I'll get the urge to make a few cutsie ones :o) I can also keep an eye on supplies and over the course of the next several months....maybe buy a few things here and there when they're on sale. It sure is awesome having a mom that works at Joann Fabrics! 

As far as Jack's butt goes....he's been rash free for about 2 weeks now and I think it really helps that we've been powdering his butt at each changing to keep the moisture away. He also hangs out naked for a while after his bath. Why the hell didn't we try that a long time ago? We got a few bottles of baby powder at the baby showers and never used them. I thought they were kind of pointless :P He can even have tomatoes now! 

Just now I was changing him and Daisy was yippin becasue she wanted to go outside and Jack said "just a minute Daisy!".
He's been singing that Yo Gabba Gabba song lately "please, thank you, please thank you". I'm going to attempt to get it on video today. It's really cute. 

Warren stopped by yesterday and brought us a bunch of fruit. Julius supplies!! Hooray!!

We watched most the most recent installment of High School Confidential last night. Wow. That one girl (into soccer and drama) had HORRIBLE parents!! We were amazed at how mean and unsupportive they were. She could have been doing a lot worse in her life! And then there was Negative Nelly....the artistic girl that hated everyone and everything. At least she had supportive parents and eventually got over her bad attitude. The girl that got pregnant with the super religious parents......her parents seemed like the type that probably just told her don't have sex and didn't help her to be prepared at all. Some of the parents on that show I tell ya.....not that I know what it's like to raise a teenager or anything but some of them just seem to be going about it all wrong.

Jack played in the snow a little while I shoveled part of the driveway. I was too wore out to do the whole thing. I can't belive how much we got :/
Now we're all having banana mango julius'. They're pretty damn good! 

Jack says "bless you" now whenever someone sneezes. He also attempted to say Rosemary today for the first time. It came out Romay. He has been calling Charlotte "Lizzie" ever since they started coming over here but yesterday he was attempting to say Charlotte. It came out something like "Chawa". It's pretty cute. 

I finished the Taken series last night. It was pretty good but I'm looking foward to getting more movies from Netflix now. We're hoping to get American Ganster or 3:10 to Yuma for Friday. There's a wait on both so we may not get them this week unless we go to Blockbuster and rent them. We'll see.

I have Brooke, Lizzie and Charlotte today. Yesterday Lizzie and Charlotte had fun playing with the barbies. We played a few games of crazy 8's too. I got a 2-pack of card games at the dollar store and 1 of them was supposed to be a match game but I got 2 crazy 8's. I guess they could be used as a match game but still.....I was kinda bummed since Jack can't really participate in crazy 8's. I also got some flash cards for him that we played with a bit yesterday. There's 3 sets. 1 for colors, 1 for shapes, and 1 for numbers. He already knows his colors and shapes but it's good to practice and hopefully these will help him learn his numbers. We'll see. No big rush on that. Another thing I got at the dollar store is this pre-k Barney book. I hate Barney but Jack and that book are inseperable :/ He wanted it first thing this morning and was tearin the house up looking for it. 

Jack's favorite thing to do is mess with Daisy. Especially when all she wants to do is nap. So she just keeps getting up and moving to a new spot to lay down and then he follows her.

 Happy 21 months to Jack!!!

Jack went to bed at 8:30 and just now woke up! I didn't hear a peep out of him all night. I went to bed about 10 and just got up too. We were in need of some good sleep I guess. 

I have the craziest dreams while pregnant. Last night I dreamt I was married to Gary Busey at one point...years ago! ICK!!! I think I was bawling in my dream and I woke up and my eyes feel sore.

My hands have been going numb more and more at night. My pinky finger on my right hand is still numb and tingly! 

We've been falling way behind on our shows this week. I've been so tired at night that we don't get to watch more than 1 or 2. We still need to watch Dirt, Lost, The Riches, and the movies we tivo'd last weekend. That and I haven't watched the 2 Taken discs I got from Netflix. I also have been watching High School Confidential. Don't make fun of me! That's the first thing I've ever tivo'd from the WE channel :P We just watched ANTM last night and The L Word season finale the night before. I can't stand that Dominique on ANTM and I really can't see why she's made it so far. She's butt! L Word finale was pretty good. I love when bad things happen to Jenny =) Who knew Jody was such a looney?!?! 

I'm not done posting for today :o) 
Jack's got another case of diaper rash :( It's from eating tomatoes. He loves tomatoes too :/ So he had a soak this afternoon and then was having some naked time. Nothing like a little naked coloring:

 

We've gone malt crazy. A long time ago we accidentally threw out the little rubber piece that goes with the blender. I came across the blender the other day when I was cleaning the cupboards and got the idea to order a replacement piece because I've been wanting malts. Then I forgot to get Whoppers at Cub last weekend. We have a big bag of mixed candy and one of the things is bags of whoppers. So the other night I opened up a ton of little bags of Whoppers so I could have a malt. Then  yesterday Jared got the idea to open up all the pieces of Reeses egg shaped candy things and have Reeses malts. They were good! Now he's got to stop at Cub on his way home because we need soy sauce for dinner tonight and we're low on dog food. He's going to pick up some M&M's so we can have M&M malts :o)

I can't believe how dumb that tribe is on Survivor. They would have been pretty sorry had they sent Ozzie home. What are they using for brains over there??? I don't think they realize how much of the game is still ahead of them. They'll never survive the merge. 

I'm pretty happy that Matty got back-doored on Big Brother. I was getting sick of him. It'll be interesting to see who A-Baller puts up. I hope Natalie's one of them!!

Brooke, Jack and I are going to Joann Fabrics with my mom tomorrow. We're going to get the fabric for Keira's quilt that my mom is making. I also want to get material to make Jack and Jared some matching comfy pants. I want to get a pirate themed print but we'll see what I find. I also am going to make Jack a robe so I want to get material for that too. 

Jack went down for his nap pretty easily so I think tonight will be a breeze again. He'll most likely nap in the car tomorrow so that takes care of that. It looks like we're officially done breastfeeding and holy cow was it easy!

We're going to my mom's for Easter. I think she'll be having a little easter egg hunt for Jack and Brooke. We're not coloring eggs this year. I think Jack will be more into it next year and this year it would just be a big fat mess. I think he's going to have fun looking for his basket though. I'm going to show it to him first and tell him what it is.....then have Jared distract him while I hide it....then have him look for it. 

I don't know how much I'll be around tomorrow but I'll tell you it has nothing to do with the content strike. I don't think it makes much sense. I think a handfull of people not posting or commenting isn't going to do a thing. There's still free accounts available and the fact that they have ads.....well that's how websites make money so I don't see what the big deal is. Everyone needs to make money. Fact of life. The interests situation is unfortunate but I don't see a strike for one day changing that. Change comes with new ownership.

Looking out the window when I woke up this morning.



Going in to wake up the little man. Still likes to sleep with his butt in the air.

It's so weird now that Jack talks all the time and it's coherent!
Our Conversation while he drank his juice and I changed his diaper:

Jack: Where'd Daddy go?
Me: Daddy's at work.
Jack: I see you Dino! (his dinosaur was right behind me)
Jack: Owie neow?
Me: Yes, that's your owie from the kitty.
Jack: Big bite!
Me: Did you get a big sip?
Jack: Geen! Boo!
Me: That's right, your sippy is green and blue.
Jack: Yo?
Me: You want to watch Yo Gabba Gabba?
Jack: Kitties go?
Me: Where did the kitties go?

Then I went to put his jammies in the laundry basket and he went to turn the tv on and I hear "Ohhh honey!" He had turned the tv on but it said "searching for satellite" and wasn't working. Obviously, when something goes wrong or he makes a mess or something I say "ohh honey!". It's really cute when he says it.

He's a dancin fool these days. He dances to almost any music he hears. Yesterday this barnyard movie was on and I tivo'd it for him. When he watched he was really gettin down. Just now he was sit down dancing to Yo Gabba Gabba. Naturally once I get the video going he stops but I got him to start up again. We've been listening to Wee Sing Silly Songs a lot lately and he really likes them. Especially Little Bunny Foo Foo because he knows that one and he likes to "bop em on the head" and he likes when I say "Poof! You're a goon!".

Yesterday I tried to get a video of him saying Cookie Monster because he says Cookie Monez. Whenever I was recording he would only say Cookie though :/



Our reubens were pretty tasty last night! As was our St. Pat's Oreo dessert :o)

Brooke's coming over today at 9:30. Jack will be happy to have a playmate today.

We watched The L Word last night. Holy crap! That's awesome what Adelle did to Jenny! BwaaHaahaaaaaa!! I can't belive next week is already the season finale :(

  I just started crockpot reubens. Those are going to be good! 

No kids today. Just me and Jack. I only have Brooke this week. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. 

Keira was kicking so hard yesterday that I saw my stomach move a couple of times! I can't believe I'll already be at 6 months on Thursday! My next OB appt is Wednesday. 

We watched Lost last night. What the hell? I thought there were only 6 that get off the island......it seems like they're flashing forward and showing more than that have made it back..... 

Jack's sleep schedule was so weird this weekend. Saturday we were shopping a bunch so he got 2 short naps in the car. Later in the afternoon he fell asleep on Jared and napped for about a half hour. Then he was up until 11 :/ He still was ready to get up at 6:30 yesterday. Then at noon I got him to sleep....sort of.....he was kind of out but kept rubbing his eyes. I snuck out and tried to go take a nap myself but moments later heard him banging on the door :/ So I brought him downstairs to hang out with Jared and went back up and napped until 2. When I came down Jared said he had just fallen asleep. I took a shower and shortly after I got out, he woke up. Last night he did go to bed about 9:30 though and I just went in at 8 and woke him up. He was pretty whiny all day yesterday and I don't wanna deal with that business today. No more late afternoon naps! He also didn't want any dinner last night.....I finally got him to eat a 1/2 pb&j sandwich at about 7 and then some grapes. Goofy kid. 

I watched No Country For Old Men Saturday night and Jared watched it Sunday morning. We were not that impressed. That happens every time we watch an Academy Award winning film. It was ok....but not great. And it had the kind of ending I hate. 

We never got around to watching Boondock Saints this weekend and then Jared noticed it was on cable yesterday morning. That always happens. As soon as I get an older movie from Netflix, they play it on cable :/

Yesterday the snow was almost gone. Today it's snowing something fierce :/

I have Lizzie at 12:45 today, Brooke at 1:30 and Charlotte at 3:30.

I got the rest of my drawers in the kitchen cleaned yesterday and I cleaned under the kitchen sink. Hooray!! I might clean the fridge today......we'll see.

We have so many shows to watch tonight! ANTM, Lost, Dirt, Survivor, and Real Housewives of NYC. Plus we got Boondock Saints from Netflix. They won't all get watched tonight. That's for sure. I've been ready for bed this week at like 9:30!

I'm pretty excited to go to Ikea tomorrow!! I want to get easter stuff for Jack too this weekend.

Here's Jack watching Sesame Street this morning:

He was kicking his feet up and down while he was laying there. Goofy kid.

Yesterday was a nice relaxing day. I went to Cub and then took another long nap when Jack did. I wanted to get stuff at Cub to decorate cupcakes this Friday with the kids for St. Pat's but they had green sprinkles and that's it :( Maybe we'll do that for Easter instead.

Jack pats my tummy now when I ask him where Keira is. And he gives her kisses :o) I got a short video of it. At the end I'm trying to get him to say Keira and he keeps telling Daisy "stop it" because she's eating cheerios he dropped on the floor :P He eventually says it though it's kind of hard to hear. At the beginning he's mad that I'm blocking his precious Handy Manny show :P

I have Lizzie today at 12:30, Brooke at 1:30, and Charlotte at 3:30. I have Brooke and Lizzie all week and Charlotte every day but Wednesday.

Jared said I can go to Ikea this weekend! HOORAY!!! I have a gift card from Christmas I've been itchin to spend :o)

The L Word was really good last night! I find it hard to believe that some of those women went on that bike trip and there was no sign of any pre ride biking. I really find it hard to believe that Jenny and Kit did it. Anywho. I totally called it that Adelle would gank that tape and I'm pretty excited to see her motives next week! It's about time things got juicy with her. The whole Jenny and whatshername....lead actress girl....relationship is so unbelievable anyway. I'm over the storyline with Kit and The Planet and those other 2 psychos from Shebar. Poor Jody. Bette and Tina are such idiots though. They couldn't stop looking at eachother and were just asking to blow that whole secret. If Bette wouldn't have been so adamant about her views on kissing/cheating in a STUPID DRINKING GAME.....Jody wouldn't have had to find out that way. Either way...... I like Alice the best. She's my favorite :o) Where the hell is Papi????

 Jack had fun with Lizzie and Charlotte yesterday. Lizzie is coming over at noon today and Charlotte doesn't get here until 4. Next week I'll have both Lizzie and Charlotte along with Brooke every afternoon! Except Wednesdays Charlotte doesn't come. 

Jack got his Cookie Monster slippers yesterday. He likes them :o) Actually I ordered him a size 7-8 originally and they came earlier in the week and were huge! The cost to ship them back and exchange them was half the cost of the slippers :/ so we'll just keep them for when he's bigger. I ordered a size 5-6 and they fit much better. He looks so cute when he walks in them. 

We watched Survivor last night. WTF Chet?????? Dude is the most worthless flap of skin to ever go on a show like this and yet he keeps sticking around!! We laughed pretty hard at Joel dragging him through that course. 
I'm annoyed by Lost but keep watching. I just want them to clear some things up and they never do. The series end isn't until 2010 either so I'm sure I won't know much for a while yet. They just keep introducing more people and expanding on the story. Wrap some things up!!!

I didn't end up making pork chops yesterday. Maybe tonight. We decided to have pizza instead. Warren brought us these ginormous, delicious looking cinnamon rolls yesterday! I resisted all day but I had to have one this morning. It was GOOD!! Jack enjoyed it as well :o)

 I just watched the Finale of Project Runway. I'm not totally surprised at the winner. I liked the collection a lot. In the beginning...I didn't think this person would last and found them rather annoying but as the season went on I grew to like them more and I'm glad they won. 

My aunt Cathy and Nan are flying out to Seattle today to see Amy, Erik & Simon. I sent a duffle bag full of more boy clothes and threw in some baby toys and one of my slings. While I was downstairs grabbing the clothes out of totes....Jack was upstairs tossing picture frames over the gate at the bottom of the other stairs. He broke the glass in one of them :/ 

My niece Izzy has been mysteriously sick for a few years now and doctors haven't been able to figure out what's wrong with her. The went to some doctors in Sillwater several months ago for some tests but were JUST RECENTLY informed that they discovered she has lyme disease and they found it SEVERAL months ago. So all this time she hadn't been on medicine for it because the doctors neglected to share that information. So she's been on the medicine now for a few weeks and is still very sick. Jared's sister and brother-in-law needed to take her to Children's Hospital yesterday because she's that sick. Now after more tests they've discovered she DOES NOT have lyme disease. The lyme disease meds were making her sick. WTF???? What the hell Sillwater doctors??? Hopefully these doctors will have more answers and be able to give a more accurate diagnosis.