Lexi is getting big so fast. Tonight she took 5 steps toward me while Mom and Dad watched on. It was kind of that running, I can’t believe I’m not falling type of walk but still, it counts. She is really coming out of her shell. She claps. She waved good-bye for the first time to Candie on Wednesday. She turns her hand back and forth. She has started shake her head no vigorously when she is done eating and doesn’t want anymore. She says no-no, ma-ma and da-da. She is really easy going. If she is fussing, she is either hungry or tired or just wants held, usually later in the day.
She has impetigo right now. I guess she caught it from Emma from a couple weeks ago. Both her and Emma have had runny noses. Emma has had a bad cough. There’s always something.
Emma seems to really like school. She has cried twice when we’ve picked her up but she claims it is because someone else was crying. She gets excited about going. They have great little activities for them to do. Last week they planted grass and learned how plants grow. We were out watering plants the other night and she said why are we watering the plants. I said because they need it. She said because they need water like we need food? I was like, uh, yeah. She amazes me how much she retains. She doesn’t forget a thing. She makes you repeat it like 5 times sometimes to get it, but then she doesn’t forget.
Scott decided to pull up the rocks yesterday from the front yard so we can put mulch down. Then we decided to get pieces of rock to put around the water fountain we had put in a couple weeks ago. It looks REALLY good. We even had a neighbor stop to say it looked nice.
Last night D & I painted her bedroom. Her girls were staying with her mom and Mom had Emma and Scott kept Lexi. We finished painting quickly in 2 hours. We then went out to eat at Longhorn and then got coffee at Starbucks. It was probably the most relaxing 5 hours I’ve had in quite some time. Even the painting was relaxing. We talked and talked and it was great to catch up with her and get something done without any interruption (as we speak Emma is standing in the chair behind me hugging me, saying Are you typing? uh-huh Why? I want to type! I want to type like you did. I want to type that thing. I want to type, Mommy. I want to type, Mommy. Well, I’m typing, honey. I want to type. See, Mommy, look, my hands are dirty. Then she is making some whirling noise). So, last night relieved me so much, I think the old saying is true that Scott and I need some date nights.
We haven’t had a night out besides one hour at a time to dinner in quite some time. Some days go by now and we barely kiss. We need some quality time out for sure.
So this Katrina situation has been on my mind all week. I haven’t watched really anything else all week. I have cried at the children without food or diapers. It is insane that those poor babies went without anything they needed. The Superdome was ridiculous that it was so out of control. We should have been way more prepared. I’m not sure how, but they’ve got to figure it out. It felt really good when all those troops came in last night and today. I almost cried with relief when I realized they were finally going to be rescued. I as so glad when I-10 was cleared of everyone.