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I hate not posting very much. I feel like I forget the special details. I haven’t posted since Thursday almost two weeks ago so what has happened since? Hmm..

That weekend I took Emma to the circus with SIL and her daughter. Emma liked it a lot but fell asleep 45 minutes into it. It started at 3:30..prime nap time. She woke up though with plenty left to see. She did miss the white horses though. She cackled and clapped for the clowns. She loved the elephants the best. I have her on film saying REAL elephants!! over and over. The pictures I got don’t show her enthusiasm just because she was in one of those trance stages where she would just stare at what was going on. She spent most of the show in my lap. It was a nice time for just the two of us. Scott and his parents stayed home with Lexi. They said she was a good girl. Lexi is not a very easy baby to keep if you’re not me. That sounds weird, but she is stuck like glue to me and doesn’t like it when her mommy isn’t around, or so says everyone that tries to keep her. I’m at work now and Scott was already having a break down about 9:00 this morning.

The bad part about the circus was that SIL got a call saying Kyle had taken a fall skiing with the youth group and was in the hospital. To make a long story short, they flew him in helicopter to Charlotte and he has fractures in his C5 vertebrate and has to wear a neck brace for 10 weeks. He came very close to becoming paralyzed.

I went and had our taxes done and I was only about $20 off. Pretty good. We’re supposed to be getting them this Friday. We’ve now decided to make our covered porch a full-blown room. It will take a lot of our money, but it will be well worth it compared to how much it will raise the price of the home since Scott can do all of the work. That will be a huge project, but I think it will be really nice once it all gets done. We’re going to use it mainly as a play area. Mom is giving me her chaise to put in there so I can sit in there while the girls play. It will be much more useful once I can set Lexi up to play on the floor.

We all were sick last week. Emma started on Tuesday throwing up. Scott got sick Thursday night and I was nauseous all evening Friday and into Sunday morning. Thank goodness Lexi didn’t get it.

Lexi has been doing really well at night (except for last night). I put her down drowsy and she goes to sleep with the Ocean Wonders thingy on. That’s usually somewhere between 7-8:15 or so. She sleeps until 1-2 and then again until 4:30. She is getting that 6 hour stretch of sleep though. It will be awesome when she can drop that 1:00 feeding and I could sleep from 8:30 (Emma goes down about then) until 4:30 if I wanted. That would actually be an 8 hour night..I haven’t had one of those in months! Scott and I have been going to sleep very early lately. Friday night we did go to sleep at 8:30. Last night I put toothpicks in my eyes to finish watching The Bachelorette until 10. I hope Jerri is real because they look so cute together and seem to really be giddy over each other.

I TIVO’d (I LOVE TIVO!!!) SuperNanny last night and will watch it this evening. I LOVE that show. Even though you kinda know all that stuff in your head, it’s nice to have a reminder every week of what you’re supposed to be doing. Last week’s episode of the working mom really hit home. I really would like to do a schedule of Emma time, Lexi time, snack time, nap time, lunch time, Mommy work time but it’s really hard seeing that Lexi’s “schedule” is more of a routine right now and I can’t really schedule anything until she gets a little older. I seem to keep saying that. I hate to keep thinking everything will be all better when she gets older but in a lot of respects I know it has with Emma.

Ok, meeting time, gotta go.

Lexi is 3 months old today. I haven’t gotten a picture of her yet but here she is the other day.

Here’s another one..

And here’s big sister talking on the phone..

It’s snowing, it’s snowing. Well, not at the moment, but it did this morning. We have maybe an inch or so. We got out in it this morning after Scott got up from working last night. Emma made a few snow angels which were pretty cute. Both of the girls are currently taking a nap. It is heavenly since Scott has gone back to work and everyone else stuck in their house. My friend J is getting married today at 6 and IL’s are going to pick me up and go while SIL watches the girls. Should be interesting having her watch the baby. I should only be gone for 1.5 hr so I can’t imagine it would be that bad. I may eat my words later. When Scott kept the girls the other day when I was at work, it wasn’t too good because Lexi would not take the formula. She probably only ate 2 ounces for her last two bottles. Poor thing. She ate well when I got home. So, I’ve been pumping quite a bit. The way the schedule is working out though, I don’t think she should need to eat while I’m gone, maybe AS SOON AS I get back, but hopefully she can hold off. I don’t like having to pump and I don’t want to thaw out milk for a “maybe” feeding so I’m just going to tell her to make formula if she gets desperate. It is not a real pleasant time of day for her either in general so hopefully she won’t cry the whole time. I don’t know why I worry about these things so much…

I’m taking Emma to the circus next weekend. I told her and she says, JoJo’s Circus? I was like, no, not JoJo’s, just the regular circus. I wonder if she expects to see her there.

Yesterday Mom took Emma to her house. On the way, the stop at a stop sign and Emma says, P-O-T-S. Mom was thinking she was just babbling her letters and but looked over and saw her looking at the STOP sign. Hopefully the reading of the letters backwards has no indication of dyslexia since she doesn’t really understand yet that words go left to right.

Lexi has made no attempt at rolling over yet however she is trying to talk quite a bit still. She has been doing really well the past 3 nights. She’s still waking up 2-3 times a night but she has slept in her crib the entire night. It makes my nights so much better. I can actually get comfortable without worrying about her.

It is the 29th and I STILL do not have my W-2. That aggravates me so much. Scott got his in his box at work last night and the numbers were off from what I had calculated from his last December pay stub I had. I forgot to take out his retirement, etc for the taxable wages amount. Looks like we’re getting back another couple hundred we weren’t expecting. Yay! We have a list made of things we want to do with the money. Mostly it’s stuff around the house we want to improve or buy. Hopefully I’ve calculated it right because I’ll be disappointed if we can’t get the stuff we are now looking forward to getting.

My cable modem died this morning so I decided to come into the office. I didn’t really want to but I had planned on coming in some time this week so it might as well be a day I could go in late with a good excuse. Scott is off all week so he has both girls today. He called and said the guy couldn’t get my Internet working. They are trying to blame it on my router. Whatever. It just better be fixed today so I don’t have to go to the office tomorrow. I miss my girls. It is nice to be away but I hate the drive and I know Lexi is probably having a cow because I’m not there. She definitely knows when it’s me that’s holding her vs. someone else.

Lexi has been smiling and trying to talk a lot. She does her best at 5am. She does that wide mouth almost laugh that is SO cute. I simply can not catch it on camera but Mom and Dad saw it yesterday too.

Emma is a hoot! We pull up to a turn to go to our church if you turn left, the road forks. You go on the left fork to go to our church. Emma has been recognizing where we are going for awhile now. When we turn in Mom’s neighborhood, she’ll say Grandma’s house. Anyway, we pull up to the stop sign at the fork and ask her which way to go to church and she pointed correctly to the left. So we turn down that way and she points to the “right fork” and say, Actually, that way. How does she know what actually means?? She’s saying so many things now and is even getting better at saying things. She is now saying Hea-her for Heather instead of just Hea. Trooper is now Trooper instead of True-True.

She is getting so smart at her letters. She hasn’t memorized the order of them yet except for ABCD but she can tell you all the sounds they make…while dancing and clapping mind you. And if you write the letters on a piece of paper, she’ll tell what it is and what sound it makes.

Yesterday in nursery I think they were singing a bunch of songs because yesterday you could tell she was trying to sing something and today she was dancing and said Jesus Loves Me. Awww! I had her say it like 50 times. It was truly music to my ears.

We are still working on potty training. This morning Scott put her panties on. She went potty once and then the next time we asked if she had to go and she said no and about 10 minutes later peed in the foyer. At least it wasn’t on the carpet. If we insist she goes, she normally goes happily but she just doesn’t remember to go. Every blue moon she’ll run in there and go. I’ve even seen her take her own diaper off and run in there to go potty. I haven’t read anything about how to do this so any advice would be great, mommies!

Yesterday was probably the nicest day we’ve had as a family in a while. We were both of on MLK day and took our time getting ready. We left the house at about 11. The baby fell asleep on the way. We went to United Supply to get some rods for Emma’s curtains. Then went to Pier One. We headed to Jason’s Deli for lunch and it took forever but Emma was so well behaved. She never got out of her seat once and didn’t whine at all. We then went to TJ Maxx where she followed us around very nicely. She listened to all direction we gave her. The baby stayed asleep through this whole shopping trip. It was SO nice to shop with her asleep and have Emma mind us while we were out. I really miss shopping and am having so much fun decorating this living room. We came home after that and Emma took a nap, the baby took a nap. Scott watched a movie and I ironed Emma’s curtains and JUST LAYED AROUND. It was fabulous.

We’ve been decorating the living/dining room like crazymen. We’ve painted the walls, painted our dining room chairs and base a dark brown color, hung new pictures. Yesterday I bought a wrought-iron thingy that hangs in the peak where our vaulted ceiling goes up and it looks so good! I also bought a large vase to sit on our dining room table and I love looking at it. We get a lot of light in the dining room and it looks so good. It has green and brown leopard sort of looking spots at the bottom of it and they shine so pretty. I have lots more plans for the dining room and I wish we had a ton of money to do it all at once!

Lexi went to the dr on 1/12. She was 10lbs 12oz. 22″. 50% on everything. She looked good. Her ear infection had gone away, everything else looked fine. She got 3 shots and we heard about it let me tell you!

I need to tell a few Emma stories.

We have been trying to potty train Emma. When she is at home, we put on her panties and try to get her to go. She’s been doing pretty good. We’ve had a few accidents but overall, she does well. Yesterday though she went poop in her panties (yeah, that’s when you know you’re a Mom and you can clean that up without throwing up). I told Mom and she said she watched a show recently that taught a potty training preschooler to do the “potty dance” when she had to go potty. So Mom leans down in front of Emma last night and says see Emma, this is what you do when you have to go potty. She had a long skirt on so she pulled it up and started moving her knees in and out singing, I gotta go potty. Mom stops and looks at Emma with a very bright, smiley face to get Emma’s reaction and Emma looks at her without missing a beat and says ‘mon, Grandma and turns around and heads to her room. It was THE funniest thing. She was like, OK, are you done doing the weird stuff, I want to play!

Then today Scott calls me and says that stop at a red light in the next town beside a grocery store. Emma starts hollering Emma’s neighbor. We have a man who’s like 80 that works in his yard constantly. Every once in a while, Scott and her go talk to him and Emma sees him occassionally out the bay windows at our dining room. Well, sure enough, Scott looks in the parking lot and there’s Fred walking into the store. Scott couldn’t believe it. I can’t either. How did she know that was him that far away??

The other day we were in Emma’s room playing and she “got on the phone”. I asked her who she was talking to and she put her finger up to her mouth and whispered, Shh, Emma phone. Meaning, be quiet, I’m trying to talk on the phone, Mommy!

She’s becoming quite a character.