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Emma counted to 10 last night plain as day and all by herself. That is the first time it was clear she knew what she was doing. It’s so weird how it just comes out of the blue.

Lexi has GOT to start sleeping at night. Not only did she get up at 10, 12:30, 4:30, she was up at 6:30 for the day. Ugh. At least she has started taking longer naps. She’s a pleasant little girl though. Unless she is hungry or tired, you rarely hear anything but babble out of her. She is a maniac in her johnny jump up, she gets that thing swinging. She hops 2 or 3 times and then picks her feet up for the ride. It’s the cutest thing ever.

MIL got a new position and won’t be coming to get Emma on Wednesdays. Of course. I always enjoyed that time as much as Emma did. I love Emma to death but caring for one baby is just flat out easier than two. If Lexi would go with her, I’d probably let her go too. As long as my kids are happy, I don’t really care if they go or not. I just can’t stand it when they go and don’t want to be there. I know my job as a mother is not to make them happy, but I do what I can.

I was lying on the floor this morning and Emma came up to me and laid down on top of me and hugged me and said, I love you so much. AWWW! Melt my heart.

I took her to MawMaw’s because she asked to go play with Skyler (even though I knew she didn’t really want to go) and because I had a conference call this afternoon. She cried when we got there and said, I want to go to Mommy’s house, don’t leave me at MawMaw’s. Geez, break my heart why don’t you!

I’m waiting on pins and needles for the results of The Bachelor. I think he should pick Sarah.

We went for a last minute trip to MD to my parents’ house there. We stayed from Wed-Sun. The girls were both angels on the trip. We also bought a new Odyssey. I love it a lot. My bank account doesn’t though. We got the best deal we could though. The other Honda dealerships wouldn’t even beat it for us.

Lexi has been trying to crawl over the past week. She can go in 360. When she scoots, sometimes she bangs her face on the floor so she doesn’t quite have it down but she’s really trying. She still can’t stand to sit down for long although she can do it. Of course, if she tries to move she falls down, but she’s working on it!

Emma amazes me every day with all she can say and all she can understand.

Let’s see. Lexi went to her 6 month check up last Wed. She was 15 lbs. 25% 26″ 75%. I talked to him about her sleep also and he said to just try to give her as many solids at each feeding as she wanted. He said to wait one more month and then we would have to start doing the 5-10-15 thingy at night. She is still getting up at 1 and 4. Ugh. She is doing this cute growling thing though. She sounds like a little baby cub. She is trying to even get up off her stomach. If she can get up against something, she gets up on her hands and feet. She can sit up for a few seconds at a time.

Emma is a hoot. Heather told me when she was in the car and Lexi started crying, Emma said, It’s okay, Lexi, Mommy will be back. How sweet. She says all kinds of things. We have fallen off the potty training bandwagon. She now will cry if we try to take her in to poop. I’ve completely given up until she shows interest in it again or when she turns 3, whichever comes first.

Today I went to see Rhonda and Iyanla from Starting Over at Southpark. They were really good speakers. I got a few pictures and video. I even asked a question. I asked about Aunt Ellen and Rachel and she said Ellen voluntarily resigned from being her trustee and Rachel has begun nursing school.

We are going to buy a new Honda van next week. We’ve looked at new and used and have definitely decided new is better since the new body style/features came out this year.

We are headed to Maryland next week to visit family. Sort of last minute decision and probably why this van thing has become a topic so quickly. Hopefully they can get us the color we want before we leave Wednesday.

Emma spent the night with Mom last night. I was a little worried, especially since she didn’t get a nap. But Mom called this morning and said they had made it and she was in a good mood. That was really the first time she has done that except for when we were there. Scott is at work so Lexi and I are hanging out before church.

Last night D, J and I went to watch the prom couples walk into the high school. Pastels are definitely a hit, dresses that have a slit off center and ruffles were big. White tuxes seem to have made a come back too. There were 4 dresses that made our favorite list. The top one was white with three black horizontal stripes across the waist and bodice and then another black strap that went around her neck and shoulders somehow. I think Julia Roberts wore a dress like that one time now that I think of it. There was another tropical print with sequins that sounds REALLY bad but it was really cute on this girl.

I think we are going to have a family friend-high school girl come to the house to watch the girls during the summer. Not sure how it will work out but I’m hoping for the best. Emma complains now every time I have to take her to MawMaw’s. One time she told me, It’s too messy for me. Another time she said it was too loud. I really don’t mind leaving her somewhere if I know she is excited about it but it kills me when I know she doesn’t want to go.

Lexi will be 6 months shortly and she has no desire at all to sit down. She scoots down or insists to stand up. I think she might skip right to walking. She is STILL not sleeping through the night. 12, 3 and 5:30 seem to be her schedule at night and it stinks! I don’t know what to do about it either. She goes to sleep on her own like a charm for naps and nighttime but she will not stay asleep!

We had Lexi dedicated on Sunday. She was a doll in her dress and was an angel during the entire service. I need to go have a professional picture made of her in it.

Scott has put the first round of mud on the wall in the addition. He plan to sand tomorrow. I want to have a Pampered Chef show at the end of May and am hoping the room is done by then. Scott is hating this dry wall stuff so we’ll see how fast it gets done. He has done a fabulous job up until now but is now totally unmotivated to finish this part. Like I told, no one else is going to do it, so get out there!

OK, now I KNOW Emma is sick. It is 9:18 and she is still asleep. I’m not sure if she’s EVER slept that long. She’s an early riser for sure. She had a yucky cough yesterday every once in a while and she didn’t get a nap so I guess she is making up for it. Poor thing. She’s been sick like every other week this winter.

BIL is home for the weekend before he gets sent to Afghanistan. It still seems kind of unreal that he is going but sort of “normal” since SIL met him while he was still in the Army overseas.

Hmm, I just put Lexi down and seems like she might take her nap. That means it’s 9:30 in the morning and I actually have the house to myself (Scott’s at work). And I actually cleaned last night so I don’t need to clean. I do need to straighten up and do the checkbook. Hmm, maybe I should just go back to bed. Yep, that sounds good!

Looks like Emma is sick again. She threw up a little bit twice yesterday but was feeling fine afterward and had no fever. D&D came over with the girls and we ate dinner and they played. Dinner was awesome by the way. We ate Emerlized Chicken Cordon Bleu with Mornay Sauce and acorn squash…yummy. Her fever last evening was only at 100.4 but by about 3am, she was feeling hot and I gave her some Tylenol. She started crying in her room saying there were bugs!! I brought her to our bed and took her temp. It was up to 102.2. We put a cold rag on her head, undressed her and let her sleep with us. She’s still sleeping with Scott. We took her temp a few more times and it hung about 101.7 or 101.9. I’m anxious to take it this morning to see how she is.

Last night we fed Lexi carrots for dinner for the first time. She made faces at first but ended up eating almost the whole jar. I’m hoping against hope that feeding her more will help her sleep. She is still up at like 11, 2 and 5 each night.

Today our church has a new youth pastor/musical director “trying out”. They are supposed to vote on him after service. I really want to go see him. Scott said I could go with Lexi and I may just do that.

I think of this site often but never seem to get to post as much as I think of it.

I’ve quit working for the afternoon. I’ve put in more than enough hours this week. I started a new thing of working for 1-2 hours after the girls go to bed to get a few extra hours in and it is amazing how well it is working. I’ve been dog tired in the morning, but it does take a lot of the stress of the day off.

Lexi went back for a ear infection checkup this morning and everything was fine. He asked if she had started drooling yet and I realized she had not. I think by this time Emma had her first tooth in. I’m not looking forward to the ever-soaked outfits/bibs. She is grabbing for everything though and while it is cute, it is a little aggravating to constantly be grabbing something for her to unsuccessfully try to get in her mouth. Even when I’m on the phone, she is grabbing at it. When I’m typing, she is grabbing at the keyboard.

I love Grey’s Anatomy. Within the first 30 minutes, Scott stopped by from work and I said I found a new show we will be watching every Sunday at 10. Who knew Patrick Dempsy could still be such a cutie? No really, it was a really good show. My dad even liked it a lot.

I was really disappointed in American Idol this week. No way should Jessica have gone before some of the others. I would have actually put out Anthony or Anwar or maybe even Scott (sorry Allison!). My favorite is still Carrie. I just wish she would quit singing Country. I love country but she sounded so good when she sang Alone.

Scott hopefully will be working on the electrical/air in the addition this weekend. He is off with Kyle and Emma shopping for a new lawn mower. This warm weather has caused everything to start growing very quickly.

See, this is why I don’t post. Gotta go, someone’s crying!