Words

William is talking more and more all the time. Currently I am very much enjoying getting to hear a portion of what goes on inside his head all day long.

Tonight after dinner we were relaxing in the living room making a halfhearted attempt to play blocks. My back has been hurting me for the last few days (I'll admit this is completely my own fault. I do not know the definition of time to stop) so I was stretching in such a way that made my petite belly bump look HUGE. William stopped his stacking and looked with amazement at my belly. John saw the look on his face and asked William "What do you think Mama has in her belly? Do you think it is a baby?"

William looked back at John like he was absolutely 100% crazy "NO!" he replied.

Obviously he really isn't understanding about what is really going on here.

Which really isn't a surprise because we really aren't pushing it either. William doesn't have any sense of time. If you ask him if he'd like to go to the park, you better be within sight of the swings or a meltdown will occur. If you ask him if he would like to eat, he will run to his chair in the kitchen expecting food immediately.

What I'm getting at is that we have some time and even if he understood there was a baby in there, he would be expecting it to arrive sometime before he eats his next meal. We're good with waiting.

My Boy

Last night, I walked by William's room on my way to do Something Important. It was also Very Late at night, so when I realized his light was still on, I opened the door to turn it off (he can reach the light switch from his crib). As it was an hour after bedtime, I was surprised William wasn't sleeping at all. No, he was laying on his belly cuddled up with his favorite blanket reading a book. He looked up at me when I opened the door and then went back to looking at the pictures in a book.

Anyone knew me growing up knows that if there was a way to sneak in extra reading time after lights out I was totally doing it. Reading by nightlight: check. Reading by flashlight: check. Reading with the door to the hallway open: check. Taking a book to the bathroom tucked inside my pajamas: check. Trying to read by light of the streetlight: check. Pretending to still have homework so I could read: check. All been done. I was a rebel of the worst kind. All out cheating and lying in order to read a book.

So, it was very sweet to see the possibility in William for similar rebelious acts at a very unexpected time. Don't worry people, I will keep my eyes on him and the dangerous reading in check.



PS I was ahuggin' (yes, I just made that word up) William tonight at bedtime and he was hanging on to the crib rail and bouncing. At one point he bounced enough that he was able to pull himself up on the crib rail to mid thigh level. This would mean roughly 3/4 of his body was hanging out over the top of the crib. It would then appear he is physcially capable of getting himself out of his crib. I am going to go ahead and say that it is just a matter of time before he actually goes ahead and climbs on out. The crib is probably on its way out. Baby coming or not...the crib will be done soon.

Veterans Day

We want to wish some of our favorite Veterans and active military family members a happy day and send them a big thank you!

Great Grandpa Budd
Great Grandpa Tom
Uncle Mike

Fall Time Take 2

Sunday, John wanted to mow up all of our leaves and I just wanted to get a few pictures with William IN the leaves. Here are our best shots - most of them are in motion, as you would expect.

William notes: I HATE the leaves touching my skin! Make it stop!

Peek!
William: Tree- bumpy. Wow.

Some Random Pictures from this week

Well, by request, here are some pictures of William. Enough with the stories and on with the pictures. These pictures are of one set - just ones we've taken this last week.

Helping Mama with laundry (more on this later - he actually does help with laundry. This day, not so much)

We pulled out the bouncy seat when my neighbor asked me to watch her 1 month old baby so she could run to the grocery store. Ummmm...well it did entertain William the whole time the baby was at our house. Think it will work in March?

Mr Cool in his chair. Can you believe how big he is? For more bouncy chair pictures, click here.

Brrrr...it got cold here at the end of the week. Temps in the 70's on Tues/Wed and then Thurs/Friday it turned to 40's. Where did fall go?

Mama and William warming up their tootsies together over the heat vent.
Finally, a picture tonight of building blocks with Daddy!

The next Time Around I will be buying colored socks

and here is why

I Could Probably Save you A lot of Money on Your Car Insurance Too

Last week while I was cleaning the bathroom, the vacuum cleaner didn't work. Which, was not a good thing because I am lazy and don't believe in actually washing the floors (shh...don't tell). I usually just vacuum quick to get the big pieces picked up and wipe down every...year or so. John looked at the vacuum and couldn't find anything wrong with it - but also couldn't make it work either. Big discussions were held and different possible solutions were evaluated by the team.

Later in the week, our electric toothbrush started to fade. Which is a bummer because...well it is how we brush our teeth. This also might make us lazy because we prefer to not actually do any work while maintaining our personal hygiene. However, we do brush. Most of the time. But! We were in danger of having to manually brush our teeth with our very own arms and locate manual toothbrushes in the cabinets under the sink which would have required: time and effort. So, it might have come to not brushing for the one of us who is very lazy (hint: it is me). So, again big discussions were held and different possible solutions were evaluated by the team.

This week, I was starting to pick up in the bathroom and I brought in our HUGE vacuum cleaner to try and get the bigger chunks of dust bunny up off of the floor. On the way into the bathroom, I got distracted by cat hair in the hallway and plugged in to take care of it right away. However, when I got to the bathroom, the vacuum no longer worked. At all. At this point I became suspicious and took the vacuum back to the hallway, where it still worked (but the cord wasn't long enough to reach the bathroom). Glowing with my own brilliance and problem solving skills, I took the smaller vaccum cleaner to the hallway to test it out and AHA! I fixed it!

I did a little dance in the hallway, celebrating the fact we wouldn't have to spend a lot of money replacing my favorite little vacuum cleaner. Until I realized that we probably had faulty wiring or bad outlets. Which was going to either burn our house down (expensive to replace), require 12123423345235324 hours of repair work by John (also expensive, time consuming), or 12 hours of repair work by an electrician (expensive). So, I called John at work with the good news/bad news scenario. John, was of course, amazed at my brilliance (even though he didn't say so at the time) and money saving capablitlies. After carefully analyzing the situation, he revealed his own brilliance by suggesting I press the black button on our bathroom outlet labeled "Reset". When I did, the whole world got a little happier.

The vacuum cleaners (both) work in the bathroom when plugged in. The charging light on the electric toothbrush is back on again and the toothbrush is at full power.

No money was spent fixing either the vacuum cleaner, the toothbrush or our wiring. I am so awesome - want me to come to your house and save you some money?

PS I know it is lame that we have 2 vacuums, but there is a reason for it. Long story, not very interesting though.

PPS The cell phone issue is being fixed. With all the money saved from the vacuum/toothbrush situation, we are replacing the phones. New cell phones will arrive within the week. Will let you know when the number reversal will take place again. Can't stand John's phone. The phone book makes no sense. How am I supposed to find my parents' numbers when they are under their given names, not Mom and Dad?