So Anna decided she forgot how to hold her potty at night. Two nights in a row now, she has woken up at 5ish soaked (she pointed at the bed and said "wah wah!" [water] - I'm thinking, "No kidding, kid!"). The night before, she woke up at 5ish for no apparent reason.
Now. If I pottied on myself at night and someone came in MY dark room to change me, dress me, rock me (and yes, OK, twice cheat and nurse me to make me oh so sleepy) I'D oblige them. I really would. I'm nice like that.
But little Miss Suger Booger was UP for the day. Up up up. FINALLY today she has gotten herself exhausted enough that she went back down for an early nap (which she hasn't taken in over a week).
So it's cloudy. The house is quiet except for the lovely sound of a box fan in the window. I flopped in bed where the cats found me straight away and hopped up for some serious kitty cuddlin'.
And my brain turned on.
And it's still going.
Does anyone have a 2X4 handy? I'd like a quick whack on the back of the head. If you can make sure I fall in bed facing the window with ONE knee out of the covers and my hand under my pillow. I'd appreciate it.
Thanks.
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Friday, April 24, 2009
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Monday, April 20, 2009
Mommyhood changes...
So motherhood has changed me.
Some were obvious. Some I didn't see coming.
Take last night for example. I was harmlessly checking my email and I read a post from a blogging mom I follow (gosh, that sounds geek-ish). The title was "A Tribute to Maddie". OK. I know I shouldn't have even clicked, but this mommy is funny so I figured it was a funny story.
Turns out Maddie was a toddler. A beautiful, blond-haired blue-eyed toddler. Emphasis on the WAS........
As soon as I realized what I was reading... that the tribute to Maddie was a tribute to the Maddie who WAS....
I should've shut off the computer and ran.
But what did I do? I SCOURED the website to see what killed Maddie because I HAD to make sure it was something that could not touch Anna. So there I was, scrolling and crying. Crying and scrolling. Heartbroken for Maddie. Maddie who I never met. Maddie who WAS.
(I am sniffling as I type).
So! THIS is something I would never have done pre-mommyhood. Now, the second it dawned on me that I was reading about a dead toddler, the mommy monster in me screamed so loud and long, I'm sure the earth shook. I can NOT accept the fact that toddlers, little toddlers like Anna, Molly and Ben, die. No no no no NO!
NO!
And the mommy monster is still grumbling...... God bless Curt who held me last night as I sobbed about Maddie. The Maddie I NEVER met.
The Maddie who was.
Some were obvious. Some I didn't see coming.
Take last night for example. I was harmlessly checking my email and I read a post from a blogging mom I follow (gosh, that sounds geek-ish). The title was "A Tribute to Maddie". OK. I know I shouldn't have even clicked, but this mommy is funny so I figured it was a funny story.
Turns out Maddie was a toddler. A beautiful, blond-haired blue-eyed toddler. Emphasis on the WAS........
As soon as I realized what I was reading... that the tribute to Maddie was a tribute to the Maddie who WAS....
I should've shut off the computer and ran.
But what did I do? I SCOURED the website to see what killed Maddie because I HAD to make sure it was something that could not touch Anna. So there I was, scrolling and crying. Crying and scrolling. Heartbroken for Maddie. Maddie who I never met. Maddie who WAS.
(I am sniffling as I type).
So! THIS is something I would never have done pre-mommyhood. Now, the second it dawned on me that I was reading about a dead toddler, the mommy monster in me screamed so loud and long, I'm sure the earth shook. I can NOT accept the fact that toddlers, little toddlers like Anna, Molly and Ben, die. No no no no NO!
NO!
And the mommy monster is still grumbling...... God bless Curt who held me last night as I sobbed about Maddie. The Maddie I NEVER met.
The Maddie who was.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Last night I realized...
That I did NOT get out of bed!
Yep! I went to sleep, and woke up the next day when Anna did. I didn't get up... not for bathroom... OR baby!
Hooray for me and hooray for Anna!
Yep! I went to sleep, and woke up the next day when Anna did. I didn't get up... not for bathroom... OR baby!
Hooray for me and hooray for Anna!
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Easter 2009
Here are some pictures and video of Anna's second Easter:
Helping Papa finish the eggs.
My cute basket!
My cute face!
What happens when I snuggle an Easter egg.
Loving on my Easter present!
Here is a cute video of Anna hunting Easter Eggs both at our house and Aunt Rena's. (Sorry about the low quality. It's a long video and it takes too darn long to upload it at a high quality.)
Helping Papa finish the eggs.
My cute basket!
My cute face!
What happens when I snuggle an Easter egg.
Loving on my Easter present!
Here is a cute video of Anna hunting Easter Eggs both at our house and Aunt Rena's. (Sorry about the low quality. It's a long video and it takes too darn long to upload it at a high quality.)
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Brainy Anna
Anna's Words:
Mom: Mommmom, Maimey, Mahmeeeiii
Doggy: Doegee
Daddy: Daddy
Julius: Jewjish
Cheese: Chessssssshhhh
Ice: Eyesssssshhhhhh
Juice: Jewssshhhh
No: No way to describe how she says it and it's cuteness.
Ball: BAWWW!
Down: Dawwwnn? (Said with a question inflection - so cute!)
Up: aup, aup, aup, aup
Dip: Dewp
Zip: Zwwip
Baby: Baybeee!
Shoes: Shewwwwwzz
Papa: Papapapa
Banana: Elalalalal
Cinderella: Ellaellaellaella
That: Dat
This: Dis
Go: GOOOooooo
Hi: Hi? (Again, as a question, and so cute!)
Bye: Beay?
Done: Down
Die: Who knows. She just says die sometimes. I don't take it personally.
Water: Wawawawawa (Moving her hand in front of her mouth like an American Indian doing a war cry.)
I'm sure there's many many more that I am missing (sorry Anna). But isn't she cute?
Friday, April 3, 2009
If you don't get all the references in here, you can't be my friend :-)
Obama Depressed, Distant Since 'Battlestar Galactica' Series Finale
March 31, 2009 | Issue 45•14
Obama told aides he feels "like a cylon without a Resurrection Ship."
WASHINGTON—According to sources in the White House, President Barack Obama has been uncharacteristically distant and withdrawn ever since last month's two-hour series finale of Battlestar Galactica.
"The president seems to be someplace else lately," said one high-level official, speaking on condition of anonymity. "Yesterday we were all being briefed on the encroachment of Iranian drone planes into Iraq, when he just looked up from the table and blurted out, 'What am I supposed to watch on Fridays at 10 p.m. now? Numb3rs?'"
"I haven't seen him this upset since Admiral Adama realized that Earth was actually an uninhabitable wasteland," the official continued. "Or at least that's what he told me. I don't actually watch the show. It's not really my thing."
Obama attempts to console himself with leaked production stills from the upcoming spin-off Caprica.
Since the end of the series, Obama has reportedly brushed off key budgetary decisions, ignored his wife and children, and neglected his daily workouts, claiming that he no longer cares if he lets himself go "just like Lee did before the rescue on New Caprica."
In addition, sources confirmed that instead of meeting with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Monday, the depressed president sat alone in the Oval Office, scouring Internet message boards for posts by other fans about the series conclusion.
Hoping to cheer himself up, Obama also decided to re-watch the extended director's cut of "Unfinished Business," a season three episode he once described as "bringing the Starbuck-Apollo relationship to a head in the best possible way."
Revisiting the series, however, has only made the president more miserable. After a staffer suggested he bring DVDs of the show along on a recent policy trip to Denver, Obama reportedly muttered under his breath, "What's the point? It's over."
"We were going over his schedule when he sighed and asked if I watched Battlestar," said a White House secretary, whom Obama used to playfully call "Billy." "I told him I was planning on it because my sister's a big fan, but he just stared out the window the whole time."
"I also noticed he took down his Battlestar Galactica season 4.5 poster," she added.
Obama watched the finale just as he had every previous episode, alone in the White House screening room with the volume turned all the way up. Sources said he emerged exhilarated and told several aides that the show's writers "wrapped things up the best they could, though the very end was a little much."
The commander in chief also bragged that he "totally called" the fact that "All Along The Watch Tower" would be used as the jump coordinates for the FTL drive.
Despite his initial excitement, by Monday morning the absence of the hour-long Sci-Fi program had begun to affect the president.
"I'm a little concerned," first lady Michelle Obama was overheard saying at a fundraising event Tuesday. "When Firefly was canceled, he walked around like a zombie for a week, and Serenity was the only thing that snapped him out of it. Last night he said he felt like he had just discovered David Axelrod was one of the Final Five, whatever that means."
A devoted fan of the original 1978 Battlestar Galactica, Obama was initially hesitant to watch the new series, saying he was upset to learn that hotshot pilot Starbuck would be played by a woman. However, during a particularly slow week in the U.S. Senate, Obama decided to rent the first season from Netflix.
Aides said Obama "blew through" season one in a weekend, then purchased season 2.0 from a local Best Buy, and, in order to catch up in time for season three, downloaded the majority of season 2.5 from iTunes.
"When we spoke last month, he said season three was his least favorite because some of the episodes with Helo and the Sagittarons—and pretty much anything that involved Cally—were boring and didn't advance the plot," Afghan president Hamid Karzai said. "But I told him that when you watch it all on DVD, and you don't have to wait a whole week for a new show, those peripheral episodes actually add new color to the already established world."
Added Karzai, "Lately, though, it seems like he'd rather talk about the resurgence of Taliban warlords in Kandahar than the show."
During an emergency press conference on Wednesday, Obama addressed his recent detachment, as well as various other matters facing the United States.
"Our nation finds itself in uncharted territory in the deep emptiness of space," Obama announced. "The Old Girl has limited supplies, no allies, and now, no hope. I never said this would be an easy journey. Yet I promise you this: There is a place where there is no war and no economic turmoil. It is where, according to the Sacred Scrolls handed down to us by the Lords of Kobol, the thirteenth tribe traveled over three thousand years ago. That place is called Earth. Not the other Earth. This Earth. It's complicated. Anyway, I plan to take us there."
Added Obama, "So say we all! So say we all! So say we all!"
March 31, 2009 | Issue 45•14
Obama told aides he feels "like a cylon without a Resurrection Ship."
WASHINGTON—According to sources in the White House, President Barack Obama has been uncharacteristically distant and withdrawn ever since last month's two-hour series finale of Battlestar Galactica.
"The president seems to be someplace else lately," said one high-level official, speaking on condition of anonymity. "Yesterday we were all being briefed on the encroachment of Iranian drone planes into Iraq, when he just looked up from the table and blurted out, 'What am I supposed to watch on Fridays at 10 p.m. now? Numb3rs?'"
"I haven't seen him this upset since Admiral Adama realized that Earth was actually an uninhabitable wasteland," the official continued. "Or at least that's what he told me. I don't actually watch the show. It's not really my thing."
Obama attempts to console himself with leaked production stills from the upcoming spin-off Caprica.
Since the end of the series, Obama has reportedly brushed off key budgetary decisions, ignored his wife and children, and neglected his daily workouts, claiming that he no longer cares if he lets himself go "just like Lee did before the rescue on New Caprica."
In addition, sources confirmed that instead of meeting with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Monday, the depressed president sat alone in the Oval Office, scouring Internet message boards for posts by other fans about the series conclusion.
Hoping to cheer himself up, Obama also decided to re-watch the extended director's cut of "Unfinished Business," a season three episode he once described as "bringing the Starbuck-Apollo relationship to a head in the best possible way."
Revisiting the series, however, has only made the president more miserable. After a staffer suggested he bring DVDs of the show along on a recent policy trip to Denver, Obama reportedly muttered under his breath, "What's the point? It's over."
"We were going over his schedule when he sighed and asked if I watched Battlestar," said a White House secretary, whom Obama used to playfully call "Billy." "I told him I was planning on it because my sister's a big fan, but he just stared out the window the whole time."
"I also noticed he took down his Battlestar Galactica season 4.5 poster," she added.
Obama watched the finale just as he had every previous episode, alone in the White House screening room with the volume turned all the way up. Sources said he emerged exhilarated and told several aides that the show's writers "wrapped things up the best they could, though the very end was a little much."
The commander in chief also bragged that he "totally called" the fact that "All Along The Watch Tower" would be used as the jump coordinates for the FTL drive.
Despite his initial excitement, by Monday morning the absence of the hour-long Sci-Fi program had begun to affect the president.
"I'm a little concerned," first lady Michelle Obama was overheard saying at a fundraising event Tuesday. "When Firefly was canceled, he walked around like a zombie for a week, and Serenity was the only thing that snapped him out of it. Last night he said he felt like he had just discovered David Axelrod was one of the Final Five, whatever that means."
A devoted fan of the original 1978 Battlestar Galactica, Obama was initially hesitant to watch the new series, saying he was upset to learn that hotshot pilot Starbuck would be played by a woman. However, during a particularly slow week in the U.S. Senate, Obama decided to rent the first season from Netflix.
Aides said Obama "blew through" season one in a weekend, then purchased season 2.0 from a local Best Buy, and, in order to catch up in time for season three, downloaded the majority of season 2.5 from iTunes.
"When we spoke last month, he said season three was his least favorite because some of the episodes with Helo and the Sagittarons—and pretty much anything that involved Cally—were boring and didn't advance the plot," Afghan president Hamid Karzai said. "But I told him that when you watch it all on DVD, and you don't have to wait a whole week for a new show, those peripheral episodes actually add new color to the already established world."
Added Karzai, "Lately, though, it seems like he'd rather talk about the resurgence of Taliban warlords in Kandahar than the show."
During an emergency press conference on Wednesday, Obama addressed his recent detachment, as well as various other matters facing the United States.
"Our nation finds itself in uncharted territory in the deep emptiness of space," Obama announced. "The Old Girl has limited supplies, no allies, and now, no hope. I never said this would be an easy journey. Yet I promise you this: There is a place where there is no war and no economic turmoil. It is where, according to the Sacred Scrolls handed down to us by the Lords of Kobol, the thirteenth tribe traveled over three thousand years ago. That place is called Earth. Not the other Earth. This Earth. It's complicated. Anyway, I plan to take us there."
Added Obama, "So say we all! So say we all! So say we all!"
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
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