Just a few...random ramblings

I've had trouble lately blogging. I don't know why, lord knows I have numerous things rolling around this brain, and ideas that I want to put into words, but they never seem to come to me when I want them to. A lot of times, I think about something, and think "Well I should put that into a blog post." But at the time I'm changing a dirty diaper, or nursing Sydney, or getting lunch for Austin, on and on and on. I think I will remember what it is I'm wanting to say, and exactly how I want to say it. And I can't tell you how many times I've sat with the computer in front of me with my empty blog post open, fingers on the keys, only to scroll up and hit the tiny 'x' that takes the page away. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'll try to be better! And I'm sorry that I'm not blogging as much!

I'm bound and determined to get Sydney to crawl. She's been so content for her 11 months of life to just be held in mommy's arms, and not have a care in the world. She cries when I leave the room, she fusses at me if I don't pick her up immediately after each meal, and I've learned to cook, clean and do the dishes one handed. Why my left arm doesn't look like a body builders arm I will never know, but it sure should. Since she was born, she's always hated "tummy time." She never liked to be left on the floor, whether we were down playing with her or not. In the past few months we've slowly gotten her accustom to playing on the floor. With us, and by herself. In the past week, we've had her on the floor more than she has been in her life combined. I am determined to get this girl to crawl! She has absolutely no interest in it. She is however, a pro at scooting herself backwards across the hardwood floor.

On another note, I've been a day behind this entire month. I have a calender that's kind of like a dry erase one, only it's clear. You still mark on it with dry erase markers but you have the option of putting Scrapbook paper behind it or whatever you choose. Anyhow, at the beginning of the month when I wrote in all the days, I obviously started a day too early. The month of April ended yesterday for me. So today has been entirely too confusing for me. Everything is saying 4/30/2010, but no, no that isn't right. It's 5/01/2010, right? No, fail. Thank God I usually plan stuff on the days, rather than the date. Like, "Sure, lets go to lunch next Thursday." Rather than "Sure, we can do lunch on the 29th." Or else I'd be insanely messed up.

Last night, I was doing the dishes after dinner. Austin came in and asked if he could do the dishes. At the time I was washing the crock pot, and said that it was way too heavy for him, and that he could help when he got older. He asked me if I promised. Yes, Austin, I promise, Mommy would be more than happy to let you do dishes when you get older. His response? "YEAH!!!!" He was so excited. And in turn, so am I. Maybe he will be this enthusiastic about mopping the floors and washing the windows too.

xoxoxo
k.