The Day's Happenings

1. Jackson crawled out of the living room today for the first time. Life as we know it has changed. No more keeping that boy in one room. If he sees us leave he's headed straight for the path where I disappeared. The Dr. was a little surprised yesterday at his weight gain and asked if he moved around a lot. We replied "He crawls everywhere and we can't keep him in one spot for 2 seconds". She said "He's crawling?" We said "OH YES! He's either crawling, jumping in his jumper or sleeping because that's what he likes to do". Then she said "Well, than, that explains his weight."

2. Abygail had her first REAL conversation on the telephone. We called Daddy at work and he asked her a series of questions in which she responded correctly and then he asked her what she had for lunch and she said (with her thinking look on - rolling her eyes heavenward) "umm, (pause) gapes (translation - grapes), umm, (pause) roni (translation - macaroni), umm, (pause) tuna." It's so amazing to hear her and see her actually responding to questions and responding correctly.

3. Abygail peed on the carpet - this was really my fault. I should have understood what she was trying to tell me. She was pulling at her diaper and said "pee pee". I asked her if she went pee pee in her diaper and she said yes. I asked her if she wanted a diaper change and she said yes so I took it off. Then in the 5 seconds or so that it took me to go in the next room to get a new diaper she did her business in the middle of the living room. Good thing we'll be cleaning that carpet when we move! She's been telling us before she goes poo poo for the last week and we put her on the potty, she doesn't do anything but rather waits until we put her diaper back on (after she tells us she's done and doesn't need to go poo poo any more) then messes in her diaper. I'm sure she's getting close to being ready for potty training. I hope she can wait just another week until Jason is out of school so there will be two of us around to pay more attention to the immediate needs of potty training.

4. A CD was found in the VCR player - hmm, wonder how that happened?! Could it have been my little girl? I think so! It sure did frustrate me when I kept trying to put in the Blues Clues tape and it wouldn't work. I thought "O GREAT, the VCR is broken!"

5. Jason surprised us by coming home before midnight! This week has just been a killer, Jason's final is on Friday and he's had tons of work to do to prepare for the end of the semester so he's been gone by 9am and gone until after midnight for the better part of a week now. So I was gearing up to put Abygail to bed when we heard him come in the front door at 7:30 - Boy was I glad to see the relief squad!