It’s been another couple of fun-filled weeks, with nicer weather and kids that have, in general, been sleeping better.
Addy seems to have broken out of her catnap phase fairly quickly, thank goodness. She’s still waking to eat a couple times in the middle of the night, but usually sleeps ’til 6:30 or 7:30 in the morning and will almost always go right back to sleep within an hour after getting up in the morning. This works out great for me, as Joshua has continued to sleep in, so I get an extra hour or two of sleep in the morning when Addy goes back to sleep.
We’ve taken several walks now that the nicer weather has intermittently arrived. Addy just sleeps, and Joshua peeks all over. He notices everything. Airplanes, ducks, geese, trees, soccerballs, puppies…EVERYTHING. The whole trip is, “Mommy! Ball?….Mommy! Airplane?…Mommy! Woof?…” So cute =)
When we’re inside, he’s still got to have Elmo on every minute, and he can play with his Matchbox cars for hours!
Addy is just the cutest little sweetheart. She is so smily all the time, and has the best giggle when she gets tickled or just thinks I’m funny. She LOVES her big brother lately, and he loves her. Anytime she’s sitting on my lap she is watching him or looking for him, and she loves when he gives her hugs and kisses. She just bats her eyelashes and smiles. Again, SO cute! Joshua’s been big on holding her and giving her hugs, which I love. I’m going to enjoy the time that they get along with eachother while I can!
In other news, I continue to love my new computer, of course. It’s pretty much all that I do when kids are asleep. I’ve started to make some short videos of me and the kids to post to facebook so that some of the people that haven’t met Addy or seen Josh in a while can see what they’re like.
Mike’s been super stressed out at work and I feel bad for him. That’s all that I’ll say on that subject since this is public.
Other small items – I continue to watch the stock market and I’m not sure what to think. Much of my family thinks doomsday is coming, where the dollar becomes valueless, but I have chosen a more optimistic stance. I just don’t believe that the U.S. is so weak or stupid that that situation could become a reality. This isn’t the early 1900′s anymore and we have a lot of data on this similar situation over time. We have learned from it, and while some individuals took advantage of inappropriate amounts of credit offered by the banks, there is a reason why we have leaders in our country and I do believe they’ll do their best to get us back on the right track. But really, we have no choice but to hope for that… Maybe people will now learn a simple reality – don’t spend money you don’t have!!! Duh…
As always, more to come!
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