Showing posts with label walking. Show all posts
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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jig

Well we all made it back safe and sound from our Spring Break vacations. Morgan did great on the plane coming home and made everyone around us laugh at her "knee surfing". When there was strong crosswinds or turbulence, she would stand on my knees with her arms out like a surfer bouncing all over the place while laughing and squealing with this look that said, "what a great ride Mommy!"

I think I miss Wes more now than I did before I got there to see him. It was so wonderful watching him play with Morgan and seeing her just light up when he smiled at her. It is hard watching the man you love be so tired from working so hard to give you security. It was so easy for me to selfishly get my feelings hurt when he fell asleep before the movie was over or when he promised to play cards with me. I read my devotional and realized I needed to change my attitude. God would not be pleased at how I was behaving towards my husband and realized that all it would take was some venting and a few ugly critical words to blow everything I hold so dear out of reach. Wesley, I am so amazed by you. Yes, like all marriages, there are times you frustrate or irritate me, but you are wonderful man and I am so honored to be your wife and the mother of your children. If I haven't told you enough, thank you and I fall in love with you more every day.
Being on a budget, I just stayed in the 28 foot toaster oven, I mean RV most of the time in Colorado with the exception of our daily walk at the pond and going to Wes's softball practice and game. Who'd a thought it (yes I said it that way) that a RV could be so DANGEROUS for a toddling baby. Morgan was bent on scaring me to death. She snuck up to the bed to hide from me while she ate a cookie and then "threw" herself down the stairs (all 3 of them) backwards hitting the back of her head and face. I was only a few feet from her but I stepped in her car seat and tripped and fell onto the floor right on top of her screaming the whole way down. I should have just yelled "TIMBER"! Of course it all happened in slow motion to me and all I could think about was the actress who just hit her head and died skiing and OMG my baby just hit her head, with a mouth full of cookie none the less!!! THEN she stood up on the couch (I had it folded out into a bed) and took a nose dive, on purpose, landing flat on her face... I saw her do it...from the bathroom, while I was being sick if you know what I mean. THEN she crawled over the wall and would have flopped all the way over...but I did catch her that time. Needless to say I cried a lot, checked her over and over for bumps, dents, bruises, changes, broken bones, wouldn't let her nap for fear of a concussion, and told myself I was a horrible mother for not holding her safely in my arms the entire time I was there. THEN she tried to attack Wes and jumped on him while he was laying face down on the bed...(apparently he is bouncy...I never noticed before) the first time she landed on her head, feet sticking up in the air out of the laundry basket he panicked and I yelled at him...the second time she landed safely on her back in the laundry basket...AND LAUGHED!!!! Hunter was not like this. He was cautious and examined EVERYTHING before acting. Morgan is a DAREDEVIL! I am doomed to a life of grimacing when I hear "hey Ma, watch this, no hands"! I know I was a good kid growing up so I blame this on Wes. I am suffering because he is getting paid back for being such a rotten child I just know it! What luck! I am so glad to be home...with flat, level floors.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Icky Bugs and Babies


Well, I am sick. I am not a good sick person. I thought I just had a sore throat from draining sinuses and ear infection but the doctor (I don't like him at all) said it is the flu. What a jerk telling me I have the flu and it has to run its course! Doesn't he know how much I have to do this week!??? I don't feel like I have the flu. I haven't had a fever but I did get the chills before I dozed off yesterday evening, I can't swallow and am generally achy. This stinks. Wes will be home on Saturday and I don't want to share my icky bugs with him so I have to be better by then. Lord, Please heal me quickly so that I can enjoy my weekend with Wes. I have missed him so and can't wait to see him. Six weeks is just way to long to go without a hug from my husband.

We had a great weekend. Hunter stayed with a friend Friday and then they won their basketball game Saturday. After baseball tryouts he had four of his buddies over on Saturday. They were hilarious! I am both pleased and disgusted that they felt comfortable enough to be themselves in front of me...Now if I could just get him to sit still a minute I could get some new pictures of him too.

Morgan changes everyday and is so funny. She claps and cheers for everything. At Hunter's game she was clapping for the other team! Her favorite thing last week was for me to tell her to say Momma, she shakes her head no and says Dada! Now she is saying Momma and Bubba again. She took a break from anything other than Dada for a few weeks. On Friday she took a few steps behind a push toy and took at least four steps on Saturday. She doesn't like to fall down and stands in a squatted position for a long while contemplating her next move...it cracks me up.

As for me, I am still watching and logging what I eat and have actually lost weight! I am thrilled!!! I haven't walkws as much as I want but I am going to get there. I have been doing the pantry workout...cleaning it out and using the cans as weights. I love it and can barely move my arms when I am done.