Living in Munchkinland

I want to blog, I just don't feel like I have anything exciting to report. I'm a mom. These last two weeks, I've been a single mom while Michael has been working out of town. It's been hard, but doable. I usually do well for the first twelve hours of my shift, but that last hour before the kids go to bed is really hard. I just take really deep breaths and keep going. This week we had a lot of rain, but we are all fine. I actually usually like rainy weather, but it does limit the areas in which you can let your toddler run. Here's the big news of the week: Sam is sleeping through the night! For the first time in about a year, it also means that I am sleeping through the night. I had him down to a once a night feeding, but the last few times I did it, I noticed that we were both sleeping through it so I just decided not to do it anymore. He woke up and cried few a few minutes every couple of hours or so the first night, but not hard and not very convincingly...

Davis is really conversing now. He chatters all day long and makes long and thoughtful comments on the world. Last week, for the very first time he crawled in my lap, gave me a big hug and said, "I love you, Mommy". He's said I love you with prompting before, but never out of the blue. It was awesome. He also echoes anything you say so be careful! He always listens and you'll hear exactly what you said one minute later. He's also thinking in a much more complex way. One of Davis' friends threw a ball over the gate at the bottom of the stairs the other day and Davis told him he would help him get it. He reached through the bars of the gate and grabbed the ball, but the ball was too wide to fit through. He thought about it and then pulled his hand up to the top of the gate, reached his other hand over and handed the ball to himself. I was so impressed! And yesterday, he was playing with Sam's rattle. I put a picture of it above. He threw it across...

Last week was really busy. We had events and plans for every day of the week. It was the week of Katie's birthday. We managed to celebrate this for four days. On Wednesday evening we went out to a special birthday dinner at Chez Nous with Nancy. It was a girl's night out and we all dressed up and wore high heels. It was such a good time. I hadn't dressed up and had dinner with girl friends in so long. After dinner, Katie and I walked across the street to Coyote Ugly and had a drink. It was very interesting to be out in a bar. We decided to really make the night memorable and get up and dance on the bar. It was so fun to feel young and pretty. Little did the men who were ogling us know that this voluptuousness was due to breastfeeding! The next day we had a well attended playgroup with our friends and then I cooked dinner for our friend Lucas who was in town and for Katie. I made barbeque chicken pot pie, cider coleslaw with shrimp and bacon and a roasted corn a...

I usually love watching the Tony Awards. I usually throw a party and invite all my friends. I love to see the live performances of the musicals and see clips of all the plays. I enjoy the acceptance speeches because they're being performed by people who are used to performing in front of a live audience. But tonight, I couldn't enjoy it. I had to set it to record and just leave it till tomorrow. Seeing all that great theater made me sad and jealous. I really miss performing. And I miss being that person who performed. I don't even get to see much theater anymore. I'm a mom to a nursing wee one and a demanding two year old. I'm five pounds over my performing weight. I haven't been in a show in three years. Can you believe it? I can't. I feel like I'll never be able to do it again. I feel like I've lost touch with the theatre community here. I feel like I'll never be able to get away from the home life for the nights it would take to rehearse. I fe...

Hey guys. So we are still acclimating to being home again. I’m glad to be home with some down time in which to reinstate the schedules and get to see my friends and settle into life. We left on vacation only two weeks after we moved back from Phoenix so I still have a lot of organizing to do. Davis didn’t really nap on the cruise so I am hoping that we can get that going again. It is important to my sanity. Sam is six months and three weeks and he’s growing by leaps and bounds. He’s scooting around now with some proficiency. This is dangerous and we need to change our habits. He’s fallen off the bed now twice! I cannot describe to you the sickening feeling you get when you hear the thump and the cry as they fall off the bed. The guilt! It happened with Davis twice too and he turned out okay, but I told Michael that two times is the limit and there will be no more falling off the bed allowed! Sam is just getting so fast! He’s also sitting up pretty well now so I don’t feel ...

Hi Everybody. We're back from our big cruise vacation. We had a good time, but it was a long trip home so today we're recovering. We went on a Princess cruise with Michael's mom and dad and his brother Steve, sister-in-law, Melissa and their two children. It was especially nice to see Steve and Melissa and their kids since they live in L.A. and we hardly ever get to spend quality time with them. We went to Houston first and stayed a night with Martha and Clark. They had gotten us tickets to see Spamalot! It was a great show, though I wish we could have seen it with the original actors. The next day we flew into Ft. Lauderdale and met with Steve and Melissa on the boat. Michael and I had booked a suite since we knew with two small children we would be spending a lot of time in our room. I'm so glad we did since we have two naps a day to accommodate and since our children go to bed at 7PM. We had a huge balcony that Davis loved and we could host the whole family...