So, what have you been up to?
Not much -just kinda busy with the holidays.
Oh, where did you go?
Well, we went to my in-laws for what was supposed to be a week, but then we got snowed in for another two days. Twenty four inches of snow in twenty four hours does that to you.
Was it a good trip?
The travel part pretty much sucked donkey balls. On the way there, our first flight was stuck for 3 hours on the tarmac - it was pretty awful with a 2.5 year old, even though he was trying very hard to be good. We got re-routed from our original itinerary to International Falls (close to my hometown) to this other place called Bemidji which is an extra hour drive... in total we spent 22 hours travelling on the 19th. We also lost part of our luggage which added to my frustration. We hjad a nice visit with Scott's family though, and got to spend a lot of time with Great-Grandma, who was kind of the point of the visit. She has colon cancer and we wanted to make sure that we were there this year. Caleb got to build snowmen, go sledding and play curling. He was pretty thrilled! On the flight back they lost all of our luggage, including Chloe's car seat, plus we were late getting in AND my dad was already at our house.
Your dad was down? That must have been nice.
It was, but with work I didn't really feel like we had a good visit. I spent most of the day Tuesday running errands, worked Wednesday and Thursday, which left Friday for visiting and he left Saturday. I was really sad to see him go.
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What is new with the kids?
Caleb decided at Thanksgiving that he was ready to be potty trained. That was pretty fantastic. He has had a couple of accidents (maybe five..) since then, but is doing really well. He is still wearing a diaper at night, but I am okay with that! Chloe is growing like a weed. She has three teeth now, all bottoms ones which weirds me out a little - I hope she gets some top ones soon...
How is Scott?
Frustrated with his job, frustrated that he is so far away from his family, but he hasn't had any nasty migraines since his doctor improved his "sleep hygiene". I am really thankful for that!
What about you?
I am doing pretty well. I had to resign from my job yesterday which was really difficult. I love doing outpatient, but in order to have full-time hours my boss wanted me to work until 7PM three nights a week, and I just can't do that with two little ones. I have a new job at Select Speciality Hospital in Camp Hill with much better hours, benefits and pay so I think in the end it will be a good situation, but I am really going to miss outpatient and my co-workers.
Anything interesting happened lately?
Well, Caleb is really big into pretend play now. He makes either a train, plane or boat every night and you are expected to ride on it. He also makes up songs and is getting much better at repeating songs. The funniest thing that he has started doing is wanting to play hide and go seek, which is great, but he tells you where to hide, or where he'll be hiding. Scott and I have tried explaining that you have to look for the person, but he doesn't really get it.
Chloe is all about rolling to get where she needs to go. This morning I put her down in the toy room while I was cleaning up the breakfast dishes and found her 20 feet away near the open door to the basement stairs. Needless to say, she'll be put in the Ring of Neglect (Exersaucer) or Pack and Play when she is not in my direct line of sight.
