This Week

Do you ever feel like things are just going right?  I don't know, but since last week's bout with sickness, life is pretty good.  Everyone seems better, even the dog.  She's back to sunbathing and being just a little to friendly to the neighbors.  I'm back to running, Insanity, and drinking wine.  The Bear is back to school and playing with friends.  Little is, well, just Little.  Not much changes from when she feels bad to when she feels good.  She specializes in be exceptionally cute and being a huge pain in the ass.  She has perfected keeping it at an equal balance, so just when you are about to scream because she has driven you nuts, she'll say, "I sure do love you, Mommy" and gives out big hugs.  She has the routine down.

The Bear lost another tooth today.  That's number 8.  I'm hoping I have money so I don't have to borrow some from her to pay the Tooth Fairy's debt.  Yes, that has happened.  She never knew, I replaced it before she figured it out. The thing about this tooth is the determination she had to remove it.  She bit into a piece of cereal and it got really loose.  She jumped up from the table, grabbed a paper towel, and spent the next 10 minutes pulling and wiggling it til it came out.  She has come a long way from the dangling front tooth!

Little has decided to change preschools.  We never thought that would happen, but one day she asked if she could switch to the bigger school with her BFF.  It was my first realization that she really isn't a baby anymore.  She absolutely loves her school now, but I think she has outgrown it.  We signed her up for the new school and she starts in the summer.

Hubby and I are in the process of training for our first half marathon.  It's kinda hard.  Duh, right?  I've never made it over that 8 mile mark and it's going to happen soon.  It's not so bad when I'm running with a friend or the weather is nice, but how often is the weather nice in Iowa?  I also only have one friend who will run with me!  Odds are not in my favor.

In the past few days, I realized I actually like babies.  I figure I probably made this turn because I no longer carry anyone around.  My baby is 4 and pretty much walks everywhere. She is still like a little monkey, so she is great to carry around when needed.  The Bear is about the same size as a tiny adult, like the size of my Hoosier friend.  I'm not carrying either of them around:)  I realized I liked babies when my neighbor had hers this weekend.  My other neighbor and I went to visit her in the hospital and BOOM, I was struck with baby love.  I have never in my life felt this need to hold a baby, so I was pleasantly shocked.  Although we are happy there is a baby, we are just more excited that my neighbor is no longer pregnant.  Priorities!

We will be hitting the road again this weekend.  I'm taking the girls to see my parents and my grandma.  Hubby gets to go on a nice beer trip with his buddy (you're welcome hubby).  Two weeks after that, we'll be spending our spring break in Indy.  I know you're jealous, everyone wants to spend their spring break in Indianapolis.  I think I'll take a break from traveling after that.  Well, at least for a month and a half because then I'll be heading to Indy 2 times in May and I think I'm gone almost every weekend in June.  So much for having free time!

That's all for this week, maybe I'll check in again soon!