Ugh!
Thursday, August 30, 2007 by Amy
So I suck. Haven't updated in a while. So sorry...and I haven't taken pictures in a while, so only pictures from Maryland right now. Like I said, I pretty much suck.
So I started school last week. Three in-class courses (all paralegal courses) and an accounting course online. Finding the time to do homework and complete the required reading is really not cool. Try taking reading notes with two little ones who always want to be in your lap and steal your pens. So I'm really really tired. And because my classes are over dinnertime, I don't think that I've been eating well enough. So that doesn't help. All of my professors are great, so at least that's good. One of my professors, who's also the head of the paralegal program, is very very animated. Almost crazy. At least it's entertaining. And scary sometimes. I wouldn't dare come to that class unprepared. No sir.
The girls have beee excellent for Rudi when I'm in school. Avery still cries a good deal when I leave, but calms down right away. Riley whimpers a little still, but is all-in-all the brave one. And the four hours that I'm gone go really smoothly. Really makes me feel wanted. At least I have the excited hugs and kisses to look forward to when I come home. And I also look forward to seeing what imaginitive (and incorrect) way Rudi has come up with to cloth diaper. I've given him so many tutorials and none of them have stuck. Once I came home and the diaper cover was on inside out and backwards, and the prefold was hanging over the top by about eight inches. Hmmm...
Riley starts school on Tuesday. She's been asking about it, and not in her normal crazy way, but like she's looking forward to it. They are having an open house on Labor Day, so I'll go with Riley. Good thing is that Rudi is off on Tuesday and my classes are out that day, so we can do something special as a family to celebrate Riley's first day of school. Don't know exactly what that would entail, but at least the idea's out there.
Avery is currently sick-ish. Her normal fever. Horray. So sleepless nights will be the norm for me for a while. Riley had the fever bug last week, so what's a few more nights without sleep? Who needs sleep? Avery gets feverish so much, with no other symptoms, that I don't even need a thermometer anymore. I'd say 102-103 degrees right now. Not too bad. The virus jumped right over me. What I wouldn't do for a sick day.
Avery is talking so much more lately. I was sitting down and she just came up to me and goes "hands, feet, eye, nose, face, ear, knees (her favorite), tummy (her other favorite), arms, mouth, back, butt, pants, shirt" pointing out all of my body parts and saying them. I didn't know she could say nearly half of them. Then I asked her if she wanted to nurse and she said "sleep, bed, nurse." Not really a sentence, but step-by-step instructions. Bossy thing. She patted Riley's bike seat today and said "sit butt". She really likes dressing herself, sans diaper. Perhaps I should get her a pair of undies or two. She seems to do okay without diapers or undies under her pants, so maybe that's the next logical step. Although she doesn't ask to go potty any more (and to be fair, I haven't put her there or suggested it) but always asks for a diaper when she has to pee. I don't want to be pushy, but it's going to get cold soon. Potty train now or never. Probably never, since I'm not all that motivated. Who am I kidding?
Waiting for pictures to upload...waiting...waiting...
Rudi has a doctors appointment tomorrow to see what is to be done with his gallstones. Hopefully not surgery. The doctors at the VA are like old sawbones. So behind on technology. Not that it's their fault, just lack o' funding.
So I started school last week. Three in-class courses (all paralegal courses) and an accounting course online. Finding the time to do homework and complete the required reading is really not cool. Try taking reading notes with two little ones who always want to be in your lap and steal your pens. So I'm really really tired. And because my classes are over dinnertime, I don't think that I've been eating well enough. So that doesn't help. All of my professors are great, so at least that's good. One of my professors, who's also the head of the paralegal program, is very very animated. Almost crazy. At least it's entertaining. And scary sometimes. I wouldn't dare come to that class unprepared. No sir.
The girls have beee excellent for Rudi when I'm in school. Avery still cries a good deal when I leave, but calms down right away. Riley whimpers a little still, but is all-in-all the brave one. And the four hours that I'm gone go really smoothly. Really makes me feel wanted. At least I have the excited hugs and kisses to look forward to when I come home. And I also look forward to seeing what imaginitive (and incorrect) way Rudi has come up with to cloth diaper. I've given him so many tutorials and none of them have stuck. Once I came home and the diaper cover was on inside out and backwards, and the prefold was hanging over the top by about eight inches. Hmmm...
Riley starts school on Tuesday. She's been asking about it, and not in her normal crazy way, but like she's looking forward to it. They are having an open house on Labor Day, so I'll go with Riley. Good thing is that Rudi is off on Tuesday and my classes are out that day, so we can do something special as a family to celebrate Riley's first day of school. Don't know exactly what that would entail, but at least the idea's out there.
Avery is currently sick-ish. Her normal fever. Horray. So sleepless nights will be the norm for me for a while. Riley had the fever bug last week, so what's a few more nights without sleep? Who needs sleep? Avery gets feverish so much, with no other symptoms, that I don't even need a thermometer anymore. I'd say 102-103 degrees right now. Not too bad. The virus jumped right over me. What I wouldn't do for a sick day.
Avery is talking so much more lately. I was sitting down and she just came up to me and goes "hands, feet, eye, nose, face, ear, knees (her favorite), tummy (her other favorite), arms, mouth, back, butt, pants, shirt" pointing out all of my body parts and saying them. I didn't know she could say nearly half of them. Then I asked her if she wanted to nurse and she said "sleep, bed, nurse." Not really a sentence, but step-by-step instructions. Bossy thing. She patted Riley's bike seat today and said "sit butt". She really likes dressing herself, sans diaper. Perhaps I should get her a pair of undies or two. She seems to do okay without diapers or undies under her pants, so maybe that's the next logical step. Although she doesn't ask to go potty any more (and to be fair, I haven't put her there or suggested it) but always asks for a diaper when she has to pee. I don't want to be pushy, but it's going to get cold soon. Potty train now or never. Probably never, since I'm not all that motivated. Who am I kidding?
Waiting for pictures to upload...waiting...waiting...
Rudi has a doctors appointment tomorrow to see what is to be done with his gallstones. Hopefully not surgery. The doctors at the VA are like old sawbones. So behind on technology. Not that it's their fault, just lack o' funding.
