updates for all

So lazy. Oh well. Lots of stuff to talk about, so I'm going with bullet points.

• Last night Ally wanted some pudding. We made it before dinner and stuck it in the fridge to set. Then we sat down for dinner. We had cheeseburgers which she usually likes. Well, she likes the freezer meal kind. Real ones are a little too big for her I think. She eats some and then says she's full. So last night Rob and I had to coax her through the meal once again. She kept telling us she was full, could she have some pudding? At one point I told her "How can you have any pudding, if you don't eat your meat?" I don't think she got it, but I thought it was pretty funny.
• After bedtime, Rob sat down at the table and had some pudding and Nilla Wafers. (We have rediscovered our love of stale Nilla Wafers. I picked up Anya from daycare one day and she smelled like them. Yummy, so we bought a box. I opened it and 2 days later they were perfect.) We were discussing the pudding/supper dilema Ally had. Rob was talking in between dipping a wafer in pudding, making a sandwich out of them and stuffing them in his mouth. He said "Ally still hasn't learned that you eat because it's healthy, not because it tastes good" We both promptly laughed at the absurdity of that sentence coming from him with his mouth stuffed with cookies and pudding.
• Anya has learned to wave. Well, kind of. She doesn't wave bye-bye. She doesn't wave hello. Mostly she sticks her whole arm up in the air and bends her wrist back and forth while yelling to let me know there is no more food in her hand and she Needs. More. NOW. But occasionally, she does wave in response to you waving at her.
• Everyone but Rob has been sick at some point in the last week. Anya Friday night, Ally Sunday night, and me Tuesday night. Ally hadn't eaten well all day, and we mdae her eat supper, even though she didn't really want to. We've had so many fights over this that we just thought she was being a pain. Besides, we got her Chicken nuggets like she asked for. Maybe next time, we'll pay more attention. Side note: I had gotten some sleep the night before and was waiting for him upstairs while Rob read Ally's bedtime stories. I have no sex drive if I don't sleep. So sleep makes me horny. So I was naked and waiting patiently when I hear Ally throw up and Rob yells, "I could use a little help here" How do the kids always know the worst possible time to do shit like that?
• I've started a policy of not getting Anya out of her crib between the hours of 8 pm and 4 am. When she cries now, I comfort her in her crib and lay her back down. repeatedly. We'll see how thi sworks. Rob is ABSOLUTELY against crying it out. He does not want me to let her get "hysterical", so we'll see how this works instead. Over the last couple of nights, the time that she has woken first has gotten later. I'm taking that as a good sign. Please let it be a sign. At least I'm not feeding her all night anymore.
• Yesterday I stayed home from work to let the virus run its course. I woke up feeling mildly better and since I had the house to myself, i cleaned out Anya's room. Since she doens'tt play in her room, I use it as a general "throw it in Anya's closet and I'll get to it later" room. The closet spilled over into the room long ago. it was bad. I took 5 totes full of stuff out of there. 3 totes of outgrown clothes (hers and Ally's) and 2 totes of garage sale stuff. Come spring I'm de-cluttering. I'm going to send the kids out of the house for the day (or at least Ally - Anya probably won't get in the way too much) and clean out a LOT of old toys. Now, the room is clean I'm so thrilled. I even got all the laundry done and folded (and put in the correct rooms even if it isn't put away in drawers yet) All this while I was sick!
• Rob has been working a couple of evenings lately at the hospital. This is a very good thing. If he doesn't work, he might get fired (part time people still have to work occasionally and it's been a long time). If he gets fired, we're not eligible for our daycare anymore. It's only for hospital employees. In fact, it's not even really for prn employees, but they put that rule in after we were already there, so it doens't apply to us. If he isn't an employee anymore though, he has 30 days to find another day care. I don't want to do that. So he has to work. It reminds me of how much I hated to have him gone all the time at his last job. It's also kind of nice, cince I never get a break from him anymore.
• This one's just for mom. I had 775 people take one of my quizes. Ha
• I can always tell lately when Anya has a dirty diaper. She starts whining and chasing me around the room. It's very odd.
• I quit watching my soap operas last month.  I've been watching Days Of Our Lives for at least 16 years. I started watching Passions when it came on while I was in college. I gave it up. Don't even tape them anymore.  2 kids just take up too much time for tv. I hardly ever turn it on for myself anymore. This is a major step for me. Of course while I was home yesterday I watched, and wasn't even that confused after missing a month.
• Anya hasn't had and ear infection since she got off the last round of antibiotics Dec 11th. YAY! But I think she's teething. BOO! Ally got her first teeth at 10 months. Anya is now a little over 8 months old. We'll see what happens

I'm sure there are fve million other things, but that's it for now. Oh, except that I'm going to update youTube and Flickr soon. Check them out