1...1 Well-Rested Mama...Ah-ah-ah!

Thank you Count for that lovely into.

For real - Marcus has decided to be an angel again and start STTN. That month of getting up in the middle of the night...two to three times a night, was really killing me. I know that I shouldn't complain at all because I know there are people whose children don't sleep through the night until they are 2 years old. However, when you get used to sleeping all night for 5 months straight, and then have to get up a couple times a night, it's like having a newborn all over again!! I could feel myself getting irritable and crabby toward everyone. I had no focus at all. We're going on night #3 of STTN. Thank goodness.

Have you seen this thing? If your kid likes the bath...it's seriously a must. Marcus was entertained by this thing until his bath water was cold. It goes over the faucet (which Mister liked to stick his fingers up all the time - gross), and the water spits out the tentacles! It's so darn cute. He was sitting there watching water drip out and was chewing on the legs. It was awesome.

I honestly think that kid is part fish. He loves water - anything that has to do with it. He even likes to help "wash dishes". He will stand on a chair and splash in the water while you are washing. It really is the cutest thing you've ever seen.

And today's random piece of history: It was a big day for the Beatles. On December 30, 1967, the song "Hello Goodbye" (as made recently famous again by Target) hit #1 on the singles chart and stayed there for 3 weeks. 3 short years later, on this date, Paul McCartney sues his bandmates to dissolve the Beatles. And 4 years later, again on this date in 1974, the Beatles were legally disbanded.

Hello, Goodbye indeed.

2009 = Ambivalence

I am so ready for 2009 to just be over with. While there were many good things that happened, it was definately the year of death. Not only with all of the celebrities that have passed, but in my life and those around me. It seems like everyone I talk to have had many people in their life that passed away this year.

In my life, we've had my cousin, my husband's great-grandfather, a colleuge, a friend from high school, my husband's "aunt"...that's far too many already.

However, there were two births in the family as well! My son and my niece. We are happy and blessed that both babies are happy and healthy.

I hope that 2010 has more happy times than sad. Let's start a decade off right!

Back from the Dead

Yeah - I know. It's been, like 4 months since I wrote last. Lame.

Here's my excuse - I have an almost 10 month old that has decided to learn how to crawl up stairs and fall back down them. I no more than sit down and he's halfway up the steps. If I would remember to close the gate at the bottom of the stairs, I wouldn't have this problem, but then that would require me to actually think.

We had the "First Christmas" last week. And me being the supermommy that I am, forgot the SIM card to my camera, so I have zero pictures of it. Thankfully my mother took a bunch of pictures, but that sure doesn't help me right now does it? Mister had a bunch of fun...at least as much fun that a 9.5 month old can have. He got a John Deere tractor, which he was so thrilled with that he was pretty much done with opening things right then and there, an activity box from yours truley, a mailbox toy, a piano, a toy cell phone, and some clothes. Oh...and a ball pit. Thanks a lot grandparents.That will be the toy that either stays in the basement play room...or outside.

My brother and sister-in-law and niece came over from Oshkosh on Saturday night. Cecilia is 4 months old, and I forgot how much fun that age is. She was just smiling at everything and couldn't crawl away when you laid her on the floor. Almost puts me in "baby fever", but not quite.

The highlight of my weekend - Packers won. And an ode to my Detroit Lions fans, it was one year ago today, that the Lions completed their perfect 0-16 season, losing to my team...the GB Packers. <3