To add to the two kids, two adults, two dogs, three cats, we now have another living thing in the house. A caterpillar. It's big and thick and green and it's in a lemonade jar and I think is getting ready to make its cocoon.
She can put her feet in her mouth now.
So talented.
We just got home.
Went to Texas Roadhouse.
When I gave a big Texas Roadhouse yee-hah, (people next to us had a birthday), TJ burst into tears.
TJ calls our bathing suits swimming lessons.
Looking at me wearing my bathing suit: "You got your swimming lessons on, Mama?"
We are having a crazy time here this week, between the dogs getting sprayed by the skunk and another rat (euw euw euw) killed by my manly husband, I am getting so skeebed out I am scared to go in the yard. This morning there is something dead in the yard - or at least pretending to be dead but probably just waiting for me to go investigate it so it can get me. I don't know what it is, because I am too scared to go close to it to find out. What if these animals get into the house and eat us? If you don't hear from me again, you'll know that's what happened.
TJ woke up Julia too early this morning and all hell broke loose.
I need a massage.
TJ has asked me a couple of times lately why I don't have a penis.
Today I was going to empty the dishwasher, which I do over and over and over and over and over, and it was empty!!
Mama, talking to Daddy in car: "GGG* (our doctor) said that teething cannot cause fever, but I think that's why she had the fever the other day."
TJ from back seat: "Mommy, call him Doctor GGG, not GGG."
*names changed
Lady at party: Oh, she's young to have two teeth, isn't she?
Mama: No, she only has one.
Lady: Pretty sure she has two.
Sure, enough, Julia has another tooth that popped through! Must have been today or yesterday because Friday at the doctor she only had one.
It really should not make me feel so satisfied just to have a cover on the baby's changing pad.
But it does.
Today JP and TJ are blueberry picking with their friends, is that not the cutest thing ever?
And Julia is sleeping and I'm writing.
How sad is it that I just stretched and felt very lucky to be able to give a big uninterrupted morning stretch since it was probably the first time in at least 6 months.
I actually slept through the whole night last night for the first time in at least a month. Thank you Julia, thank you TJ.
I am ignoring this scratchy pain I am beginning to feel on the left side of my throat.