August 27, 2005
I have been too busy with work lately and I am feeling very tired and worn out. My morale is low and I just want to sleep and relax and have a minute to do laundry and clean the house and play with Ethan. I will have a break soon. I just have to make it through tomorrow. Working weekends is such a bummer. I feel like I miss out.
I need to have a better attitude and be thankful that I have a job and can have the time I do get off to do all the things I want and need to do, but it is hard. It's easier to complain.
August 9, 2005
Ethan is just blowing me away lately.
First, I need to mention that he has his first tooth. Bottom left. Very sharp.
Second, he started clapping. It isn't a totally coordinated clap, but it is a clap nonetheless. We were sitting there on Saturday and it was as if he finally got it. We have been working on clapping for quite some time. I will clap my hands to a little song and then I will clap his hands to the same song (and if we are in a silly mood, I will then clap his feet as well). He would kind of hold his hands together as if he was going to pray, but until Saturday afternoon, no independent clapping had happened. It was so cool to watch him. It was as if was watching his little brain work and got to observe him learn to clap. He thought about it, he attempted it, his hands made contact, he smiled so proudly. It was so cool. And he has been clapping ever since.
Third, he has spoken his first word. It is "Bird." We were out on the grass playing over the weekend and there were birds flying all around and he was seriously watching them. He would spot them on a wire and stare at them and then watch them fly away. I told him they were birds and he said it clear as day "Bur." Since then, I have been pointing out every bird I see real or fake, and he says "Bur" (sometimes with a raspberry B at the front) every time. He is an avid bird watcher and when we are on our walks, he sits up so straight with such a serious face in his stroller with such a serious face, keeping watch for any bird that flies by. He looks up at the wires and at the sky. It is very cute and kind of funny. I would have thought his first word would be mommy or daddy or kitty. Guess he likes birds best.
August 8, 2005
I am one of those people that wakes up the minute the alarm goes off in the morning. I used to wake up to the clicking sound it made as it turned on before it would even start to go off. I rarely ever hit the snooze button because if I actually had time to snooze, I would set the alarm for that much later so I could really sleep that much longer. Shane, on the other hand, is a snoozer. I have heard stories from past roomates of his alarm going off for an hour and he slept right through it. I won't let that happen so instead he snoozes. The alarm is on his side the bed. He will snooze for up to 45 minutes some times with me nudging him every seven minutes to get up and turn it off. It drives me insane. I get grumpier and grumpier and my nudges get harder and harder every time that stupid buzzer goes off. I don't blame him for being tired, but if he isn't going to get up, just turn the thing off or reset it for later. I think part of my problem is that I don't fall back to sleep enough in that seven minute period so I pretty much stay awake for the 30 to 45 minutes he thinks he is sleeping in. I just don't get it. I know he is not alone and there are a lot of people out there that do this every morning. I have even caught him snoozing to my alarm before...I got up and got in the shower and he snoozed through my shower instead of turning the alarm off. I suppose we could just move the alarm to my side of the bed, but then he would never get up because I would turn the thing off the first time it sounded and he would fall back asleep. But I would probably stay awake, nudging him every few minutes, growing more and more frustrated as he continued to sleep and we would be in the same spot we are in now. Luckily it isn't too big of an issue as I am up before him for work 2-3 days a week and Ethan has us up by 6:30 to 7 every morning, so we aren't really sleeping in too much anyway. But when that alarm goes off and he snoozes between 6:00 and 6:30 and I lay there awake knowing my little alarm clock I like to call Ethan is going to sound any minute, I am not a very pleasant person to sleep next to.
August 5, 2005
We have been really busy lately doing ordinary things. I stay so busy taking care of Ethan, I just don't find time to post or can't think of anything interesting to say when I do find time. My brother and his wife are visiting from Tennessee this week, so we have been spending a lot of time with them. It is nice to have them here and we will be sad when they leave tomorrow. We are hoping to be able to visit them this fall, but we will have to see.
We went to Disneyland on Wednesday with them. There were ten of us all together and although it was a large group, we managed to do most of what we wanted to do while there. It was a nice day, not too hot and not too many people were there. Ethan stayed home with Nana. I couldn't believe how many babies there were there. What a lot of work. I think we made a good choice. We will take him next time.
We made our way over to California Adventure since we had the park hopper pass and there I experienced the freakiest ride I have ever been on. It seriously freaked me out. I can't stop thinking about it. During the ride I couldn't stop laughing/almost crying hysterically because I was so freaked out. As we were falling one of the many times, I bit Shane's arm I was so scared. But it was awesome and I wish I had gone again. I would almost get a park hopper pass next time we go just to go on that ride again. I highly recommend it.
