Miscellaneous

The past 2 nights while putting Anna to bed, she has laid down, lights off, and handed us her pacis while saying, "No! No paci!". Then when we leave with them, we see much tossing and turning and eventually a call back for the paci. We comply, of course. But it's interesting to see where she is trying to go with this.

Especially since her paci addiction heightened during those top teeth, and since then she'll still occasionally ask for it during the day. And even in public. To which I give in rather than hearing the screams. And this, of course, perpetuates the paci addiction cycle.

I promise to stop now. Until those bottom teeth start giving her yet more grief and we go through it all over again.

She is starting to use sentences. If I ask her where her stuffed animal (or paci) is, she'll say "in the bed". If I ask her to go tell Daddy something, Paul can get the general idea of what she's trying to tell him. The other morning we talked all about the cool frogs on her shirt as she was getting dressed. Later Paul told me she told him something about frogs on her shirt and mommy and getting dressed. Yesterday she told me "I like grits!!" during breakfast. Pretty cute.

We got a reminder note from her teachers to remember to bring the Valentine's cards to class for the list of her classmates (attached). Really? That one caught us off guard. Isn't that like pre-school stuff? Looks like they're having a little Val Day party at school on Friday. Guess I'd better get over to Walgreens and work the Valentine cards. I don't think I've seen batch Valentines cards like that since elementary school...wow.

On the home front, we got new carpet installed throughout the upstairs and front formal. I liked the color in the store, of course. But I was too lazy to bring the swatch home to match it in our lighting. Instead, I brought some furniture pillows into the store from home and felt good about that. Now that the carpet's installed, I'm not so sure I like it. I mean, the INTENT is there...I just wish it were more of a sandy color. To me, it's got too much gold or something. I swear it was more brown in the store. Under the fluorescent lighting. Paul likes it but then again you all know he is in fact slightly color bind. Sorry to call you out honey, haha. Regardless, there's no going back so when you come over just tell me you like it. At this point, the carpet's installed and so no one's opinion really matters anymore (including my own). So you may as well fake it. And yes, we INTENTIONALLY went a darker color than the original. Toddler = stains = dark carpet covers it nicely with less scrubbing.