Here it comes again

It seems like the rush all happens at once.

 

It has been an awesome 2 weeks of downtime. Paul even took Anna to her first Astros game a few weeks ago, did I post that? Apparently she loved it, and I even had an evening off at home to myself. She had a blast! I know I have a picture Paul sent from the game and I’ll post it soon.

 

All my class lectures are done and all that’s left is the final exam this coming Monday night, then my Mondays are mine again!

 

The past 2 weeks has been no travel and no craziness. Just stuff around the house and I even caught up on TV in the evenings. I lost a complete toenail (WTF? Gross) that is OK now, I learned Anna knows the word “Rhinestone”, and we also PLANTED STUFF a few weeks ago. In our yard. It has flowers in the front. And new bushes too. Our master bathroom has yet to be completed painting but that’s no fun. So did I mention we planted flowers? Anna helped. I promise I even have pictures AND VIDEO of that. We also painted the shutters in the front of the house (OHMAGAWD) and seriously, we pressure washed our entire driveway, and the sidewalk all the way to the end of the cul-de-sac.

 

Anna’s becoming more and more of a kid than a toddler. She’s getting tall. I think she’s about up to my belly button, no lie. She is cute, mouthy, and smart. She is more whiny these days than ever but she is also more loving. She will just tell you “I love you!” out of nowhere, which tells me she means it. Or else she confuses it with the fact that she should say “I am happy, this is fun!” (Maybe I should ask her…no, accept the I LOVE YOU while I get it).

 

We’re getting excited about the trip to the launch next week. I bought her a new beach towel that has the space shuttle and the space station on it. She LOVED IT. As for the plane, I have high hopes for her behavior. I think she should do very well on the plane. I think it’s been since January since she’s been on a plane and she’s developed a lot since then. But she is unfortunately at the age now where she appears to others to be old enough to know better (and she IS old enough to know better, but still prone to tantrums) so if she acts out, not entirely reasonable, I imagine we are now in the stage of “dirty looks” from other passengers rather than the “oh man, you poor thing/sucker with your fussy baby/toddler” looks. She is now a target of don’t-kick-the-seat-in-front-of-you glares and warnings. It’s not cute when she will do something annoying. It’s a glare at her parents that we suck, WTH are we doing to this spoiled-only-child type of thing.

 

Or maybe it’s just me.