Start Of The Week

Okay I'm back to participating in memes! Today is The UnMom's Random Thoughts Tuesday! Still no news about Cosmo. :( Hopefully today (Tuesday) we'll hear back from the vet about his surgery last Wednesday.

Yesterday (Monday) at 10 am Logan & I met Brooke at The Summer Kitchen Cafe where I hadn't eaten in about six months, so I enjoyed my favorite item there - the best tuna fish sandwich ever. Of course the best part was the company of Brooke and almost-7 month old Kaelyn! :) By the way, Brooke has started blogging! I'm happy because I wish EVERYONE I knew had a blog! :) Check her out at Mama Brooke.

The Summer Kitchen Cafe is the first restaurant we've been to that actually has a healthy kid's menu. Have you ever noticed how it's pretty much the same choices everywhere? Fried chicken fingers, corn dogs or hot dogs, hamburgers, grilled cheese or macaroni and cheese. We usually get the mac & cheese but we've tried all of the other options each once - they were all a waste since Logan is not a meat eater. But at this restaurant I had the option of a fruit bowl with toast. He loved it! It was nice to have a relaxing meal with him for the first time in over a week! (I should mention there is one thing he hasn't ever refused since becoming picky and that's milk - he would still drink milk all day if he could!)

He ate almost all of his meal and what he didn't, he had later at home for his snack. I realized that he's weaning himself from my food the same way he weaned himself from his pacifier at 3/4 months, breastfeeding at 9 months, his baby food and bottles at 11/12 months - only this time there is no "next," LOL!!! We just need more variety, as I mentioned in yesterday's post We Kicked Our Colds when I mentioned two popular toddler cookbooks.

Our time went fast since usually we do something else for our "stay at home mom" days, but since I was sick all last week, my house is a disaster. I need to get it cleaned (and sterilized after our virus') by this Saturday because my friend Sarah from Seattle is flying in and staying with me until Wednesday (then she will celebrate Thanksgiving with her family until she flies out of Omaha the following Sunday morning at 5 am).

After Logan & I told Brooke & Kaelyn goodbye, we stopped at the library to return a couple of books. I decided since Logan didn't seem ready for his nap yet we might as well go to the children's area. There was a woman named Angela there with her two year old daughter named Jewel. She was super nice and started talking to me right away, telling me she'd just moved here two months ago because her husband is in the military and she recently joined a mom's group and has been getting together with one of the other stay at home moms each week and was wondering if I wanted to join them! I said "sure," so she gave me her number and I did the same.

She is expecting baby #2 (a boy) in three months. She's originally from Oklahoma but moved here from Virgina Beach. She told me that she and the other mom (Liz) are going to be at the library's story time today. Tuesdays are the mornings when Logan goes to Babysitter's, though. :(

Logan took his nap yesterday from 1-3:30 and then played (while I started on my cleaning) until Joe came home at 6:30. It's really cute when Joe comes home - Logan does "a happy dance." :) Logan still whines the whole time Joe watches him, though, which I had mentiond awhile ago. Hopefully that will change soon, otherwise I'm worried about them getting along in the future! :(

Along the same lines of what I said in yesterday's post about how come my husband can never seem to change Logan's clothes, he also doesn't seem to know how to get ready in the morning AND Logan. So my Tues & Thurs mornings can never be used for sleeping in, but yet if I need to go somewhere I still get Logan ready at the same time :p

For the past couple of months whenever it's time to eat, Logan goes and gets a bowl and gets himself all ready to eat on his own.

The cutest thing yesterday, though, was when he was playing with his shopping cart (he likes anything he can push around) and it said, "Yummy food!" Logan said, "MMMMM." And then the shopping cart said "MMMMM." He kept doing this before every noise the shopping cart makes - every time there was a pause he knew what was going to come next!

The month of October I was sentimental like when he was 3 months & 10 months old - where I'd get all teary-eyed (in a good way) thinking about my little guy from the moment I became pregnant until now and feeling. . .I don't even know, what IS that emotion when you're not sad that your baby is growing up (because that's a good thing) but you also worry some day you're going to look back and BE sad that these exact days are over?

Okay. . .now I'm getting teary-eyed again! Needless to say, I had to restrain myself from going in his room and scooping him out of his crib like I did when he was 10 months just so I could hold him. Nowadays he would wake up if I did that and be very mad at me :p It's weird, because even though I loved months 3 & 10 (they were on my list of easier months), I remember that months 11, 13, and 15 were the months I claimed were "the best" and wanted to just freeze in time. So I think 3, 10, & 18 have to do more with me than Logan! Some months my heart just decides to cry. I feel more normal as of November (LOL), although yesterday Logan kept coming over to hug me which definitely made my heart mush and, like every day, wanting to hold on to these memories forever.