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September 2, 2011 · 3:32 pm

The Good, The Bad, The Not Great, The Better And The Best

7:15am…The Good. Dylan woke up dry for the third day in a row. It only took two nights of accidents (and a lot of laundry) for him to conquer the pull-up. What a relief to be completely done with diapers and pull-ups for one child! One down, one to go…

Rewind two hours and twenty minutes.

4:55am…The Bad. This is not the moment when I rolled over in my cozy, warm bed and peeked at the clock and thought to myself, Awesome, I get at least one more hour of sleep. Two if I’m lucky. No, it was when Riley woke up eager to play with every toy in the house and, of course, force me to be his playmate.

Fast-forward four hours and fifty minutes.

9:45am…The Not Great. Riley can keep his teeth…for now. His mouth and gums have healed beautifully, but his front teeth are still mobile. As long as there’s no infection or discomfort, the dentist wants to wait two more weeks to see if a miracle happens. Yes, “miracle” was the word she used. Sigh…

Rewind sixteen hours.

5:45pm…The Better. Despite buckets of encouragement, desperate pleading and intense bribery, Operation Chicken has yielded NO consumption of meat of any kind. However, there have been a few small victories. I’m pleased to announce that Dylan has added bagels and cream cheese, cottage cheese (in small amounts…according to Dylan, cottage cheese makes him cough) and, as of 5:45pm last night, peanut butter to his food repertoire. At least it has a lot of protein.

Fast-forward one hour and a half.

7:15pm…The Best

Mike: “Do you need an attitude adjustment? Let me get a tool.”

Dylan: “What kind of tool?”

Mike: “A screwdriver.”

Dylan: “Daddy, don’t screw me.”

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September 1, 2011 · 1:33 pm

Salty and Sweet

Today is my ninth wedding anniversary. The modern 9^th anniversary gift is leather and the traditional gift is pottery. This is funny to me because Mike would love to see me wearing something leather, and I would love to go shopping for pottery. (We could use some new serving dishes.)

Mike doesn’t like when I mention him in my blog so I’ll change the subject. Let’s talk about shopping. We don’t usually exchange gifts on our anniversary, but we do give each other cards. This year, finding the perfect anniversary card was about as difficult as shopping for jeans that don’t make me feel fat. It took three separate shopping trips over the course of three days to get it done. Here are some of the cards I looked at…

Too sappy.

Too long. I know the words are blurry in the picture, but you’re

not missing anything. I won’t bore you with the inside.

Too misogynistic. Princesses and fairy tales? Really?

Too cute.

Nice, but kinda boring.

Not my style. At all.

This card goes on an on about how exciting and romantic our lives used to be and how even though we have kids now and we’re getting old, we still manage to love each other. This might be a little bit true, but I don’t need to buy card about it. Geesh.