Things worth mentioning lately . . .
- Car Seat Woes - Molly hit the 30 pound mark and since she absolutely hates riding in her car seat lately, we decided to up her status to the booster style chair with a back. Yep, she hates that, too. The only difference is that now when she's screaming she can wiggle out of it! Great! This afternoon I actually said, "If you don't stop crying, you'll have to change back to the baby seat." Then, I went in the house and brought it out to the garage. She stopped screaming (at least until she knew we were far enough away from the house that we weren't going back). I asked James, "Is this how it is going to be for the rest of our lives? Every time Molly tries something new she will do it kicking and screaming?" He said, "Yes, unless it is her idea." Great, again!
- Jack! Jack! - Jack is cute and happy. I hope he stays that way forever. When you say his name and try to get his attention, he just grins from ear to ear. Sometimes he'll even flap his arms at you like he's going to fly away.
- Santa Claus - Molly is interested in Santa this year. She was bummed that we had to send back the movie, "Brave" which we netflixed last week. When she wanted to watch it this week and we didn't have it, I told her that maybe Santa would bring it to her. Now anytime someone asks her what she wants for Christmas or what Santa is bringing her, she says, "Brave."
- New Day Care - This week, Jack started with a new family to be tended during the day. So far things look pretty good and though he hasn't been napping very well, he seems to be happy! As with all change comes a bad case of guilty mom syndrome. Sigh. Oh well.
- The Fence - We got a text from our renter last weekend telling us our fence at our townhouse bit the dust in a bad windstorm. James spent every evening this last week over there trying to fix it. He had to put in new posts on the section which totally blew over (but was able to reuse the panels) and then sured up the other posts that are likely fragile and rotting away. I don't really like having a rental unit. We'd like to sell it, but that is probably a few years off still. Our renter would like to extend his lease 6 months, though, which is nice for us because then we don't have to find anyone new.
- Hunter Basketball is 2-2. They beat Hillcrest on Thursday night pretty convincingly and then struggled against Juan Diego (or Judge Diego as I decided to call them tonight) on Friday. They really should have had the Judge Diego (where is Dora, Diego?) game, but ran out of gas, made a few too many mistakes at the end, and just got outplayed/outcoached when it mattered. Oh well. This week is Logan on Wednesday and Lehi on Friday. Hopefully they can at least stay .500.
- Go Utes! - Utah Basketball, though not beautiful, is starting to look at bit better. They ALMOST had BYU at the Marriott Center the other night, which is as close as they've come in many moons. I think the Utes may finally be on the mend.
- Christmas at Grandpa's - For Christmas, my Grandpa gave us (all of the grandkids with kids) some money to buy our kids something for Christmas from him. His instructions were to buy something nice, wrap it up, and bring it to his house so the little kids have something to open when they get there on Christmas. He said he was sorry that Grandma didn't teach him to shop for things like that, but that it was important to him that they have an actual present to open. I figured I'd get my kids clothes since that's the first thing my Grandma would have bought for them. I tried to find something that looked like outfits she would buy. My qualifications were that the outfits were cute, stylish, and NOT something that I would typically buy for them (because my usual qualifications are that it is practical, a good deal, and they can wear it for the maximum amount of time). I hope what I bought them would be "Grandma Approved."
