Too many choices

Based on one of this fine lady's blog posts, I just discovered that I can listen to past episodes of This American Life. That makes me oh so very happy. I looooooovvvvveeee listening to that show but I always seem to miss it. So now I have to make up for lost time! Which one should I choose first? Aggghhhh!

I've got no strings to hold me down

We officially have no more training wheels in the house. The smallest human learned to ride on two wheels this weekend. I have to admit, I'm pretty sad. Well, I'm happy for him because it is a big accomplishment and he is very proud of himself. But we've hit a lot of milestones this spring and summer and we are almost a house of all big humans. Or at least big-acting humans.

Earlier in the spring, the smallest girl human learned to ride with two wheels. And then a few weeks ago, the smallest boy human passed the swimming test at our local city pool which means he can be in the pool without a big human AND he can go down the water slide. Now add in the two wheel bike riding and I am a mess of emotions! I also noticed when I was brushing the older small girl human's hair this morning that she is as tall as me or taller. I couldn't bring myself to measure her.

I'm having a tough time lately accepting that we will not have any more small humans to parent. I feel like I am just getting the hang of it and hitting my stride and soon, we won't be needed. I wonder how I can make peace with this urge to procreate and put it to rest without actually doing it? I need to read some more of The Power of Now so that I can enjoy the moments we have right now rather than mourning the ones that will never be. It is nice to have more self-sufficent humans around. They don't need constant supervision. They can entertain themselves for longer periods of time. You can take them out in public with relative ease. Going back to diapers, naps, teething, binkies, incessant crying and taking an hour to get out of the house is no fun, right?

Right?

Today is the greatest

The other day, I was asked to babysit a friend's niece on Saturday night. Today at work, I was offered FREE tickets to sit in box seats at a Smashing Pumkins show on Saturday night. I had to turn them down because I like to keep my word. Blasted values!

Is it sad that my Big Human and I can identify Scrubs episodes by one sentence? For instance, "The one with the hot girl in the MRI machine"? Yeah we watch a lot of Scrubs.

This morning I think I shaved my right leg but forgot to shave my left leg. Which disturbs me because my normal shower routine when shaving requires me to shave my left leg first...sooooo...I don't know how I got over to the right leg. Hmmmm, maybe I need to rework my shower routine.

School is starting next week. Which means we have started the Open House/Back to School Night/Make a good impression with the new teachers routine. We did Open House for the biggest small human on Wednesday night. He has mostly male teachers this year. Which I think is great. And he got invited to be on the Robotics Competition Team. Wooohooo!

Today was pretty slow at work. I even did some things that I had been putting off and by the time I looked at the clock, it was only 2:30 PM...ughhhhh...good thing I worked through lunch so I could leave at 4:30 PM!

I'm addicted to MDC. I have had to limit my time on there. It's kind of hard to do.

Family therapy is going well with the small humans. We've gone twice now and everyone is enjoying it and we are noticing a change in behavior which is fantastic.

I am so happy that football season is starting again. And I'm not being sarcastic. I think I like football more than my Big Human.

Big giant step forward, I think

We have forward progress. I don't usually write about super personal stuff that is happening in my life and family but this is huge and I have to share. Tomorrow, we are going to our first appointment with our family therapist with the kids. This.is.huge.

It's been a long time in the making. We have been meeting with the therapist for a couple of months with just me and the big human and some with the big human by himself and now we are ready to bring the small humans in. I am hopeful that this will be a positive outlet for them.

Wow, two posts in one day! Aren't you lucky?

For the love of sleep

I understand the concept of co-sleeping. I just can't figure out how it would be done so that the grownups actually sleep.

At least every other night when the small humans are home, one of them finds their way into our bed in the middle of the night. I love it. My big human loves it. However it's not very easy to sleep with a thrashing child in the bed. These small humans make sleep an olympic sport. I'm not sure what time the smallest girl human got into bed with us last night but I do know that I feel as though I haven't slept! Her favorite sleeping position while in bed with us seems to be with one arm and one leg on top of me. Oh and the arm and the leg need to be violently placed just so. So let's imagine this. Me, just falling back asleep and WHAM! here's an arm and a leg! She then had the audacity to announce this morning that I move too much while I sleep!

It's o.k. I can sleep when the youngest turns 18. Maybe.