Time Flies when you are busy!

Gosh, it’s been a week since my last blog! Sorry about that! This was a busy week for us. We hosted our training classes in our office this week. That means we have to provide snack and sodas, etc. It just is a little extra work when it’s right in our office. It also means no jeans L. Thankfully I recently got new dress pants for work, so I was still somewhat comfortable. But, when there are classes, its long days for me and whoever is teaching the classes. It happened to be that Hubby was the only one available to teach. So, Courtney spent a lot of time at daycare and we spent a lot of time at work.

Monday the windshield company did come replace the windshield on John’s truck. Later that afternoon, he brought my car down to my office and we swapped. Very quick and easy.

Tuesday night was back to agility in our new building!! I was worried Bristol might be a little anxious in a new place. So, we went a few minutes early to let him get a little accustomed to it. He had NO issues. All the dogs did very well in the new place except several of them, including Bristol, felt the urge to jump out the dog walk! It’s about 4 & ½ feet off the ground. It made the trainer very nervous. She was telling the dogs to stop it, as they were scaring her! So, they listened and stopped jumping off in the middle.

Thursday we had our friend over for dinner. He has been in England most of this year for work. He was in a very serious accident over there recently and pretty much just told his work that he was coming home. The project he was working on was way overdue and an end date was no where in site. And after being in the accident, he decided home was where he wanted to be. It was great seeing him again. We saw him once over the summer when he was here for a weeks ‘vacation’ from his job. It’s kind of odd when you have to take a vacation to come back to see your house/car/etc.

Friday Hubby had to go up to the Academy to videotape John’s play. This was the real play that was supposed to happen last weekend. This way John’s mom who is back home in California, and John’s dad, who is stationed in Korea, can see his play. Hubby met with some of our other cadets for dinner prior to the play.

Saturday we mostly had a ‘down’ day. Hubby had to go meet with the 2 other owners at work, as it was the only time the 3 of them could get together to discuss things because of all the work and travel schedules. He didn’t come home until 12:30-1pm ‘ish. Courtney and I spent some quality time together. We spent a while outside which is where we were when Hubby came home. About 10 minutes before he arrived, Courtney and I were sitting out on the swing and she was yelling out into the air “Dad” and “Daddy”. I think she was trying to figure out where he was. She must have been in a real daddy mood because once he got home; she wanted nothing to do with me and everything to do with him.

When Courtney went down for her nap that afternoon, Hubby and I started doing some serious cleaning of the kitchen. We emptied out several cabinets and got rid of a lot of stuff. We ended up putting 4-5 boxes of stuff in the garage sale pile! And we haven’t gotten through all the cabinets yet! We still have about 5 to go.

Saturday night we had been invited to several things. Poor Hubby was so burnt out from all the traveling and teaching and being social that he just didn’t want to do anything but veg-out. We ended up watching a movie in the basement. I thing he wanted one last quiet night at home before the holidays really hit and things start to get crazy.

Today was another cleaning day. I have been doing tons of laundry, including all sheets and towels from every bedroom and bathroom. Hubby left for the airport about 12:30pm. Nana came up to pick up Courtney about that time to. I was going to a welcome home party for our friend who just got back from England. Nana said she would like to take care of Courtney and then after the party we can all have dinner to celebrate my dad’s birthday at their house. So, she took Courtney down to her house and I went to the party.

The party was fun; it’s always fun to get together with friends, especially when you have a really good reason to celebrate. There was lots of good food and lots of good friends.

Meanwhile, Nana and Grandpa were having too much fun with Courtney. Nana put a small sandbox in her backyard. Courtney apparently is going to be a sandbox kind of girl. She loves to play in it. She also made good use of the small elephant slide Nana has.

When I arrived she was taking her afternoon nap. Shortly after she got up she made it very apparent that she was starving. So Nana made her some spaghetti. She loves to eat spaghetti and she really ‘gets into’ it. She didn’t want to be fed on a fork or spoon, and she didn’t want to use the fork or spoon her self. She wanted to shove fist fulls in her mouth. She was so cute to watch, and she was slurping the noodles in just like always. I thought for sure her nose, cheeks and chin were going to be stained orange.

Later, for dessert we had pumpkin pie. She got her first taste. She loved it. But then, why wouldn’t you love pumpkin pie?! After dessert, we came home and I gave that very dirty little girl a bath. I washed all the spaghetti and pumpkin pie from her hair and all the sand from everywhere else. She was so tired she wouldn’t even let me read her a book. She just kept saying ‘nigh-nigh’ (for night night). I tried to sing her a song and she shook her head no. So, I put her down in her crib and she didn’t make a peep. She is now very soundly sleeping.

She is growing and changing so much. She can’t communicate with us very much other than the short words she knows. But if you tell her something it’s amazing how she understands. Yesterday I was loading her laundry into the washer and she came in. We have a front loading washer, so she walked up to me to see what I was doing. I gave her a sock and told her to put it in the washer. She did! So I gave her a shirt and told her to put that in too, and she did! So, she loaded the washer for me and shut the door when we were done! It’s amazing how much she understands!

She recently cut two molars on the top row of teeth and yesterday I felt point coming through on the bottom. Teething really isn’t fun. She gets really crabby when it gets really bad. That is how I found the two coming in on the bottom. She was really grouchy the other night, so I figured it had to do with teething. Once I found the two new ones coming in I gave her some Tylenol and a teething ring. She will gladly chew on the teething ring now a days. She was never interested in the past. But I am sure that cutting all those teeth is painful!

She says new words all the time too. Today she said Bristol for the first time. Except it comes out more like “Brithol”. Her newest words besides Bristol are: apple, yummy, UP (she says that one a lot), Nagnie (for Maggie), and Happy.

It’s just so much fun to watch her! I sometimes feel like I just can’t get enough!

Well, I too have had a long day, so some sound sleeping sounds really good to me too! I am going to close with the new slogan I have come up with: Rescue and Recycle. Two things I hope we all remember to do!