Stay at home mom

So, I am really getting the hang of this stay at home mom thing! And keeping myself busy while Hubby is away.

Today was the first Thursday morning that Courtney didn't go to day care. Which worked out really well because she had an appointment at 9am with her pulminologist. Which went really well! She can finally come off her Flovent! And she doesn't have to see him again unless we need to! YIPEE! One step in the right direction!

After that, we headed off to the library. Thursday's they have Toddler story time, plus during the summer they have activities for kids at 10:30am. So, we did story time at 10am, which she enjoyed. She didn't participate, but she really enjoyed being there.

Then at 10:30am we went and joined all age kids in their big community room. This lady brought in her "Critters" from her "Critter Caravan". She taught us and showed us her snakes, chinchillas, rats, mice, tarantula, hedgehogs, frogs, and a few others I can't remember. Oh, and hissing Cockroaches. Courtney loved it! She was so attentive to what was going on. And she was so excited when we got to pet the hedgehog at the end.

A kid from her day care class was there. And our neighbors were there with their 2 boys! It was great! My neighbor clued me into a few other free fun kid events upcoming.

So, I am building my resources of free and fun activities to do during the week! I just found out that our local library also does Baby story time for kids under 1 on Monday mornings. That will work out great for Kasey and I, because Courtney will be in day care! I look forward to doing more and more of these kinds of activities with my girls!

Kasey just blows my mind daily now. Yesterday she grabbed my finger and stuck it in her mouth. She is really big into grabbing things now. And most of the time she puts whatever she grabs in her mouth. Typical baby behavior. But it's amazing how active she it! She is really starting to show some personality the last 2 days! She wants to be involved and talked to and paid attention to, or she fusses! Her eating has started to become more regular, not just all over the board for times. Yucky for me is that one of her current regular eating times is 3:30am. Eh, we will get though it.

We took Hubby to the airport early yesterday morning. Since I was out and about I also took Courtney to daycare after we dropped Hubby off. In the 20 minute drive from the airport to her day care we had this discussion about 3 times:

CC:  Why did we take Daddy to the airport?
ME:  Because he is going on a trip
CC:  Why?
ME:  Because he has to work
CC:  Why?
ME:  So he can make money
CC:  Why?
ME:  So he can buy bananas
CC:  Why?
ME:  So we don't go hungry
CC:  Oh.  I want to see more airplanes...

And the night before he left Courtney woke up in the middle of the night yelling "Mommy, Mommy!"  I went in her room, and you know what she wanted?  She wanted to know where Daddy was...  Ugh.  She should have called for him!

We are such a geeky family.  We just got Courtney an iTouch.  It's similar to an iPod, but you can also have videos (movies).  We got it mostly for our trip to Florida in September, plus car trips to my sister's house or Denver to meet up with my sister.  It is a little bit more than she needs, but it's so much easier on us to only have to carry her iTouch instead of a CD player and a DVD player.

We have a little chef on our hands. Courtney loves to cook! We made pizzas Monday night and let Courtney make her own pizza. She had a BLAST! Here are some pics from that:

Waiting is the hardest part!

And Kasey loves to join us at dinner. She loves sitting at the table with us! We finally brought up the highchair for her and she joins us now at the table for dinner time!

We got a letter from our Doolie from the Air Force Academy.  He injured his knee during the first week of Basic Training, and can't seem to recover from it.  So, he is being sent home.  So, we may not have a Doolie this year.  Hubby emailed the Sponsor office and told them that if they have any cadets needing sponsors we would be happy to help out.  What a bummer!