Mommy bloggin..

Anna had her 2 year check up and she's all good. The doctor was very pleased with her verbal skills and exceptionally impressed with her signing - and ability to combine signs to communicate a thought. Me too.

She was 30 1/2 lbs (75-90%) and 35 1/2 in (75-90%) so her doctor was happy with her proportions.

SO each kid out of the shoot has gotten bigger and bigger.... Julia never left the 50% for height or weight until she hit 4 and now she's the super tall one. Anna is 75-90% and then there is Em - rocking the scales/tape measure at 90-105%. We must stop this now or we'll end up with kids in the 125-150%. Not good.

It was great to go to a doctor visit with no referrals to a specialist!

Anna had one shot - and didn't even whimper. I was shocked. At her 18 month visit she screamed for 30 minutes straight. This was much easier for mommy!

Julia had a bad day yesterday - she started by peeing on the floor (yeah - she's 5!) and then it only got worse. She was in time out 3 times by 11am - and then ended up spending an hour in her bed before lunch. The doctor had to ask her to listen to me since she was spazzing out and in turn getting Anna spazzed out. Then she got in trouble twice during her swim lessons. She was supposed to stay and swim with her friend at the pool but I made her leave because of her behavior. Last night Dan commented that everyday he comes home and is amazed that she made it through the day. I have to agree. She's taking every single ounce of energy I have - and I don't have much these days. I don't know whether she's getting sick, whether the move is stressing her out (although she says she can't wait to move - and is actually trying to pack her stuff on a daily basis so we can go faster), is bored to tears with hanging with me all day or what exactly is going on. Whatever it is... I'm done.

Then there is Anna - she's actually being an angel. Still getting into trouble but is starting to listen and follow the rules. She asks me to take her for nap time now and goes straight to sleep. We've converted her crib to the toddler bed position and so that's been an adjustment. She loves to fight us on staying in her bed. It just cracks us up. We're at the stage where we just silently put her back in her bed. She goes back in without a fight and is actually rather pleasant about it - but will do it 100 times a night. Then at about 11 (2 hours after we start) she says "night night" and goes to sleep. Last night it was only an hour.

Emma Leigh. I had to jinx it but for the most part she's been doing much better. Last night she had terrible gas and was up every 2 hours - but just fussy - not screaming in pain. Much more tolerable. During the day she's quite pleasant. She still has a colicky time of evening where she wants to be held and nurse or she lets us have it - but right now we are at a pretty good place with her. It only took 3 months.

Dan is still waiting to hear back on his counter offer since his contact is out of the office this week. His current job just changed their commission policy so that he will not take his accrued commission from this month if he leaves - so he wants out ASAP since he's essentially working for peanuts oh - and filling the gas tank every 2 days - which isn't pretty with gas at $3.

That's about it. Just mostly waiting. Meeting with realtors.