Heeeellllooooooo (Seinfeldesque). Yes. I still refer to Seinfeld.

Feels like all I ever do on here is throw out the occasional lame and ever so slight update. Will try to improve! Possibly.

Soooo. Let's see.... Baby Dude is no longer perfect in the night sleeping department. He's been up since 3 (after already waking up once at 12ish?) and he's in the other room crying whilst I attempt to ignore him so he goes back to sleep. This was not my initial strategy but, like much of my parenting style, it has morphed due to frustration and/or necessity. I am, however, sending lovey vibes his direction, lest you think me neglectful. The bright side of this is he should take a nap! Have I mentioned the dude doesn't nap? 10 minutes here. 16.78 minutes there... He's sounding more imperfect all the time. Oh, but those cheeks! Both kinds!!

I shall now digress to a small list of mostly uninteresting items:

~I've recently discovered Coco likes mushrooms. A lot. I try not to assume the kids will or won't like whatever, I just remember my palate as a kid had about 4 items on it. So they eat what we eat and their palates are thankfully quite large.

~I'm liking Justin more and more lately. This comes and goes, but I'm happy to report that I much more often see the cute than the you're-driving-me-bonkers-now-please(grrr)-take-out-the-overflowing-trash-un-cute. This feeling is largely aided by the fact that I am not pregnant! How I love to be done being pregnant.

~What's that I hear? NOTHING. Dude is officially passed out in the swing. See? Neglect works wonders.

~On Monday, the kids and I met a new friend for a day of fun along with her friends (who I was meeting for the first time). Only after I got home did I realize how very ridiculous my hasty clothing choice looked. Note to self: look in mirror prior to leaving premises. These are the times when the ability to laugh at oneself comes in very handy. Love me, love my crazy.

~I recently met a woman who (referring to a family with 5 children and assuming I only had the two that were with me) said that smart people don't have large families. She has two and that is the ONLY way to go. One is too few, three or more is just beyond ridiculous. WHY oh WHY would anyone want anything other than two?! RIDICULOUS. As you can tell, she and I are on route to being BFF's.

~Just in the past week or so, Mary has been much less.... THIS. But before I could get too excited, she reeled me in yesterday by screeeaming because I told her she was cute. The ultimate of insults. HEAR YE: MARY IS NOT CUTE. I REPEAT. NOT CUTE.