February 1, 2012

In 15 minutes or less . . .

Random thoughts on my life right now . . .
  • Ben's favorite thing to say right now is, "Knock it off, cheesey head." I don't know why.

  • I'm so bad at giving Claire tummy time. Just one more thing to feel guilty about, I suppose.

  • Have I ever mentioned how much we love Bob Evans? We love that kids eat free on Tuesdays. We also like their takeout family meals. For $20 we can get a fairly well balanced meal that will give us dinner and two lunches. I asked for Bob Evans gift cards for Christmas. Between those, the meals friends brought us, the few I made ahead of time and camp meals, we only cooked once from when Claire was born through last week. It was awesome.

  • Claire has outdone her brothers when it comes to the "biggest poop" award. They're not explosive exactly . . . there's just a lot of it. Last Tuesday afternoon, she started going while I was changing her on my office floor and it was like this never ending fountain of poo. I had to construct a little dam of wipes around the changing mat from preventing the overflow from spilling onto the carpet. I was contemplating calling in FEMA. It was that big.

  • I've re-entered that alternate universe in which you talk openly about things like poop and cracked nipples, as if everyone talks about that sort of thing in casual conversation. And only when you see the uncomfortable glances at the floor do you realize that you're snapped back into reality and you realize that you're speaking to college students or single men who are unaware that this universe even exists. Doesn't that make you want to be my friend?

  • In the car last week, Ben requested a Katy Perry song. Shortly after, Kyle found a dirty diaper in his pocket that he had forgotten to throw away. I couldn't decide which was more disgusting to me.

  • I've always HATED dark chocolate, but around 30 weeks pregnant, I started craving it. The craving hasn't ended. My favorites are the Ghirardelli chocolate squares in dark & raspberry and dark & salted caramel.

2 comments:

Jen said...

I'm sure Claire will thank you for this post when she's thirteen ;)

Also, now I'm craving Ghirardelli chocolate.

Angie Peterson said...

My favorite are the ghiradeli dark chocolate with caramel! so delicious. I keep a bag in the freezer just for those days when eloise won't take a nap!