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My Life Thus Far
2009-05-07 08:59:45 (UTC)

A Major Milestone

Once again, I'm wishing I'd written earlier. I had things
I'd wanted to write about, but I waited too long and now
I've forgotten. Oh well, I guess it wasn't that important.

Physically I'm feeling better. The cramps are gone, my
back is feeling better. My uterus is back where it belongs
(not that it had actually gone anywhere, but it felt like
it was falling out there for a minute). My shoulder is
still sore, but after reading some descriptions of torn
rotator cuff symptoms online (Snookums thought that's what
I'd done) I'm not convinced that my injury is that
serious. The pain is located more in the deltoid than in
the shoulder itself. I think if I just baby it a little
for a few days it'll be okay.

Keenan had a big day today :) For lunch, he ate his first
chicken nugget (one of Kiki's favorites). I'd given Kiki
her lunch and went back in the kitchen to make my own.
Keenan was sitting in his swing (which has a little snack
tray on it) and when I came back into the room Kiki had
broken one of her nuggets up into tiny little pieces and
was putting them on his tray :) It was so cute. Keenan
scooped up the pieces with his pudgy little fingers and
raked them into his mouth like it was the best thing he'd
ever tasted! I guess now I'll have to throw a couple extra
into the oven for Little Man, too. He's growing up so
fast.

A major milestone has been reached! Keenan crawled today!
He's got this little piano that used to be Kiki's. She's
having a hard time parting with her baby toys, so she was
sitting on the floor banging away at the piano and Keenan
was so determined to get to it that he FINALLY shuffled
across the living room floor on his hands and knees. It
wasn't exactly crawling, but his tummy was up off the
floor and he used his hands and legs to get to her. It
looked more like frog-hopping than crawling, but it was
something! It made me a little sad that Snookums missed
it, but I think he'll make it home in time for Keenan's
first steps. That's something I really don't want him to
miss.

Snookums sent me flowers today :) A little arrangement of
Lavender Roses, Hot Chocolate Calla lilies and Pink
Tulips. I shouldn't have, but I couldn't help myself. I
looked at our account online to see how much he paid for
them. $57.35 - I don't think it was worth it, but I still
love them. I know some women would kill to have their
husbands send them flowers and it's not that I'm not
grateful, I just don't need him to do that. When he's home
he'll buy me big, beautiful bouquets of wildflowers and
Stargazer Lilies and I love them. I keep them on my
nightstand. Roses are a waste of money to me. They're
expensive and not as beautiful (to me) as other varieties
of flowers. I sound ungrateful. Let me just shut up about
it. I sent him an email thanking him for them. I figured
they were my Mother's Day gift, but he says I've got
something else coming. I already know where it's from. I
saw the payment for it online, too. But I didn't tell him
that. All I know is that it's from Build-A-Bear. The rest
is a surprise.

I waited until Annie got home from school to go to the gym
as is customary on Wednesday's I don't have to work. I had
an on-call, but they didn't need it, so we got to stay at
the gym longer than usual. Annie has been enrolled in this
program called Fit Kids for the past couple of years (she
used to do it at the Youth and Teen center when she was in
daycare. Now she's doing it at the Y). It's a little
exercise class that gets kids up and moving around. So she
did that while I worked out. I'm so proud of her. She's
growing up so fast and is actually sticking with the after
school programs she asks to join.

Speaking of Annie, she's changing. She's starting to look
like a teenager and I don't like it! Almost overnight she
went from being a flat-chested little girl to being a not-
as-flat-chested, not-so-little girl. I noticed a few days
ago that she's wearing the little training bras I bought
her a while ago and they're getting too small (30A's).
She's shot up, filled out and getting (dare I say it?)
more curvy - not to mention moody as hell. I don't want to
scare her with my massive amounts of bleeding, so I'll
hold off on the tampon insertion demonstrations, but I
left all of my menstruation paraphernalia on the bathroom
counter just so she'll be familiar with it. If she takes
after me (as it seems like she is) she might start her
period within the year. I don't like it at all. I was
younger than her when I started changing, so I shouldn't
be surprised, but it's a lot harder than I thought it
would be. Snookums will be shocked when he gets home.

I need to go to bed. I was doing better since I moved to
the couch, but tonight I'm back to my old bad habit of
staying up too late. Ciao.




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