Today is my 4th Mother’s Day. I count my first as when I was pregnant with Laura. If she would have come then, she would have had a great chance of survival. It never ceases to amaze me how fast time seems to go where the kids are involved. I have a hard time believing that Laura will be 3 in one month (give a few days). I look at Warren and can’t believe how fast he is growing. I often times get caught up in what I wish he was doing (mainly sleeping better) and forget to focus on the current. He is making huge progress today with crawling. He will be cruising by the end of the week for sure. He is also pulling himself up a lot! If you are near him on the floor, he wants to stand. He is tired of sitting/laying on the floor. I am so excited for him as he reaches another milestone. I had a nice bonding moment tonight with Laura. She sat on my lap and we played a game on the computer together. And to punctuate my post, Laura just walked out of the bathroom from taking her bath. She has a towel wrapped around herself and is calling it a bra. I am really not ready for that!
Also with the time flying, I can’t believe that Robert and I have been together for 7 years. At this point, it is hard to remember what life was like without him. Of course we have our problems, but every couple does. I have actually said before that if a couple doesn’t have problems, then that is a huge problem.
Robert is off to Green Bay this week for training for work. He will leave for work tomorrow morning around 7:15 and I won’t see him until sometime Thursday night. :( I am a bit nervous about having both kids on my own for 4 days. I am working 3 of those days, but that may or may not be helpful. I will have to get the kids ready for daycare on my own in the mornings, but on the plus side, I’ll have some “me” time while at work. The downside is that Laura tends to be more demanding for attention in the evenings on the days that I do work. I’m sure we’ll be fine. I know that we’ll make it, but I’ll be very happy when he is back home on Thursday. I know the kids are going to miss Robert a lot too. Warren is very much a daddy’s boy. Laura has a special place for her daddy too. I do have a new laptop now that has a built-in webcam, so they can see each other in the evenings. I think that will help the kids (and myself) to be able to chat and see him while he is gone.
As I just mentioned, I have a new laptop. My other one has finally died. The power plug was coming unsoldered from the motherboard so power was iffy. It didn’t help that the battery had about 10 minute life. The wireless connection was spotty too. Once I had it it worked great, but it didn’t always reconnect after waking up. It wasn’t uncommon to take 6 or more restarts to get a wireless connection back. If I put too much of a load on the computer, it would get very hot on the bottom, and then shut itself down or just not work properly. Keep in mind, the biggest load I would ask it to do would play a few flash games. It was definitely time to get a new computer for me. So now I have a nice 15″ MacBook Pro. :) Robert says it is faster than any computer he has used. :) I know he’ll get a new one for work in a few years and then it will be better than this one, but for the time being, I’m having fun with it.
We took the kids to get pictures done yesterday morning. We decided to try out a new photographer since Michelle most likely won’t be able to do pictures for us easily in a few months. We tried out Sandy Brecht (www.sandybrechtphotography.com) and really liked her. She handled the kids really well. The session itself lasted only about 30 minutes. Warren had had enough by then, and Laura was getting goofy. Plus our number of shots was up. We have the originals on a disc, which I will upload to our photo gallery soon. I need to pick out a few of the shots to get prints made up to give to family/friends.
Time to wrap this up and spend some quality time with my husband and baby boy. Little girl is in bed for the night now.