As I sit here on the couch with Daniel draped over my chest, I look over and realize that, yet again, Michael is siiting in my chair. My chair being the one he bought just for me when I was seriously pregnant with Gloria and could not get comfortable in bed. It’s the chair that I nursed her in every night and the chair that I used to help me put my feet up in when I was carrying Daniel.
For the past several weeks, Michael has occupied this chair during the evening time. I think it might have started when he decided to settle down in it while holding his sleeping son and I was up doing laundry or something. Now it seems to have become a habit. I noticed that even when I walk Daniel to sleep, Michael is still in my chair. It’s a good thing I like this couch so much.
Both of the babies have runny noses. It started yesterday, but I think today all I did was wipe noses, chase noses that were tired of being wiped, and pulled Gloria’s snotty hair off of her face. For some reason, Daniel prefers to use my shirt as a handkerchief, so my shoulders are pretty crusty. Thankfully, Gloria is in good spirits for the most part. She didn’t sleep well last night, but she has been her normal sweet self today. Daniel on the other hand just wants to be held. He also wants to get down and play but can’t figure out how to be held by Mommy and do that at the same time.
We had the BEST dinner tonight. The nearest Texas Roadhouse teamed up with Valley Elementary’s PTO for a fund raiser and cooked up some delicious ribs, hot dogs, potatoes, , and rolls! An adult meal with a generous half slab of ribs, roll, potatoes, and green beans (love their green beans!) for $10! That is a really good deal. They sent along bags of peanuts and their cinnamon butter as well. Since I didn’t have to cook tonight, I took the opportunity to make some blueberry cobbler for dessert, but I am stuffed!
Right now, we are watching an episode of Knight Rider (remember that silly show from the 80′s?) and waiting for the aforementioned cobbler to cool. Gloria and Daniel are sitting on Michael’s lap HUGGING each other and giggling. Yes. Daniel HUGS. When you first pick him up and put him to your shoulder, he hugs, wiggles, and then pats us on the back.
I’m sure you are wondering about the snowy picture of our house at the top of the page. Well, it actually SNOWED here in Alabama, and in March no less!
We awoke Sunday morning to Thomas charging in to proclaim, “It’s SNOWING!!!!” After racing around and getting everyone dressed somewhat appropriately, we rushed out to play in it. Usually snow last a few hours here at most, but this stuff kept coming and was seriously sticking, so we found some heavier coats that we put on AFTER all the pictures were taken. We took a walk in it, tasted it on our tongues, put it on our heads, tracked it in on the floor, and slid around a good bit. Thomas went to play at a neighborhood friend’s house later and said he tried to make a snow angel, “but it turned out more like a snow butterfly.” Needless to say, we had much fun playing in the cold and then coming in to warm up by our wood burning fireplace.
The first thing Thomas did was make a snowball and throw it at the camera man-er woman.
Gloria with snowy hair
Daniel’s cozy ride
My lumberjack husband
My favorite-the forsythia bush simultaneously covered in snow and blooms
Just a couple to show how lovely it looked in our woods
I promise I’ll stop after this one-It’s a big magnolia tree covered in snow. Looks like Christmas to me!
I took a LOT of pictures. It was simply lovely. I couldn’t imagine living with it around all the time though.
Michael has been working on and off all weekend to get this ready for me. Now I have to think of something interesting to say and so far all I can come up with is, “Thanks, Michael.”
No. Wait. I thought of something. Daniel had a rough time last night. He seemed to want to nurse but then would kick at me and push me away while he was still attached. It was very frustrating for us both and I couldn’t figure out what his problem was. This morning during Sunday school, Michael said he spent a lot of time gagging and playing with his tongue. I went to nurse him and he acted the same as he had been acting in the night. Finally, I took him off, he screamed and I saw a small piece of dried leaf stuck to the roof of his mouth. In the struggle to remove it he ended up gagging on it several times and then finally swallowing it. After that he nursed wonderfully and fell asleep peacefully. Wow. The poor kid had been struggling with that piece of leaf in his mouth all night long! Now I have something else to check off on my list of “Things that Make Daniel Behave Oddly.” Sheesh.
And the Waffle House we go to every Sunday after church was strangely empty when we went today. I hope it was just due to the time change. We love our Waffle House and the cooks and waitresses who know us and take care of us. They see us coming and start the decaf brewing! We want business to be good for them.
Michael says I can come back and just make another entry if I have more to say. Ha! There’s ALWAYS more.
General | Melissa | 
March 12, 2009 9:35 pm | 
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