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Today was not a good day. I hope you find the humor in this, and I hope I will too ... tomorrow.

It started out with a really bad night sleep. Adam was recovering his sleep pattern after getting a really bad migraine and taking a nap on Saturday, so he tossed and turned for hours before finally giving up when Murphy started vommiting in the bedroom at 3am. Murphy had gotten his hair cut yesterday, so I am not sure if that fired him up and made him sick. So Adam headed for the living room while I tried to get back to sleep after cleaning up the bathroom and carpet. I pulled some sholder muscles lifting William and re-agrivated them this weekend, so I couldn't sleep through the pain, even with Advil in my system.

So I finally fell asleep at 5:45am only to have my alarm go off at 6am. I needed to get William into daycare today since Adam had SWAT training in the morning, so I had to wake Will up, which he REALLY didn' t appreciate. So dressing, eating breakfast and getting ready for daycare was much more challenging than usual with the tantrums he was throwing. I finally coaxed him into submission by giving him an airplane magnet (you never know what will work). I got him dropped off okay and drove into work despite cars going 40mph in the rain on the highway.

Then on my way into work my umbrella broke, half the way in so I got wet and was late for my 7:30 am meeting with my boss and his boss among others. Made it through 3 presentations I had to give, and a bunch of meetings. I picked Will up and things were starting to look up. He ate a good dinner, we played with play doh, we read books and he took a bath. I got him dressed in his PJs only to go into the bathroom and catch Murphy throwing up piles (literally inches high) of his half digested dinner.

William came in so I was trying to get him out of the bathroom and I stepped in a giant pile of dog vomit. Easing out of my soaked sock and barf edged pants I proceeded to clean up the mess with TP and flush it down the toilet. So guess what happens then, the toilet clogs! Some how I managed to keep William out of the bathroom long enough to clean up the rest of the floor and get the toilet uncloged. Will thought that cleaning up the floor with TP and then flushing it in the toilet was fun, so he proceeded to further reduce our TP roll with about 4 flushes till I was able to call quits to that too.

What else can possibly happen, or shouldn't I ask. Maybe I should just go crawl into bed and hope for the next day to come soon!

Breakfast on the Farm

We had fun on the farm today. Our CSA farm hosted Breakfast on the Farm, and they had lots of fun things to do for kids, so William had a blast. He jumped in the air castle (he did good getting himself standing and then being bounced around by the older kids).




They had animals in a petting zoo area, and he was so excited to see the animals. On the drive over he kept saying "animals, yeah, yeah, animals".













And we got our pumpkins for the front step. William picked out a little pumpkin he could hold onto. On the ride home he started eating the stem a bit, but I think both him and the pumpkin will survive :)

22 Months

William is now 22 months old. Where has the time gone; in two months I will have a 2 year old! That's crazy!

William stepped on the bathroom scale and is 30lbs, wearing 2T-3T shirts and 2T pants (rolled up a little). His last eye-tooth just popped through the other day, so we are up to 16 teeth. Two year molars are next.

He LOVES the movie "Cars" and wants to watch it all the time, and we are guilty of using it as a motivational tool. But it works so well to get him to do something he doesn't want to, so you gotta go with the flow sometimes.

We went to the park today and rode the mini-train, watched the ducks and saw the deer in their pens. There were about 3 to 4 weddings at the park taking pictures while we were there; hopefully we didn't end up in the background of any of them.

My camera was acting up and not formatting pictures correctly so I lost quite a few I took at the park, but it saved some that we took on the deck while our dinner was cooking. So enjoy the many faces of Will.

Gotta love corn!

We have been enjoying and eating our veggies and fruit from our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). Last box had tons of stuff and one of our favorites was corn on the cob. William helped me out with the husking and had no problem digging in on his ear of corn!





"Brown Puppy" has become a favorite around our house, we have to sleep with it and our bear lovey. We even take it into the bathroom to get it's teeth brushed when William gets his brushed. This brown puppy is pretty old (well as old as me anyways), it is a brown brown bean bag dog with what used to be white ears and has a round black nose.

The story goes that while on a shopping trip long, long ago this puppy was precariously placed hanging over the check out counter. I saw it while sitting in my stroller and I wanted it. My Mom said no, but my Father bought it anyways. It was a favorite of mine through elementary school. And now it has found a new owner who loves it. Grandpa Mc will be happy to hear that.

Watching the movie "Cars" with brown puppy one morning.

After nap today we are off to the Bacon Party. Yep I said Bacon Party, one of my co-workers has thrown a home smoked/cured bacon party for a few years now. So we all get together, enjoy some BLT's and the families play in the yard, while the child free folks play beer pong and listen to the band late into the night. Should be a good time and beautiful weather.

Amma and Appa Visited

Grandma and Grandpa S visited this week and brought with them some fun new things. First off Adam's old tricycle fixed up like new for William. He had fun being pushed around on it, but can't quite reach the peddles yet. We had bought Will some crocs a while ago, but he wanted nothing to do with them on his feet, but the other day while working around the house, both Adam and I put ours on and then all of a sudden William wanted to wear his, and they have been his shoe of choice now for a week.



Grandpa brought out a tent he used to take up to Baudette, MN (way, way up north), so we will have to plan some family campouts next year. No more excuses!


This is William telling Mommy that she needs to come in the tent with him. He is getting bit more demanding and better at giving direction on what he wants. He will tell us "here" and point with his little stubby fingers to his highchair tray to tell us just where he wants his milk, or bowl, etc.

Swinging with Grandma and Daddy. Daddy was on strict orders to push from behind :) Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for visiting and having fun with William, and have fun on your trip out West!
The last two weeks at daycare it was color week, where they asked all the kids to wear shirts with the color of the day. It was great timing as Will is naming colors left and right. His favorites to point out are Blue, Purple, Brown, and Black. And is getting better with Green, Orange, Yellow and Red. He didn't have a purple shirt for this Monday so while we were doing a little shoe shopping for him last weekend, we stopped in at Carters and found a marked down purple "Rock Star" shirt for 2.99. Perfect, and he was so excited to wear his purple shirt.

Will is talking like crazy lately. We had a 15 minute conversation this morning about who likes books and who doesn't like books. It went something like this....

Will: "Momma books"
Erin: "Yes, Momma likes books"
Will: "Daddy books"
Erin: "Yes, Daddy likes books"
Will: "Wm books"
Erin: "Yes, William likes books"
Will: "Puppy no books"
Erin: "That's right puppy doesn't like books"

Repeat this 20 times and you have our conversation. He is stringing together two words most of the time, with an occasional three together. Every day it seems there is a new word he can say. The other day it was "hole", we will see what tomorrows word is.

Hope you all have a fun and restful Labor day weekend!