Random Thoughts

Okay, so I haven't had a whole lot I've wanted to post about but seeing as it's been awhile, I thought I'd ramble for a bit....
I'm kind of in a funk right now. My arm is hurting, I see the Doc today, find out if something's wrong (again!), or I'll get the okay to start up some more PT. I'm a little nervous, not too excited, but I'm getting frustrated and wanting to get back to my workout routine and just plain normalcy! My arm just isn't right and I hate doing everything one-handed! Plus, since I haven't been working out lately, I thought it'd be a good time to eat everything in sight! Uggghh! Now I've recently started watching my intake(meaning this is day 2) and trying to do what I can at the gym, but honestly! if only I could be a little more consistent!

Okay, on to better things....Spencer & Carter. Spencer's great and wonderful. He's been going out of his way to do nice things for me, and help me before I even ask. He is an amazing kid. And he's quite the runner. They've been having a Junior Jogger competition between classes at school and every Wed. they run laps around the field behind the playground, and Spencer just runs and runs! Parents could come help out and earn extra laps for their child's class, so I went and ran with Spencer. He could keep up the entire time, 30 min. and even carry on a conversation! (with all his friends, not me, I was extremely out of breath) The kid has some wind. All the other kids just sprint and stop and sprint and stop- trying to not get passed by any of their friends, but in the end can't hold on...Spencer just keeps going and going. His last Junior Jogger day, both Rob and I came to help ensure that his class would win 1st place, and Spence could even keep up with Rob! I think we may have a little track star on our hands. Of course that's only if football doesn't work out.

Carter is super-excited for his upcoming birthday. He tells everyone when it is and then asks when is your birthday? His little voice is super sweet and always makes me smile. His latest wonderful is that he said to me, "Mommy, you're my best fwiend." Oh, I loved that! And I think that he's told everyone else they're his best friend too, even the cat, but I was his first...so I'm holding on to that.

I'm hoping this little funk of mine doesn't last too long. Maybe it's the weather, I would really appreciate a little sunshine and warmth. Tired of the overcast thing.
Send some rays my way!

Our New Bedtime Routine

After our trip to Idaho/Utah over Thanksgiving, Carter got used to someone (ME)sleeping right next to him every night, that ever since we got home he would plead and ask me to, "pease lay wif me mommy?" I love snuggling with him, and I can't say no to those words combined with his sweet little voice and please?! But after awhile, -2 weeks straight-, both Rob and I decided that this routine needed to change. So instead of laying with him after we said our family prayers, I decided to kneal next to him and sing some Christmas songs. What started out as a few random songs has ended up being these 3 favorites in ALWAYS this order: Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, Jingle Bells, and Santa Clause is Coming to Town. After doing this every night since the beginning of December Carter has learned many of the words. He loves to sing along to his favorite parts, ....well shout really. For example in between the pauses of the Rudolph song, ....Then one foggy Christmas Eve, Santa came to say, Carter will yell, "HO HO HO!" AND oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh.... "Hey!" AND, especially when he starts shouting the lines, "ya betta not pout! ya betta not cwy! Santa Cwaus is coming to town!" --that I'm willing to sing these Christmas songs well into the summer! Hopefully, I can capture it on camera in the next few days and you can all hear how enthusiastic he gets!