You are my sunshine

This morning Ethan woke up early fussing (a little after 6:00am). He fussed for about 30 minutes until he finally went back to sleep and I thought "thank goodness...now I can go back to sleep!". Not so fast! Just afterwards there was banging on my bedroom door. It was Blythe. I asked if she needed to go potty, but she didn't. She was just up and now, so was I. What happened to my perfect little sleeper that went to bed at 8:00pm and didn't wake up until 8:00am?

I got a little more of the booby story this morning at daycare. Braden and I were a little confused because yesterday after we had "the talk" about not showing her boobies to people, she said something about "balls" and Braden and I looked at each other like "what is going on at day care???". So anyway, what she was actually doing on the playground was putting balls in her shirt and saying, "Look at my boobies!". So that makes perfect sense! She totally picked that up from me....uh, no, just kidding. I don't have to use balls these days since I'm still nursing :) Actually they said one of the girls in the 3/4's room was doing it, so likely Blythe picked that up from her.

Ethan is still working his commando crawl, but getting a little better at it. He's also now attempting to pull up on anything he can. I remember this stage from when Blythe was that age and it is not fun. You turn around for a second and next thing you know, they're falling down and crying. He's also now eating foods with more texture...phase 3 baby food, small pieces of bread, etc. He's starting to do pretty well at it.

Ethan was SOO tired again tonight, so he went down at 7:15. Hope that doesn't mean he wakes up at 6:15. Anyway, Blythe had time after that to be silly and sing songs. Here she is being silly:

And here she is singing "You are my sunshine". So cute!

Blythe's first haircut and Ethan says Da Da

We had a really fun afternoon/evening today filled with several "firsts". I got finished with work early, and Blythe has been needing a haircut, so I decided to pick her up early from day care and take her to get her hair cut. Last Christmas-time, I trimmed it once so it wouldn't be so mullet-ish and a few months ago my mom trimmed her hair. Other than that, she has not had a haircut. So today was the first time going somewhere to get it done. We went to Supercuts. Pretty much we were in and out in less than 10 minutes. No tears and fairly good cooperation, so it was a success. Only non-cooperation was not looking at me when I tried to take her picture before:

And after:

Then we swung by Walmart to pick up some groceries and went back to the day care to pick up Ethan.

At home Blythe and I made a pizza (she put on the cheese and all the toppings), which turned out quite tasty! Ethan was so happy sitting in his high chair eating his puffs, which he's gotten really good at picking up and eating now. I was just thinking this morning that he hasn't tried talking much in the last week or so, probably because he's been focusing on trying to crawl. Then tonight at the dinner table he said "Da Da". Several times. And he was so excited with himself. Daddy was pretty excited too. So that was another new first. Hopefully "Ma Ma" isn't too far off.

We went to do bath after dinner since Ethan was getting so tired and I had to hold him off. Blythe said she wanted a bath too. In the tub, Ethan was going crazy splashing and laughing and splashing and laughing. I wish I had had my camera to video him. He was so funny! He crashed pretty hard though later as he was SOOO tired. Cute little man.

Oh, and when I picked up Blythe at day care, they asked me if she knew the word "booby". Obviously she does (since her baby eats boobies), so I said yes. They said she was out on the playground lifting up her shirt and trying to push her boobies together and saying "look at my boobies". They wanted to make sure she hadn't learned that at day care. Well she may have learned the word "boobie" at home, but she didn't learn the rest of that here! Where would she have picked that up? So Braden and I had a talk with her that she shouldn't show people her boobies. I don't think she was really listening. I think we'll likely have to have that talk again.

Picture Day

FINALLY...I got my full 8 hours of sleep last night :) There were no potty accidents and Ethan slept without any fussing all night long. Yeah! I'm sure Ethan was quite tired since yesterday he took a whopping 1 nap at day care for 30 minutes.

Today was picture day at day care. I like this new company that is doing the pictures since you get proofs same day. Ethan had one cute picture. The rest looked like he was staring in amazement at the camera (or likely whatever the camera person was holding up to make him smile). Blythe also has some cute ones. And they took some of the kids together. These pictures usually come out much better than when we take the kids to Sears or wherever because at day care mom and dad aren't there. So - 1. Blythe actually smiles, and 2. Blythe doesn't cry. And apparently she was so excited to take pictures with "her baby Ethan", whereas at Sears when mom and dad try to get her to lay next to him she acts like he has cooties. We did just recently get a bunch of pictures of Ethan at Sears, so we'll probably just order Blythe and the kids together.

We got a package today from Grams that had Halloween lights. We already had some skeleton lights that light up green. Now we also have pumpkin lights and candycorn lights. We also put candles in the pumpkins Braden had carved. So we are all ready for Halloween (except for the other 2 pumpkins that will need to be carved). Here is the front porch all lit up:

And here are close ups of our pumpkins:

Pretty scary, huh?

Ethan's on the move!

12:15...that's when Blythe was crying in the hall last night. I have to give her credit - she at least has been trying to go in the potty. That's a million times better than peeing in her bed. But still, normally she has a bladder of steel! Why has she suddenly felt the need to go pee in the middle of the night for the last 3 nights straight?! Again she got up out of bed, opened her door, made it to the bathroom, and then peed on the floor right next to the potty. But every time she has gone in her panties, so I'm assuming she just had to go too bad to actually make in the potty. Anyway, again she went back to her room, got new clean panties and put those on. Problem was that she had jammies that buttoned at the nape of the neck and she couldn't get them off. That's why she was crying and woke us up. So again I had to read Green Eggs and Ham in the middle of the night. Tonight, we cut off the liquid intake at 6:30 and made her go potty at 7:00 and again at 7:45. Guess we'll see how tonight goes.

On a lighter note - Ethan is on the move!!! I wouldn't say he's crawling, but he's definitely making forward progress. "Creeping" is what they call it. He started this yesterday afternoon. Yes Mom - just hours after you left. After his nap we realized he hadn't had much chance to practice over the weekend. He was in a baby backpack, stoller, car seat, exersaucer much of the weekend. So we put him down and made some block towers as motivation (he LOVES to knock them over!). And there he went! It's quite tiring for him. He has to take rests often. Soon he'll figure out that it's easier to be up on all fours. So 7 months and a week. That's one week earlier than Blythe was. Crazy how they keep on almost the same schedule. Anyway, here's a clip of our little man making his way toward Elmo (another great motivator...Blythe's first time "creeping" was to Elmo too).

Several accidents

So the night before last wasn't any better. Actually it was worse. We've probably been spoiled by having children that are such great sleepers, so yes, I will gripe if my 8 hours of sleep is interrupted. At about 3:30 yesterday morning Blythe was screaming and crying (supposedly from a bad dream), so I went in there to check on her. She had me lay in her bed and insisted I read her a book (at 3:30 in the morning). Since it was dark in there and I couldn't see, I recited Green Eggs and Ham by heart until she fell asleep. Then I went back to my room. Shortly after Braden left for practice at 6:30am, Blythe came crying into the hallway to wake me up. She had wet the bed. She hadn't done that in a long time, so that was odd. I got her cleaned up and tried to get her to go back to sleep in my room, but there was none of that. We were up for the day.

Gommy and Laura came to visit yesterday. They got here around 11:15 (actually a few minutes after since Speedy Gonzalez got a ticket on the way). We decided to go back to the pumpkin patch since Ethan didn't get to go before and neither did Daddy. Plus the weather was gorgeous again. We took the hay ride out to the patch and picked out 2 REALLY big pumpkins so we could carve them. And by "we", I mean Braden. Here we are on the hayride:

After we picked put our pumpkins in the car, we got some food to eat. Blythe had a balanced meal of Cheetos and Ice Cream. Since she's a semi-vegetarian, she won't eat a hot dog or a BBQ sandwich, so there you go. After eating, we headed down to the ponies to see if Blythe would ride one. We'd been hyping up the pony ride since we pulled into the parking area, and she seemed up for it. We actually didn't have to do that much convincing. She picked out the small pony and went for a pony ride.

We went back to pet the other farm animals and Blythe liked feeding the sheep, the goats, and the donkey. The sheep was quite aggressive and kept banging her foot on the gate to tell us she wanted more.

Lastly Gommy paid for Blythe to ride on the miniature pony carriage ride.

On the way home we were trying desperately to keep Ethan awake so he and Blythe would take naps at the same time. He barely stayed awake and when we got home we were all wrapped up with him, with diaper change, bottle, etc. Guess we didn't pay enough attention to Blythe because she had ANOTHER potty accident. I wonder what's up with that. Anyway, both kids napped for a while and then, since we had free babysitters, Braden and I went out to dinner and to the movie to see "Body of Lies". It was nice to get a good date night in!

I did get a fairly uninterrupted night of sleep last night (just at 6:30 this morning Ethan was fussing so I put his blanket over him and he settled down). Though when I went in to get Blythe this morning, her door was open (which was odd) and she had pajama pants and panties on the floor. She was in bed with a new pair of panties on. She said she tried to go potty. I asked if she peed in her bed and she said no. I felt around and she had not. Then I went into the bathroom and there was pee on the floor next to the potty. So - she actually did get out of bed, open her door, went to the bathroom, ALMOST made it to the potty (but went on the floor/in her pants instead), then went back to her room, got out of her dirty pants, put on new panties, and went back to bed. At what time this happened, I have no idea. No one ever heard her. So that's good that she tried, but disheartening that she had 3 accidents in 24 hours.

Today Braden carved 2 of the pumpkins. One big one and one small one. Here is Braden and Blythe with the small one that says "VT".

Blythe's friend Ginsey came over and she and Blythe played very well together. They were being so silly! I had a few candycorn men left over from the 2's art project, so I let them put some together.

So another great weekend. I love Fall in Blacksburg!

VT soccer game

Most mornings I wake up between 6:45 and 7:15 with Ethan "talking" or maybe even fussing a little as my alarm clock. I get him up, we go downstairs, play a little, let the dogs out, and then go wake Blythe up at about 7:45. But this morning I woke up to someone screaming and trying desperately to get in my room shouting "It's dark in here!". Of course that someone was Blythe. In my "no glasses" blindness, I thought it was 7:30 and Ethan was sleeping late, but then realized it was only 7:00. And of course, she had now woken Ethan as well. She did this 2 days ago too, though I was already up at the time. Hope it's not a continuing habit.

A couple of weeks ago I volunteered to come to "Family Friday" in Blythe's class at day care at do an art project. I bought a little kit at Walmart to make 20 candycorn men, where you stick on the hat, eyes, mouth, arms, and legs. I think the kids liked them though they were probably a little too difficult for the ones that were just barely 2 in the class. Afterwards I played outside with the 2's for a little while before I went to get Ethan and we went home.

The swimmers didn't have practice this afternoon, so Daddy got home early. We decided to go to the soccer game (VT was playing Maryland). Ethan had only taken 1 nap today, so he was quite tired and slept most of the time. Blythe jumped on bleachers seats, climbed back and forth to the seat behind us (and of course fell and cried), ran around, and basically did everything except watch the soccer game. Oh well. It was starting to get a bit chilly out so Blythe wore the "beanie" Daddy got last year for the H20kies. It was pretty cute. Here she is wearing it:

After Ethan woke up, he got to wear it too:

They had a good time, but of course we left at halftime. No chance we'll stay for a full game of any VT sport with these 2 for quite some time.

Exciting times for Ethan

It took Ethan a while to go to sleep tonight...he was just too excited! Not sure exactly why he was so excited, he just was. I'll take that over cranky any day of the week. I had a 5pm meeting today, so I asked Braden to pick up the kids from day care. Then he called and said he was going to go by Target after he got them so he could pick up a few things for his office. A little before 6pm, they weren't home and I was missing them already so I called and they were in Walmart (Target didn't have what he was looking for). I was kind of bummed because they wouldn't be home for a little while and I was thinking about how little time I would have with them before it was bed time. How crazy is it that I can't really enjoy a bit of time to myself? I'd just rather they all be home (or at least with me). Good thing I don't have 5pm meetings too often.

Both kids were starving by the time they got home! I need to check Blythe's day care menu to see what she ate (or didn't eat) today. Of course, the whole time she was with Daddy out shopping she was an angel, but when she gets home to me the whining started in full force. I think it was mostly to do with being hungry. I just made chicken tenders (which looked way bigger on the picture on the bag...they're really just skinny chicken nuggets) and mac n' cheese. Blythe ate 8 chicken tenders! Which meant I only got 3 and Braden got 7. Not like they're my favorite anyway. Ethan also had 2 meals basically. A normal serving of cereal and then a whole 2nd stage baby food. He also is starting to get the whole "pick up a puff and feed it to himself" thing. He's starting to realize it's not that hard and maybe it actually is better to do that than wait for Mommy to get Blythe's juice/cereal/hairbrush/baby that fell on the floor.

After dinner we played in the living room and got out the musical instuments so we could freshen up our "skills". Here is Ethan playing the maracas. He was really going to town!

Afterwards it was time for bed. We got into Ethan's room and I totally forgot that earlier I had started to lower his mattress (since he's been trying to pull up). So we had to finish up that job. I wasn't really paying attention to Ethan much, but I think he may have been making some forward progress. He seemed a little closer every time I looked that way. And he was SO excited! Too excited to go to sleep for a little while I guess.

Ethan also cut one of his front 2 teeth today (or really last night). Didn't seem to bother him though. So now he has 3 teeth!

And I also want to say congratulations and "Happy Anniversary" to my brother Doug and sister-in-law Lynette. 4 years they've been married and how time has flown by!

The Pumpkin Patch

Today Blythe had her Pumpkin Patch field trip with her class at day care. I was able to move a couple of meetings around so I could go too. For some reason it took us forever to get out of the house this morning, but we didn't have to be at day care until 9:15, so it was okay. When we got there I took Blythe to her room so she could stay there while I took Ethan to his room. I could smell that Ethan had pooped on the way to day care this morning, but I had no idea until I went to hand him over that he had blown out of his diaper ALL over his shirt, which was then ALL over my jacket. Lovely. And today was quite a chilly day too.

Amy Freel and I rode together and took Ashley and Blythe separate from the day care vans, so fortunately we had time to swing by the house and grab a new jacket. We still beat the vans by about 10 minutes. Of course when the vans got there, it was chaos. 2 year olds running around all over the place. We coralled them for a few seconds to take a class picture.

Then it was off to the tractor hayride which took us to the "kids" pumpkin patch. This is where there are smaller pumpkins, which are probably too small to carve. Blythe and Ashley didn't waste any time and went quickly to find a pumpkin (in the farthest away spot they were allowed to go).

Here's Blythe with the pumpkin she picked out.

Next it was time to go to the petting zoo area where there were chickens, turkeys, sheep, goats, pigs, cows, a donkey, and a horse. Blythe loved it there. She especially liked the turkeys, I guess because they were the loudest. Here she is talking about the pigs that "eat mud".

And here she is trying to find out the names of the Sheep and her two baby lambs.

While a whole bunch of the 2 year olds went potty (in port-a-johns...thank goodness Blythe didn't have to go!), the rest of the bunch practiced milking a cow (a fake cow...with water). Then the last thing was the maze. They actually have a REALLY big corn maze at the pumpkin patch, but they also have a toddler maze with some hay bales. Here she is finishing up the maze.

So it was a fun trip. Good to get them out of their day care room even if it is complete chaos. Next year I guess I'll be going on 2 pumpkin patch field trips with each of the kids.

Ethan is 7 months old!

Ethan is 7 months old today! Where has the time gone? When Blythe was a baby time practically stood still. I think because I still remembered what it was like to be childless and do whatever you wanted to and just get in the car and go somewhere whenever you felt like it. Now that's too far in the distant past and life has completely changed (in a good way). Now time seems to fly by and I want to hold on to these days of Ethan being completely dependent on me. I guess they do have to grow though.

Blythe was in a cranky mood this morning. Daddy came home only for about 10 minutes after morning practice before he headed back to work and I think she may have heard him. When she came downstairs she said, "I wanna see Daddy". She looked so disappointed when I told her he had already gone. Just before it was time to go to day care she threw a fit about putting on her shoes, so I got mad, then she started SCREAMING at me (what is with this new screaming phase she's got going on?). So anyway, that earned her a spot in timeout for 2 minutes. Her nose had been running pretty bad this morning (and it's really bad when she's crying) and when I checked on her after 2 minutes she was sitting on the step leaning over and the snot was hanging out of her nose at least 2 inches, I kid you not. Gross! I am not looking forward to the winter sick season!

When we got to school, her little friend Nora came running to see her when Blythe walked in the room. How awesome would that be as an adult if people came running because they were so excited to see you every day at work or at home? Anyway, Blythe says to Nora, "Get back to the carpet!" (the carpet is where they dump the toys and the kids play with them). Then she says it again..."Get back to the carpet!". Geez, what a bossy little girl. Where does she get that from??? The day care teacher said yesterday when Nora's mom came to pick her up, Nora said to her mom. "You can't tell me what to do, you're not my teacher". How true that is....

Ethan did feed himself a banana puff tonight. The first few he wouldn't touch, so I had to put them in his mouth. Blythe feeds him some puffs sometimes too, so I suppose that doesn't help things either. Anyway, at one point he picked one up (between is forefinger and thumb even) like he was a pro at it and put it right in his mouth. Good job!!

Gommy and Pop anniversary

Today is my parents' 36th wedding anniversary. Since I haven't been alive for 36 years, that seems like a really long time to me. And it is! Unless they are very good actors, they are still going strong and very much in love. Congratulations Mom and Dad!

There really wasn't anything significant today that I feel compelled to write about. Still no crawling for Ethan, though he was making very good progress tonight when he was tired and fussy (so again, too wound up to even notice he was making progress). He's been eating those banana puffs for over a week now and he only fed them to himself on the second day. Ever since then he won't even try. I put them on his tray and he won't even look at them. I have to actually put the puff in his mouth and then he thoroughly enjoys it. Maybe that was my downfall...doing the work for him. Now he's lazy and doesn't want to try to do it by himself. I also gave him a "biter biscuit". One of those cookies that is really hard so they just gum it until mush comes off and they eat it. I gave him one the other day too. That time he was able to bite a big piece off and I had to pull it out of his mouth before he choked on it. Today he did the same thing. It was a more mushy piece though so I let him try to work on gumming it before swallowing it. He did well, though he gagged several times and I thought it was all going to come up, but it didn't. Must be strange for babies those first times when something solid goes down the throat after never having had that feeling before.

There was a new baby in the nursery at day care today. Another boy. The girl who he replaced turned 1, so she moved to the toddler room. She was the "biter" in the nursery, so glad to see her move up. One more girl will move up next week and be replaced by another boy. Then there will be 6 boys and 2 girls. Blythe's class is the other way around. Way more girls than boys.

Anyway, now I'm just rambling and 'Prison Break' is coming on pretty soon, so I better log off!

Checking email

So today Braden and I were in the living room and noticed Blythe had disappeared for a little while. I found her in my office sitting in my chair at the computer. When I asked her what she was doing, she said, "I'm checking my email". Clearly must be a term we use A LOT! She doesn't really have an email account (because what would be the use if you can't read or write?) I'm going to guess it won't be that long though before she does have one. How crazy will that be??!!

Ethan didn't start crawling this weekend even with quite a bit of coaching and encouragement. He can do the "butt scoot" on his back, and he has pretty much perfected turning while on his stomach, but there is no forward motion. Wonder if he's as frustrated as I am.

Anyway, today the weather was gorgeous! Blythe, Ethan, and I walked to 7-Eleven this morning to get the Sunday paper. Have done that the last 3 Sundays now. I'm into the coupon clipping now...hey, anything to save some here and there! Braden had meetings with recruits in the morning. Later we went to Old Navy for the Columbus Day $14.92 sale. Got a few things. Is tomorrow Columbus Day? I hope so because that would mean a bank holiday which means no clients calling. Anyway, we went to Panera for lunch, but by this time it was almost 2:00. Should've known. While we were there Blythe reached the meltdown stage. She was being so fidgety and almost knocked over the table so I got mad at her and she started SCREAMING (so of course everyone is looking at us). Ethan of course is delighted because she's crying. So I make her sit under the table in time out because that will at least muffle the screaming. So anyway, that was an awesome lunch.

Both kids slept for about an hour and a half at the SAME TIME!!!! Whoo hooo! In the evening Tommy came by (Ethan's godfather) before he had to drive back to Virginia Beach. Blythe was excited to see him and got a little sad when he had to go. All in all, another good weekend.

Hokie football game

Man am I tired! Today was a fun, but exhausting day. At about 11:30 the kids and I met up with Braden at the tailgating spot for the Hokie football game (against Western Kentucky..obviously an easy win). I had previously hyped up the Hokie Bird birthday party to Blythe which was today for the Hokie Kids Club. Which was also the reason we had an extra ticket for Blythe to the game (one game a year for the Hokie Bird birthday party they give out a select number of tickets to the kids). We didn't have a ticket for Ethan...more on that later. So anyway, Braden says he doesn't want to go to the Hokie Bird Birthday party, so whatever, I put Ethan in the baby backpack and Blythe in the stoller and get ready to make the 1/2 mile trek to the party. Just before we leave, Braden's boss's daughter (who's 3) says she wants to go too. So I offer to take her too. So it's me, a 6 month old, a 2 year old, and a 3 year old walking 1/2 mile (each way) to the birthday party. We made it there no problem, got some cake, said "hi!" to Hokie Bird, got Blythe's face painted with some bird tracks, and then headed back. At least it was a good way to burn some time (and some calories!).

So we didn't have a ticket for Ethan and we knew we were supposed to, but he's strapped to me and we always got Blythe in when she was younger with no ticket, so we weren't worried. We went to the recruit entrance since Braden usually knows whoever is working there. Gave them our 3 tickets and just as we're about to walk in we get stopped by a lady who says, "do you have a ticket for him (Ethan)?" Crap. So we say "No...didn't think we needed a ticket for him...blah, blah". They say we can pay $44 (face value) and get him a ticket. Hmmm....no. So we're standing there trying to decide what we should do and then finally someone says they can get us a ticket and we end up getting in. Good thing this is the only game we're bringing the kids to this year because that was a hassle!

Both kids did pretty good. Blythe was her antsy self...I think it'll be a while before she has any real interest in football. Ethan actually slept through the 2nd quarter. We ended up leaving after halftime, but making it til then was a big accomplishment! Everyone was tired when we got home and everyone took naps (except me...how does that happen?).

It was a fun day but I don't think I'll be up very late tonight!

The one parent bathtime

I think tonight was the first time I bathed the kids together all by myself. I thought I had done it before but then while they were in the tub I was thinking, "how am I going to dry Blythe's hair and get Ethan dried off and in his jammies all at the same time?" so obviously I haven't done it before.

It was no big deal though. I dried off Blythe, got her in her jammies, combed her hair, and then got Ethan out, dried, and in jammies. Drying Blythe's hair had to wait until after Ethan had eaten and been put to bed. Good thing Blythe's hair is much thicker these days so it didn't dry all crazy by itself.

Braden has recruits in this weekend and it's alumni weekend, so he still isn't home since he left the house at 8:45 this morning. Bummer!

Today I bought tickets for Sesame Street Live "Elmo Grows Up" on December 4. Last year we took Blythe and went with our next door neighbors and it was a lot of fun. I decided to buy tickets for the first night, since it's the "cheap" night. The show is at 7pm, so I have no idea if that will work for Ethan. Two months away is way too early to think of things like that!

Tomorrow we are taking the kids to the VT football game. Should be interesting. May mean that Blythe will not take a nap for the first time in her life. Then again, maybe she will (just really late). Before the game is the Hokie Birthday party for the Hokie Kids Club, so that should be fun. Looking forward to a nice weekend with beautiful Fall weather!

Going on bacation

Braden and I just tucked Blythe in to go to sleep. Daddy read her a story and on one page was a beach theme. Braden asked Blythe if she remembered when she and Daddy went to the beach (about a month ago they went for a few days just the two of them). She said "yes...we went on a bacation!". Here's how the rest of the conversation went...
Daddy: Do you want to go on vacation again with Daddy next year?
Blythe: Yeah...with Mommy and Ethan too
(pause)
Blythe: No, not Ethan....just Mommy

So looks like we're leaving Ethan home next year when we go on vacation...ha!

Blythe talks in such normal conversations these days and says the cutest things. She'll randomly say "I love you Daddy" or "I'm so happy". Or she'll say (as she did tonight) "Daddy, you have a big butt!". Ha, ha! So funny when she says that! Of course 20 minutes later she says, "Mommy, you have a big butt!". Such a sweet little girl. I really don't know where she learns this stuff.

Ethan is getting really close to crawling. He is now rocking on all fours so it should be any day now. Every day when I pick him up from day care I expect them to tell me he started crawling. Of course, I really hope he does it at home first. Though at day care he probably has more motivation, trying to take a toy from another baby.

First trip to the dentist

Today was Blythe's first trip to the dentist. Daddy had made an appointment (his first trip to the dentist in 3 years!), so I asked him to bring Blythe along so she could see that it wasn't too scary. Since I didn't go, I can't give the first hand play-by-play, but apparently everything went well. She came home with a yellow Dora toothbrush, a little plastic Care Bear, a little stamp, and a 49ers pencil (that Daddy said she picked out all by herself...yeah, right). They counted her teeth nice and slow so she would keep her mouth open for a while. 20 teeth and all looked good. Daddy still had zero cavities even after his extended break from the dentist.

Gommy and Poppa came today too, back from their West Virginia vacation and here to pick up Laura. Since they were coming in the afternoon, Blythe didn't go to day care. Ethan went, but I picked him up early. Blythe probably should have gone because she took a really short nap (if any at all) at home, though she was in her room for over 2 hours. After about 20 minutes of napping, I heard her playing in there so I went in there and she said she had to potty. I took her potty and then told her she had to go back to sleep or Gommy and Poppa wouldn't come. So she went back to her room and was quiet, though I heard occasional noises confirming she wasn't asleep. When Gommy and Poppa got here I went to get her. She was standing by the door wearing one of her dress up princess outfits. I told her Gommy and Poppa were here and she said, "I slept a little more so they could come!" Mmm..hmmm....sure. Oh well.

I showed her my blog from yesterday with the video of her crying from the spider. She wanted to watch it over and over again. When Gommy asked Blythe if she liked the spider from yesterday, Blythe said, "I cried". At least she didn't hold a grudge!

And here's a pic of Blythe and Ethan playing when Gommy and Poppa were here.