Day 263

 

September 20th, 2010

 

September 20th, 2011

Sorry that I'm so late blogging tonight (it's after midnight). I've been working on a project and then had to take my module exam for Healthcare Documentation (I got a 95%). I had a moment (okay a few actually) of asking, "Why the eff am I doing this???" I seriously am not interested in doing this and I'm sick of spending ALL OF MY TIME on this crap. Grrrrr... maybe something will happen that will allow me to discontinue... we'd only be out $175 and it's not like I'll be bringing in any income before May of 2011 anyway.

Anyway... Gus got up this morning and we played before coming down for breakfast. We had the Little Gym this morning so I wanted to make sure that he had a good morning and wasn't too tired before heading out.

It was time to leave for TLG-- we got there around 10 and we were the first ones there. The teacher, Miss Allie, welcomed us and remembered our names (she's good). Then everyone started showing up and there were A LOT of kids today!!

 

On our way!

 

Patiently waiting to go in

 

Gus walked on the beam today!! I was so proud of him because last week he wouldn't  even put his feet down when I held him and today he actually held onto the bars and walked himself across!!

 

Everyone enjoyed this blow-up thingy but Gus was afraid of it, so we went and played!

 

Getting ready to walk across the beam all by himself!

 

Sitting and thinking about it

 

Climbing the rock wall

 

ON THE BEAM!!!

I was so proud of him!!! Who knows, maybe next week he'll try to walk across the double beam without any assistance and them maybe he'll try the real beam again!

 

Trying to climb up on the high beam

 

Too scared to hang from the parallel bars

 

The little monkey next to him was hanging and jumping off!

 

Nope... not today!

 

An exhausted boy ready to go home!

It was another incredible session today! Some of the things that they do are too mature for Gus, like the imagination stuff today... a bear walk and crab walk and other stuff like that, he just isn't ready for just yet. But he most certainly had a great time and really enjoyed himself!! I love that it's helping to build his confidence!

We got home and had lunch and then I put Gus down for a nap. I was able to work on my module and got 99% completed before Gus woke up. I figured I'd finish the rest after I put him to bed tonight.

When I went in to get Gus, he did this thing that he's been doing a LOT lately. He's very particular about his loveys and where they go once he's awake. He likes to take them and put them just outside the netting on his tent.

 

His puff frog

 

First his soft frog

 

Then the puff frog

 

He checks to make sure they're secure

 

Last thing is always the blanket frog

Isn't he silly??

After Gus's nap we went downstairs and played for a while and then I got the mail. His last package arrived today from eBay. I ordered it forever ago and it's pretend food, but it's wooden and broken down into four crates and it's by food groups. Gus loved it!

 

Yummmm

 

He made a hamburger

 

It kept him busy most of the night!

We had dinner and then it was time for bed.

I have been working on a project (can't say what it's for) but I'm excited about it. I have to finish it tomorrow though... hmmmm.

I'm supposed to go to a 10am playdate tomorrow at a lady named Marcy's (YES... THE Marcy... the one that called me the mamaratzi) but I'm not sure if we'll make it. It'll depend on Gus's mood and how tired I am.I didn't want to go, but Kristen made me feel guilty about it, so I signed up. We'll see.

I'm also supposed to tutor Gulbike tomorrow after 7:30, but after talking to Steve, I'm going to cancel. He'll be exhausted from traveling and I don't want to do it so late.

Speaking of my husband... he is in Detroit! He was there to be the keynote (YES... you read correctly, KEYNOTE) speaker at a thing at Chrysler!! He was at their headquarters at a dinner tonight and was the keynote speaker. He also spoke this afternoon for an hour!!

While he was in the area, he stopped by and saw my mom and dad. I told him to give them kisses for me and to take a picture with them. It made my night!

Okay... I'm going to bed. Nite ya'll!

Day 166

Today seemed like the longest day ever. Thankfully, Gus woke up after 8 and I felt rested. We had a playdate this morning over at Sharon's house. It was the first one for my MOMS Club. It was fun for Gus... we were there with two other moms. The one lady has a 15 month old and I cannot believe what this little girl can do. Not only could she talk and say things like "Penguin" when she saw the penguin toy, but she could count as well. Her mom said, "One... two..." and the little girl said, "Three." Is that normal? Am I a complete and total slacker-mom? I couldn't believe my eyes or ears. I know there's a two month difference between her and Gus, and maybe she's about to turn 16 months, but even at that, that's only a three-month difference. The mom said she has probably at least 300 words in her vocabulary. 300.

So I left there feeling like a shit-mom. I know I can't compare Gus to other kids, but I couldn't help but wonder... I mean Gus doesn't say much of anything that's understandable. He says mama and dada clearly, but doesn't usually say a lot of words that have any resemblance to words at this point. It all sounds like gibberish to me. He's said, "Elphie" once or twice, and has said, "kitty" but not on a regular basis. I know boys and girls are different when it comes to language, but should I be concerned about this? I thought he was a rock-star because he does talk... ALL THE TIME... but it's not anything we can understand.

Anyway... we came home and Gus played for a bit before we had lunch.

We got our Baby Mum Mum crackers today and I was super excited to open the box and give some to Gus. He really liked the ones that Grace had. I got him the vegetable ones and was hoping that they'd be as yummy as the plain. He liked them a lot!

While he was munching on one, I could totally see his little teeth and decided to get out my good camera and try to capture the teeth. It was no use... no teeth for me today. However, I did get a lot of cutie pictures of Gus.  :)

After he was done with his two crackers, he wanted to read so I took some pictures of him picking out a book and then I read to him. He also likes his photo books and likes to look at the pictures of himself from when he was a wee baby and also from his baptism. I like to point out his birth family. :)

After we read, it was definitely time for a nap. We headed upstairs and I put Gus down. He didn't go down easily... here are pictures from the webcam...

 

Standing up and playing...

 

Turned with his back against the bars of the crib...

 

Turned back around...

 

Checking out the camera...

He finally went down and slept for just over an hour. It wasn't as long as I had hoped, considering that he's merged two naps into one. You'd think he'd nap for a longer stretch of time. I think part of this issue with sleeping soundly is his teeth.

When he got up, he wanted to play up here for a bit, so we played and then after a while we went downstairs.

Tonight, Wendy and the girls came over to have dinner with us since Ryan and Steve both had work things tonight. Just before the arrived, Gus figured out that he could use his fork and bang it hard against a plate and it makes a lot of noise.

Steve got home, Wendy left, and then we watched the season finale of Sister Wives. I can't wait for all my shows to come back in the fall... :)

I decided tonight to stop doing weekly posts on Gus's blog and just do a daily one. It's too hard to remember what he did during the week and the amount of pictures I'm uploading at a time for a week is HUGE (over 100). So daily will become my new routine (maybe).

See you tomorrow... is it Friday yet????

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