I'm without internet over at Joey's. Yep.. we've moved out and are officially living with Joey. Computer-less! I'm sorry I don't have any pictures to show you tonight! I'm actually up visiting Casey's Aunt and Uncle (they have high-speed..so I thought I'd post a quick update).
Anna is good! I wish I did have a picture or video or something. As soon as I do get my internet back up and running you just won't believe your eyes! We went to the doctor last week and she was 21.6lbs and 29.5 inches tall. She's a string bean for sure!
She loves to eat! Anything and everything! I call her my little "porkie-pig"! She is. She loves food.. maybe she'll be the next Julia Child! Her new favorite foods here lately are Mac&Cheese, Chicken Nuggets, Bananas, and Ritz Crackers. A ritz cracker will solve the world's problems! Some man in Target was totally making fun of the fact that I was strolling around doing my shopping with a package of crackers in my pocket.. but seriously, they solve everything! Don't leave home without them!
Besides eating she loves to read and talk! And I mean TALK! She's not really saying anything but she doesn't know that. She has facial expressions and hand jestures and everything to go along with her constant babble! .... and don't get her started on a book! She turns every page and babbles with each page turn. Then she looks up at you, laughs (a fake laugh of course), and starts clapping for herself!
She's a nut!! A nut with a great personality! We are just loving this age and stage.. but we've loved them all!
As for me.. well, I've adjusted to Joey's house.
Once I got a key that worked and some rainboots I was all better! Since I haven't been blogging you all don't know that I had a meltdown the second night I was staying there.
Casey and Joey were both out of town and Anna and I were on our way home from church(8:30pm) in an absolute down pour! I pull into Joey's driveway and it's flooded. FLOODED! I'm talking atleast 5-6 inches of water. There was no tip-toeing through to keep your shoes from getting soaked.
I sit there in the car and think about what to do for a little bit and I decide (knowing that my key is a bit "particular") that I should walk up the side walk to the front door so Anna and I will atleast be under the porch trying to get in. So I slide over to the passenger seat, gather all my stuff, lean over to the back and unbuckle Anna, get her and me and all our stuff all organized and proceed to the front door. One step out of the truck and my shoes are soaked. I'm walking in water WELL above my ankles and it's still pouring down. The water was flowing so fast down the side walk that there was literally a current!
Once I get up there with Anna I can't get the door to open to save my life. At this point I'm still okay (mentally)... but I was on my way down hill.With every raindrop on my head and cry from Anna I get a little closer to having a tear down my cheak and cry of my own. I decide to try the side door.. even though I knew the key didn't work very well. It's one of these keys that wasn't cut exactly perfect so you really have to jiggle and wiggle the knob just perfectly as you are twisting and turning the key just perfectly. It take as good minute or two on a perfectly sunny day with no child in your arms!
Needless to say... I couldn't get it to open. At this point Anna is crying and I'm on the verge.. It's been a good solid 7 minutes. Still pouring. No light. No cell phone. and White Water Rapids about to take me out... well, not really. But, practically =)
I decide to try the back door. No luck! Here is when I started banging on the door repeatedly screaming (in a crying whisper) "Let me IIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNN".. It didn't work. So I decided my only option was to put poor, exhausted, soaking, frustrated Anna back in her carseat and drive over to my friend Kim's house and show up on her front door step at 9pm like two wet, lost, sick puppies! Once Anna was in her carseat I decided why not give the side door one more try. I meanI couldn't get any more wet and Anna was probably going to cry no matter what so.. and.. I knew it worked but I just wasn't sure of the exact combination. Do you jiggle to the right three times, wiggle to the left once, and knock three times or what? Well, whatever I did.. it worked! THANK GOODNESS!!
I told Joey the next day that he better be glad he wasn't there for two reasons. A#1- I would have been yelling at him and B#2- I would have been yelling in my underwear... haha.
My shoes and pants were literally dripping (POURING) water on the floor so I had to immediately put them in the wash! Of course I know it wasn't Joey's fault and I wasn't really mad but I did have a mini-meltdown!
It's all better now! Next time I'll have big rubber boots and a key that works (with a flashlight built into the key!)
That was Wednesday. By Saturday I was coming down with a terrible cold.. haha. I'm just teasing Joey! Being stuck out in the rain didn't cause me to get sick! But I really did have a sinus-infection or soemthing. It was crazy-bad so Casey took Anna to his parents house and I watched a LOT of movies
Angels and Demons (good), All About Steve (stupid), Pink Panther (stupid..but sort of funny), The Ugly Truth (kind of dumb), and My Sister's Keeper (Totally and Completely Sad but I LOVED it.. but I love sad movies.. I'm weird like that!)
Anyway.. I got to feeling MUCH better after two days of sleeping and resting and eating soup and drinking yoo-hoo!
Tuesday I left to get Anna and came up here and I've been looking at houses for the past few days.
I've seen a couple that are just super cute on the outside but not so super cute on the inside. Some that are super cute on the inside but not so super cute on the outside and TWO that are cute inside-out... but I'm picky!
Well, I know this was SUPER long.. but that pretty much gets you up to speed on our life. And... no I will not be offended if you didn't read it (I'll never know!)
Y'all take care and hopefully I'll get you all some pictures soon!
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