Hi. We're okay. Just busy and exhausted and putting one foot in front of the other because we don't have a day with nothing to do until...well, I don't know when. It's a good thing because it keeps me from laying around and wishing the baby would come already. I feel like most of my days are spent driving Daniel from one thing to another.
For some reason I can't stop looking at what clouds look like behind power lines and telephone poles. Usually I don't take pictures, but I stare at them all the time.
Colton has been such a good little boy sitting and waiting a LOT for Daniel at therapy, social skills class, doctor appointments or just waiting for Daniel to get to his pick up spot at the end of the day.
Daniel is obsessed with puppets. I like finding little videos and things on my ipod because sometimes he records what he acts on out the camera. This time I just reached over and snapped a picture.
Last weekend we went to our trailer in NY. It was a super fun time, but exhausting and I don't feel like I've recovered from it yet. There is another event next weekend, but I can hardly force myself to bring both boys to the store with me...so we're going to skip it. That said, I'm super happy we went last weekend. Both boys had so much fun and it was so fun for me to see Colton enjoy his time there. This was the first time that he could tell me what he wanted to do and he played so hard on Saturday!!! He went to bed at 9pm that night and slept until 11am the next day!
On Monday we went to a picnic. Daniel loves to swim in the pond and Colton loves to watch the bigger boys catch tadpoles and frogs and things.
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My friend took this picture of us. We got Colton a fishing pole so he could "fish" beside the bigger boys. Don't worry, it doesn't have a hook yet! :)
Colton has developed an intense fear of bugs and things crawling on him. After the picnic he was so extremely tired. He didn't want to leave, but he was DONE. He cried the whole way home... actually he screamed. Screamed so hard he puked. Twice. Then he cried on and off and freaked out over bugs that he could feel on him...only there weren't any there. He was starting to scare me, actually, because he's not usually like this.
Over the past week we've talked about being scared and given him things to do and say so this has gotten better. (Brush off the bug, smash it, ask mom for help, say things like, "go away....shoo fly....don't bother me..." etc.)
Colton and Daniel both seem excited about the baby coming. Sometimes Colton points to my belly and says, "baby out". Here is is practicing rocking his monkey. He points to where the baby will (hopefully) sleep and acted out rocking the baby in the rocker.
I have very low energy these days. I'm so glad I got some things done when I was "nesting" weeks and weeks ago. I thought it was too early then, but I sure can't manage much now. Colton comes upstairs and stands at the foot of the bed to tell me things. :)
Sometimes he joins me and we play, look at books and watch movies. I wish I had more energy to play with him.
