08.2009 - MONTHLY UPDATE

Well, officially Jesse and I have now been married for eight years, so no more lucky seven, but I am sure Eight will be Great!

Well, there aren’t many pictures this month and we did not get out an about much, as I having been craming for a big business test. Which, I unfortunately did not pass the first go around. However, I will continue to plug away and hope to pass the second time. I hope to have good news to report for next month’s update.

Jessica has really made a lot of progress this month with potty training; however, most of the time I am just letting her run naked from the bottom down and bribery is also working great. Then when she does pee in the potty, she becomes a little Italian girl for some reason and yells, “Mama, mama, mama. I peed!” This is the only time she ever calls me mama and I have no idea why, but it is way to funny. I still have to ask her a lot if she needs to go, but she is staying dry all day and even sometimes through the night and after nap time (if she takes a nap).

We did make it out to Layne and Britt’s for Layne’s B-Day, but I forgot my camera. Jessica however did remember hers and had a few pics of the wonderful exercise equipment, that she so wanted to play with. I managed to get a lot of exercise myself however, from chasing her from room to room and floor to floor. But we did manage to have some fun.

Jesse surprised us with a bike ride one Sunday morning, as around our house it is pretty boring to ride around and with all the construction we have not been out and about on our bikes this year. However, he got up and loaded our bikes and the trailer into the Jeep and off we went to the Legacy Parkway trail. It was great, we rode over nine miles and it was the most perfect day for a bike ride, Jessica loves puttin along behind in the trailer, plus we stopped at one of the neighborhoods and let her play at the little park. We all had a blast.

The little funnies for the month are:
This one day Jessica was wanting to play and I was sitting on the bed and told her “No, honey. Mom’s back is sore.” She got behind me on the bed and kissed my back and looked and me and said, “Better?” I about died. Then, long story short, Jessica stuffed little foam dinosaurs down the bathroom drain and Dad had to get into the crawler to fix it, the next day we walked into the laundry room and she saw Dad’s flashlight on the floor, she ran over to it and picked it up and hugged it and said “Love flashlight!” She is a nut, but oh so much fun. We have never laughed so much in our lives, I think; and we are just having a ton of fun. Now if I could just get through school, we could be having even more fun. Anyway, hope all is well with everyone and before you know it, it will be Christmas. Just a warning, hee hee. Loves!