Valentine's Week

This week:
Sunday at church Aiden sang with the Little Lambs, and did a great job (from what I could see) He is still one of the short ones, even though he is at least a year older than some of the kids. Connor decided to chip in during the children's sermon. (Luckily most of the people around us found his shrill little squeal more cute than annoying) Aiden didn't want to go up front, but insisted on sitting on the end of the pew so he could see and hear... and then told Brian to go get the papers they were handing out o all the kids. Of course that didn't happen, but he was lucky and they put the papers in the back so he got one after church.

Aiden had his Valentine's party at school on Monday. Connor and I went in to help out and to see what big brother had been up to at school. Their party menu consisted of sugar cookies, rainbow cookies, lip cookies, and heart cookies, oh and some juice. The teachers had baggies for the kids to take home any cookies they didn't eat. Aiden didn't need a bag, he ate ALL 4 cookies. Talk about a sugar buzz.

Brian gave me the night off for V-Day. I got a nice relaxing bubble bath with wine and candles while he fed Connor and gave Aiden a bath and put them to bed. Then he made a nice dinner with the roses he and the boys had given me as a center piece. Such a sweet husband I have :D  

Tuesday was a long day. It was one of those days I had to keep reminding myself to be thankful for everything I had, and that God doesn't give us patience, he gives us opportunities to learn patience. By the time Brian finally got home from work I had the boys in bed, supper put away, and everything packed up to go to Mason City the next day. I had also decided I was going to get up extra early so I could go work off some of the day's frustration on his parents' treadmill, since they obviously weren't going to be using it.

5:50AM Wednesday, my alarm went off and I was wide awake. No idea how, but I was. Got dressed, out the door and went to find out just how out of shape I really am. The one-word answer: ridiculously. But I survived, and have been up at 5:50 every morning since, and am getting less ridiculously out of shape. Hopefully it will be nice enough to go walk/run outside by the time his parents are home.

Connor has been learning to get around and get into things even faster, still without picking his big belly up off the floor. Lately he has been working on sitting, and climbing. So far he hasn't found anything but mommy that won't fall over on him when he pulls on it, so he hasn't been too successful at climbing unless I want him to be. He has still been favoring his left hand when eating cheerios and bananas, although neither hand was very successful with the first banana attempt.

Aiden is loving the warm weather. A couple days he didn't even have to put snow pants on to get on the bus. He has been warned to stay off the black mud (swamp mud). So far he's listened. He stayed out of the black mud, but kneeled down on the muddy (non swamp mud) driveway to reach out onto the swamp mud with his stick to "make a place for the water to go". His teacher sent a book home with him for the long weekend. I laughed when I read it. Mrs. Wishy-Washy. (The whole book is about animals playing in the mud. Then Mrs Wishy Washy gives them a bath, and as soon as she turns around they jump right back in.)

My Mary Kay has been going well this week. I am on track to finish up a challenge to either have a booking, meeting, or make 5 customer contacts each day for 30 days between the last week of Jan and the end of Feb. I am excited to get the bracelet from Carolyn to wear to Career Conference in March. I am also making HUGE progress on finishing up the Save the Nation With Foundation challenge from the company. I have done stripe tests on 13 women, and have probably 10 more this weekend! Completing that challenge will earn me a ribbon at Career Conference AND a zebra print tote from Carolyn :D It has been so much fun learning about the new foundations and hearing the opinions of other women about our products. I had a great meeting with a director in Waverly Wednesday night. It was very casual, we had pizza and talked about questions that had come up with customers and how to provide the best customer service possible.

Right now both boys are SUPPOSED to be napping (they are at least being quiet). We are leaving shortly to go to my parents' in western Iowa (3 hours on the road) so that I can go to Omaha (another 2 hours) with my mom, sisters, and aunts to celebrate my mom's ?0th B-Day. Tomorrow night my dad and my husband have a "Man Date", babysitter and all. If you know my husband, that doesn't sound ALL that strange, if you know my dad, you are probably laughing pretty hard.