temporary memory lapse

I am "home" this weekend. It feels good to be here. It's been about three weeks since we've had a chance to make it this way. We're staying at our home away from home- The Wachsmann's Place. I'm thankful for their home. This weekend they are out of town so it's just me and my little family. Anna-Kate is sleeping in Moe's crib and all of her tiny clothes, shoes and hair supplies are all nicely organized in Bear's crib. It sure is a nice little set up ;-). She had a bit of a hard time going to sleep tonight. I think she was too excited about all of the toys, or the cat, or dog, or it could've been that she just didn't want to sleep in someone else's bed-whatever it was, she finally fell asleep. Praise Jesus.

I am feeling a bit anxious. Anxious because I have close to two full days to do all I want while I'm here and I feel like it's not enough. It's so hard for me to prioritize visits. I guess I'm putting too much pressure on myself because I know my mom misses AK a super duper lot and I usually spend most of my weekend at her house but this weekend I have other things I want to do. I'm having lunch with a friend tomorrow, very soon-almost immediately after that she is due for a nap. My little sister just moved into a new place and I want to help her with that. My aunt just moved into a new house also and of course, I'd like to help her too. I want to run AK by my dad's house. I want to see my friend Rachel. I want to go to Sally's Beauty Supply. We are hoping to attend a Super Bowl party on Sunday....and that's all I can think of for now. Life would be so much easier if I could just go with the flow but I'm more uptight that I'd like to be. Gggrrrrr.

Bri, if you're reading this, THANK YOU so much for letting us stay at your house and for allowing me to use your car! I don't know what I'd do without your wonderful self. I've been trying to call you a lot today-from your house phone- and I accidentally left a 56 minute message without knowing it. HAHAHA. AND I talked to one of your friends for close to a minute before I realized that it wasn't you I was talking to. HAHAHAHAHAHA! Good thing she was nice. Whew. Call me when you can.

Anyways, I was going to tell you all something about Anna-Kate but I can't remember for the life of me what it was. She's definitely getting big and I love her :). Her personality is like no other that I know. She's hilarious! She's 17 months old now. I took her to the doctor a couple of weeks ago for a diaper rash check and she weighed 21lbs. I was SO happy to FINALLY have her over 20lbs. It's been a journey. She says a lot more words now. Words like: Papa Cha (Papa Chad), bear, book, outsi (outside), bath, ball, baooo (balloon), nack (snack), bye bye, daddee & dada, momma..... there are a lot more but my memory is failing me at this time. She naps from 1pm-4pm whether she's actually napping or not. I started putting two books in bed with her during naptime and she LOVES it. I don't hear a peep out of her when I put her down. I pull back a little piece of her curtain to allow some light in and she just hangs out until she goes to sleep. It's also a relief for me because I know that I have atleast 2.5-3 hours a day where I can do things I want to do. Most recently I've been reading for a lot of her nap and then working out on the rebounder (aka-mini trampoline). Honestly, I never knew how good of a work out it was. It's easy on the ankles and knees and it gets the heart rate going. It's been nice for me.

I guess I'm going to go now until I can remember more things I want to say.