Tag, I'm it!!!

Eight T.V. Shows I Watch:
Grey's Anatomy
Dancing with the Stars
Private Practice
Friday Night Lights
Las Vegas
House Hunters
As the World Turns
Bold and the Beautiful

Eight Favorite Restaurants:
Las Brisas
Cagle's
Olive Garden
Durango's
Thai Pepper
Outback
Chillis
Market Street

Eight Fun Things That Happened This Week:(This one was tough for me. Some of them are reaching a little. I have concluded that I'm pretty boring.)

I got a new 3-ring hole punch today! (I know, that's nerdy, but its fun.)
Jarrett has gotten really good at signing milk and thank you
I bought and started reading book 2 of the Redemption series by Karen Kingsbury
I went shopping with my mother-in-law
I went to Barnes and Noble for one book (see above), didn't find it, but bought 3 others
I am now 3 Christmas presents down, a bagillion to go.
Visited Calvary Baptist with a friend of the family
Kaly, my new hair girl, fixed my cut that was driving me nuts.


Fun to come:
I get to spend 5 straight days with Jarrett and Marc next week.
We are doing T-giving this weekend in Portales with the inlaws
SHOPPING
I am decorating the house for Christmas
We are spending Thanksgiving day and the days around it in Brownfield with my family.
NO SCHOOL!
I plan to take many many naps.
Maybe, I will have time to read a little in between naps and playing with Jarrett and shopping and family time.

Eight Things I Look Forward To:
My Mamaw's 80th b-day
Jarrett's second Christmas (he'll be much more involved this year)
Holiday food
Twilight Movie
Resting over the holidays
summer (is it too early to be looking forward to this)
Two of my friends are pregnant and having babies in May! Fun times!
Shopping

Eight Things On My Wish List:
A healthy family (I hate cold season. Currently we are healthy, I just hope we stay this way.)
To sell our house
A new house
Another baby
clothes
shoes
to lose weight
Safe travels through the holidays

I tag Colby and Kristen

Brrrr!!!

Wow, it is finally cold. I've been wishing it would be cold and now that it is, I am wishing it wasn't. Actually, I really just wish the wind didn't have to blow. Anyway, I might have gone a little overboard this morning when getting Jarrett ready to go. He had on a long sleeve t-shirt, a sweatshirt, and then his coat with the hood pulled up. He looked like the little kid on a Christmas story. In his carseat, he couldn't move his head from side to side, only his eyes were moving. I couldn't help but take a picture.

Am I terrible or what?

Well, I have witnessed many times children who go through separation anxiety when their parents drop them off. Even at Jarrett's sitter's house, there is one little boy that cries every time. I was beginning to wonder about Jarrett. He has cried when we have left him in the nursery at church, but never at Debby's. I know this is a good thing because he loves her and she takes great care of him, BUT, I was kinda (selfishly) wondering if he would ever prefer me over staying there. Well, it sort of happened yesterday morning and so I thought it was just a fluke. Then this morning, I sat him down and he went to play. When I said "Bye" he came running to me with his arms up and didn't want me to put him down. That was enough for me. I don't want him to get super upset or anything. It would make me sad to leave him there crying, but just to know that he would like to stay with me made me feel better. I can't believe that I am admitting that, but it's true. I want him to love being with me more than love being at daycare. Is that too much to ask? Am I a terrible mom to want my baby a little upset when I leave him? Yes, I'm sure I am. But, I can't help it. I guess that is the human selfish side coming out.

Owy!

My sweet Jarrett got his first owy at daycare yesterday. He fell and scratched his face on a table. She said that he was really tough and barely cried. I think it hurt my feelings a whole lot more than it did him.

I am sure I have a long road of owys ahead of me. This kid is fearless. We like to call him Evel Knievel. He will step off of a big step without even thinking twice. When he sits on the couch, we really have to work on getting down right, otherwise he just bails off. Last night, Marc was laying on the floor playing with him and he decided it would be fun to not just sit on Marc's back, but to stand on it. This, of course, ended in him falling backwards on the floor because there was nothing Marc could do once he realized what Jarrett was doing. This morning, while he was in the bathroom with me getting ready, I turned around and he was in the bathtub. He hasn't been able to do that until today. We have all new baby proofing to do! Any suggestions???

Oh my goodness!

Well, I just finished watching Tech beat Texas. I'm too excited to go to sleep, so I decided to post pics from our weekend. I see that some of you are ahead of me on Halloween, so I better get busy. These pics are from my mother-in-law's camera. I haven't downloaded mine yet.