it's october???

another short & sweet update. i have to work fast b/c who knows when the kids will attach themselves to me and demand yet more attention. at times i feel like i have no time for myself. then i realize that i just don't use my time affectively. i get wrapped up in the internet/blogs/boards and enter some kind of time warp. so, the time that i think i don't get is there, but just being wasted.

i'm still taking my sewing class. i was thinking i was doing really well, and then i posted pics on my parenting board and someone mentioned the word 'serge'. as in 'hope you serged that b/c otherwise it will really unravel.' ummm.. no. no serging involved. i don't even know what the hell serging is. so, as usual, i'm going to call my mom & find out. the instructor of the class didn't mention serging. :/ so now i'm sofa king worried that my whole project is going to turn to rags when i throw it in the washer. (btw...i love saying 'sofa king'...sounds exactly like so fucking, but in an innocent way.)

reese is becoming a brat. at least 1x every 10 minutes, she gets this look on her face like she's going to go postal on you. teeth gnashing, face as angry looking as can be and she comes at you swinging. ugh. i can put her in timeout as often as i need to but it's really not fixing the behavior. worse, yet is that she does it to me and to cade. not so much to rob b/c rob doesn't discipline much. or i should say, he's too busy watching baseball to discipline her. (however the red sox LOST yesterday so they're DONE DONE DONE! yipee!) so now we've reverted to taking away privleges. if she does it after dinner, she loses watching 'the saveums' http://angela.decode-ent.com/saveums/ . (can you believe i'm too impatient to make a better link. sorry blog experts. you're getting the bare basics here!)

if she starts swinging during the day she usually goes straight to quiet time. i really need to work on a better plan though. maybe i should start tivoing supernanny again.

cade is doing great. i think he grew over the last few days b/c suddenly the 2T shirts don't look so long on him. hmm...i know he's getting more teeth...including his first molar! for those of you who don't know, molars suck. cade's teeth are so slow breaking through anyway, and this molar has taken 2 weeks now. arg. funny, i think it's a 2 year molar, but he's only 15 months (tomorrow!). oh well. he's doing great with his spoon, trying to figure out his fork. he loves wearing baseball hats (when daddy is wearing one too) and rob has gotten him excited about watching sports. in fact both kids love watching sports. ??? so they can all hang out downstairs in a few years watching football, etc and i can go do my mommy stuff. maybe rob has the right idea!

rob is getting brownie points. he's been playing with the kids for the last half hour while i've been dicking with this. and now my right thumb is going numb. hopefully it's not signs of carpal tunnel. :( i've had a bit of aching, numbness...kind of like a pain that really isn't painful. hard to explain...

oh, guess who's coming to visit next week??? my parents! i'm excited to see them, but not b/c i need to clean like a mofo. and there's a lot of projects i wanted to have done before they got here. but i don't think i'm going to get them done before this tuesday. :( especially b/c most of them involved painting entire rooms or new furniture!

my main gripe of the week: the f-ing weather. ct is turning into a damn rainforest. for the last 2 days it has been low 70s and 99% humidity. so it's clammy and i swear i hear mold just growing everywhere. (i'm mold-paranoid. it grows everywhere and i think entire state of connecticut should be doused with clorox.) yesterday it was a high of 75ish and last night it maybe got down to 68. now it's raining (100% humidity) but if we close the windows b/c of the rain, we'll suffocate. where's that damn cold front that's been advertised for the last week?!?!

ok...that should satisfy most of you. and just as predicted, the children have migrated over here. cade is grabbing for my fingers and so i must....go........bye!