MiMi is back!!!

As a child, my parents nicknamed me MiMi because, well, everything in my mind should have been about ME all of the time. Since the kids have been born, MiMi has (sadly) been taking a break. However, this weekend? She was back in full force. Yep – this weekend (well, at least 1.5 days of it) was all about me. My friend Colleen graduated from Wharton Business School (ok – so, I guess a part of the weekend was about her as well, but whatever – this is my blog, so we’ll focus on me. :) ), so a few girls and I went to Philly to have a girl’s weekend to help celebrate. It was fabulous. I was able to walk around, eat a nice lunch (a.k.a crepes and a ‘few’ glasses of wine), walk around some more, eat a nice dinner (and drink a ‘few’ more glasses of wine) and then go to a bar until 2 am (gasp!). And, guess what? I did all of this while not once thinking about diapers or bottles or naps. It was wonderful. Don’t get me wrong – I missed the kids and I was happy to see them on Sunday, but I definitely enjoyed my time away. It was refreshing. Unfortunately, I did forget my camera, so I don’t have any pictures of the weekend (not that anyone is interested in seeing pictures of me anyways, but…).

The kids are doing well. Alex has developed some funny games – he is very into clapping and will clap whenever music is on or when he is happy about something, he likes to do raspberries and is getting really good at waving bye-bye. He also loves to stand (no real movement yet), but isn’t too too steady on his feet and tends to topple over if unattended. He has about 1000 teeth (ok, 8, but whatever). They all seemed to come in at the same time. It is pretty crazy. The one thing that he doesn’t seem to find very funny is wearing his sister’s clothes, but hey – when it is time to take a walk and I can’t find his clothes, these work…

However, apparently Opa has no problem with it…



Avery is also doing well – still playing with her bday gifts. No – we still haven’t given her ours. I’m thinking at this point, we may keep them and save them for a bribe of some sort (like, maybe if she stays in her bed for 5 nights in a row??????? Wouldn’t that be nice?). It is either that, or give them to her randomly for no reason (as she has definitely forgotten about her bday at this point), which I find wrong out of sheer principle (yes, I’m a hard-ass like that).

Here she is practicing her H’s (her very LONG H’s).



And here she is in this hilarious outfit that my mom put her in after her bath last weekend.


Notice the shirt, which is supposed to clearly have a another shirt underneath it and the pants, which are clearly 2 sizes too small. She wanted to wear this to her bday party, but I managed to convince her that it really wasn’t a good look on her.

On a sadder note, we made the decision to send Jack back to TX. We gave it a month and he was still growling at the kids (Avery as well as Alex). We looked into getting some aggression training, but I just felt like I would never feel 100% comfortable with him around the kids and quite frankly, I don’ think that Avery would have either, which would just continue to make it worse. It was an extremely difficult decision for me to make. A month is a long time to have a dog – he had become our pet and it was hard to let him go. But, I’m hopeful that he will find a great new home – one with no kids and with ppl who are willing and able to give him 100% of their attention. The good news is, the women who we are working with in Houston are incredible. They were extremely supportive and accommodating. I’m in the process of looking at another dog who is great with kids, doesn’t bark and in general sound s very similar to Leinie (except in a 2 year old’s body), so we’ll see. Hopefully I’ll have a dog update shortly.