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if a door close, then a road for home start building
Now that I am buying 1/4 watermelons & cutting them up myself, instead of buying pre-cut, I can tell you that my child eats over 1/2 of a watermelon all by himself each week.

Am I alone in wondering why McCain and Obama worry so much about saying things that might alienate the hardcore party members? I mean what's a crazy right wing Republican going to do if McCain says something he doesn't like? Vote for Obama? And vice versa, a bleeding heart lefty liberal feels that Obama's views on one thing or another are too conservative...he's going to vote for McCain? Not vote? If it was me, I'd be a lot more worried about reaching out to the people who aren't committed to either party, and less worried about offending those who will probably vote along party lines regardless.

I was listening to Don Cheadle on Fresh Air today on my walk, and he said something about being a celebrity activist. In his case it was for Darfur, but it applies to many causes. He attributed a quote to Brad Pitt that was "We can't get out of the spotlight & these people can't get into it." and went on to say that he felt it was his duty as someone in the spotlight to share it with these people who so desperately needed and deserved the world's attention.

I thought he made an excellent point. I like him so much, both as an actor and a person. Though I hear his new film is kind of bad.


Some long-time family friends of Sean's dad came down to Galveston for the party & have also sent us a gift card in thanks for buying dinner. Isn't that sweet? We have free money at Kohl's now! So we can go shopping before our free Outback meal.

Over the weekend, I said something about Sean's mom being critical of Cash, in a friendly, conversational & non-confrontative way, of course, I'm not stupid enough to openly criticize his mother to him. I was surprised that he felt the same way, that she'd been unfairly critical of some of Cash's behavior and that he almost said something to her twice about it. That made me happy.

Also, I spoke to my grandfather again this weekend, regarding the companion search I am doing. It was very sad, he said he has to give my grandmother anti-depressants & she still starts crying intermittently, and says she wants to die. He's got so many people trooping in and out of the house, Medicare nurses, physical therapists, the part-time caregivers from the agency, and he has to keep the schedules all straight. He says he can hardly remember his own name at his age, much less who is coming when.

At the end of the conversation I told him to have a good weekend and he said "I can't have a good weekend anymore. I haven't had a good weekend in more years than I can even count."

Just heartbreaking that you live that long and that's how it ends up, you know?

So, I mentioned friday night in my saturday picture post, it was by far Cash's best night ever. I really think the nightweaning has pretty much been a success.

Cash & I were both is very happy moods saturday morning, so much sleep! We watched teevee until Sean got up, went out for caffeine, then came back to finish SSU. Sean had to finish his school work, so Cash and I went out to the playground. We only lasted about 30 minutes, it was just so so hot. Cash was all flushed and we were both drenched in sweat. So we came on home and played on the porch for a bit before naptime.

He had a good 2.5 hour nap (it's so true that sleep begets sleep in babies) and woke up happy and full of smiles. And hungry! He came in here to hug Sean and I, then grabbed my hand and took me to the kitchen for his watermelon & sweet potatoes.

We went for our walk (hot!) then got fruit at Winn Dixie. And a rotisserie chicken for dinner. Cash has really started to like chicken the last month or so, he's always been kind of meh about it before.

Finished watching Burn Notice while Cash had his evening playtime...I don't know if I have mentioned this, but I've been putting the subtitles on on our dvds or closed captioning on teevee shows, because since I am constantly moving around, playing with Cash, sitting on the floor reading to him, or having noisy toys played with in my immediate vicinity, I find it so much easier to have the text right there. If I miss a line, I can look up and read it.

Saturday night was not as stellar as the previous two. His first wake up around midnight was awesome, he fell back asleep with a minute of rocking and no screaming. But then he woke up at four-thirty and wouldn't go back to sleep until six. Then, after I'd gone back to my own bed and just drifted off, he woke up again not a half hour later. So we just got up.

Once Sean was also awake, we went out to get caffeinated. I was in the middle of ordering a peppermint mocha when I stopped and actually yelped for joy because I saw pumpkin spice latte on the menu. Sadly, it wasn't very good for some reason.

Went for a drive, including past this house



...which we went into when it was being built. They only want $2.5 million for it, what a deal. Ha! It really is gorgeous, right on the water. Unfortunately, they have a perfect view of the paper mill on the opposite shore. Man, that thing is a blight on our community.

Came home & Cash played in the baby pool for a bit. Then Sean had to put the finishing touches on his paper, so I took Cash to Petsmart for kitty food, kitty viewing, and bird watching. He likes to watch the finches and parakeets in their cages.

From there we went to Books a Million. He played with the train table & kid-friendly displays while I sat in a chair next to the trains and read. He was so enthralled with having all the Thomas toys to himself, I was actually able to read in peace for over 15 minutes! It was so nice!

He has recently caught on that planes fly, just two night sago, he started waving his airplane toy from the set grlykitty gave him around in the air making *whoosh* noises like I make when I play with that with him. And at Books a Million, he did the same thing with Harold the Helicopter. Just precious!

He wandered off to the baby book section and found lots of books with doggies. Which he panted at. Eventually I had to drag him screaming out of the store, he always hates to leave that place.

Came home and put him down for a nice three hour nap. Sean and I watched the football on teevee & our fantasy stats online. So fun to have it going again! The Saints didn't play that well, but at least they won, and covered the spread, so I win my great big $9.50 bet that moober placed for me. My fantasy team did well, I beat jrsonday, and may come in first for the week!

Poor Sean. He blew his first round pick on Tom Brady & what happens? So sad. I mean for Tom Brady & Pats fans, not just Sean. It just seems like that's how Sean's fantasy luck always goes though!

Cash woke up in time to do his TOUCHDOWN move for the Saints for the first time. Very exciting.

Had his lunch, we walked, went to Winn Dixie for watermelon, since the slice I'd bought at WalMart was going bad already, and we just don't run want to run out of watermelon around here.

I got all excited because the Bertoli olive oil had a dollar off coupon hanging on the bottle, and a sign on the shelf said $1 off. So for $5.49 I could get one ounce more than the cheaper brand which was $5.49. Then when I rang it all up, I found the store had a $1 off sale on it plus the $1 off coupon, so it was 17 ounces for $4.49! I know I am a housewife when I am getting all psyched about $2 off olive oil.

We watched The Band's Visit after dinner while Cash made some crayon drawings. He is getting better about not eating the crayons! The Band's Visit is very sweet and funny, I highly recommend it.

Mr B took ages to go to sleep, and of course Lola came clambering over the gate the moment he started to drift off at long last. I either have to get that 42" gate or make a hat out of her. She's making me crazy, as much as I love her & adore how sweet she is with Mr Baby.

Watched some of the VMAs, but we're just too old to enjoy them anymore. Ashlee Simpson is huge, especially compared to that stumpy little turd of a baby daddy she's got.

God bless my child, he slept through the night, from bedtime to 0500. My goal is to get him to sleep until six or later, so I spent that hour trying to get him back to sleep. He fell asleep right at six and slept for almost another hour, so I got a little extra too. I'm so pleased with him, adapting to the new rules.

He got up in time to say bye-bye to Sean, then we snuggled on the sofa and watched Sunny Side Up. Well, we snuggled for the first 10 minutes or so, and then he was off and running, but it was nice while it lasted!

I was torn between going to the beach or the Jr Museum, so I called Michelle to see what she was planning on. She was going tot he museum, so we decided to do that too. I'm glad we did, it was a lot of fun! There were some really nice people there, lots of moms with 2-3 year olds and newborns, some of whom I talked to about the transition from one to two. Sean is still on the fence about a second, and I have promised not to press him about it for another year. But I collect ammo for that time whenever I can :)

I talked to one couple who were there with their four boys, the mom was a sweetheart and said she couldn't imagine having a second when her first was a baby, but after she had the second it was so awesome they had two more! It was nice seeing how good all the older boys were with their littlest brother (18 months) and with the other little ones.

Cash got tired around noon, though we had two false starts leaving, he kept waving bye bye but then he'd want to get back down and play with Andrew and Jackson. Once we were home, he had a little meltdown, then slept for just an hour. I actually fell asleep for a quick power nap while trying& failing to get him back down. When I woke up and he was still laying there playing with his stuffed animals, I just decided to give up & feed him lunch.

It looked like rain while he was asleep, but cleared up in time for our walk. He's so funny with the panting at doggies he always does now. Even yards where we sometimes see a dog, if they aren't out, he will still pant at it, in hopes that maybe the doggie will magically appear.

It's been a week since MiL left with Bruno and he still sometimes will point into the backyard and pant, thinking perhaps Bruno is still out there hiding somewhere.

AFter his walk, he wanted to go skinny dipping for a while. When he was done, he tried to dump the pool out. I did it for him, then he took it from me & dragged it to the storage shed! He is getting so good about putting things away. The the Jr Museum today, he put a bunch of fruit in the scale, then put it all back in the proper bins, even putting a tomato in the apple bin for a moment, before studying it, then taking it out and moving it down to the tomato bin. Smartie.

We finally watched The Shield season premiere & it was 100% made of awesome. Boy I will miss that show.

Cash was just a terror tonight, he was tired and his teeth hurt. Lots of shrieking and whining. He was exhausted and went to bed an hour early! Hopefully he sleeps okay in spite of the discomfort. Poor kid, he has been teething without a break for so long now. I hope his 2 year molars don't decide to be early!

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