Prayer for a friend

The 5 year old daughter of a girl I lived with in college had a heart transplant this morning. Please keep Adah in your prayers. She is doing well, but has a long road ahead.

I got my own computer!

For Valentine's day, Dan bought me my own laptop computer! What a great husband!

"My tummy is beautiful!"

Dan and I were in the office this afternoon talking/working while Anderson napped and Ava watched cartoons (or rather was supposed to be watching) in our bedroom. Ava walks in to the office and tells us, "my tummy is beautiful!" while holding up her shirt. There is nothing visible so I figure she is just being silly. As she comes closer, I start to smell something that smells like Dan's cologne. Her tummy is "beautiful" because she got into Dan's deodorant and rubbed it all over her stomach! She did smell good, but my 2 year old little girl smelled like a grown man!

I need my own computer!

It feels like it's been forever since I have had a chance to sit down and update my blog. The reason being is that I no longer have use of the computer during the day. Dan started a new position within his company last week and he now works from home! While it is is GREAT to have him home, we are still trying to adjust to a new routine. After being on your own for 2.5 years, you kind of get used to doing things a certain way. It's a good problem to have though! Speaking of Dan's job, it was announced today that he won the consulting excellence award! He deserves this so much and i can't even express how proud I am of him. The best part is that the reward for winning is a trip (usually to Cancun)! The company is not doing the trip this year b/c of the economic trouble right now, but when they take the next trip we'll be going!

Dan and I are finally taking the vacation we wanted to before we had kids this summer. We have booked our 12 day vacation to Hawaii in June! We are both really looking forward to that!

On the kid front, Ava got her first bad report from her teacher today. :( Apparently she had several meltdowns during her 3 hour school day. One was over the birthday cupcakes. There were pink and brown cupcakes to choose from but apparently Ava wanted white so she threw a fit. Some days are very challenging with her! I think some problems would be resolved if she would just take naps...

Anderson has his first tooth!! I was shocked b/c I really thought he would be like Ava and be at least 1. He is starting to stand by himself now so I think he is on target to walk around/by his birthday. It would be fine by me if he took off and walked tomorrow b/c he is wearing holes in the knees of his jeans! His growth has really slowed down. He is not much bigger now at 10 1/2 months than he was at 6 months. He has been wearing the same clothes for the last 4 months so they are really starting to show wear. Hopefully we can get them to last until spring.