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On Tuesday this past week, Henry and I were playing in his room.  Really, he was playing, and I was trying to pick up the destruction he left behind as he went on to some other escapade.  Anyway, he looked at a box in his room that has a picture of a baby on it, said "Be be" and walked over to it.  "Yes," I said.  "That's a baby."  He put his finger on the baby's forehead and said, "Be be" very emphatically.  "Be be."  "Yes!  That's a baby!  Good job, Henry!" said the very proud mommy.

Really, I was proud of him.  He's been sayi

I'm such a dork, but I learned how to make those little symbols (and lots more!) this week on the computer!  I know, I know, I'm a dork.  You press down the Alt key and while you're doing that, you press one of the numbers on the keypad to the right of the keyboard (not the numbers above the letters but the ones to the right of the letters.)  And voila!  Little shapes appear!  It's so exciting (that makes me sound like I have no life, but anyway...it's the little things, people.)  I like the music notes and how the smileys are racially aware...hahahah

For those of you who don't live in NC or for those of you live in NC and live in a hole, it snowed this week.  A bunch.  We had at least 6.5 inches of snow that fell Friday night into a lot of the day Saturday.  This is the third snow since Henry has been alive, which is crazy, because it's snowed more in his life percentage-wise then it has in mine!  Little dude's been here almost 13 months, and it's snowed three times.  3 times in 13 months is way more often than in my life.  Unfortunately, he won't remember any of them.  He probably won't find that a ba

John gave me a new watch yesterday.  The battery in my old watch ($10 at Wal-mart) had died Saturday, and I hadn't been able to get to Wal-mart to get another watch battery. 

It's a nice watch, too.  It's a Fossil brand, which is a good brand.  They are quite expensive, and normally I would pitch a fit at John spending that kind of money on something as simple as a watch.  But he didn't spend any money on it. 

How is that, you might be wondering.  Here's how: John will celebrate his 5 years with Duke Energy at the end of February, and

Well, it's official.  We have a walker!  I love it!  Henry is finally taking more than two or three steps before plopping on his butt and crawling away.  Today he walked all the way across the living room!

Of course, it's not smooth yet.  He kinda looks like a zombie, what with his arms straight ahead for balance and the way he lurches across the floor.  But it's a start.  And it's so cute and makes him look so grown up. 

I know people say that I'll be wishing for him to stop walking because he can go so fast, but right now, it's fun t

Here are some random bits of information about me, just in case you were curious ;o)

1. I hate the feel of wet hair dripping on my back after a shower.

2. I love wearing flip flops but I can't stand the feel of wet dew on my feet when I walk to the car; it's so bad John has mowed me a strip of grass to walk in just so I can go to the car for church (he didn't have to do it, but what a sweetheart, huh!?)

3. Food on my plate isn't supposed to touch.  I don't want tomato juice on my mashed potatoes, and my bread definitely can't get soggy.

4.

Who would have thought that this...

...would be a vegetable that my child would actually like to eat!? 

We had steamed veggies the other night, and I put a pod of sugar snap peas and a steamed carrot on Henry's plate, in addition to his piece of quesadilla.  He ignored both the peas and the carrots.  But, when I opened up the pea pod so he could see the little peas inside, he took great pride in picking each individual pea out of the pod and eating it.  And

I hate cleaning.

There.  I said it.  I hate it.  In fact, I loathe it.  I would gladly wash dishes and clothes and clean poopy diapers over cleaning up my house anyday.

I never have enough room to put everything, and when I suggest a major overhaul and getting rid of what we don't use, John gets the deer-in-the-headlights look and seems genuinely afraid that I'll throw away everything in the house.  Sometimes I think he knows me better than I know myself.

The reason I am so fervently cleaning my house is that, through much prayer an

My baby is one!  Henry's first birthday was yesterday, January 5.  I was reading a book last night from the American Academy of Pediatrics about the changes babies go through on their way to toddlerhood, and I was amazed at how much Henry will change between the ages of one and two.  It was actually kind of mind-boggling that my non-walking, non-talking baby would become a walking, talking two year old in 364 days!

Here are some pictures from Henry's birthday party.  It was last Saturday, and we had it at our church fellowship hall.  John's family is so big,

Tomorrow is New Year's Day, so Happy New Year's Eve, oh faithful readers (what, like one of you!?)  :o)  A lot has happened this year, most notably, the birth of one very cute, very curly-headed, little boy.  A lot hasn't happened this year, too, like sleeping in and just sleep in general.

I'm not one to make New Year's resolutions, except for the resolution to not make any resolutions (I can keep that one!) but I do feel an urge to set up some goals for 2010.  Maybe if I put them out here in blog-land, I'll do pretty good at keeping them. 

So, witho