I really should be busy with, well, something.  We have weekend guests arriving on Friday.  Wait that's tomorrow!  Where's my panic button?  I need to push it!  And Caden's birthday party is Saturday night and someone is picking me up to go shopping at 3 pm today.  Here I sit in my pajamas, updating my xanga sight.  What is wrong with me?  Ever since Warm Weather graced us with her presence, I have been acting like this.  I never really got the whole "spring fever" thing before, but I definitely have it now.  All I want to do is sit on the front porch in the sun, go for a walk with my baby, or read a book by an open window.  It's supposed to be colder today.  I hope so.  Otherwise I may still be in my pajamas when everybody gets here tomorrow. 
My baby is completely weaned now.  Wow!  I'm loving this new stage.  He is sleeping better at night and is more lovey and cuddly during the day.  Surprisingly, Daniel is having a harder time emotionally with it then I am.  He says he's not ready for his little baby to grow up yet.  I'm just thankful it happened naturally and wasn't some major, traumatic thing for Caden. 
What do you have for breakfast when you are out of milk and eggs and oatmeal?  I do have bread so I guess it will be toast, yogurt, and canned peaches.  And later on maybe my secret indulgence - pop tarts.  shhhh. don't tell.  And coffee of course.  Hey, if I'm supposed to get through this day without taking a nap, I have to have coffee.  There's just no two ways about it. 
Well, ta ta for now.  I'm off to make toast and a to-do list.  And get a sweatshirt.  It is positively freezing in here!

Suddenly my baby, who had been sleeping 9 hrs at night and two 2plus hr naps everyday, has decided he doesn't need so much sleep.  I'm having a hard time adjusting.  For a while he was up every night for 1 - 2 hrs.  Daniel and I were both wearing very thin.  Then suddenly one night he slept straight through from 9 pm till 7:30.  I don't know if it was the dill pickle he ate for supper, the medicine I gave him for his nose, or his Daddy's payers; but something worked!  Daniel and I both woke up early feeling like we had indulged in some luxury.  But that day Caden took one tiny little half hour nap and that was it!  I didn't know what to do with myself because I count on him sleeping in order for me to get stuff done.  The up-side is that Caden plays pretty contentedly by himself.  Not typically with his toys, but as long as he is not endangering himself or being destructive, who cares?  So I have to adjust to getting things done with him under foot.  If he takes a nap today, I must clean my bathrooms.  He is so curious about everything I do that it is pretty impossible to accomplish that job with him awake.  (As I write this, he is playing quite happily - with his toys!)

In other news.  I have been reading the Elsie Dinsmore series.  My little sister has borrowed them at least a million times and gets all wrapped up in the story as if she's reading it for the first time each time she reads them.  I had oringinally bought them for "some day" when I had a little girl.  But I never read them myself.  I finally decided it was time for me to see what they were all about.  I finished the second book and slammed it shut with a "good grief!" and the serious consideration of getting rid of the books.  I don't want my little girls fantasizing about being the suffering hero in such a breach of relationship as occured between Elsie and her father.  I know how girls that age are given to the dramatic and how much involved in story books they get.  And Elsie was such a religious little twit!  Anyway.  I decided to read on.  The next book was definitely an improvement, as has each subsequent book been.  I'm not done yet, but at this point, I will probably keep the books.  I definitely want to have a conversation with my girls when they read them so I can keep tabs on what they are internalizing about the story.  And trust that they will be safe in their own good relationships with their daddy.

PS.  In case you are wondering.  I have no indication that my little sister has suffered from reading these books!

So that's me.  Right now I must go wash dishes while Caden empties out my kitchen cupboards.

Change of plans!  I'm going to clean the bathrooms.  I just turned around from the computer to see Caden about to topple over asleep beside his toys.  So I scooped him up and laid him in his bed.  He shut his eyes and snuggled down without a single protest.  I have no idea what's up with him.  Guess he's growing up!