A MinneMom-like Journal

Another First

Ellie's got her first molar pushing through! She's handling it really well so far. It looks like it's almost completely broken through already. We'll see what it looks like tomorrow.

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Acceptance

Ellie's learned something new (or shown us she understands something new, I should say) the past two evenings. Last night, I exclaimed, "Bathtime!" Ellie proceeded to crawl like the dickens to her bedroom door, awaiting her chance to get nakey. We were like, 'Wow! She knows what bathtime is, and she's mighty excited." Tonight, she reinforced the fact that she does, indeed, know what bathtime is. I said, "Ellie, it's bathtime. Let's go." She up and WALKED all the way to her room and tried to turn the knob.

So why the acceptance title?

Well, as Harry opens her bedroom door to let Ellie in, he turns to me and says, "You've got to tell your Maya's Mom friends about this."

Wondercat was right; the last stage is acceptance. LOL.

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Half an US-day

Harry and I are taking half days tomorrow so we can go out to lunch together. After the talk on Sunday, I thought we needed a little alone-time. Harry had already asked for the half day a couple of weeks ago. I've been trying to figure out when to take my last half day left, so when I asked him today if he'd like me to take it so we could go out, he eagerly said "yes!"

I love my husband.

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We have my company holiday party Friday night. Mom will be staying at our house to listen for the baby (she'll be asleep by the time my mom gets here), so we get a little more us-time. Woo hoo.

My company has our annual holiday party at a beautiful country club right up the road from our office. The food is exquisite. THAT'S really the only reason to go. I already see these people 42.5 hours during the week; I don't really need to spend a Friday evening with them, too. Everyone else feels the same way, but, well, we just CAN'T pass up the food.

Oh, and there's a chance to win some bucks too. They choose 10 names out of a hat to receive anywhere from $50-250 (as an AMEX gift card). I haven't won yet, but I aim to this year.

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Lots more to write about in the next few days. Stay tuned. Same bat time, same bat channel.