So I’m trying to decide what to do. Do I write online, so that I can write from work and from home and on the go from my phone? Do I go the old-fashioned style and use paper and pen? I’ve tried that numerous times and it doesn’t seem to get me very far. I have countless notebooks with maybe a few pages written in it and it’s random crap that doesn’t mean anything. Do I just use my personal computer and write only from home (restricting me from writing when a thought comes to mind that I want to jot down and I don’t have my home computer there to capture the thought)?

At one point in time I found this great app for the Mac called MacJournal. I used it quite a bit, but when they upgraded it was no longer free. I also found a pretty neat freeware app for Windows to use at work, but neither was compatible with the other so nothing I wrote in one would transfer to the other. And I shouldn’t really be installing stuff on my work computer anyway. I was thinking an anonymous blog of sort where I can just write without anyone knowing who I am, but I have tried that before as well and I never wrote anything. Too much of a hassle to keep up with yet another totally separate blog. I already have 2 that I hardly maintain as it is.

Decisions, decisions. I am leaning more towards the separate blog though because then I could write to it from anywhere as long as I have some sort of internet access and now that I have an iPhone, a connection is much easier. Now to figure out which blog platform I want to use and where to host it. ha! It’s obviously going to be a free host, but I want to be able to customize the appearance to something very simple and clean with not a whole lot of clutter.

Nope, not telling you where it is…that’s the whole point of being anonymous blogger…to give the reader enough info to make them feel they know you, but not really reveal the whole truth.

So it’s going okay for the first few nights. I hope she keeps it up and soon realizes that bedtime means staying in bed and not playing. And maybe by her birthday we’ll be able to take the crib out of her room for good. My baby really is growing up.

My baby quickly outgrew her baby stage and is now a full-fledged toddler leading me headfirst into the terrible-twos stage. I love that she interacts, talks and has a whole personality of her own. But I sure miss those days when she would fall asleep in my arms and I could just sit and cuddle her.

Sure, I can visit your site on my phone, but it comes up in teeny tiny print that I must resize in order to read anything, but it’s such a pain in the butt, that it’s just not worth it. 

Please!

She can now tell/show me where she bumped herself if she for example bumps her head or stubs her toe. She’ll even kiss her own ouchies, just like mommy does. 

She mumbles conversations of gibberish to me, like she’s telling me some important story. It’s adorable and I can’t help but laugh.

She understands when I tell her to eat 2 more bites of food and then I’ll give her paci back to her.

She asks for help when she needs it. And will ask for her snacks when she wants something to eat. The other day she ran to the fridge trying to open the freezer door saying “ice cream”.

Last night when I asked what we should do next (it was bathtime), she blurted out “bike ride”. DH laughed! What a stinker!

This morning when I went to get her out of her crib, she wasn’t quite ready to get up, so she told me to put the railing back up, turn the light out and leave the room!

She’s in the “mine” stage where everything is hers, even if it’s the food on our plate! She’s definitely in her terrible twos and her birthday is still over a month away.

The AB mommies kept sending me invites to Facebook, so I finally took the plunge and joined. I didn’t realize how many of my friends were there. Within a few days I had over 20 friends and that’s a lot for me. A lot of my cousins are there as well, plus friends I’ve lost touch with for one reason or another. So it has been so much fun reconnecting with everyone. Then my husband joined and he’s totally addicted to the flair. LOL!

Besides Facebook, I’ve been obsessed with Ravelry. And in conjunction with the Summer Olympics in Beijing, we’ve been doing our own knitting version…the First International Ravelympics. It’s been great fun trying to knit as many projects as possible or just one challenging project during the summer games. So lots of knitting and spinning has been going on the past 2 weeks.

Amelia has been keeping me busy. What’s going on with her? A lot. She got her playhouse at the beginning of August. My Father-in-law came up and he and my husband put it together for her. It’s a 6×6 foot playhouse with 3 windows, a door, a 2ft front porch and cedar shingles. Pretty sweet little crib for a 2 year old. So we bought her a play kitchen that looks like Cinderella’s castle and a bunch of accessories for it, so she can cook up some delicious meals for us.

She’s talking to much now, it’s sometimes frustrating trying to figure out what she’s saying. But we’re slowing learning her language. She tries to dress herself and last night managed to put her shoes on all by herself. Of course they were on backwards, but it was adorable.

And the biggest news of late…she’s teething. She’s got the two bottom molars coming in, plus one if not two teeth coming in at the top (neighbors to the front teeth). So she’s been miserable lately. Cranky, clingy, fussy. on top of that she has some sort of cold that keeps her coughing. And the poor thing smashed her fingers in the door at daycare this week. I cringe every time I picture her crying and hurting and I wasn’t there to cuddle her. It hurts me that I wasn’t there when she needed me. Thankfully she has wonderful teachers that cuddled her in my place and rocked her to sleep at nap time. But it’s never the same as mommy. So we’ve been giving her extra cuddles lately as she deals with these mean, painful teeth. I’ll be glad when they finally break through and give her a bit of peace.

But we had a great time. We got to FL on Monday afternoon. Tuesday afternoon, I took Amelia to visit with her other grandparents. Wednesday, we went to Cypress Gardens. Amelia loved the kiddy-coasters. She got mad every time the ride ended and I took her seatbelt off. She fussed and tried to buckle it back up. It was cute though and we got some good pictures of her on the rides. Thursday we had a boating fiasco and Amelia screamed the entire ride, so we had to cut it short. That afternoon we went swimming at the pool in my grandmother’s complex. Amelia loved the pool and discovered how fun it is jumping in.

She was so exhausted though because she barely had a nap all day, that she had a really hard time going to bed. Friday we made it a point to do nothing so that she could rest. She took a 3 hour nap! Then we headed back home on Saturday and got back yesterday around lunch time.

So now, it’s back to the daily grind. Amelia off to daycare and me off to work every day. It’s hard. After a whole week of being with her, it’s hard to drop her off knowing she’s going to spend the whole day there without me.