A death in the family

This week was very weird and pretty disappointing. Remember all my gripes about not sleeping? Well it all caught up to me pretty bad and so I was sick and lazy pretty much Wednesday through Friday. I had no energy to do anything, I barely even cooked dinner. And to make things worse...I failed at Lent. I'm sorry to all of those who were rooting for me, but I totally caved in and ate chocolate. My brain just kept saying "Why are you depriving yourself of something that makes you so happy? It doesn't make any sense!!" And then I agreed with my brain and I ate some chocolate. But I guess the true goal was to prove to myself that I wasn't addicted to it, and I accomplished that, despite my weak week. We have been eating healthier and not eating so much junk, so done and done.

Another bad thing that happened was the charger for my computer broke and died. It had really overheated one night so Aaron put it in the freezer to cool off. He meant to leave it there for only a minute but totally forgot about it and left it over night. It only worked sporadically for a day or so after that and then it gave up the ghost and we had to drop quite a bit of money for a new one. But I'm back now and it's fine. You probably didn't even notice I was gone.

We had a pretty fun weekend though, since I recovered somewhat and felt normal by Saturday. We were both pretty productive and then went on a date to the San Tan Mall (to get my new comp cord) and ate at Brio again. We have a bad habit of going to restaurants spontaneously and everytime we leave it, we are thinking "why on earth did we go out to eat?" Because, folks, eating out is just not fun with a baby/toddler. They want to have their hands all over everything and if you don't give them something to eat they will be mad. So we ordered him some Mac and Cheese (which, incidentally, we enjoyed more than our entree) and he proceeded to shampoo his hair with it. It was actually hilarious except that it was a giant mess. This picture was taken before the giant mess, by the way.
I'm happy to report that Aaron's crazy school schedule is coming to an end. He has completed most of the classes and is now moving onto being in the simulation lab every day, meaning very few tests and homework for the rest of the year! I really think the worst part of dental school is behind us, so things are looking up. He has even promised to blog very soon, maybe even next time. By the way, the simulation lab is basically a simulation dentist office. There are dental chairs and 'patients' (mannequins) who they do teeth work on. My little dentist is growing up!
Thanks to Aaron's classmate for this picture that I stole from him. This is the Sim Lab.

In the last couple of weeks, Will has gotten four top teeth in, and that has resulted in him learning to say a lot more words (you need to have teeth to be able to speak, donchaknow.) He has a little lexicon now of baby sounds for certain words. He says: cheese ("chee"), frog ("gog"), all done ("ah duh"), as well as mama, dada, baba, and hi. He has also accepted his role as a trained monkey and now does things at my command. When you say "bonk!" he hits his head. But he sometimes confuses that with "honk!" in which he then honks his nose. When you say "kiss!" he makes kissy sounds and occasionally will sign "more" in sign language, although we're still working on that. This video is an attempt to show you all, but he gets a little camera shy.



He also thinks its funny to bite fingers and toes, and in the past we thought it was funny too, but now that he has those top chompers in, it's not so funny. So we're teaching him that it's a 'no-no' and he's very obedient. We'll see how long that lasts. He's also very good at sharing; when I stick out my hand for him to give me something, he will give me what he's holding or what's in his mouth. If he's holding nothing and nothing is in his mouth, he will pull an imaginary something out of his mouth to give me. He also enjoys making messes, but what baby doesn't? He discovered the cupboard where I store all our plastic grocery bags...

As for me, I always have the best of intentions for my weeks, but last week I utterly failed. This week will go better, it has to. I am hoping to start some new sewing projects (by the way I can't talk about them because they are gifts) and maybe get to the swimming pool this week, although the stores haven't started selling swim diapers yet, does anyone know of a store that is? Anyway, I am determined to have a better week and to make my goals, beginning with the bedtime one.