It feels like I have been gone for a long time. I apologize for my absence. It's been a pretty crazy last two weeks.

First off we went to STL. Which was quite possibly the worst road trip we ever had.

The kids had been sick, but were feeling better by the time we left. The first night we were there we were woken up by Josh at 3am. We were pretty much up with him the rest of the night with him complaining that his ear hurt. We had to take him into the Urgent Care the next day to be diagnosed with an ear infection (really? we had no idea.... sometime the whole doctor thing and having to get told what you already knew was wrong with your kids annoys me, but that is another post.).

Apparently the dose of antibiotics the prescribed him was ridiculously large for him and proceeded to completely wipe out his little intestinal tract, with what resulted in several days of horribleness that I cannot even put into words.

We left a day early. What usually takes 10 hours took almost 13. Josh had to stop to go to the bathroom almost every hour (most of the time not even really going) and Jack was teething and we had no access to Tylenol for him. It was bad. Really, really bad. Like the only reason we are even considering going to STL again is because my BIL and SIL are having a baby, if it weren't for that, well... I think it would be a very long time. Even with that trip Chris is wanting to look into airfare.

But for now, normalcy has been restored. Somewhat. Check our this to get caught up on a new venture of mine.

And I can't help but end with a great line from Josh the other night. We were at the park and he was playing on the tire swing with a girl about his age. I was pushing them, and very much enjoying overhearing their conversation. It was adorable. But the best line came when the little girl was talking about her baby brother and how she was a girl, and Josh replied, "I'm a girl", then I proceeded to call him a silly goose and remind him he was a boy, and that when he turned and told the girl "I forgot, I'm a boy."

If there is one thing (which there's not just one, there is about a million) that Josh brings to our lives it is humor.

This pretty much sums up Josh right now.

It's been spring for awhile here in GA and the bugs are already out, particularly the bees and wasps. For whatever reason they seem to be particularly attracted to our deck area, so as you can imagine Josh has gotten rather used to them.

However he has somehow developed a special name for them. Whenever he sees one he calls out "look, it's a bizz-buzz." So cute.

Jack on the other hand has developed a not so cute habit. He isn't particularly fond of being on his stomach, so when he get there he pushes himself up on his knees like he is going to crawl, but instead of crawling he pushes himself up to sitting position. Kind of obnoxious when we are trying to get him to crawl, but particularly obnoxious when you lay him down for bed time and he does it, and doesn't know how to get himself back down.

One night we had to just let him cry it out, hoping he would get so tired he would just eventually fall over. Sad.

Chris and I have become acutely aware of the fact that our days of being parents to an adorable baby boy are all too quickly dwindling, and that our days of being parents to a toddler are rapidly approaching.

Jack can say "mama" and "dada", and is pretty aware of who they are related to. He also says "dja" for Josh. He's also started shaking his head no at us when he doesn't want something.

We expect him to start crawling any day, but he doesn't seem too interested in it. He'll get himself up on his knees, but instead of moving forward, will push himself up to a sitting position.

He's also eating table food on a pretty regular basis. I make muffins a lot for breakfast, and he'll eat one of those, or oatmeal, and will eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch.

It's exciting to see him growing up, and seeing more and more of his personality coming out, but I wish it would slow down just a little bit.

I just ran into the kitchen because Chris was calling for me, apparently he had poured at the milk and there was a strange consistency to it.

"what's wrong with it"

"you didn't shake it up, nothing is wrong, it's non-homogenized"

"it's gay?"

I love my husband. He makes me laugh. A lot.