i miss him.

what the what. again.

I knew it had been a while since I had a chance to sit in front of my computer but I didn't realize how long it had been until I just decided to check out my Google Reader.  Yeah.  The unread articles begin on May 11.  Sorry RSS, you can bite me.

Delete. 

Delete.

Delete.

Who needs news anyway?

what the what.

My son doesn't say much.  He tries out lots of words.  Once and then never again.  Yet.  I am proud to say that he has officially mastered the usage of "What the what?"  In the morning, I hear his pacifier fall on the floor.  Then I hear him say, "ah ooooo" which is his version of "uh-oh" (in other circumstances it also means "thank you").  A few seconds pass before he realizes nobody is there to pick it up for him and I hear, "wha a wha?" and I just know his hands are out to his sides, palms up.  Today one of his shoes fell off while he was playing on his slide.  "Ah ooo" and I was having a hard time getting his shoe back on his foot and he said, "wha a wha?" 

The past couple days have been hilarious.  He does so many new things every day and I can't stop laughing.  He has a favorite book that he looks at on his own and screams when he gets to the page where the elephant screams.  I could watch him read that book all day.

I do wish he would get over Yo Gabba Gabba and stop insisting he listen to it all day every day.  Luckily the weather has been nice so we are outside as much as possible.  I think tomorrow I am going to throw the CDs out the car window.  While speeding on the freeway.  I'll wait until Henry goes to sleep so he won't get the idea that it's okay to throw stuff out the window.  Or I'll explain to him that it's only okay to throw Yo Gabba Gabba CDs out the window.  The problem is that he is so damn smart, he'll probably understand everything I say. 

That's right, I've officially entered the My Son Is a Genius stage.

Feel free to stop reading.

ha ha just kidding.

Remember when I said I'm doing so much better this spring and not getting sick anymore?  I lied.  I seemed to have picked up Henry's cold which isn't a surprise since he was coughing right into my face the other night.  Normally I would move my face away from his coughing face but he was having a hard time catching his breath and it was dark so I was trying to see if he was struggling a little or a lot.  It was somewhere in between. 

The good news is that Henry is feeling better.  Since he only really got sick on Tuesday, I'm hoping my cold will also only be a couple days.  He's still having rough nights but at least his little nose is pretty much clear during the day.  I haven't slept in the past couple nights because I've been up with him and my little nose isn't clear during the day or at night. 

This afternoon Henry's gpa decided to teach Henry how to do some gardening.  It was great because Henry looooooooooves spending time with his gpa and I got a break to lay on the couch and not breathe out of my nose. 

Here is my little man getting ready to work...

Time to start filling up some pots with soil...

And then I went inside to chill for a little while.  I came back outside to check on the progress and oh.  my.  god.  Apparently Henry loves gardening and playing in the dirt and eating dirt and playing in the water.  He had decided to take a break in his car...

And back to work.  I don't know how many times I told him that wasn't a fork...

He was so tired at bedtime, he didn't even wave goodbye when I walked out of his room like he usually does.  I know he's stuffed up again tonight because I can hear him talking in his sleep.  He has to sleep tonight because I have to get some sleep or I'm never going to get better.  We have big plans this weekend so we have to be healthy.  I suppose in order for that to happen I should do a better job at stopping him from eating dirt instead of taking photos.  But doesn't he look happy??

spare tire.

me:  Henry and I have started walking/jogging because I have this spare tire I can't seem to get rid of without exercising.

her:  Spare tire?  What spare tire?  Oooooh I see it now.  You know how to cover it with your clothes don't ya...

Last year I bought a kickass used jogging stroller with plans to get into great shape, find a man and live happily ever after.  Then I couldn't get healthy and my dr. told me to knock it off with the jogging until I could start eating better and gained some weight and stopped getting sick.  At this year's dr. appointment she told me I could stop gaining weight.  Gee.  Thanks.  I was actually very happy to hear this.  I got out the jogging stroller and washed it up and thankfully, Henry looooooves it.  The other day we started out for a walk but it was raining so we turned around and went home.  He was really pissed when I took him out of the stroller and he kept signing for more.  This weekend when he was with his dad I bought a rain cover for the stroller and was actually excited that it started to rain today and I got to try it out.  Unfortunately, Henry didn't want to have anything to do with it and I decided it wasn't raining hard enough to make him miserable with the stupid thing.  I guess I spend so much time telling him it isn't cool to stick his head in a plastic bag that it's confusing when I try to stick his whole body along with the stroller in a giant plastic bag.  With air holes but whatever.  This whole drama occurred at about 3.10 miles.  I was feeling good.  We were making good time.  All was well with the world.  I put away the rain cover and we kept going.  About .25 miles later we were almost to the tree covered street where it wouldn't be as rainy and I noticed his right shoe was gone.  He just started wearing a bigger size shoe this weekend and since he was with his dad, I wasn't sure how it went, whether they actually stayed on his feet or not.  I stopped and looked all around the stroller and got the rain cover back out, wondering if maybe I had gathered up his shoe in the cover and nope, it wasn't there.  I stood there for a minute and tried to think of the last time I noticed he had both shoes and I thought they must have been there for the rain cover but who knows.  I considered just forgetting it and going home because we were still about a mile from home and what if it really started raining.  But then I remembered that I bought those stupid shoes for $7 on sale and they were brand new and what if I couldn't find them for that cheap again.  I turned around and sure enough, about .25 mile back, there was an adorable shoe laying in the road.

All this to say that tonight I am exhausted.  Who knew an extra .5 mile could kill me? 

And I love this tree.  I noticed it on the way back from finding his shoe. 

We have a long day planned for tomorrow.  I'm not sure there will be time for exercising but I'm going to try to make it happen.  This weekend I realized that we get lots of good talks in during these walks and when he wasn't with me, it just sucked.  Also, I'm getting really good at garage profiling.  I'm pretty sure I've found my next husband. 

And my spare tire is getting smaller.  Sweet!

dick points.

Me:  I need to sign up for the rewards program again.  After 18 months I just realized that my ex-husband has been getting the rewards from the card I've been using.  What a waste...

Employee:  Oh don't worry sweetie, you're not the only one that's happened to.  I like to buy sporting goods and one time I bought a bunch of camping equipment and I couldn't figure out why I didn't get any points.  Then I realized that my ex-husband got all the Dick points.  I was so mad.  Yup.  All those Dick points went to him.

Me:  Oh.  My.  God.  That's awesome.

Employee:  The worst part was that I wanted them points so I could buy a gun  

Me:  I think you are my people.

favorite time of today.

Henry and I have been going on long walks in the afternoon.  We talk and laugh and shout but when we get to this street we are quiet and listen to the birds and squirrels.  Perfect.