Updates and stuff.

Last Saturday we made a trip to Kalamazoo. Mark and I just needed to get out of the house and out of town, so Kalamazoo was a good idea. We hit a few stores. First we went to the Salvation Army on Portage Road. We got Charly a zip up, a bathing suit, a tank top, and an Easter dress. Aydan got two shirts and two pairs of shorts. That should hold them both over for a while and I think they have enough for the summer. 19 bucks total.

We went in to a few more consignment shops and we found a little food specialty store where Charly bought herself a small piece of chocolate. The lady was very nice and had a lot of good stuff at her store. It turns out the place has been there for 27 years....and we had never been in there before! Go figure.

Then we made our usual trip to Sam's club. It was crazy busy. We had no idea why, but it turns out, it was "taste of Sam's" day. They had a few more samples then usual for everyone to try. A lot of cheese's actually. And Aydan had some cheesecake that he didn't want to let go of. He cleaned that little plastic container with his little tiny spoon pretty darn well.

We hit Aldi on the way home to get milk and before the kids had a complete melt down, we were on our way home.

Aydan has been getting so big. His walking is doing well. He takes quite a few steps at a time, but isn't ready to be walking full time yet.

He had teeth number 7 and 8 come through. They are about half way there. It is two on the bottom, so this gives him four up top and four on the bottom. He'll be killin those steaks in no time!

He is doing really well with using a fork and/or spoon. He loves to eat anything out of a bowl with his utensils.

Let's see. He is still babbling like crazy. He loves to talk. He likes to hold a phone to his ear and babble on. He also loves to be outside. He is like his sister with that.

Aydan has learned to scream when he wants something...yeah, its great. (sarcasm). He will push his cart and get stuck, so he will scream really loud. "Yes, dear...that does get mommy's attention."

He is down to his last tiny little bit of formula. We have been phasing it out for a while. We are down to pretty much a bottle a day. When the formula is gone though, we aren't buying any more.

He has been drinking milk pretty good. He wouldn't drink as much from a sippy as he would a bottle, but is getting better at that too. So, the bottle will be completely gone soon as well.

He loves music. I put on some Janes Addiction the other day, and he went right over to the stereo to stand up in front of it and started bobbing his little body. It was cute.

Aydan has been sleeping pretty good through the night. He still wakes up sometimes and will wake up early morning, but a lot of the times he goes back to sleep without a bottle or much crying.

Yesterday was a crazy day for me. It started out busy. I had a lot to catch up on and more work coming in...then my Word program stopped working. Which is a program that I use for most of what I needed to do. I was at a standstill, so I attempted to reinstall Word. Well, it still wouldn't work, so I rebooted. Well, my computer came up saying that I might have a problem with my hard drive and to do a system check. Which required another reboot...and it does the system check while the computer is loading.

As the computer was rebooting, I was playing with Aydan on my lap. I leaned back in my chair and bumped my cup of tea onto my keyboard. Oh lovely.

I turned the computer over on its side and got the blow dryer out. I had only gotten it on a small portion of the left side. I was hoping no damage would be done...beyond what was already going wrong with my computer.

The computer was doing its "system check" and it would get stuck on "3 out of 5". I shut down and tried again. Same thing. I couldn't tell if it was still loading, or if it was stuck...but I was pretty sure it was stuck. I shut down and tried to boot in safe mode. No go...it would get stuck as well.

I shut down again and booted up. I chose the option to boot normally, but not do the system check. The computer came on and I was back in business. Even my Word was working again. So, I dove in to work where Brett was holding the fort down. We had quite a few calls and people emailing...busy busy morning/afternoon. We all didn't really start feeling any where caught up until 3 in the afternoon. I think we got a lot handled though.

And did I mention that just two days earlier, I dropped my phone in the sink while doing dishes? And then an hour later Mark dropped his phone in the toilet? Yeah...its all very ironic. I couldn't get my phone working, but Mark's is back in business. I am using an older phone that we had kept from before.

I still need to figure out if my computer is all ok, but for now it is working and I still can do my jobs!

I am looking forward to the weekend. Tomorrow, Mark and I will be celebrating our 5 year anniversary. This is the anniversary of the day we got back together. Five years ago...Easter...we met up at McGinnis Landing in Kalamazoo and have been together ever since. I had called Mark after six years of being apart...and I always like to stress that "I" called:) But, I was living in Lansing and Mark was living in Hartford. We decided to get together just to catch up in Kalamazoo. We met at 6pm at the restaurant. Mark was there first, waiting. And I think I even got there a tad early too. We sat and talked for about 5 hours and have been together ever since. I think we both knew what we had wanted all along. Maybe we just needed the time away to really be certain..who knows.

It is crazy to think back about all the emotions going through me when we met up again. I was so excited and scared. I think I can safely assume, I will never feel emotions like that again...which is a good thing. I want to remember that moment with Mark as a highlight in my life. I remember so many details...which if you know me at all, I don't remember much;) But, I remember watching him walk up to the table. He had on blue jeans and a blue long sleeve shirt, pushed up at the sleeves. I remember our kiss while standing outside of my car, and it was starting to rain. I remember watching him talk as we sat at the booth. I remember thinking....how it was just so good to be back in his life. I had missed him so much, it was amazing. I love my husband so much, and I am thankful for our meeting in Kalamazoo...who knows how life would have ended up, if we just never decided to "catch up".

Sunday we will go to church and then have brunch at our house. Dan and Dana are coming down tomorrow and will be here to celebrate Easter with us. We will have Ham, potatoes, sausage egg casserole, fruit, chocolate cheesecake...and whatever else we scrounge up.

I am just looking forward to a family filled holiday weekend. I won't have much work to do that I know of yet, and we can just relax.

Well, on to work!!