Mixed Emotions....

"At work you think of the children at home. At home you think of the work you've left undone. The struggle within yourself tears at the heart." 

I have huge mixed feelings with work.  I love working, but I definitely miss my kiddos after being home with them for 9 weeks!  This first week back wasn't too bad, until Thursday morning when Preston said "No Jennies."  I guess he was ready to stay home again.  All summer he wanted to go "bye bye" and now that he has to go Monday thru Thursday he was ready for summer to be back I guess!  

Today was my first Friday off (with it being a normal work week) since before Preston was born.  IT WAS AWESOME!  I loved getting to spend all day with my babies.  They of course are already used to the new schedule of getting up and staying up at 6:30am, but that was alright.  I'll just have to get used to getting up early to hopefully run and then get ready for the day before they are up!  Today we went to the grocery store, just the 3 of us - boy was that interesting!  It is hard to fit groceries in the cart with Chloe's car seat!  I think it will just make me spend less money though, so I'm ok with it!  

Chloe update:  

• She smiles anytime you are talking to her!  And her "cooing" is becoming more often and so sweet.  I realize now how much I missed Preston as a baby.  They are just so sweet as babies!
• She is getting really good at holding her head up on her own.  I was walking down the hall with her and she was completely upright all by herself.
• At her 2 month check up she weighed 11lb and 1 oz and 22.5" long 
• She is very consistently sleeping through the night for me!  Usually goes to sleep somewhere between 9 and 10 and then wakes up between 4:30 and 6:00 to eat.  Sometimes she stays up for awhile when she gets up later, but gets tired  in an hour or so and then goes back to sleep.  
• Tummy time goes good for 5 minutes or so and then she is ready to be flipped over.  She is good at scooting herself around on her back, especially in bed - she always ends up right next to the side of the bed when I placed her in the middle!
• She is doing great at daycare, not that I had any doubt! 

Preston update:

• He turns 2 in a week!  YIKES!!  Time went by way too fast there.
• We are still working on potty training.  It is harder now since we aren't with him all the time.  
• He is learning his letters and their sounds and can do all of them pretty consistently.  I don't think he always recognizes them but he can tell you what they say if you ask.
• He has a great memory already.  He attempts to "read" books before you do  and he loves to sing songs!

I (Terra) had my 10 year high school reunion last weekend.  It was fun to see everyone that was there.  Most people looked the same.  Things really didn't change too much from high school either, everyone still hung around the same people they did in high school for the most part.  Just quick chats with people you were friends with but not your best friends.  Because of the existence of facebook, there really wasn't too much to catch up on with most people.  I don't know if that is a good thing or not!  We have AJ's reunion in September, we'll see how that goes - at least AJ knew a couple people that he could hang out with at my reunion!
Tonight we are going to my work's "company picnic" at the double A baseball stadium.  Hopefully it is a little fun - they majorly downgraded from years past!  There are going to be bounce houses, so maybe Preston can get in them and have fun.

Most of the people at the reunion.

Me, Angie and Sheree

AJ with Angie's husband, Chris (on the left), and Sheree's boyfriend, Dave

The other night Preston was playing his little piano and I told AJ to take a picture of it.  He decided to video tape it and caught him at his normal self.  Most people don't get to see Preston play like he does at home...Enjoy!