Nick and I were playing cards on Saturday night. First, we played a few hands of Spit, a game that I grew up playing with my sister Aubrey. Our friends, Trisha and Nicole, played with us a lot as well, and we would have tournaments with the four of us. This is a game that brings me very fond memories, and since I dominate over my husband :) I enjoy playing it still! After we played Spit I taught him how to play Phase 10. With only two people playing, the game moves a bit faster than it does when a big bunch plays, so we were able to finish two games before too long. Baby Nick was taking a nap, and Bubba was just hanging out downstairs. We thought he was playing on the floor, but as we walked into the living room, we found Bubba in the chair, asleep. Since it was after 8pm, we were surprised that he had fallen asleep. Of course, he woke right up and didn't go back to sleep until after 1am! That was such a treat (NOT) having him laying in our bed, first with his head up on our pillows, then down by our feet. At one point, I laid down with him at the foot of the bed. Picture this: Nick on his side of the bed, with his head up on his pillow and his feet at the foot of the bed; Joey in the middle of the bed with his head at the foot of the bed and his feet by Daddy's belly; me with my head at the foot of the bed and my feet up in Nick's face. Add to it one pillow-hogging Bubba and my head nearly hanging off the edge of the bed. All of it to see if it would help Joey go to sleep faster. Did it? Of course not. I finally moved my head back up where it belonged, fell asleep, and found that Joey was finally asleep when Baby Nick joined us at 2am. But since I was asleep first, I am not sure what time Joey finally dropped off at. Oh well, at least he slept.
Here is another milestone for Bug: sitting up by himself. Up until just today, he couldn't even balance on his rear for a second, and tonight he sat up for several minutes, with my re-balancing him only once. When he started to fall the second time, he put his hand down to catch himself. He is getting to be such a big boy. He will be SIX months in a week from tomorrow. I can hardly believe it.Now on to the things which have caused me to grow up a little today. The boys and I went to church this morning (Nick had to stay home as he was on call, and spent over an hour on the phone walking one of his employees through a procedure). Joey walked right into the nursery as if he owned the place, like he has for the last few times. But today, I left Baby Nick in the nursery for the first time. As I sat in the sanctuary, I was more uncomfortable, as if I didn't know what to do with myself without at least one of my children beside me. I stared at the front where the number would surely show up saying that one of my children needed me, but not once was I called to the rescue. I suppose I should grateful that I had some time to myself, and I am, but I'm not as ready for it as my kids seem to be.
The next thing that made me grow up today was Joey. About 9:30pm, I was rocking Baby Nick to sleep, and Joey started walking up the stairs. I asked him what he was doing, but he didn't say a word. He just looked at me with kind of a sad look on his face and continued climbing the stairs. About fifteen minutes later, Nick asked where Joey was, and I told him that he had gone up the stairs, but I hadn't heard him or seen him since. We both went upstairs, as I was laying Baby Nick down anyway, and noticed that no lights had been turned on. We found Joey laying in our bed, asleep. He had just taken himself off to bed, not saying a word to any of us. It's enough to break my heart. Usually, when he gets tired, he will climb up in my lap and "rest on your shoulder" or lay down on the couch or floor and fall asleep wherever he is (like he did in the picture at the top of the post.) But tonight, he just carried himself off to bed, as if he felt like we didn't have time for him, or care enough about him to put him to bed. I can't wait to hug him in the morning to leave no doubt as to how much I love him, even though I am sure he doesn't really feel the way he made me feel like he feels. (Don't give yourself a headache trying to make sense of that if 9it doesn't just come to you.)
A funny thing that happened today; Joey was sitting on Nick's lap while he was laying back in the recliner. Joey said to him, "You have hair in the nose." That gave us a laugh, but not so much as what was said next. Nick told him that he had hair in his nose too, but Joey just said, "No, I have boogers."
Superbowl results: Nick and I do NOT watch football, we have no idea who the teams are, which teams are good, or why we should root for a particular team. But we do watch the Superbowl, pretty much just to say we did. Nick decided to root for the Bears because they were coming in as the underdogs. I decided to root for the Colts, for the same reason that I root for any team; they have the nicer uniforms! So we decided to make a little wager on the outcome of the game. The loser gives the winner a full body massage. I can't wait to cash in my winnings!!! HE HE HE
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