Learning As We Go

So last night, around 4:00 in the morning, Jon has a dream.  Let’s get into Jon’s mindset.  I had to get all of the details and in a minute, you will see why.  In his reality, I had gone out of our bedroom to let Wrigley out to go potty.  All of a sudden, I started screaming.  Jon calls out my name and swats the pillow in a panic believing I am not in bed.

Unfortunately for me, I was actually in the bed and was in fact sleeping very peacefully on the pillow that Jon was pounding.  I had simply sneezed at the very moment in Jon’s dream that I began to scream.

So from my point of view I got smacked for sneezing.

The hilarious part is that we both went back to sleep and did not address this incident until about 4:00 this afternoon.

Halloween pictures!  Look on the side for an album with pictures from SC!

I have learned, through Grace I assure you, that the world has a way of not stopping just when you think it will.  I’m not sure why that is.  I know that sometimes I can feel like the world is caving in and everyone around me is being so normal…I just wanted to scream “Can’t the world just stop, just for a SECOND so that I can catch my breath?!” Well it didn’t anyhow.

It’s been almost 2 weeks and do you know what?  We are all doing just fine.  Jon went to work.  I went to school.  We made dinner.  I did laundry.  We played with Parker and got up with him in the middle of the night.  So weird how life just keeps going even when something really crappy happens.

We just got home from an awesome trip to South Carolina to see Jon’s family.  We went to the pumpkin patch, Monkey Joes, Boo at the Zoo, had fun hanging out in the backyard, ect.  It was so nice to do so many fun things.  We were hoping the trip would end with a sense of closure and a “time to move on” feeling and I think it did actually.  We are doing really good.  I will definitely post pictures of South Carolina when I get them on my computer.

I DO want to post some pictures of our NEW PUPPY!  I have had my eye on him for a few weeks now at the pet store.  I told Jon about him a couple of times but we never picked him up because we were going to SC and did not have anything to do with him while we were gone.  Well, I went to the store on Wednesday with Parker just to play and the puppy was STILL there.  I called Jon at work and he met me at the petstore after work!  His name is Wrigley and he is a 4 month old mini poodle.  We all love him.  He is such a sweet dog! Anyway – here are the pictures:

2 nights ago Parker was STILL up at 9:00.  He was crying and fussing and being unpleasant in general.  I told him, without thinking it through, that if he did not go to sleep he would be a crab the next morning.  Funny thing about two year olds – they take things very very literally.  So for the past two nights he has had a hard time going to sleep because he is scared that he is…you know what’s coming… going to turn into a crab.  He said “do I have pinchers?” “Now I have to snip snip snip people”?  I assured him over and over that he is NOT going to turn into a crab.  I told him I was just kidding.  I told him boys don’t turn into crabs.  Then he got very sad and said “only moms turn into crabs?”  I told him I was not going to turn into a crab; that I was a person and people don’t turn into crabs.   Well last night after we said our goodnights and I left the room he called me back in because…he was scared his TOYS were turning into crabs.

I will say this – I am really learning to think through what I say.  Who knew that the threat of crabbiness could get so out of hand?

Sorry for the delay in posting!  About two weeks ago we got a phone call saying that we could move in three weeks earlier than we were expecting.  We decided to do that so we have been moving!!  I’ll post some pictures.  We LOVE our new place.  We are having so much fun being just the three of us again.  I’m enjoying cooking (and even cleaning).  Jon is a lot closer to work.  He gets to come home two days a week for lunch which is really fun.

Parker has had a rough adjustment.  We live on a busy road and the cars at night scare him. We have had  a couple of pretty sleepless nights.  Naps are totally out of the question but we are adjusting to that.  The other day he was in his room and motorcycle drove past and he said “HEY!  Don’t scare me!  I have a big boy bed!”.

We will get into a routine very soon though!

School has started!  We are busy again! Parker has recently taken to the fine art of playing pretend games.  It is so stinkin’ cute to be in the other room listening to his little stories and dramas.  He usually has a car or a train and some people or animals in it and they all talk about where they are going, who is in trouble, what is eating what, who needs help or what is broken and needs fixing…very elaborate and very cute.

Except for right now perhaps.  Just as I am typing this actually he is sitting in the living room behind the couch.  I am sitting at the bar typing this and I am hearing this:

“I don’t have to go tee tee”

“Yes you do have to go tee tee so you can eat your dinner”

“I have to go pee”

“Don’t say “pee”.  That is not nice.  Say tee tee”

“No I do say pee”

“Ok then.  I not staying in the bathroom with you”

Oh the lessons that stick around!  Where is the lesson about using gentle words?  Washing your hands for 15 seconds? Picking up your toys? Putting your clothes away? Nope, not that one.  But saying “tee tee” instead of “pee”…thats ones stuck in his head!

The newest member of our family….well we havent named her yet (suggestions welcome).  But she is a 2010 Ford Fusion, Sangria Red…we love her!

I just like these pictures!