It's a Miracle it Didn't Happen Before Today!

This morning I was doing very well, time-wise. I'm usually running about 5 minutes behind schedule, so the fact that I was 5 minutes AHEAD of schedule was nothing short of a miracle. Add in the fact that today is Chris's day to take Brendan to Katie's and I'm really doing well. I decide to stop at good ol' McDonald's for an orange juice for my ride with my extra time.

I'm sailing and about half-way to school I look in the back seat and see...the car seat. It has simply been too heavy (for months) to keep lugging Brendan around in it, so we generally take him in and out of it. The day before "Chris's Day to take Brendan" I take the car seat out of the car, and yesterday was no exception. However, last night we realized we had like 3 baby wipes left, so we went on a family trip to Buy Buy Baby. Left the car seat in the car, and now we have a dilemma. I call the secretary and tell her the situation. In the end I was 25 minutes late. Honestly, I'm amazed this was the first time it has happened in the 10 months he has been here! That combined with the fact that I forgot that I had to pick up Brendan at the Pavilion today instead of Katie's made it just an annoying day.

Anyway, the little man is getting to be not-so-little. He was playing on the floor and threw one of his stacking cups. I bent down to get it, stood up, turned around, and Brendan is standing on the second step! OHHHHMIGOSHHHH. I immediately get behind him where he scaled all 6 steps by himself. In the past, he got himself kneeling on the bottom step, and then got stuck. Not tonight! And a few minutes later he did it again. He also let go of the couch today where he stood on his own for about 3 seconds. I, of course, lectured him about growing up too fast. He said, "nyeh!" and pushed himself out of my lap where he continued his quest to cruise. I really am VERY proud of him!

If you want to see a funny video, see this youtube. My grandma gave him this weasel ball to play with, and it's pure hilarity. Sorry for the quality...it takes forEVER to upload videos onto blogger and I had to decrease the quality hard core to make it small enough to upload to youtube. It's still pretty funny, though!

Craziness Here!

Besides, of course, the crazy bald man from my town who took out two officers and ran all over the western Chicago suburbs with two guns, hijacking two cars, and robbing (another) bank. ;)

Brendan is now OFFICIALLY pulling up! He does it on the toy (yes, Hannah ;) ) piano, his musical table, the ottoman, and to my surprise this afternoon, his crib! He even...took a couple steps! I think cruising is in our near future.

Also in our near future (more like immediate): stair climbing. Yesterday he pulled himself up onto the bottom step, which he has done before. He hangs out there usually, and then sits back down. Not yesterday. He moved his hands to the second step, and then put his knee up on the first step! Unfortunately (fortunately?) he slipped as he tried to get his second knee up, but I'm thinking it's coming very, very, very soon.

Does anyone have a Peg Perego item? How good is their customer service? Brendan's clip on his car seat is sticky (not with food...like it "sticks" when I try to put clip it together) and is really hard to get in at all. I want a new clip. I hope they send me one. I also have to call Baby Jogger regarding the City Mini...I somehow broke the clip on the carseat adapter. I HAVE worked with them before regarding the latest recall and they were great. I hope they will be about this one too. I'll be very sad if I have to replace the entire attachment over a clip. He's almost done with it anyway, though. I'm more talking about future kids.

Finally- here are some things I'm eying at Gymboree:


I have a thing for screen tees for babies...



Yeahhh...that one just makes me laugh.

I will probably buy all of it.

10 Months Today!

I just can't believe there are only two months left of "babyhood" before we move onto toddlerhood. It goes too fast. He's already making sure we know that he can play by himself without our help...Mommy and Daddy do NOT like this. He will still cuddle when he's tired, though :)

10 Month Stats:
Weight- 18 lbs, 14 oz- 10th percentile! We jumped!
Height- 28 inches- 25th percentile...just a slight drop from the 35th.
Head Circumference- 44 cm.- 10th percentile. Actually, the doctor thinks his head was mis-measured last time, so that would explain the huge jump last time! In a nutshell, Mister Man has gone from the 3rd to the 10th percentile in head circumference.

He's getting big!

Brendan is currently crawling all over the house and is working on pulling up. He pulled up on the piano for about a week until one time he fell and took the piano with him. Eh, he learned I guess! Haha!

My Day So Far

I'm really too tired to go into much explanation about today, but I also would like to vent, so here is my short summary of today rated by the good (+) and the bad (-):

+It's FRIDAY!
+Of a 3-day-weekend!!!
-Got called to the office today because a mom wanted to talk to me...her son got in trouble in music yesterday. *sigh*
+Mom made him apologize to me and write me a "sorry" card! I was so sure she'd be mad at me!
+/-outside, inside, outside, inside, outside, free lunch, outside
+New contract passed- yay for a decent raise!
+Leave at 3:30!
-Come home to discover that my house is the set of the next "Arachnophobia" movie :( Not really sure how to handle this situation
+Manage to open mailbox despite a tarantula (I swear it has to be related) on the handle of my mailbox.
-Realize that the Chicago Tribune charged my old bank account even after I changed all my banking information.
+Got it all straightened out.
-Realize Pepper ate Rupert, one of Brendan's bears.
+/-realized it was just the leg he pulled off and I think I can fix it. The bad news is that I have to fix it.
+Let Pepper out to get a little running time in.
-Realize the dog disappeared. The landscapers left the freaking gate open. Grab Brendan and chase the stupid dog all over the neighborhood. Guess he got his "running" in. Jerks. Both Pepper and the landscapers.
+New diaper covers in size medium came in today!
+The colors are awesome- sky blue (but it's dark!), aqua, melon orange!
-They are still too big for him, but the smalls are too small. Guess it's better to be too big.
+It's FRIDAY!
+Of a 3-day-weekend!!!