Update

After a while of not blogging because I didn't have time or enough that I cared to write about, I entered a period of not blogging because it was too daunting to start again. So here's my quick summary of the past few weeks:

Work stuff: Lots to say, but nothing I can talk about.

Community stuff: Started work on the local committee; seems like a great group of people who are very interested in things that people sometimes laugh at me for caring about. Looks like it will be a lot of work, but worthwhile.

Real estate search: After months of searching for single family homes in our price range, broke down and started looking at condos, which are MUCH nicer, cheaper, and more abundant in my town. But I'm spoiled after living in a single family; all the condos are 2nd and 3nd floor duplexes and I don't like the idea of having to go upstairs to get into my home. Makes it feel like an apartment. This weekend: lots of townhouse open houses, plus probably a peek at one or two single families that we can't afford (or rather, can afford only if we commit to staying at or above our current income level for the next 30 years, and neither of us is comfortable with that commitment).

JW stuff: He bought a very nice suit for his talk at the big conference next week. I asked if I could go, but of course I'd have to pay the $800 conference fee, because it's not like the school play where your family is supposed to come see you.

K stuff: For his 3rd birthday, he got to have 2 lollipops (one first thing in the morning, one that took him all afternoon) and watch all the videos his heart desired (the same episode of Blue's Clues four times in a row). We did get in one fight when I made him wear pants, but smooth sailing otherwise. It was so nice to have an excuse to indulge him all day.

He has an unhealthy attachment to his fleecy pajamas. ("Unhealthy" because he'd rather stay inside all day than change and go out.) He throws major fits when it's time to change, and when changed, once in a while says, "I'm sad because I don't like wearing daytime clothes. I miss my pajamas."

He still hasn't totally recovered from the loss of his pacifiers about a week and a half ago (I will detail the Pacifier Saga another time) -- he keeps getting out of bed at night, waking up at least once during the night, and waking up about an hour and a half earlier than usual. It's gotten better, but we're all tired.

His potty training has regressed. For a while he was going several times a day and telling us in advance when he had to go. Now he keeps refusing and has barely used the potty at all for the past week or so. Which is likely tied to the pacifier change, now that I think about it. At least now he's resisting because he doesn't want to use it, and not because he can't.

He's interested in rhyming lately and has been making up his own words. He was talking about words that rhyme with "house," and when we exhausted the ones we knew, he said, "Bouse!" I asked him what "bouse" meant and he said, "Someone who works too hard." This morning he told me a "montey" is like a monkey, but with longer feet, arms, and head.