29 Years

Nola is talking a LOT more!  In full sentences, like a real person!  She's said things like, 'Embry take that!' or 'Embry threw my ball!'  As you can see, we have a lot of sibling conflict in our house.  Embry's new (or rather worsening) habit is to run up to Nola and just rip whatever she had out of her hands/mouth/arms.  Usually yelling something like, 'THAT'S MINE!'  If you can't tell, I kind of hate this.  I particularly get upset when someone hurts my little Nola, even if it's Embry, I can get livid.  I think we need a love and logic refresher because I'm not sure what to do about this. Although Embry can also be very sweet, like tonight on the way home, Nola dropped her ball and we couldn't get it for her, so Embry handed her ball to Nola.  Of course Nola dropped that one too, but that's beside the point.

Today is my 29th birthday!  I'm exhausted, big surprise!  My mom came over with a cake and some cards (one from her, one from the girls) and she watched the kids while I went to the Dr.  Then I met up with Anna and Aleena to have lunch at Pei Wei...lots of fun.  Then I went up to the Tucson Mall.  I LOVE that mall, but geez it's huge.  I never used to tire of shopping, but it's really not much fun when a) you have no money, b) your everything hurts, and c) you're fat.  I'd like to not make this into a 'downer' post, but I saw pics from over at my parent's house 3 days ago for my mom's bday and holy cow, I'm huge.  Seriously, like a whale.  Furthermore, the last 2 times I was at the gym I biked over 11 miles each time and ran for about 9-10 minutes...I'm starting to wonder if maybe I need more than 2 hours a day at the gym to make a dent because even high-impact stuff (running...which I'm not exactly supposed to do) isn't doing a darn thing.  Ok, back to my birthday:  Then I came home and Tony took the family out to dinner at Culvers.  I had a wonderful day and there will be more celebrating this weekend!