Purpose?

I remember why I started blogging in the first place... While it's nice to have the audience (of 2) that take the time to read about our lives, the most important reason I wanted to start blogging about our family was more for a digital scrap book, detailing some of the details of our lives, but especially Emily's (and now Benjamin's!)...

I remembered this today because I was looking back at some older posts. While I've only been doing this a relatively short time (4th of July of last year, or around there I think), I can't believe what stuff gets forgotten so quickly. Those little details of Emily's routine that are no longer a part of her life are as quickly forgotten as they are changed in her own life. Emily and I spent some time looking at old videos of her, and it was as if she had grown a lifetime in only a few years... I couldn't believe it.

So, while I wish I could be more consistent with these posts, it makes it that much more important to me to get them in when I can, because I know just a short time from now I'll be looking back on even this post thinking, "wow, I can't believe I forgot feeling like that!"

We bought Ben's car seat today from Babies R Us. I have trusted my iPhone every time I have gone somewhere by using the map function, and up until today, it's worked flawlessly. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a street the map was telling me to turn on, so we ended up going in circles for about ten minutes near Penn Square Mall trying to find that freakin exit to get over to the store..

Anyway, we got the car seat, brought it back home. I then sat down and watched "An Inconvenient Truth" (loved it), knocked some doors with Chebon, ate dinner, had some desert, and just now put Emily to bed. Her favorite thing to do before bed now is to jump up and down on her bed while spelling her name as she points at it on the wall by saying "P...E...T...E...R" Even though she's looking at "E....M....I....L...Y." Man does she get a kick out of that.. never gets old for her :)

Leslie's about done being pregnant, or so she tells me (I think I already posted that, but it gets more evident each day). The good news is she's not on bed rest like she was last time. We were amazed at the doctor to remember that at this time in the pregnancy last time around, Leslie had already been in bed for 3 weeks! Blood pressure is great, no swelling, things are going very well! We're only 6 short weeks away from Benjamin being here!

Only one scare recently, when Leslie fell in the bathtub... Other than smarting her leg pretty bad, all was well.

As long as I'm on a roll here, I'll just throw in Emily's hard time with riding her bike now... it seems to wobble a little too much now, so she's not so inclined to visit the yellow park anymore. I'm almost thinking to put her back on her old small bike until she gets comfortable with it.

And no, she hasn't pooped in the potty yet. We're going to get hard core here at the end of school, when we take TV away from her completely until she does (Oh no!!! You mean, she'll have to play on her own, inside and out? Draw, be creative? Not veg out on the TV???? What is the world coming to?) Hopefully that will do the trick..