133 + 29 Weeks

Well, I am very tired as I write this because Carmen woke up at 3:30am because she couldn't get her blanket on, and I had to get up and help her, and then I never fell back to sleep.  She is doing this every other night or so.  But at least now she goes to bed without calling to me (I still have to give her two 'eggies' every morning though).

We didn't do much this week.  The weather went from sweltering hot to rainy, so we didn't even have any trips to the park.  We stayed home and played a lot of dress-up, play doh and balloon catch.  We had Carmie's babysitter, Darcy, over twice.  Once I let Carmie do some 'real' cooking with pots and pans, flour, water, salt and pepper, and Jeffrey was not happy when he had to do the dishes that night - it had all turned to cement.  But I still think it was worth it, as she had a blast :)

We also had Hunter and the twins over for a playdate, which was complete chaos but very fun.  Our house suddenly turned into a day care centre.  Speaking of day cares, Carmen has been crying a lot before going to school these days.  I hate taking her back there.  However, when I pick her up, she is all smiles, and tells me what a good day she had.  Her main carer told me today that they are going to work on her socialization skills, so hopefully this will help.  She feels that Carmen is so very attached to me that she doesn't feel comfortable when I'm not around, so I have to work on having her spend more time with Jeffrey too (which is going to be a challenge, as she is generally stuck to me like glue).  Apparently she doesn't follow direction terribly well either - they told me that she stops to play with every toy in her path whenever she is on her way to do something they ask.  It sounds just like Carmen.  Total pain in the butt.

Arley is moving around a whole lot.  He is not crawling yet, but we will leave him in one spot of the lounge room, and turn our backs and he will be 5 feet in a different direction.  I have not yet caught him in the act of moving, but he does it all of the time!  Only when I'm not watching though :)

Two videos from this week:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLvpSrtGB34&feature=c4-overview&list=UU21-zydO1IYNApoXHx_P8LQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CYt7OR4630&feature=c4-overview&list=UU21-zydO1IYNApoXHx_P8LQ

An old photo I found from when Jeffrey took Carmie to the zoo,

 Best family photo ever.