be on the lookout

yes, folks, be on the lookout for a *CRAZY* white aztec driving around near westerville! as of today, i have permission from my surgeon to drive...yes, do you feel that fear in you? well if you live near me, you should feel the fear. b/c i DROVE TONIGHT! i switched with wes on our way home from dinner (wes & i are way too tired today to cook. me from surgery recovery, wes from waking up with amelia at 5:30)...we were in our neighborhood, probably for a total of 2/3 of a mile, but still, *i drove*!. so, when there are no cars moving around me & i don't really have to turn my head, i'm okay to drive. otherwise, it's probably not such a good idea. i think i may have to wait another week for the safety of others & those in my car.
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somehow in the past month, my youngest daughter has been switched with a monkey. or maybe it's an alien that will soon reveal itself by pealing off its fake human mask from the neck, revealing it's green googly eyes & cone head (that was exactly what my sister, as a young girl, thought of my parents when they were sleeping. we were just swapping parents-as-aliens stories the other night. & i thought i was extreme for thinking their eyes were green at night. geez!). anyway, amelia is quite the acrobat & climber. she's not walking yet but has this weird ability to scale nearly anything. today a book was propped up against a side coffee table/cupboard & she was climbing it--a book--to get on top of the table! i wasn't there to witness it, but i believe she was successful. she can climb our outdoor slide 7 feet up to the top, then she can also climb the steps of that slide, never mind the indoor stairs (that was *so* last week, y'all). it's as if her body will just suddenly stick to anything in order to get to her desired destination. OR she will completely do a head dive-bomb off of the couch or any elevated item onto the floor. thankfully, she puts her hands out first (when her head digs into the floor, she doesn't mind). she also appears to be attempting somersaults dives from the playroom mattresses (one is up higher, then the lower one is right beside it, on the floor. THESE ARE THE *BEST* TOYS EVER. I PROMISE YOU THIS. people of all ages like to jump on beds, right?). i believe she's learning the somersault trick from her sister, for sure not from me. crazy kid.
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& my arm is now sticking to the table as i type b/c adeline sat here & watched dora on the nick jr website & ate chocolate ice cream...my phish food! (gasp, precious commodity). so this was our first day alone with the girls & we did pretty good. we even did our usual cinnamon-rolls-for-breakfast saturday morning tradition. i put amelia down tonight (then wes had to go in a bit later to calm her down after she woke up from her 2 minute slumber...i can't yet do the bopping around while holding her to get her in sleep mode). the house is a MESS, we ate out for dinner with a gift card from neighbors but we are not crazy-eyed & sobbing into the phone, calling my mom begging her to come back NOW ... that's tomorrow, *smile*. i am now yawning uncontrollably, so i'm off to bed. i just wanted to give a fair warning about the blond driving maniac around westerville. psst, i heard she just had brain surgery & isn't stable; watch out for that car. *wink*