Update

I don't have a good reason for not writing in a while. Here are a few updates to catch you up on my incredibly interesting life.

I love the weekends, even when I spend a lot of them weeding and gardening. It is such a great break to have Mr. Doodlebug home to help care for baby Doodle. Two parents to one child is a fantastic ratio. I don't know how I'll do with two parents : two children, or during the weekdays, one parent : two children. I'm enjoying just having one baby for now. Eventually I would like to have two kids but not yet.

I hurt my back weeding yesterday. I have a bad back. Ever since I threw it out when I was 19 years old my back has been fragile. It's hard to pick up an 18 pound baby when your back goes into debilitating spasms. It's harder yet to put baby Doodle into his crib. I hope I'm able to do it for his nap. I really don't want to hold him for his entire nap.

On the brighter side, our yard is looking quite nice. We weeded and pruned the ivy hill we have in the front of our house, weeded the side garden bed and planted some basil, dill, red and yellow pepper plants, and I planted grass in the huge section on yard that was covered by a bush that was killed by enormous vines. Next weekend I'm going to tackle yet another flower bed and plant a couple of azalea bushes and at least one hydrangea bush.

Baby Doodle is incredibly cute and infinitely fascinating. He is constantly doing new tricks demonstrating that he's learned many things we didn't think he was paying attention to. Yesterday he crawled backwards to get off the slide at the playground. I've been trying to get him to crawl backwards down the stairs but he never showed any interest always wanting to dive down head first. The other day I asked him where his toes are and he reached down and touched them. I asked again and he repeated the action. Last night I warned baby Doodle not to throw his sippy cup on the floor. He looked down at the floor when he heard the word. He's picking up on so much. It's amazing to watch.