Things to Remember

I was telling my mom some of the cute/funny/smart things E had done this past week and she suggested I write it down. So here it is.

*He was playing in our room while I laid on the bed. He found the remote for the window unit, picked it up, and pointed it at the a/c. When it didn't do anything, he picked up the tv remote and tried pointing it at the a/c. Once again nothing happened. So he walked over to the a/c and began poking at the control panel with both remotes. Of course nothing happened. So he brought the remotes over and started lifting up the bed rail (it was down) and sliding the remotes between the rail and the bed. At one point, he happened to grab the a/c remote where the power button and it came on. He stood there and stared in amazement while the cool air blew through his hair. Then he kept turning it off and on since his finger was still on the button. The look on his face was that of 'finally, I made it work. Now how did I do that?'

*We came home from the grocery store and I unlocked the front door. E grunted and pointed for my keys, so I handed them to him and set him down. He immediately went to the door and started poking the handle with the keys.

*He tried to climb in the bathtub yesterday, so I figured he wanted to take a bath. We have a pitcher that he plays with, so I filled and rinsed the tub just in case there was any stray hair or dirt. Now every time he's gone in the bathroom with me over the last day or two, he picks up a toy and starts hitting at the bathtub faucet with it. I had the sink faucet running and he wanted to be picked up, then he started gesturing towards it with the container he was holding.

*When one of us goes to the back door to call the dogs in and we're holding E, he yells 'DAH'. The funny thing is, the dogs usually come running.

*His laugh is so fantastic. Sometimes he genuinely laughs because we're laughing. Sometimes he laughs because he thinks something is funny. Sometimes he forces a laugh because we're laughing. And the best is when he's not ready to stop laughing, so he forces more laughing.

New Blog Topic

I'm going to blog again. Now it will be mainly about being a parent.

Why I hate AT&T, but will still have service through them

At the beginning of this week, we realized that our T-Mobile contract was up. WooHoo we thought, since the phones don't work at our house. We've been looking forward to getting AT&T since March or April when we realized our phones didn't work at the new place. I was on the phone around an hour with AT&T to set up service. We have some sort of discount through the school district and the guy had trouble getting it to go through. Thursday afternoon we got home and our new phones had been delivered. I went to call the number to get our numbers transferred and our phones activated. I couldn't find the paper, it had been thrown away and the trash already emptied. So I figured I could call AT&T and set up our account that way. Wow, what an idiot I was. The guy who set up our account put a password on it. The problem is, in the hour plus that I was on the phone with him, he never once mentioned the word password. We are told that we'll have to go to a cooperate store and show a photo id. Now I can access my credit cards over the phone with just the last four digits of my social, but not my cell phone account. It's so much more confidential. Our bill was also wrong. We had three charges that we weren't supposed to be charged for. My dear hubby got on the phone and talked to two managers trying to figure out how to file a complaint against the guy who set up our service. Because AT&T can see our account, they just can't give us any info or access to it because we don't know the mystery password. The guy's manager was supposed to call yesterday. Guess what? They still haven't called. What a surprise! So tomorrow we'll have to drive to New Braunfels just to set up our phones. I've looked around and if we have cell phones, AT&T is pretty much our only choice. T-mobile doesn't work out here. Sprint sucks. Verizon is more expensive than anyone else. And GO phones would be more expensive. We faced another large fuck-up on AT&T's part two years ago when we got new phones together. We decided not to deal with it, sent the phones back, and went with T-mobile. This time around we're just gong to suck it up and deal with the hassle. We've both had AT&T before and never had problems, so I'm just holding my breath that actually having service with them isn't filled with giant fuck-ups on their part.

I know in the grand scheme of things, cell phone problems doesn't even rank on a list of importance. I guess it's frustrating that something so insignificant is going to take up so much time. Such is life, I guess.

Midwife visit

We went to the midwife this morning. The midwife couldn't find the heartbeat so I'm probably closer to 2 months than 3 months. That's perfectly fine though because I'd like to work all the way through March. I also went to the doctor for my horrible cough. She gave me some antibiotics because the cough has been so persistent. I can also take some cough medicine. I'm sure my students are tired of hearing me cough up yuckiness.

I've also, grudgingly, decided to let the ladies at work throw me a baby shower (Too much forced socialization). I know it's kind of soon to think about, but some people have already brought it up. Today I asked someone I trust if she would be in charge of planning it. I told her I was asking her so early so that someone else wouldn't take it upon themselves to plan a shower and have all the horrible games that can accompany them. Food and presents are all I want. No eating baby food, drinking from a bottle, or wrapping toilet paper around my gigantic belly. My friend said she would plan it, but I had to help. It's fine with me, because now I can tell others that someone's already planning it.

Baby Check-up

I have an appointment with the midwife tomorrow. I hope we'll be able to hear the heartbeat this time. I'm worried that she's going to tell me I'm still dehydrated. I was doing really good about drinking water. But I've had so much phlem lately, that drinking water was making me nauseated. I'm also going to the doctor because I'm still coughing and I was sick again this weekend. If they offer me drugs(antibiotics) I'm taking them. I'll post tomorrow after I see the midwife.

More Location Issues

So, last night we discovered that KC doesn't want her litter box near the ferrets either. She peed on Steven's armchair 3 times and pooped on it once. I ran her under the bathtub faucet twice last night. Not just the head, her whole body. Spanking her didn't seem like enough of a statement. She's getting too picky for her own good.

Location, Location, Location

So my cat KC is a freak. That's generally an accepted fact. For 2-3 weeks she's been insisting on drinking out of the dogs' water bowl. I know she hates Zoot so I figured it was a dominance thing. But about a week ago she stopped eating. KC's a little on the hefty side so I wasn't too worried at first. She didn't act sick and she wasn't dehydrated so I figured she'd eat when she got hungry enough. During this time though she was trying to eat any dog food that dropped on the floor (and Zoot didn't get to first) or that Tim left unfinished. Once again, I thought this was a dominance issue. On Wednesday she still hadn't eaten anything and I started to worry. Yesterday I got her some canned food. I put it in her bowl and put her bowl in Tim's bowl. We were thinking maybe she didn't like her bowls anymore. Or maybe she didn't like her food anymore. So we took the dogs out to the hay field for about half an hour. We came back and KC had eaten half the food! So, it wasn't the bowl but it could still be the food. I was just glad she had eaten something. This morning when I fed the dogs she started meowing. I heated up her left over canned food and she went crazy. I went and put it in her room. She didn't go eat. I picked her up and put her in front of it. She turned around and walked away. I put her food on the kitchen table and put her up there. She ate it. So, ok. She doesn't want to eat in her room, whatever. But she's not eating on the table all the time. So to test my theory I put her regular dry food and her water on top of the washer. When I got home from work she had eaten all the food. When I fed the dogs tonight, I fed her also. She jumped up on the washer and started eating. What a freak!! She's SO picky!