Friday Play Group

Hi all sorry for the delay in posts but I've joined a couple mom groups and that has really been taking up a lot of my time. Last Friday, Jen brought her camera and took pictures of the kids all lying on a blanket.

I tried posting pictures but it's not working for some reason....

Caitlin and Elyssa are the same age, born on the same day....Elyssa was born a month early, and Caitlins' parents are both very tall. Jack is the eldest of the group and you can tell Ava has a thing for him, so does Caitlin. He could really care less, strangely he seems to prefer older girls, especially ones that walk....Go figure!
Poor girls, oh well one day he'll notice them I'm sure ;)

I'm going to take our camera to the next meeting we'll all be at which is going to take place with some other moms and kids who aren't part of play group, it's going to be a Halloween sort of meeting so some of the kids may be dressed up! I can't wait!!

In other news, Travis and I took it upon ourselves to get this place cleaned up...A bit. Saturday we set to cleaning different parts of the apartment, I took the kitchen and Travis headed to the bedroom. I moved our microwave to a place that's much more conducive to being used, and reorganized the pantry!!! I can breathe now in that kitchen it's so nice and spacious...And clean!!

The bedroom looks good too, although we have too many clothes and no where to put any of it :( oh well.

Not much else is new, Jack is going to be 5 months old this Friday!!! Not sure if we'll do anything special, it remains to be seen...I'll post more pictures though ;)

W.O.M.B.A.T score

To illustrate how much of a Harry Potter nerd I am.....

If you go to www.jkrowling.com you'll see at the top of the page a little card on top of the keyboard. It says WOMBAT on it. I was curious one day and clicked on it, it brought up a prompt to enter your code to receive you score.
There was no explaination of what WOMBAT was or how to do it.

Well I found out just a little bit ago. The door to the Room of Requirement was open and it was the latest round of WOMBAT testing. What it is a a chance for Muggles to test their apptitude for magical knowledge. It's not a Harry Potter Trivia test. It has questions in there about the cause of some goblin rebelions and such but unless you really pay attention when reading the Harry Potter series none of this would make sense.

I guess in a way it is a trivia test, but it's really really obscure trivia. Not all of it either becuase soem of the questions are made up from the lore.

Anyway, I never studied. Not really sure how to be honest. But taking the test for the first time I received a score of Exceeds Expectations!!!! I'll have a link up later to show those who are interested....But Jack just woke up and is crying so I gotta go!

New Friends and loving Jack

Oh I've made a friend!! A real adult friend!!! Her name is Liz and she has a daughter named Caitlin, and they live near me and Liz has this super cool minivan!! Yes I said Minivan, I want one now, it's just soooo cool!

Ok I've got that out of my system. It's so nice to get out and do stuff with other moms. Today Liz and I and the kids went to the "SuperMall" in Auburn. It's about and hour and a half away I guess (I have no concept of time). It was an event planned by our walk and exercise moms group, I think we did a bit more shopping than actual exercising to be honest but we all had fun.

The weather has turned chilly here, the trees that change color have already started changing. We've had to have the heaters on the past couple of nights, and I bought some warmer clothes for Jack to wear at the mall today.

Jack has started teething, I think three are coming in at once poor kid. While I was pregnant, people kept telling me I was going to love this kid like no one else, that it would be incredibly overwhelming. I love Jack so much I feel sometimes like I'll burst, sometimes I end up crying because I'm so happy. Thing is, that is how I feel about everyone I love. If I think about one person and about all the happiness and joy they've given me I get that feeling, like bursting and just unimaginable love.

I think if someone I loved were threatened I could move heaven and earth to help them. When I was in Boston visiting Paige and Theron after Sylvie was born, Paige and I were on the subway. I saw everyone on that car as a threat to Sylvie and imagined what I'd do if someone snatched her. In that case I could fly and had super strength.

I feel that way about Jack too, of course! I think I just love everyone the same, but in different ways if that makes sense. I love Jack just like I love everyone, but like no one else. I knew having him would be as wonderful as it is to have him, everything is just as I expected. I say this even though Jack is teething and crying and crying almost inconsolably.

Thank the maker for Orajel ;)