When Ben gets super excited, sometimes he chews on things. Not a problem if it’s a stuffed animal, but it becomes a problem when he tries to take a chunk out of your leg. It’s not aggressive biting, it’s “oh my gosh I have all this pent up energy and need to get it out right now.” Whenever he does it I always say “No! Ouch that hurts” and without fail, every single time, he gets a big lip quiver and bursts into tears. And then I have to try not to laugh, it’s hysterical. He’s such a sensitive little guy, I only think I’ve yelled at him once in his two years…most of the time a firm word is enough to make him stop whatever he’s doing (and sometimes even makes him cry).
We’re working on one of the bedrooms downstairs right now (pictures in another post). Basically, that room will become Andy’s lair of computers, oscilloscopes, circuit boards and capacitor & resistor storage. The man cave. Then the bedroom his stuff is currently in now, will become our bedroom. There are two bedrooms upstairs and two downstairs, and we’re planning to move downstairs to take advantage of the bathroom we finished this year and have a little quiet adult space. This leaves two bedrooms upstairs, Ben’s and one that will be used for a future kiddo. I’m a little apprehensive about being on a different floor than kids, but it’s just the solution that will work best for this house.
Speaking of the house, I’m excited to see progress on the bedroom…but sometimes I get discouraged with all the work. I know it looks nice, and it’s an extreme improvement over what the house used to be. But at the same time sometimes I think it’s not even like we’re restoring an old period home that has character and class. It’s just a ranch house. We’re not really bringing anything back to its former glory, we’re just making a normal house that isn’t gross. And believe me, what we bought was kind of gross to start with ;-) That said, we have a house, we got a good price for the area, little bit of land and it isn’t a “boring” ranch. It does have character and a little bit of interesting architecture. And it’s ours.
We’ve been watching Burn Notice on Netflix and I’ve been having really weird dreams about espionage and smooth talking secret agents.
The other night over dinner, Andy and I were talking about what we did that day. I told him I’d run 4 miles at the Y. He said he walked to the bathroom from his cube. Way to go baby ;-)
Ben and I went on a Starbucks date today. I had coffee, he had a juice box (brought from home, because seriously I’m not paying $2 for one) and we shared a chunk of pumpkin bread. For the most part he’s pretty good in restaurants/public settings. I look forward to many more dates with my little man.
People keep asking what we want for Christmas and I’m struggling to come up with ideas. Remember when you were a kid and would circle all the toys you wanted? So much easier. Actually, if you must know this is what I really want. I’ve wanted one since I was 9. Seeing as nobody will plop down $1,000 for me though, I’ll just have to hope Andy comes up with some invention that makes him a millionaire one day.
