I’m sure no one has notices or cares, but I’ve missed a few days and am failing my “post every day of June” goal. It seems I have to choose between writing a post, doing housework, and getting sleep. I don’t mind getting behind on housework, but sleep has GOT to win. The baby has long stretches of sleep beginning at 7 or 8 at night. If I don’t get to bed by 9:30 or 10:00 and catch the first wave, I’m kind of screwed. After 3 am, it gets sketchy. But hey, he slept from 8:30 PM to 3:30 PM straight last night….AND I got to bed at 9:30. Sweet.

You know who else is sweet? Ms. Mary, aka Miz SShe sent Rachel and Hannah the sweetest letter accompanied by two great book and an awesome CD of children’s music. Thank you, Mary. I have an impulse to call you like I sometimes do (calling Mary seems to be the trend) but then I remembered that I’m a dork on the phone and I got shy. The girls have been carrying around the books all weekend. We were at a wedding yesterday, and had a loooooooooong dinner with no where for kids to run around, and are kids were amazingly well behaved, partly because Rachel was busy reading one of the books Mary gave her. Hannah sat for the first 20 minutes pretending to read the other book. She want to read so badly. She’s starting to be able to read words slowly, but is not a real reader. When she overheard us telling the other people at the table that she wasn’t actually reading the chapter book, she blushed behind the book and muttered, “I’m reading it in my head,” which meant, I think, that she was imagining what the words were saying. I think she’ll be reading “Dick and Jane” by the end of the summer, she wants to so badly. When Rachel was on the verge of reading, I got fed up with the “Easy Reader” books that you find in the bookstores because they are so poorly thought out, that I ordered a bunch of Dick and Jane books because they use easy words, have very few words per page, and repeat them over and over. They worked really well.

Anyway, where was i? Yes, making choices and my new commitment to sleep.

On that note, I must be off. However, I will leave you with some of my random thoughts/happenings.

- How come whenever I try to burp the baby, I burp?

- Don’t see Kung Fu Panda. Just don’t.

- Do go see a “mommy” movie with your newborn while the girls are in school. I haven’t been able to do that since Rachel was a baby and it is a real luxury. It’s also a bonus for the baby, lots of eating and snuggling and no distractions and reasons for mom to put him down.

- If you happen to see Sex and the City and your daughter asks you what you saw, lie. Tell her you saw “Clothes in the City” or something like that, unless you want to have to give an impromptu explanation of the word sex.

- Rachel did ask me how babies were made a couple of months back. I was driving with Hannah in the car. I told her I’d tell her later. That night I ordered some children’s books about the subject, for various ages. I keep wanting to sit her down and answer her question, but she hasn’t asked again. I really should make time. I’m pretty sure I learned about sex from other kids my age at a pretty early age. When I was in 5th or 6th grade, my Dad asked if I was taking sex ed in school, seemed satisfied that I was and that was pretty much the extent of what I learned from my parents. This explains my awkardness now. That and the fact that I don’t really want her to grow up THAT much…..ever….. Well, that last sentence was a bit of a lie but you hear me, don’t you?

- Why did CNN spend two hours with a camera on Hillary Clinton’s garage on Saturday morning without once giving the news, and then when i got back a half hour later, after her speech was done did not replay the speech?

- Why do people who find out I had two girls and then a boy assume we were trying for a boy?

- Boys like babies. You wouldn’t believe how many boys have asked to see the baby and then look at him in awe.

That’s all I’ve got. I’m starting to yawn and baby is sleeping on my lap. I’m calling it a night.

Night.