ARGH BLAH ARGH

This is definately a Monday. And a bad one. It all started when I had to spend an HOUR AND A HALF on the phone with Orbitz customer service fighting for a refund since they double booked me for a flight to Florida in November. I've been calling and arguing with them for a week, and today I lost my nerve and told them that we weren't getting off of the phone until it was done. It was NOT PRETTY. But it is done. I even got an apologetic email from them with a travel voucher, for all of my trouble. ARGH!

It will be a day that I need to sit down with the joy of my life, and let her melt all of my tension away... until bedtime, that is. :)

Actually, this weekend she did really well! She started to get tired about 6:30 - and after 15 minutes of the regular routine, I picked her up and she swore to me that she wasn't tired anymore... So we walked around the house, and watched a little tv for 30 minutes or so, and then tried again - and miracle of miracles, when I laid her down she didn't even cry... WOW! For 2 nights that was the case, so I'm hoping that maybe we are over the worst! She gets so darn worked up, and sweaty, her whole head gets soaking wet. I guess that she inherited the "superior excretory system" that my daddy gave to me. I was hoping that maybe the sweating gene would skip a generation, but no such luck - sorry Jordan. :)

We had a swimming lesson this weekend, that was really fun! Jordan definately likes the water. We had some friends there, and it was a great time for all of the babies. I will post a picture of Jordan in her little bathing suit - she was so precious.... But I need a picture that doesn't include mommy in her bathing suit, because she is not so precious... :)

I'm planning to work on that, we have a new jogging stroller that arrived on Friday! It has a cover that snaps on with little windows so that Jordan will stay dry in the event that it rains, which is pretty likely to be the case from now until about next March. We tested the stroller out on Saturday, and it works beautifully, though the jogger isn't working quite as well... It feels completely unnatural to be running... Owwwwww!!! It's funny how that works - I see a tree 50 yards away, and tell myself "okay, just run to that, and then you can stop". So I really only ran for a few short unexplicably painful bursts. This is going to take some real getting used to - as I'm very sore after just the first expedition. The only downside of the stroller - it won't fit into the trunk of the beemer. What a joke. A great stroller, that I can't take anywhere. Life is grand. :)

BJ killed a little buck this weekend - just a little "fork in horn", which for you non-hunters means a little baby buck, with little baby antlers... He spotted it across a clearcut, and then he and his buddy talked about who was going to take it, when BJ realized that he might not get many more chances to hunt, so if he wanted meat in the freezer, he'd better do the job. Plus, I liked his reasoning, that if he didn't kill it, his buddy would - either way he was going to have to hike down the canyon and up the clearcut to get this deer - and he may as well do it for his own deer rather than for someone elses. :) Anyhow, the hunt was successful. We'll have to start Jordan on venison. :)

Lots of update - no pictures. But I'll try to get some posted tomorrow.