Long day. Started off normal enough. Rachel was up crying from 12-1. Then up again at 430 for a bottle, which Mike fed her. Then up again at 7 sharp. Spencer was up at 730, we all had breakfast. Rachel went back to bed. Rachel got up at 10. Spencer and I woke Mike up at 10 (oh man, I didn't mean to sleep this late - uh huh, whatever). Then things turned a little ugly. Mike wanted to go the the mall and pick up Leopard (new Mac OS) and I wanted to just get out of the house, but the kids began conspiring against us. Spencer wouldn't go to sleep (wanted milk, then made poopy, then hungry). I finally got him happy and back to bed at 1230 at which point Rachel woke up. Then she went back to bed at 130 (asleep around 2) and up again by 3. At this point I was beyond frustrated. I thought they would both go to sleep at 11, be up around 1 or 130, and we could go with two rested happy kids. But alas it was not to be. We finally left at 330, with Spencer barely awake and Rachel 5 minutes from being hungry. And that little girl goes from fine to FEED ME NOW in 10 seconds, there's literally no in between. So I got in the back seat and fed her on the way to the mall. We didn't even bother with the double stroller, what a mistake that thing has turned out to be. I just put her in the snugli carrier and Spencer in the umbrella stroller, which is obviously too small for him. So he got to practice being on his own for the second time. It didn't go well. He wanted to wander. That's going to take some work. He knew what I was saying becuase he giggled and ran away. Grrrr... So anyway, we got the software, and I picked up Photoshop Elements, the full version of photoshop is just to complex for me. We went to Babies R Us to get some diapers and a potty. Rachel cried all the way to BRU and then all the way home again. So mind numbing. Spencer was quiet most of the trip, so there's time we weren't working on speech :o(.

Mike was stressed most of the time we were gone, but not as bad as in the past. He had those sharp, over done movements that relay exactly how he's feeling and always make everything worse, which just pisses me off and then I snap and make it worse, and so on and so forth. When we got home, I just told him to leave the kids to me and do what he needed to do. He has no patience when he gets like that and you have to have patience with the kids. I'm no saint, but just then I had it and he didn't, so I told him to scram. Anyway, Spencer and Rachel had dinner. I found out when I went to change Rachel that she had pooped alot at some point and it was nasty (again). It's no wonder she was so upset in the car. I gave her a bath and got her all cleaned up. Gave her a bottle and put her to bed. I got to hold both kids as she took her bottle and Spencer watched Finding Nemo.

When I was cleaning up Rachel, Spencer came in and we were 'talking'. He got one of Rachel's diapers out and it had Elmo on it. I said that's Elmo, can you say Elmo. He paused and siad it. Wow! He's really trying so hard! Way to go Little Man!

I got the website up and running and I'm trying to create a design for the header. Working on some stick figure stuff. Maybe I can get it done soon. Later!