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so i was watching Definitely, Maybe on tv. in it ‘will’ finds ‘april’s’ book jane eyre at the used book store and gives it to her as a gift. it reminded me of the movie Serendipity where the guy gets the special book as an ironic wedding gift and it made me want to watch it. when the movie ended i scrolled thru the movie guide for something else to watch, and ta da – serendipity was playing! odd coincidence considering the movie is from 8 years ago.

[ser-uhn-dip-i-tee]

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so last month around halloween i received a blank postcard in the mail. the cover is a cat painted like a skeleton. the address label is typed and the postmark is a prepaid sticker. nothing written…nothing to say who or where it came from. it was weird but then i forgot about it.

today when i got the mail i had *two* more. same thing…a blank postcard with a picture of a painted cat on the cover. we thought we had a lead when one of them happened to have a stamped postmark saying boston. but stephanie claims no knowledge of these mysterious postcards.

it is so weird. who is sending me blank postcards?

http://www.whypaintcats.com

yesterday mom was over with lucas while paul and i were at the doc. then mom and i watched The Ugly Truth. when paul went to take lucas upstairs for a nap, mom waved bye-bye to him and lucas waved back! he was trying to move his arm up and down and flex his fingers to copy the motion that mom made. i might have passed it off for a fluke, but then he did it again later for me! same situation, paul was holding him and i waved bye-bye to him and he waved his arm back at me!

i slept alllll day today. i don’t know if it was from the meds or being sick or both or what. in the few hours of awake time i have had, i’ve been “being scrappy” as i like to call it. paul mentioned that dr duff and frank’s wife jennifer were talking about scrapbooking at dinner friday night (the one i didn’t get to go to–oh and apparently mrs duff dragged dr duff to the midnight premiere of new moon, too lol) and paul asked how much of lucas’s i had done. i realized i am very behind on his as i haven’t finished anything past 3 months old so i’ve been working on getting some new pages put together. i need to go buy a 3 ring album like the london book i have rather than these little post bound books that dont hold very much. i just wish they had pretty 3 ring ones instead of just solid leather ones.

i had a dream last night that mady and cara were in my girl scout troop. that they always had been and i never thought anything of it. then Tina, the assistant leader, said she could only come every other meeting and that Jon would be taking her place. then i was thinking how that would mean there would be cameras at the meetings and stuff and i was all freaking out.

so i’m upstairs getting some ice cream (the only perk of being sick) and as i’m trying to open the tub, somehow i manage to pinch the palm-side of my pinky btwn the carton and the counter painfully.

i go downstairs an eat my ice cream at my desk. when done, i get up to take away the bowl and when i turned my office chair i managed to pinch the same pinky btwn the chair arm and the desk painfully and tearing the skin a little on the top side of the pinky.

*sigh*

paul and i went to wellstar this morning while mom watched lucas. i’m negative for strep throat, but my throat is inflamed or something and i have now completely lost my voice – lucky paul. i was given some kinda nasty tasting steroid pills to take over the week. *knock on wood* so far lucas has not caught my cold from me.

lucas is now 27 weeks old. he still sounds so little when you say it like that

haha lucas literally said “ga-ga” to me today. maybe he likes Lady Gaga?

on the 15th lucas started reacting to us leaving him – by crying. he was looking at paul, and paul walked out of the room, and lucas started to cry. so now if he sees either of us leave he gets upset. if he doesn’t see us leave, he doesn’t notice/realize so we just have to distract him before we walk out.

yesterday was the first day he got up on his hands and knees and started rocking. this is something i read about in my baby bulletin last week “Your baby may also be getting up on all fours and rocking back and forth. He is trying to gain the strength he needs to start crawling.” paul saw him do it during tummy time yesterday, and when i came in to get him up this morning he was doing it in the crib. soon my baby will be crawling away and won’t want me to hold him anymore 😦

i have a cold. yucky. i had to cancel my appt with the psychologist (actually i had paul call) and had to have paul stay home from work. i slept until 430 in the afternoon.

the past two days lucas has started crying if we leave the room. like if he’s looking at you, and you walk out, he starts to cry. so we have to make sure he’s looking at the parent not leaving and sneak out.

i have been commanded to make a new post. which i guess is a good thing since i see now that i havent posted in over a month.so let’s see…from oct to november….

i heard about some Daisy girl scouts that needed a troop, so I began putting together a troop for them, plus did more recruiting for my brownies. I ended up with about 13 Daisies and now 12 total brownies ( I had 5). While putting together the Daisy troop I discovered they had plenty of willing leaders, they just didn’t know what to do. So now I am just mentoring the leaders in their doing the troop and won’t be doing the troop myself. I’m happy with this plan since I only signed up to do it in the first place since I didn’t want them to not have a troop. in addition, i am now the assistant cookie chair for the whole service unit…meaning this girl jennifer and i are in charge of ordering and distributing etc allll the cookies for alllll the troops in the acworth area. i also signed up to be the troop organizer for the service unit, which would mean i’d be doing what i did for the daisy troop…teaching new troops how to put their troops together and recruiting new girls and leaders. fun!

on 0ct 17, lauren, kristie, and i did our yearly apple day + yahoo farms trip in Ellijay, GA. This year we went to a new place called Hillcrest Orchards where you pick your own apples off the trees (you pay to do this, so in a way, you are paying them to do their work for them :P) then we went to the petting zoo which was soo much fun playing with all the animals. i wanna get some mini goats like that for my yard.  after Hillcrest we went to Yahoo farms for the corn maze and haunted hay ride. on the hay ride, the skeleton guy kissed lauren lol!

on oct 26, i went to see the movie surrogates with lauren, jake, john, and jenn. we also ate at Outback where Jenn and I got the Wallaby Darn or Down or whatever they’re called – champagne and peach schnapps and some other stuff. soo yum. they messed up jenn’s meal so we also got a free dessert .

oct 31st was Lucas’s first Halloween. He and I went to mom’s house and hung out with mom and Ron and passed out candy. He went as a monkey because that’s what i call him – monkey baby.

nov 7th was laurens bday, but she is lame and didnt want to do anything for it. in the morning i had a girl scout field trip to the booth western art museum where they had a Colors and Shapes try-it workshop. it was a lot of fun – especially when we made stamps and created an aqua-scape with the stamps. after the trip Madison and I went to pick up the fall product sale nuts and chocolates and then i took her home – her neighborhood is gorgeous – i wanna live there!!

on sunday the 8th paul and i had brunch with matt at ocharleys, and then that evening i went to my first scrapbooking club meeting. we made a 2 pg christmas layout that is soo cute. i had a lot of fun and am going back again today. the club is just a group of women here in acworth that get together a couple of times a month to scrap (i love making up my own verbs for this…i like to be scrappy!). today was lucas’s 6 month birthday!

nov 10th i had a girl scout leader meeting. jennifer pope and i did the cookie training for the cookie moms in the service unit. i got a few boxes of the new cranberry cookie. they are soo yummy i ate one box in a sitting.

nov 11th was a girl scout meeting where we did the Me and My Shadow tryit. weds was such a hectic day. lucas didnt sleep all day so i was behind getting my stuff together for the meeting (and it was a LOT to get together). plus paul’s meeting ran late so i had to bring lucas to the meeting with me and he was crying the whole time since he was so very tired. it was a fun meeting, but the day was really exhausting and stressy, especially since all i really had all day was a bunch of coke which did NOT help.

yesterday was lucas’s 6 month check-up. he got his immunization shots and a flu shot. his new numbers are: 17.5″ head circumference, 27.5 inches long, and 18 lbs 14oz weight. not really much to say about the appt since he is doing well.he sits up now in what paul calls tripod style – he puts an arm in front of him to support himself. he loves to make high pitched shrieks like a bird and low growly noises like a dinosaur. he rolls allll over the crib when he sleeps. if laying on his belly he can puch himself up with his arms, but he hasnt figured out to pull his legs up under him at the same time to be in crawling position. i think we should be giving him more tummy time. he drools like crazy and you can nearly see his first tooth. if you run your finger over the top of his gums you can feel the sharp edge of the top of the tooth. one day he started a nonstop babble of sounds ba-da-da type noises. it was soo funny.

this afternoon im going to the scrapbooking club to learn about the new digital scrapbooking program. if i like it im going to ask for it for xmas.