This morning at 6am I was just finishing up my morning routine in the bathroom. Kris was sound asleep. I knew this becuase he was snoring so loudly I swear the house was shaking. Then I heard a toilet flush. Better go check on the toddler. Sure enough, she had gone potty. I thought I heard her downstairs so I asked "Annika, where are you?" She responded from her bedroom "I'm right here mommy." So I walked in and asked her what she was doing. She then exclaimed "I went potty! I flushed the toilet! I wiped my butt!" She was so proud of herself that I couldn't help but smile and giggle with her. Then I laid her back down, covered her up, gave her a kiss on the cheek, stroked her hair and told her how much I loved her before closing her door and continuing my morning chores. She's such a sweet child.

James is so close to rolling over! He's learned that if he's on his back, he can use his legs to propel himself onto his side. I put him down on his playmat last night so I could bring Annika upstairs and put her to bed. I thought for sure he would roll over while I was up there, just so I would miss it. Nope, he didn't. But he did roll on to his side while I was gone. Kris better be ready with that video camera!

And James is such a smily baby now too. I was trying to get a picture of him smiling yesterday but I was always a half second too slow or fast with the camera. I think he's trying to laugh too. A few times yesterday he kind of grunted a few times in a row, really fast while I was playing with him. I bet he's laughing in no time.

So my first week back at work is almost over. Let me say just one thing about that - Thank God for work at home Wednesdays!! It's gone pretty well but I can already tell that I'm getting sleep deprived. I've been falling asleep during the night when I'm up feeding James. I'll wake up 15-20 minutes later with a crick in my neck from sleeping in the rocking chair. The good thing though is James is sound asleep and it's easy to wrap him back up in his blanket and put him back to bed. I didn't use to do that so I must be more tired during the night. I've been trying to get to bed before 10pm this week but with that 5:15am wake up call plus being up usually 2 times during the night to feed James, well it's easy to see why I'm sleepy. Those car drives home in the warm afternoon sun are no help either! I get so sleepy that when I get hom all I want is a nap. Maybe I can rest for a bit on Saturday. I'll have to sweet talk Kris into that!