Too Fast

It's going by too fast. I'm sure I should feel happy, but it just makes me sad. I know he's not a toddler, but it feels like I'm going to blink my eyes and he'll be there. 

Teeth

Looky looky! Mini lost her first tooth!

She really did lose it too. Apparently it fell out on the bus while driving to school. Sami said she had it in her hand and it fell out of her hand onto the ground somewhere. The bus driver can be what Sami describes as "mean" and so she couldn't look for it. When she got home she thought it would be a good idea to cut a tooth out of paper to try to fool the Tooth Fairy. She cut it out and stuffed it into her tooth pillow. I'm still waiting to hear what happened with that one. I wonder if the Tooth Fairy rejected it or what.

Sweet.

Halloween Finally

Logan and Carter were Mario and Luigi for Halloween.

Samantha and Phoebe dressed up as Snow White and Annie. They were both SO proud of their costumes if you can't tell.

Is This What We Have Come To?

Let's talk about internet safety. Occasionally I will look at the stats on my photography blog. I haven't done it for a while, in fact I haven't even been to my photo blog in 6 months, so when I went yesterday and updated it I decided to check. Imagine my surprise to find that it had over 60 views yesterday morning alone. Odd.

I looked at the referring addresses. Suspicious.

adsensewatchdog and vampirestat. I will not even bother to put the dot com after each address. Do not click on these links if you see them.

I googled them and was even more confused.

The following information is from SpamSpoiler.blogspot.com:

"If you have a blog and check to see where the traffic to your blog originates, you may notice traffic from websites called Vampirestat.com, Adsensewatchdog.com, Villainstat.com, Uglystat.com and/or Zombiestat.com. First off, don't click on them to find out why they are sending you traffic.

Neither Adsensewatchdog, nor any of these others have anything whatsoever to do with Google or Google AdSense and are essentially spam sites that use automated traffic to blogs to attract clicks to their own sites from blog owners such as you. Once you're at their site, at a minimum, you'll be fed ads. At worst, you might fall victim to malevolent code that seeks to infect your computer with who knows what (although I haven't verified that these particular sites are seeking to plant anything on your machine)." 

What I don't understand is why people do this. It makes me want to set my blog to private. Obviously this is something that I really don't want to do, but along with the weird spammers, I am also getting a lot of traffic from other areas and people looking at my blog who I do not know. This is slightly unnerving. This may be the end of my "open blog policy".

We'll see.

p.s. I have no problem with strangers looking at my blog as long as you make yourself known. Leave a comment. Something to let me know you are normal and not some weirdo.

I am behind. So behind that it looks like I'll never catch up. I am talking about the blog, and life, and lots of things. It's a recurring theme in my life.

But good news. I've been exercising. It's the most interesting thing. Since this is my first experience with running until the day I gave birth, I didn't know what to expect. That first run after having Carter was so stinking EASY! I felt so light and FAST. It was crazy weird. But let's talk real here. Yes I still had that weird jello-jiggler tummy. It was all a-jiggle as I ran. But everything else on my body seems to have bounced back crazy fast!

I put my jeans on four weeks ago. I've never done that before! I took my measurements and compared them to my pre-prego measurements. Everything is the same except for my giant jello tummy which is still hugely large. I wonder when that will go down.

My midwife had me do a bunch of exercises for diastasis recti (which is when your abdominals seperate). As she told me, every woman gets this after giving birth, but doing the exercises pulls your muscles back faster. So even though the ol' abs are reunited again, I am still fighting to get rid of the layer of fat and squishiness that seems to have settled on top of it all.

Wow. That was an interesting tangent wasn't it. Back to the original topic. I am behind. I never blogged the pictures of the first day of school. I never blogged about Halloween. I didn't tell about Carter's blessing or Logan's baptism. Also, my house has gotten disastrous. I'm behind on the cleaning and the laundry.

But I get an A+++ because despite being so behind on everything, Phoebe read her first book yesterday and Carter is growing like a weed. My kids are happy and healthy and I am getting the exercise I need. Being a mom is such a balancing act. And yes I'm a little out of balance right now, but I know it will all come together soon.