Saturday

It's Saturday morning. Avery slept in until 8:10, but this was after waking three times during the night (two really close together at 4:45 and 6:15). But, 8:10 rocks, so I'm not too unhappy about the three wakes. She has, for the first time, refused to take her morning nap. I left her in her crib for about 50 minutes. She cried for a bit, fussed for a bit, was quiet for a bit - all to no sleeping avail. Shrug. She's now laying on her play mat while playing with a toy and babbling. She is playing in a much more muted state than usual, but isn't rubbing her eyes or cranky. I know she was tired when I put her down. Figuring this stuff out is such a guessing game.

Here's the video of the house that D and his coworkers helped build during their volunteer stint with Habitat for Humanity. It's 10 minutes long, but it is so worth watching the entire thing. The correlation between home ownership and success in school is stunning. It never occurred to me that not having a permanent home would affect school performance so much.



We watched The Savages last night on DVD. I think we can probably start a NetFlix subscription now since there will be movies we haven't seen.

I did a dog walk with Avery in the Ergo yesterday. It was actually more difficult for me than walking with her in the stroller. Part of it is that I walk very fast with the dogs, even when pushing the stroller. I don't feel I can walk as fast with her in the Ergo, at least not at her age - maybe I won't feel that way when she's older. The dogs get more impatient and things just go all pear shaped. It's good for me to push the stroller anyway - more upper body strength. Maybe when she's older enough to ride in the backpack, that's work better. As with all this stuff, we'll see.