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Max is no longer content to simply bite my nipples with his seven (SEVEN!) freakishly razor sharp teeth while nursing, he is also now pinching my arm hard throughout the entire nursing session.  So while on one hand, yea, nursing is going great as far as my milk supply is still sufficient and he still prefers breast to bottle, but on the other hand...OUCH!  I still plan to stick it out another six months though.  To be perfectly honest, I don't think I could wean him now if I wanted to.  Kid sprouts horns and spits fire when presented a bottle.

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Alex is POTTY TRAINED!!!  Ok, sure, he's not FULLY potty trained, in that I don't let him wipe his own butt yet, but still YAY! YAY! YAY!

You know what this means?  No more diaper bag!  I went out and bought myself a reasonably sized mom-purse which holds mine and the baby's necessities.  I do keep a large ziplock with an extra pair of undies and pants in the car in case of accidents, but he hasn't had an accident in weeks. I am SO PROUD OF HIM!

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Often I stick empty cardboard boxes on the lid of the garbage can in the garage so I don't have to trek outside to the recycle bin a million times.  I just let it accumulate and take out a bigger load.  Sometimes they mysteriously disappear and I've assumed John was taking it out for me.  Today I found out he's just tossing it into the garbage can thinking it's trash.  He actually thought I was being lazy and not throwing them away myself, like I'd go to the trouble of breaking down the boxes and taking them out to the garage, but figure it was just too much work to lift the lid on the can. 

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I'm anxious for John to go back to work Monday after having been home on holiday vacation for the last two weeks.  I've spent most of the time breaking up fights between him and Alex and trying to get them to share.

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John takes me to Mimi's Cafe once a month or so for breakfast/brunch and I always get the crab and avocado omelet. If you haven't had this, GET IT NOW!  Really, I don't know why they even bother having anything else on the menu, it's so good, why would anyone get anything else?  This morning I had it along with a honey bran muffin, and I swear that meal was practically orgasmic!  I was almost reenacting that scene from When Harry Met Sally during the entire meal.

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When I wasn't moaning in ecstasy from my breakfast, I was beaming with motherly pride as both my children behaved BEAUTIFULLY.  Right next to us was a large group that included a couple of young children, one of them, a boy about Alex's age kept doing this whiny/shrieky/screaming thing that was so loud it actually hurt my ears.  The mother, of course, was mortified and kept hissing at her children to keep quiet.  At one point I caught her eye and gave her a sympathetic look, because, I've been there sister.  I then leaned over to John and whispered "You know what is totally awesome?  That sound isn't coming from either of our children!"

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GO UTES!