I have to go back to work in less than two weeks.  Ick.  I, of course, am so not ready.  It's not that I don't trust our sitters with our kids, it's just that I would rather do it myself!  It is so cruel how just when your newborn is becoming such a joy to be around (right not Elliot is looking at me like I am the most wonderful thing in the world, smiling like he can hardly contain himself!) you have to head back to the real world.  I know that this won't always be the case, but for now the reality of it stinks!  I am thankful that for my profession, my job is about as easy as it gets so I should concentrate on that instead of the negative.

We had a great weekend.  Travis decided to take Friday off (a miracle in itself!) and we finally headed to the IKEA that opened up a few hours away from us!  It was great...we didn't make any huge purchases but we did get stuff to finish out Harry's new room and for Travis's new office.  Then we headed to the Great Wolf Lodge to spend the night.  Harry was absolutely in Heaven!  Even though there wasn't a ton of stuff that he could do (mainly because Travis was the only one swimming with him since I was watching Elliot and you couldn't hold kids while going down slides) he still loved it!  Seeing him get such a kick out of the water and especially the wave pool was more than enough entertainment for me!  That and seeing a poor little kid puke in the wave pool which caused it to be closed down for several hours...people watching can be so fun!  Then when we got home Saturday, Scottie and Julia came over for pizza and they brought their new Mariokart game for Wii!  Very fun! 

We had Harry evaluated for a possible speech delay yesterday.  He did so much better than I thought he would.  I didn't think he would interact very well with strangers, but when they came armed with puzzles, books, and blocks, they had the key to his heart!!  I have figured out that he is saying a lot of words that I can't understand and that he is having trouble making consonant sounds but not vowel sounds.  He has been infatuated with learning letters lately and can say all of the vowels properly, but b, p, v, etc. all sound the same.  The therapist couldn't tell me what they were going to recommend, but I think that they will recommend some sort of treatments.  They would like him to have a 50 word vocabulary.  I think he has probably said 50 words, but I wouldn't say he uses 50 words routinely.  She also said they would like certain words to be in there such as up, hot, all done but instead he says words like thirteen and fourteen.  Hmm.  I hope it all works out for the best.  We don't really believe that he has a serious problem, but we are trying to not be naive about it and not get him some help if he really needs it.  In the meantime, she gave me some tips to try to see if they will help.