Another busy week

It's been a long and busy week for sure. It was my first complete work-from-home week. I got a lot done and have already learned a lot. I was really busy all week, just trying to get organized and figure out exactly what I am doing.

Again, Solomon has been really fun all week. He's been rolling all over the place so I can no longer leave him alone on the changing table or even near the edge of the bed. It's cool to see how he's progressing though. I keep thinking he's going to crawl really soon. He gets on his stomach and has his head up and arms and legs in position and moves his legs but just doesn't quite go anywhere yet. I'm sure it's just a matter of time.

Book Club was on Wednesday. It was nice to see Amy and her baby, Natalie. She's really cute and smiled a lot for us. Solomon enjoyed playing on someone else's exersaucer I think. He's only a month older than Natalie so it will be neat to see how they progress. Alex picked him up after he got finished with work and took him home for a bath and put him to bed. One of my other friends, Jennifer, was also there. She is due in less than two weeks I think, so we all wished her luck.

Thursday was Valentine's Day. It was nice. I got Alex a Hines Ward football jersey that he seemed to like and a few other small things. He got me tickets to the Cirque du Soleil show that is coming to Wichita at the end of March. I saw one of CDS shows when I was in VEgas a few years ago and it was really neat. I'm sure this one will be cool too. Plus, it will give us a chance to go on a date, something that is hard after you have a kiddo around.

Alex's cousin was in town this weekend. He has been offered a job here in Wichita, so he was here for an interview and then the weekend to look around. Guess what his name is?? That's right, Alex. He's about the 4th or 5th Alex in my Alex's family. There are about four names that they just seem to recycle. It's funny. In fact, he would have had the same first and last name as my Alex, except for the fact that when his parents came to the U.S., the immigration people switched his dad's first and last names around. He never changed it back and has since then always used his first name as his last name. Therefore, his kids also have that as their last name. Strange huh?? It makes you wonder how badly names were botched by the U.S. Immigration people years and years ago when even more people were coming to America. The Thomases only came over in the 70's. Anyway, this Alex was really nice. He was really funny and we hope he moves here. He's smart and well-educated. Now, he just needs a woman... any interested parties out there?? :) We tried our best to show him the good parts of Wichita and to avoid the not so fantastic aspects. The funniest thing happened though... We went to this bar that is usually too hip for us called The Shadow. They had this ridiculous cover band playing and the singer was this big fat guy wearing one of those shimmery club-type of shirts that hasn't been in style since maybe 2001 if you were that kind of guy who would even wear one. Then, to make it even better, there was this bizarre guy, dressed in a cowboy get-up. He was using all of these crazy dance moves with a complete lack of rhythm. Good thing (cousin) Alex has a great sense of humor. It was almost more fun to me than seeing a good band play. Of course, I've always loved a train wreck.

Days of Our Lives was awesome this week... some of the best ever for me. They were all on a plane that was having problems and all of them almost died. They tried to do a "24" type of thing with the clock on the screen. Days of Our Lives and 24 have production values that are so polar opposite... so of course any attempt that DOOL makes to be high tech or realistic is so ridiculous that it's fantastic to me. The over acting was even better.... Ahh... DOOL is a drug to me.

Mom and I went shopping today. Target and BabiesRUs.. We bought a bunch of stuff we needed.

I'm kind of excited because "Dexter" is on CBS now. It was on Showtime last summer. We caught it towards the end of the season and liked it. It's scary and demented but good. I think they are starting from the beginning on CBS though so we will have to rewatch some of what we've already seen.

I have tomorrow off for President's Day! I can't wait to get some cleaning done. How pathetic is that?

Alex took the pictures above of Solomon! They are so sweet.