7/2/2002 05:47:33 PM|||Amy|||I found myself going to my own blog this afternoon looking to see if someone else had inserted a few interesting comments. No such luck. I have been monumentally busy at work. Grants, grants, grants. Grants make me crazy. The application for a grant must be perfect or it could cost the PI the award, so I've been super obssesive compulsive trying to ensure the applications are beyond reproach.

I would love to be able to spend some time making Kangatopia a haven of wit, humor and lovely little pictures of my gorgeous children. But I just don't have the time. Oh, please, give me a winning lottery ticket! I really appreciate the $5 I won in the last big kahuna drawing, but I need more than that to fund my blogging addiction and desire to become html (at least) savvy. Not to mention my current rash consumerism fueled craze. I bought a pizza stone from Amazon yesterday just because it was $8 off. I've got a yearning to fill my home with fresh flowers, scented candles and kitschy kitchenware.

William is getting better and better about going to bed. He's getting pretty pissed off about having to get up in the mornings though. I've got to work out a reconfiguration of our routine that will encourage him to go to bed earlier - when we first suggest it might be nice. We give him leverage with his bedtime because the apartment is small and kind of creepy. I can't bring myself to force him to go into a room on his own when I have a sneaking suspicion that there really are monsters under the bed and in the closet.

Lauren has been giving more and more of her puppy kisses. She'll crawl up and aim her mouth and tongue for the first available bit of face, then lick. It's a little gross, but very cute. John brought home a high chair for her the other day and she really likes it. It's time now to start feeding her finger foods.|||78482137|||