There is no snooze button on a kid who wants breakfast.

The dogs have officially ruined Seth’s kiddy pool. They must have gotten bored with it just sitting there. Or they got pissed because there wasn’t any water in it to quench their thirst. Anyway, the kiddy pool is completely shredded, but the tail is still inflated. It will go out to the garbage tonight.

Last night was a LOT easier to get Seth to go to sleep! I gave Seth a bath at 7:00pm, let him splash and play in the tub for a while. Then I dressed him in his pajamas, which consisted of just a pair of pajama pants and no shirt. He thinks he is hot stuff when he doesn’t have a shirt on. I brought him down stairs and made him a bottle. I held him while he drank his bottle and tried to watch Wheel of Fortune. However, the dogs thought it would be a good idea to play, so Seth was more amused with that than drinking his bottle. I had to practically fight with him to get him to drink it. So, I decided to lay down on the couch with him, hold him close and let him finish the bottle. Because Seth had been playing with the bottle more than drinking it, he had milk dripped all over his freshly bathed body. Never fear….Dixie was there, cleaning up the mess and trying to drink out of the bottle as Seth was drinking it. They are going to be best buddies, because as Dixie was licking his face, he was reaching his hand out grabbing her ear and patting her head.
Derrick got home about 7:45pm. He walked through the door and the first thing he says is, “Why are there 2 huge piles of dog puke?” Oh, great! In the last 20 minutes one of them managed to regurgitate whatever one of them managed to get into. Normally, after just mentioning the incident that just happened our dogs know that they are in trouble. It was Belle who regurgitated, because she immediately ran to her cage. I got lucky because Derrick was such a sympathetic husband and cleaned up the two piles. He knows that if I had tried to clean up the mess there would have 2 more piles to clean up. I have a sensitive stomach. *wink, wink*
While Derrick cleaned up the mess, I took Seth upstairs and lay down in our bed with him. I pulled our comforter close to his face and started to sing to him until I couldn’t remember any more of the words, and then it turned to a hum. Next thing I know, Seth is humming very loudly, with his pacifier in his mouth and eyes closed. It would have been so neat if he had a kazoo instead of the pacifier! And I wish I would have had a video camera to save the memory. Anyway, he hummed himself to sleep and then I carried him to his crib where he slept until morning.

He only slept until 5:30 in the morning!!! Why was he up so early?!?! I mean, come on, Mommy needs her beauty sleep. I put him in bed with me to try to get him to fall back to sleep. He did finally fall back to sleep, but only for maybe 20 minutes. I was rudely awakened before Seth woke up, because Belle, the dog that had decided that she needs to sleep in our room, decided to jump up on my side of the bed trying to wake me up. I quietly, yelled at her to go lay down until I was good and ready to get out of bed!

I have applied for an Assistant Branch Manager position in the Columbus West Region. They are going to choose the top 11 candidates to fill the positions of the Assistant Branch Manager positions available at select offices. They are conducting phone interviews from Monday, July 13 thru Friday, July 17. My phone interview is scheduled for Thursday, July 16. Once the phone interviews are complete, recommended candidates will be forwarded to the Branch Managers and Regional Manager for consideration. Face to face interviews will take place beginning the week of July 20th, in the hopes that all offers will go out by the end of the month. So, I’m in the works of trying to prepare myself to ace the phone interview, in the hopes of being able to get a face to face interview. Wish me luck!

Derrick is in charge of showing a future employee of Merrill around Columbus, in hopes of getting the employee to transfer. So, he won’t be home until late again tonight. He has softball on Wednesday nights. Hopefully, it won’t rain tomorrow so Seth and I can go watch him play.


If people were meant to pop out of bed, we’d all sleep in toasters.–Author unknown, attributed to Jim Davis