A Bear Named Monkey

Remember how for Christmas I bought Isabelle and Natalie bears from Build-A-Bear Workshop b/c neither had ever had a real teddy bear before? Well, Isa named hers "Monkey," I guess because we have always called her Monkey as an endearment (i.e., peanut, pumpkin, etc.). So it means only that she loves her baby! Anyway, Isabelle's birthday was last Sunday, so for her gift, I bought her and Monkey matching little outfits...They are going to be so cute together!!!

And I'm taking a "mental health day" tomorrow so I can leave tonight to go home (I'm DOD on Sunday and I have to go do my car registration tomorrow at the Anderson Co. courthouse, 5 hours away) so I'll also be attending the birthday party. It was lovingly postponed so that Ya-Ya could participate (Isabelle reminds me everyday that she had a birthday and she's waiting for me) and she's only 3...so not really day-specific about stuff. Besides, to her everything will be "on Wednesday." Always "on Wednesday." Anything you ask her, that's her answer. Apparently hump day is her favorite. Maybe she likes the sound of the word...

And I will be spending my Saturday afternoon at Chuck E. Cheese's. Secretly, I'm excited. Call me a big kid, but I always have fun there. It's almost as much fun to watch the little ones giggling with glee as it is too play stuff yourself. I'm obviously not the only adult-child-thing out there, or Dave & Buster's wouldn't exist. But I admit that Chuck E. Cheese is nearly as much fun!!

It's gonna be a long trip, b/c I've been up reading the last couple of nights. I never was one of theose people who could read themselves to sleep...I do just the opposite. I read myself awake. As the book gets better an dbetter, I get more into it and farther from sleep. I've always been that way. If I'm reading a good book at night, sometimes I'll glance at the clock and it'll be 5:30 a.m. and then your whole coming day is shot to hell 'cause there's no point even attempting to sleep then. I'm reading Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz, and I will finish it tonight, after I get to my mom's house, but I'm not looking forward to that 5 hour drive through work traffic on very little sleep!

Wish me luck!