"mono week"

that was the title of the pictures mom sent me last night. i had to laugh because it was pretty appropriate.

my days have all run together, but best i can remember...she got pratt on tuesday and then i got him back on friday. well, i went and stayed friday night in hot springs with them because clint was on a float trip with his bff. so, i stayed there friday night and then brought pratt back to benton on saturday.

i'm feeling much better. still pretty tired. like first trimester of pregnancy tired. like, i'll start to feel good and get up to vacuum and afterwards i'm completely exhausted. that sounds so histrionic...but it's true. i promise.

judging from the pictures, pratt had a wonderful time with cookie and poppy (name change. poptart to poppy. he hated poptart. maybe next we'll have a symbol like prince or something).

i think he went to several dinner parties. and probably ate better than ever before in his life. cafe 1217 has become his favorite place for lunch :) cookie bought him lots of new toys. made him his own chicken turnovers and i'm pretty sure he was constantly played with.

the caterpillar is a leap frog toy. he was really strange with it. instead of wanting to play with the top part, he was way more interested in figuring out how the wheels worked, etc. he kept turning it over and checking it out. i'll refrain from discussing how this worries me. oh well. maybe it just means he's like his great uncle ryp and will be an engineer.

and the baby einstein book was hilarious. he just recently really got into it. you can push some of the buttons and it lights up and plays music. to which he dances. i sent it with cookie and pratt played with it in hot springs. however, he has this habit of getting his hand closed in the book. it's heavy and it hurts him. he'll start to cry and then place his other hand on top of the book...like he's trying to stop the pain or open the book but this only makes it worse...and heavier. so then he puts his head on the cover and just cries. it's really sad. but pretty funny to watch happen.

and the one of him on the floor. well, he found holes in the tile in kitchen. and he'd just stick his finger in the hole. i think at one point mom said she looked over and he had his tongue in it. great. that's healthy, i'm sure.

i'll update more later. i have some fourth of july pictures that i'll post. and pratt's doing some new things i need to document. love to you all.

happy first monday with no jon and kate! hopefully they are somewhere being kind to each other. right...right.