Still no computer...or pictures.

I've missed my blog! I'm sorry to say that there is, once again, no pictures. Ho hum.

My Husband's computer is currently still my connection to the wide world of webs (is that right?) and sometimes not even then. This is two fold. One: his computer is not exactly reliable. Two: our internet is not exactly reliable.

Then of course there's the daily grind whirlwind of Hurricane Emily and Tornado Elijah.

And Earthtastic! Speaking of Earthtastic! My Mom is my biggest fan. Not gonna lie; I love it! She put in an order of two hundred lip balms last week and needed them by tonight. I've pretty much been going a million miles an hour making sure the order would be completed in time. It was my biggest order yet and I feel pumped for more orders!

I've had the privilege of attending two local farmer's markets in my area and am anxious to go again. Everyone is excited and curious about my lip balms and lotions, which in turn gets me excited because I'm getting my face out there and answering questions about myself and my business. The thought has crossed my mind a number of times to expand my product base to include candles, soaps, and body scrubs. It's all in the works and I'm doing what I can given both my hands are quite closely full of cheerful, noisy children.

Elijah has started reading! He's made his way through the first four of the Bob Books. He started doing while he was in school, lost interest for a short while, but then decided to plow right through them! He can also read (with minimal help) Dr. Seuss's (erm, I mean Theo. LeSieg's) The Eye Book. I'm the proudest Mommy, ever.

I also have learned that Elijah is shockingly good at T-ball. Our neighbors have a daughter named N, who just turned three, and is Elijah's BFF bestie. Anyway, N has a T-ball stand and naturally Elijah wanted to have a go. While Elijah is left handed, he apparently bats right handed. He slammed that ball and it shot across the back yard. N's Mom commented that he must like playing T-ball and I, after having picked my jaw off the ground, told her that was Elijah's first time hitting a ball with a bat. It was then N's Mom's turn to pick her jaw off the ground. We have to wait for him to be five before we can put him in T-ball, but after trying out a trial class for soccer -which he also loved and was fabulous at- he will be starting those classes soon.

Emily has officially entered the jibber-jabber stage. She will talk your ear off; I can hardly ever get a word in! The girl knows what she's saying, as our roommate J put it earlier today, if you don't respond to her, she'll repeat back what she said and most of it will sound the same as it did the first time. She's just so smart, too. While she isn't enunciating, I don't have too difficult of a time figuring out what she's talking about. Em likes to share when she's thrown something away, needs a diaper change, wants something to eat or drink-complete with excited gestures and rapid jibbering. It has been such a delight experiencing her personality emerge. I didn't have any baby dolls lying around because Elijah wasn't ever into it and I didn't want to push it on Emily in case she wasn't either. Well, there are baby dolls everywhere at N's house and Emily is just taken with them. She carries them around, gives them hugs, walks them in strollers... It's just so different from Elijah! I love to watch them play, grow, and change, while fighting back tears of it all happening so fast.

This feeling, however, rapidly disintegrates and morphs into an ugly, hair frazzling fury, leaving me pulling the skin off of my own face out of frustration when I take them into public.

But that's for next time ;)