"I want those pants"

This week has not felt particularly "blogworthy" or maybe I am just having "blog block" again. The boys and I are doing fine, apart from my back. I apparently pulled something Wednesday or Thursday and have had a lot of trouble lifting or bending down. Something I do, oh, about 100 times a day at least. I have learned how to get down to the floor by keeping my back straight and have been trying to get Austin to hand me things from the floor a lot of times. I have also just had to let go of getting all the toys up off the floor at night ...sometimes I just leave them there, because it just requires too much bending. It is not awful and ibuprofen helps, but definitely not what I would choose to have happen when Chris is gone. Thankfully he will be back Thursday morning- we have just 3 links left on the paper chain.

Austin is in a phase where he likes to dress himself and often pick out his own clothes. Some days I still just pick the outfit and he gets dressed without comment, but often now he has opinions about which pants or shirt or underwear he wants to wear. He definitely has some interesting combinations but I am so glad he is finally willing to dress himself (with the exceptions of shirts - he still has trouble with those) that it doesn't matter to me that much.

Also, please pray for my dad, who will have his gallbladder removed Monday morning at 8 am! He has had a month of bad back and stomach pain, so I hope this takes care of all that.