Any day now

Chloe took her first intentional steps this week! I saw her take one step a few days ago, and when I picked her up from daycare yesterday, her teacher said she had been walking. I'll admit, I was a little skeptical, but last night I gave her my finger and she walked around the living room barely holding on to my finger. Normally she puts half of her weight on me, but she was pretty much holding her own. And today I actually saw her take a few steps. They're still pretty shaky, but I think she'll be walking on her own any day now. Of course, her latest discovery is her nose. She has figured out that her finger fits perfectly in her nostril, and she takes advantage of that quite frequently. I haven't been able to get a picture of that yet because she always takes her finger out during the shutter delay. She also likes to see how well her finger fits in my nose. We just finished snack time: banana pudding, dry cereal, graham crackers. Mmm.

What else? I did a good job with my work-out goal this week. I made it to the gym every day. I only had enough time to work out for 15 minutes on Wednesday, but that was our field trip day, and I think I made up for it during the field trip. I did a lot of shoveling and some swimming. My eating habits still have room for improvement though. I did a good job of making sure I ate more fruits and vegetables, but I didn't exactly limit my intake of ice cream and other sugar goodies very well.

This weekend I have to work on a presentation that's due on Thursday. Time goes by so much faster while I'm in school. I had no idea July was almost half over. I took a look at my bills last night and realized I was really falling behind. It still feels like it's July 1st, but I came to a disappointing realization last night and started frantically paying bills to avoid as many late fees as possible. I'm normally very good about paying my bills on time, but last week my debit card for Miguel's savings account in Kentucky stopped working, so he had to send me a check, and it didn't get here til yesterday. Normally I can just go to an ATM on payday and pull out the cash I need, but because the card broke, I couldn't do that. So I got the money to pay bills a week later than I was planning for, and everything just sort of piled up. Anyway, he just got the new card today and he's overnighting it to me so I should be able to get money out tomorrow to finish off the bills. Sometimes I really hate money.

Well, I guess that's about it.