just testing yo

The three of us went to lunch at a Mexican restaurant on Friday, and we were enjoying the usual chips and salsa while we decided what to order. We put a few chips in front of Noelle that she was happily munching on. Then she started to grunt a bit, which means that she wants something that she doesn't know how to ask for. She took her chip and held it in the air, then made a raking motion with it and held it out toward me, then grunted again. She wanted some salsa! So I happily obliged and dipped her chip then gave it to her to eat. From that point on, she refused to eat a chip without having us first dip it in salsa. I thought it was cute that she caught on to what we were doing.

Saturday, Andy was eating some tuna which he scoops up with a tortilla chip to eat. (And just typing that, I almost gagged. I hate tuna, even moreso when I'm pregnant.) He was giving some to Noelle, and when he finished he put the empty bowl on the side table in the living room. He gave her another chip to eat, and she walked over to the table and scraped it around in the bowl before eating it.

So, we've been trying to let her do some dipping and use her spoon more often, with mixed results. I don't mind letting her get messy for learning purposes, but I'm not quite ready to just let her feed herself full time no matter what she does with her food. (i.e. feed it to the dogs, throw it on the floor, move it back and forth from bowl to tray) All of that is fine in moderation and something she will inevitably do as she is learning, but I'll just let it happen for part of a meal or maybe one meal a day. Especially since she is still willing to let us feed her, I'm going to take advantage of that a little longer. That little baby is growing up!

move along...nothing to see here.

CSS naked day that is. That's why our website looks the way it does right now. For those of you that don't know what CSS is, here's a description in 2 sentences.

CSS is a set of instructions which describe how a website looks. It offers nothing in the way of structure, it's only for appearance.

In the past, websites were thrown together with lots of hacks, bad code, and more importantly incorrectly USED code. Web standards, recommend separating your structural code (the HTML that so many of you kids know about these days), from the presentational code (the aforementioned CSS). When this is done correctly, the benefits are many.

So enjoy my nakedness for a day...it won't happen again until next year...or until I next take a shower.

Jaime's pregnant??? Why didn't anyone tell ME? I have to find out about it by reading our blog?

Just kidding of course, but how funny would that have been? Or should I say how pathetic would that have been? Anyway, how cool is this? We're going to have another baby, and we're blessed that it happens to fit into our planned goal of one baby every 2 years or so?

Jaime and I have talked quite a lot and we want our children to be as close in age as possible so that they can at least have the chance to be friends. We're shooting for 2 of each (boy and girl) so for the next 2 (this one included) we don't really care about the gender.

Names you say? Well, we've briefly discussed names for this child, but we haven't delved into it yet. We decided to give all the leftover names we had from last time a "bye" to the second round. So, now that we're blogging quite a bit more, maybe we'll have a poll and let you all help us decide.