1 more day!

James comes home tomorrow night...YAY!!!!! He's ready. I'm ready. Dorian's ready. It's time. Dorian has a cold right now. I have a very busy week ahead of me. I start a pre-nursing review class tomorrow, which will meet Monday and Tuesdsay afternoons for one month. I still don't know if I have been accepted into nursing school for the fall, but I figure a review class will be good for me either way. I miss school! I will also be working a lot this week, both at home and at the office, to make up for the lack of work I have done over the past few weeks. I tried to get some done in the evenings once Dorian had gone to sleep, but most days I was too wiped out to do so. I will be leaving Dorian with James, my dad, and our friend Cindy this week. One day I will be leaving him for 10 hours!!! This will be the longest Dori and I have ever been separated, by far. I'm terrified! But I think I'll just need to not call home and check in because if I hear him crying, I won't be able to handle it. We also plan to introduce solid foods this week! Lots of new, exciting stuff. James will get right back into teaching and preparing for Tempest's annual music festival, which is in less than 2 weeks. Dori and I will be going too so if anyone wants to go, let me know!

Recap of this past week:

Dori is now pulling his hat off. He is saying not only "Mom" all the time but "Dada!" He said "Hiya" to me the other day. I swear...he took a nap and I heard him wake up. I went into his room and he looked right at me, smiled, and said "Hiya." No one believes me. He is singing! I put our baby CDs on and he sings with them! (More like shouting.) He talks all the time. He keeps grabbing my hair, pulling on it really hard from both sides while chomping down on my chin. Not sure what this is about. He is consistently going about 2-3 hours without food. He has not been sleeping well at night, no long stretches, but he does have a cold. Last night he kept screaming after coughing. Poor little guy. He seemed fine today though.

Anyway, 'nuff talking, here's what you visit the blog for:

I brought the playpen out this week. Dorian loves playing in it.
We took my Grandma to an appointment - any excuse for her to see Dori. She is in love with him.
Of course, Dori is usually more interested in putting things in his mouth than interacting with people. This is changing though. He always gives a big smile to anyone who starts talking to him.
Swinging in the same swings Mama did as a baby!
I lay him down on his back on the far side of the playmat (by the toys). I went into the other room for one minute and he had gotten this far!!! This is like 3 or 4 rolls! Mobile baby.
Loving Grandma's Half-Birthday Present.
Really loving it.
He can now lift his playmat up. He grunts and strains, just like an adult lifting up something really heavy. It's very cute.
Allowing me to take him out in the stroller again now! And napping in it too. Yay!
Chilling in the driveway with the dogs and motorcycles as Grandpa does some work.
Beautiful sleeping boy.
On Saturday, we visited my friend Emily, her husband Dan and their daughter Mather who is 18 months old. It made me very excited for the toddler years. Mather is as cute as they come (visit her here).
Playing music with Grandma. She better not be teaching him bluegrass!Next blog will include sappy-sweet pictures of Dori reunited with his Daddy! Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!