Happy Monday Morning! I told you I'd harass you for votes, so if you haven't voted today in the Circle of Moms Top 25 Adoption Blogs by Moms, please do it! (And of course, if you vote for me, I'd be super thankful.) You can vote daily through April 26. Since I've been so sporadic lately, thought I'd give you an update on the goings on here. Spring is here! So very excited about planting the garden this summer. It was so fun last year, and this year we are looking forward to more broccoli, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers and squash from out in the back yard. We've already got seeds started which is probably entirely too early. And I've never started seeds indoors before, so I really have no idea what or how we are supposed to be doing things. Little Man is more toddler than baby anymore. He's fully in his "I'm a two-year-old" phase. No, he's not two yet. But evidently no one told him he had to wait. So we've had lots of screamy days here, punctuated with his shouts of "NO", diaper-changing wrestling matches, appetite swings, and extreme moodiness.

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