Baby laughs.

I've been over at Abby's house for the past 2 days hanging out and helping her organize all her stuff. She just moved from the upstairs apartment to the downstairs apartment in their duplex. I'm not sure how they have so much stuff and where it was before it landed in their dining room, but it sure makes me nervous for when Tyler and I move out of our house at the end of July. Our house is twice as big as theirs. I will try and photo document the move when it happens.

Abby has a turtle named Toenail that she received as a gift from her husband Ben years ago. I turtle-sat him for a school year in college while Abby was in England. I got a bigger cage for him from somewhere and his shell grew about an inch while she was gone. He is always hiding under his little log whenever I am over there but we moved his cage out into the living room and he graced us with his presence yesterday.

Amelie has been making some great developmental strides. She has started to kick her legs up and down like crazy and now grabs onto her toes and legs. Just today she started reaching for and grabbing the toys that are on Samuel's bouncy chair. It is AMAZING how they can make such incredible strides in such a short period of time. Last night she laughed. Not just giggled, but gave a good adult sized full-on laugh. It last for like 15 whole seconds. She was laying on the couch and I was tickling her tummy and she just started laughing. She laughed a few times after when I ticked her feet and neck. I wish I had a 3rd "Go-Go Gadget" arm so I could have reached across the room to get the video camera. There was just no way I could have stopped myself from making her laugh in that moment.

While Ami and Sammy were sleeping and chilling in their chair/swing, Abby and I made some great strides in organization. I organized their kitchen and put away all the dishes/kitchen stuff. We weeded through several boxes and were able to sort out a ton of garage sale/goodwill things. Today while she was at her kickboxing class I also managed to straighten out Sammy's nursery. I love cleaning/organizing other peoples' things. Why? I don't know.

I missed my boot camp class today. Lame, I was really disappointed in myself. My excuse...I get a lot of interference between my phone and our baby monitor (Amelie has officially moved into her own room now) and I slid my phone under my pillow last night to cut it out. I think I either didn't hear it or turned it off in my sleep. To make up for missing the class (in part), I went for a walk this afternoon around Lake Harriet with Abby and her friend Carol. Carol gave Amelie the cutest onsie/dress ever. I posted a photo a while back of it.

We are stuck in town over the 4th of July so I think we are going to check out The Taste of MN. I've never been before and I like enjoying all that MPLS has to offer to I'm excited about it. Then, on Sunday, Amelie and I are going to the cabin. Poor Tyler won't be able to come, but Tova and Andy the Human will be moving to Illinois at the end of the month so we want to spend as much time with them as we can before they go.

I have to say I'm happy all this stupid Norm Coleman/Al Frankin crap is over with. Could it have taken any longer. I wonder how much of the taxpayers money they spent figuring it all out. Ridiculous.

I got a bunch of mundane crap done tonight that I have been putting off for a while. Bill/hospital junk/email replies/cleaning/laundry. Feels good, like a tiny little weight has been lifted off my shoulders. I can see the top of our kitchen table again and the mound of laundry outside the bathroom has disapeared (although it's just hiding in the washing machine.)

I really should have gone to bed 2 hours ago, but it is so great tying up all these loose ends, taking care of business. I should go now. First, I'm going to read a chapter in my book.