Long Time, No See

So, it has been forever and a day since I last posted. I know, I know - the bad mother award is coming my way!

I'll be putting up a series of posts to try and catch up everyone (who I know, have been waiting with bated breath - HA!) to see what the Rumage clan has been up to.

Hope everyone had a wonderful summer and is ready for the cooler weather (at least those of us who live in the South, where it has been just a few degrees cooler than hell for the past 3 months).

We are full swing back into pre-school and potty training. Baileigh's personality has really begun to blossom.  She is super outgoing and has never met a stranger.  I took her on my run the other day and while sitting in her stroller, she would wave and yell "hello" to everyone we passed. She loves to be the center of attention and has a whole litany of antics she will pull in order to get it!  Lately, dancing and singing rank at the top of that list but she is not below simply climbing into your lap and getting 6 inches from your face to get your attention.

The things she says continue to astound me and many times I have to run into another room so she won't see me laughing at some of them.  As of late, when she is told to do something that she doesn't particularly want to do she responds by kicking her foot on the ground, hanging her head and saying, "Ohhh, man!"

She has a new boyfriend at school, Ethan.  They have a love/hate relationship. One day she will tell me either she or Ethan had to sit in time out because they hit each other or took away each others toys, or when we pick them up from school before we can stop them they are laying smooches on each other...and I mean right on the mouth!

Potty training has been an adventure to say the least.  The girl may be going to her prom in diapers.  Some days she does really good and we only have one "accident" on others, she could care less. I have now resorted to bribery to get her to go.  We currently are about 85% on "peeing" but we are at about 3% on "pooping", so considering her fascination with dragons/dinosaurs (she loves the dragon on Shrek, and Ethan is a big dinosaur fan - so now she is too) I told her if she would poopie in the potty that I would go and get her a dinosaur and bring him home to live with us. She finally went for the first time last night and we ran around the house and celebrated like we had won the SuperBowl!  So, off to Target I went today to fetch a dinosaur.  I ended up getting two of them because, get this - they are interactive and they carry on conversations with one another!  It is the most bizarre thing ever.  So, she gets to play with the dinosaur tonight with the stipulation that if she poops in her diaper, the dinosaur has to go live in mommy & daddy's closet until she uses the potty again - because, as we all know dinosaurs don't like stinky girls!

Things are good with the Rumage clan. Chip is doing well with his business (knock on wood) and work is super busy for me. I will be gearing up to run the Rock n' Roll marathon in February - it will be my FIRST and my LAST full marathon to ever run. Football is back on again, so Chip is like a kid in a candy store (especially since the Tide has been doing so well).

Guess I should wrap this puppy up and get to the good stuff...pictures!  They will follow soon...