out of the blue

It's been a long, long, long time since I posted. See, it's hard being mommy and dissertating (a made-up verb my fellow PhDers and I use to describe the process of writing our dissertations) at the same time, and I've been taking much longer than I had hoped or anticipated. I've currently got about 60 pages and need to cut those down to 40 and then write another 120... and school starts in two weeks, and I'm teaching three classes and working in the writing center, and starting a new fitness boot camp on Saturday and training for a 10K that I'll run on September 18, and... well, you get the idea.

Bridget is so... big now. Grown up. Big girl. She's over three feet tall, somewhere between 35 and 38 pounds, and 29 months old. She talks all the time, is pretty stubborn and defiant at times (gee, wonder where she gets that from?), but most of the time she's a fun-loving, active, joyful little kid. Not a baby any more by any means, and I wouldn't even call her a toddler—she just seems too old for that. Her current favorite movie is a Yogi Bear movie that I picked up for $2.75, and there are some scenes where she just cracks up—she has the best laugh when she's full out laughing. She has a roll/close your eyes at the same time and raise your eyebrows and stick your chin down face that's quite amusing. Her favorite toys are little figures—the small LalaLoopsy are some favorites, but Happy and Grumpy (from Snow White) topped those, and she still asks for them even though she lost them over a month ago. She loves her mommy (makes me happy :) and her daddy (even though she says she doesn't sometimes :). And although this is short and sweet, I've got to go—back to dissertating.