It astounds me how well Michael can remember the way to certain places. For example, when we're going to Grandma Turntine's house, the second I turn on the main road there, he goes 'Yeah!' from the backseat, followed by another scream of excitement when I turn down their street. And when we are almost to church, he either starts whining or saying railroad track! (Right past church is the Valley where Wal Mart and Target are located, but we have to go over railroad tracks to get there.) He newest feat is really surprised me since we had only been to that particular store once. I went to a parent teacher's store about a week ago, and there in front is a Thomas train set all put up for the kids to play with. Michael was estactic! When it was time to leave 20 minutes later, he threw the biggest and longest fit I've ever seen. So, when I went down that way yesterday to go to the bread store, he started saying, 'Thomas....train' over and over. Sorry to diasppoint you there, buddy. Now if only he could remember to be quiet when necessary......

Not much else I can do at 4am, so I guess I'll just write and try not to squint too much from the brightness of the screen.
Interest rates jumped up at the end of last week to 6 % so instead of locking in our original rate of 5.25, we're floating our rate. Basically, we're waiting for it to go down again before locking it in. We have until 3 days before closing to get our rate. But of course, who knows when we'll actually close! The seller asked us if we wanted to move up the date, which we were fine with. She offered June, but we didn't want it that soon. Plus, we wouldn't have given our 30 day notice in time. So we suggested two different dates in July, the 13th or the 22nd. That was over a week ago, and we still haven't heard. It's getting close to us not being able to make the first date we suggested. We plan on closing a day before we move in, and keep the apartment an extra day or two in order to come back and clean. If we haven't heard by the end of this week, the first date goes out the window. Which is fine because the 22nd works better for us since we'd close a day before Tim's 4 day weekend.
Michael and Colleen are so different. Every day (night) just proves it more. I remember having some trouble every now and then in the beginning in getting Michael to sleep. Not counting the first week, I can recall 3 times, maybe 4 times. But we got him asleep, he'd only wake to eat, then go right back to sleep. Colleen now, I don't know if it's because of teething, the runny nose/cough she has, but my goodness, we've been awake since 2:15am. I did get her asleep right before 4, but for some odd reason, she woke the second I put her down. I'd ask Tim to deal with her, but since he has to get up at 5:45am for work, I'd feel guilty making him lose sleep. But then the selfish part of me is thinking, 'you're the one who's been up for over 2 hours already after only getting maybe 3 hours of sleep! How is it that it's okay for you to lose sleep but not him?!' Well, the answer to that is I'm not the one driving around in a car all day. If Tim were to fall asleep at work, there would be bad repercussions.
It seems by the time I may be able to get back to bed, the sun will be starting its rise. Who knows, maybe God will have pity on me and allow my daughter to sleep the entire night, some night soon.