Friday Night Leftovers (the "NO! Me!" edition)

• Marilyn is growing up so fast.  It really seems like overnight she has gone from army crawling to speed crawling; pulling up on furniture to cruising around & in between furniture pieces; pushing her cart with help to doing laps around the playroom by herself. 
• Marilyn finally got to have some fun outside this week - we hit one of our neighborhood playgrounds and she absolutely loved the swing.
• Why is it that little boys (mine in particular) loves words like, "pee, poop, and butt," and will somehow try and fit them in in any and all conversations?
• If I had a penny for every time I heard Abby say, "NO!  Me!"... I would be a freak'in millionaire.  The girl wants it her way all of the time.  She wants to get her snow clothes on by herself, to be first in line, to open the door before anyone else, to go to the bathroom first, to play with any and all toys first, etc.  And dare she be confronted with any opposition (Thomas) or authority (Mommy or Daddy)... she breaks out in full whining, tears, and pushing & hitting.  Yep... we have a full blown case of the Terrible Twos folks.
• Thomas needs another little boy around so that he can run, play sword fight, wrestle, roll around and just be rough with.  I don't think the girls and I are making the cut.
• After 20.5 years in the Air Force, Brian has stepped out of his comfort zone and accepted a special duty position as the Superintendent of Airmen Dorm Leaders.  For the first time in his career, Brian is now in a non-deployable position for the next two years (while we are here).  Needless to say... this wifey is super excited!
• We seem to be experiencing a warming trend here in the Anchorage area... we are steadily climbing into the upper 20s and lower 30s each afternoon.  We have had a streak of sun & clear blue skys this week which is causing quite a bit of melting of our record breaking amount of snow.  I'm actually starting to see the pavement and sidewalks.  Amen!
• I have the AMC passenger terminal (the military airport for those of you civilians) on speed dial (which I call everyday) so that I can hear what and when flights are for the next 72 hours.  California or Bust, people!

TGIF peeps... enjoy your weekend!