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Remember how excited I was about Rebecca finally saying my name?  Well, now she says it over and over and over, usually in a whiny voice ("Mooooomy....Moooooooomy....Moooooooomy........") all day long, and I'm beginning to rethink that!

But here she is saying it:

She also says "Daddy" over and over, too.  She likes to mix up our names sometimes, too.  And Rachel's often "Daddy."  She can't say Rachel, or anything resembling Rachel, so she calls her Daddy.  I'm sure that'll come eventually.  Rachel couldn't say her own name for a long time, either.

Rachel missed three days of school because of her fever, but finally got back to school on Thursday this week.  She's still pretty congested and coughing a ton, but she's feeling and acting like her old self again.

Every time Rebecca sneezes I worry that she's getting it.  It's one thing for your five year old to be sick, but it's a completely different thing for your one year old to be sick, because she can't express what's bothering her, and just cries and whines.  They're both no fun, but a sick baby is just hard.  Hopefully she will stay healthy.

I'm sitting here waiting for a plumber to get here.  Our shower has been dripping.  My husband tried to fix it, and got to the point of no return.  Our water to the whole house is shut off and he can't fix the shower, and we can't turn our water back on until it's fixed, so we're stuck.  And plumbers are EXPENSIVE!!!  And on Sunday???  Much, much worse....  I told my husband he should've become a plumber.  On second thought, maybe I'll learn how to be a plumber.   Then I could fix our stuff AND get paid tons of money to fix other people's showers on Sundays when they're stuck with no water.

This week, though, I'm embarking on a new adventure...that of a Daisy Girl Scout leader.  My friend, Emily, who is leading with me, aptly explained the training process we've been going through as, "Taking a drink from a fire hose."  I'm overwhelmed with how much they throw at you and ask leaders to do before you can even meet with the girls.  It's surprising they ever get moms to agree to lead!  We had to do an online training, an at-home study, and two classes of training.  There's training for cookie sales (they tell you to have a different parent in charge of cookie sales...hopefully we can find someone interested and able to go to the training!).  There's a training if you want to go camping (thankfully our girls are too young for that right now).  There's a form to fill out if you want to do this....or that....a form for EVERYTHING!  It's very overwhelming.  But I'm anxious to finally get started.  This week we're meeting with the parents and registering the girls. I don't know yet when our first meeting with the girls will be (we still have one training to do in a couple of weeks and we have to wait until the contract with the school, where we'll be meeting, is finalized), but hopefully we can get started soon.  Rachel's looking forward to it.  Hopefully I'm not biting off more than I can chew.