Catching Up

I was reading one of my parenting books and it specifically says that eating cereal does not make your child sleep through the night. But I would really like to write the author and tell them that my child had rice cereal for the first time last Sunday, and it was also the first time he slept through the night. Incidentally, he's also had cereal every night since then and he's also slept through the night every night as well. Correlation perhaps? I don't believe it to be a coincidence... Obviously, Monday was a big day in the Anderson house. Waking up at 6:30, not in the middle of the night, was glorious. Well worth the trouble of scraping each bite of cereal off of Eli's face and putting it back in mouth about five times. But since then, he's really started eating better- opening his mouth and swallowing and everything! I'm just so surprised that my son is a successful eater. Oh wait.... I think he may come by that honestly :)

Other random tidbits and things that have happened lately:

~Saw the new Harry Potter movie. I was very excited that Ali came up to see it with me and it was probably the best Harry Potter yet. I had just reread the book previous to seeing the movie. So I obviously knew a lot was left out. But overall it was good. I just wish they wouldn't have added in a whole new scene that wasn't in the book. If you don't have time to include everything in the book, why add new stuff???

~I recently read The Count of Monte Cristo. I'd been wanting to for quite a while. And since it's one of my favorite movies, I had high expectations for the book. However, I think that for the first time ever, I prefer the movie to the book. Don't get me wrong, it's a good book. I just thought the movie's ending was better than the book's. Quite surprising.

~Aaron and I are going to play in a co-ed softball league that starts this Sunday. I'm pretty sure we're going to be terrible. But it's more for the socialization. So it should be fun.