Back in the Saddle

This post goes out to Missy who inspired me to get back in the saddle...of blogging.

Here are the top 5 reasons I've been so absent in the great Rosie Life blogosphere:

1) I like using pictures and videos in my blog posts, and I didn't have any new ones.
2) I have no new pictures or videos because I haven't uploaded new pics in FOREVER.
3) I haven't uploaded any pictures because my poor computer is almost out of memory (and it's only a year old). Apparently, I've uploaded so many pictures and videos of my child that I have only one gigabyte of hard drive left (out of like 160 gigabytes).
4) I am too afraid to delete any pictures and videos despite that I have them backed up in an external hard drive. What if the back up fails, too!
5) The longer I went without deleting old pictures, uploading new pictures and posting a new blog entry, the bigger and better I thought that entry would have to be in order to justify a post without pictures.

For those reasons, this poor digital diary has gathered dust. But no more!

I'm back in the saddle - (just like Rosie is these days on her friend Sasha's new rocking horse).

Before I sign off from this reentry post, let me share with you a different list...

Rosie's Top 5 Words these days:
1. Microwave (as in, "Mommy, check mic-wave")
2. Chicken nugget (as in, "Mommy, I would like to play with, but not eat, my cheeken nuggets")
3. Two (as in, "One, twwwwwwooooo" which she turns into three syllables, each in its own octave)
4. No (as in, "No, Mommy!" "No, Daddy!" "No chicken nuggets!" and "No! No! No! No!" with emphatic head shaking)
5. Police (As in, "O! Pleece! Pleece!" Yes, this child is uuurrrbbaaannn. She can distinguish between police, fire and ambulance sirens.)

So, there you have it. No pictures. No videos. But a glimpse into Rosie's ever-expanding vocabulary. Thanks, Missy, for reminding me to take 10 minutes to share little snippets of our lives.