Archive for March 2011
I hate unloading the dishwasher (though thankful to have one, as we didn’t for our first several married years) so instead how about a bullet post? I think so.
- Point of order: we paid off a chunk of debt this week! SO exciting to watch that balance drop to $0.00. Only med school and the house left to go. 😉
- THE SUN IS OUT! That is all.
- We leave tomorrow for my parents’ house! I’m so stinkin’ excited to get out of town a bit. We haven’t left the city limits since September of last year. Having a winter baby = hibernation.
- I haven’t packed yet. As we’ll be gone five days and we’re taking four people, two of which are under the age of three, I’m considering just stuffing the entire house into one of those extra large vaccuum seal bags and calling it a day.
- If only we’d bought the standard length van instead of the shorter one.
- James has been counting down the days for two weeks. Fourteen sleeps. We don’t tell him we’re going somewhere until the day of to avoid just that experience, as he still doesn’t have much of a sense of time, but somehow he knew that this trip was coming. Fourteen days of, “Should we go to Grandma and Grandpa’s house today?” But now there’s only ONE sleep left. And it’s all he can talk about. He’s walking around the house changing, “Just ONE sleep left. Just ONE sleep left.”
- We made it through a haircut last night with NO crying. You have no idea what an accomplishment this is. James was born with a lot of hair and by ten months either he had to have his first haircut or I needed to invest in some (manly) barrettes. He’s been screaming, writhing and snotting his way through haircuts ever since. It’s really just such a pleasure; not at all embarrassing when your toddler acts, in public, as if the hairdresser is cutting off his ears. But last night we revisited a sweet girl who lets James spray her squirt bottle at the mirror the entire time she’s cutting. And gives him stickers, asks him questions, and still manages to give him a decent haircut. Thank God for you, Kayla. My Public Embarrassment quotient just went down.
- And I could use the help, because I dropped a gallon of milk in the grocery store yesterday and it cracked open. Milk, everywhere.
- Baby E turns four months next week. WHERE is time going? He’s doing a ton of funny and adorable things but I’ll save them for his four month letter.
- What he’s NOT doing? Sleeping through the night. Or more than three hours in a stretch, ever. Unlike the half dozen other babies we know born after him who sleep hours and hours. Just, Ack.
- Mental note: never, ever, ever buy a used Boppy pillow. I have a fairly eager eater and he still decides to look up and smile at me just as his breakfast really lets down in force. Again, with the milk, everywhere.
- If I’d taken him to the store with me yesterday I could totally have blamed it on him. He owes me. (See: the not sleeping at night.)
- There is a tent in my Reading Room, Hot Wheels and a changing table in my dining room, a play kitchen and a bouncy seat in my kitchen, a plat mat and swing in my living room, bath toys in my tub, a pack-n-play in my bedroom, and train tracks, a slide, and an airplane rocker my basement. We may pay the mortgage on this house but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t belong to us.
- I gave up chocolate for Lent this year. I know, predictable and cliche. But it’s my first year trying it so I decided to start with something small. Except we’re introducing potty training to James and our motivation at the moment is M&Ms. If he goes potty he gets three M&M’s…and therefore by extension each time I go during the day he thinks I should get to have three M&M’s. He’s made the connection between the action and the reward and gets SO excited for me. How exactly does one explain to a toddler that a Lenten sacrifice takes precedence over a pottytime reward for someone whose been pottying for twenty-eight years? So I’ve given up chocolate for Lent, except when I’m busted in the act of pottying.
- I bet God understands.