Cars and Football (soccer, if you're perverse and convinced that football is a sport with helmets and padding and frequent stoppages)
I slept in till noon today. Woke up in some pain so took pills and had a couple small muffins. Doing a load of laundry in the fixed washer. Yes! It is very hot and humid. I am thrilled I do not have to go out for anything at this point. The baby aspirin are helping Annie. Also I small touch of molasses in her dinner.
The baby is going to be purple for sure. The first bud has not opened completely yet. I will have photos of course. lol
Monday is Doctor day. No major complaints. Same old routine. I am going to find out how tall I am. Curious.
Ansel Adams from Google. I think my favorite photographer of all time. Peace and Love Georgia & Annie
So we finally had it, the kid’s 2nd birthday party.
Everything went well. Aside from the 3yo who decided that she should “help” open presents and got a little miffed when I kindly shooed her away. I know young’uns are self-centered and all (do we ever really grow out of that??) but seriously, this is Stephan’s moment in the spotlight!
I wasn’t able to take many pictures, but it seemed like everyone else was taking pictures so I just need to snag those from them. Made it easier to enjoy the party and be in the moment. Andy did get video of the present opening
fiasco.
We started out with pool time and some fun in the back yard, and then ate lunch. All of Stephan’s favorites: Annie’s bunny mac’n’cheese, hot dogs, strawberries & apple juice. The toddlers were in heaven … so were the adults J
After a little break to clean things up (Stephan was picking food off the girls’ plates and I wanted him to at least have a little room for dessert), we did presents. He did a great job opening them and letting us take them away while he did the next one. Then we did dessert. In line with all his favorites we had some homemade vanilla ice cream and 3 Musketeer bars. That’s right, no cake. Kid won’t just eat it.
On to wrapping things up and working on heading home for nappy. He totally fell asleep the instant his head hit the pillow. Nice, since I was able to open up and undo all his gifts so he’ll be ready to play when he wakes up.
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Received this in our market report for the week:
"The house was priced too high. The condition of the home was excellent. There is no further interest.
Liked
kitchen and location, but not as large as another home I showed them.
Turns out they have credit issues and will not be in position to
purchase for some time."
Our agent said in an email this morning that she has no idea why that agent would be showing them homes if they aren't pre-qualified.
Why, indeed?
I asked her about the pricing thing since the last agent who showed it at the higher listing price said it was "priced about right". It is listed at a mere 5% above what we paid for it 3 years ago. That means we will lose money due to cost of sale even if we get the current list price. Hence, I don't think we can go any lower.
Blech.
Some good news is that there aren't as many homes for sale in this price range - the supply has dropped from 6 months to 4 months in the past two weeks. We have scheduled a broker's open house on Thursday and another regular open house next Sunday. And we still have tomorrow's showing at this point.
In my quiet time this morning, one word continually came to mind: wait.
Double blech.
Don't pay for expensive online storage systems. Instead, take advantage of gmail's hundreds of megabytes of storage just for you, and mail yourself files.
Really.
I do it, and I'm still only using 0% of my storage space.
Hi, you probably haven't noticed but I haven't been on Vox for the last 5 days (or so). I'm taking this first aid course and it's kicking my ass a bit.
... I actually had some funny stories to add but for the life of me, I can't remember them. I'm so freaking tired.
Anyway, I'll try to catch up when my schedule goes back to normal (probably by the end of July, if I pass my exam) and catch up with you all.
... seriously, the stories were hilarious. I just need to remember what they were.
]]>We decided to try a bed rail for the full size bed in Stephan's room. He's been asking to sleep in the bed and we want it to be safer for him. Of course this is yet another transition for him so the next week could be a mess. We're going to offer him the choice of the big bed or his crib mattress on the floor. For nap the past few days he wanted the big bed (and did a good job in the big bed at nana & papa's yesterday too) but that was with an extra pillow reigning him in, not a bed rail. He was a little wild this evening after we put it on the bed, but toddlers sometimes struggle with change.
He choose to sleep in the big bed tonight, we'll see if he falls asleep fine or not. He should be tired at least!
All I really want to say is ... damn you Jardine for even making us have to deal with this right now!
Whenever our voucher comes we'll head out and buy a new crib, take it all out of the box and make sure we have all the pieces and that the parts are fine, put it back in the box and sore it somewhere ... who knows where ... till we have to start getting ready for baby #2.
At least if Stephan transitions to the big bed we can be done with bed transitions. Here's to hoping for the best.
]]>I just wrote a long post about my week and now it's gone. Internet Explorer just completely flaked out.
Short version:
Sophie and I got a girl's day out today. Victoria had a slumber party and Josiah went to Six Flags with his bestest friend in the whole wide world.
I had to track down a movie theatre in the area that was still playing the American Girl Doll movie. Seems it got bumped from a bunch of theatres because of The Dark Knight. I had been promising her all week we would go. Most of the showings were too early. I finally found one in Annapolis that was showing at 4:10pm.
I got everyone else to where they were going and we headed out. I was super excited because there is an Amish market AND a Whole Foods in the same shopping center. I needed more truffles (Yes, I finished off the box I bought Monday night, but in my defense I shared with the kids, my mom, my sister in law, and broke them out on TV Thursday.) and wanted to grab some creme fraiche since no local store sells it.
The movie was good, but a bit of a tear jerker. Not once, not twice, but like 5 times at least. The Great Depression was definitely depressing. The cool thing was almost every group that came in consisted of a mom, some kids, and a great grandma (at least, I'm assuming it was a great grandma, they all looked like my Mom-Mom). There was even an elderly couple by themselves. I couldn't help but think that my Mom-Mom would've enjoyed it, considering she lived through the Great Depression herself.
After the movie we hit up Whole Foods. I bought my truffles and creme fraiche. I also picked up some cute grocery bags that were made from recycled plastic bottles. I love me some reusable bags. I hate plastic grocery bags with a vengence. They always seem to multiply and it's gotten to the point that I feel horribly guilty throwing them away knowing they are just going to sit in a landfill somewhere. The hardest thing is making sure I remember to take my bags into the grocery store when I shop.
On the way home, Sophie was dropping hints about going to dinner at Sakura, a Japanese hibachi restaurant. I was trying to steer her toward a local Korean restaurant, even reminding her that Jon and Kate Plus 8 just made Korean food. She could have some just like they made. She wasn't buying it though.
Steve got home shortly after us, and was like, let's go to Sakura, without Soph ever saying a word. Needless to say, she was thrilled. She was also thrilled to find she is too old for the kid's menu, so she got an adult portion. Nothing like a good dinner and enough leftovers for lunch the next day. Knowing Sophie, she may just break it out for breakfast.
So, anyway, I'm rambling. Soph's in bed, so Steve and I are going to curl up and watch a movie.
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