we got groceries at walmart, ate a little picnic in our front yard, and colored with sidewalk chalk. so obviously it deserved a blog post.
Friday, March 27, 2015
Thursday, March 26, 2015
30 weeks
How far along: 30 weeks (3.26.15)
Theme: the week of morning sickness gaining momentum
What's different this time around: ehh, i'm too lazy for this question.
Total weight gain/loss: 22 lbs
Maternity clothes: yes... same as before.
Sleep: not awesome. the dreams are sooooo crazy and half the time i feel like i'm awake. so i've been feeling more sleepy during the day although i've avoided naps so that's been good.
Best moment this week: i could say getting my new minivan on saturday. but the true best moment of the week was actually probably on sunday night when i installed abigail and brady's carseats side by side in the second row of it. my car is so gigantic that their enormous carseats can easily fit next to each other and i'll have plenty of room for an infant seat too. three kids on that second row and not even feeling squished? yes, that's my best moment of this week.
Movement: just a whole lot of movin' and shakin' going on around these parts. there's been less big rolls this week and she hasn't been lodging herself in my right side as much. but she's really active whenever i'm sitting down. i'm guessing my walking and moving around lulls her to sleep but whenever i sit down in bed, she's all over the place. it's pretty fun.
Food cravings: i hate morning sickness. it is back. although thankfully it's not horrendous and it typically doesn't come on until 3:30 or 4 in the afternoon. but the headache and being super picky about food is really annoying. a few times, i've felt close to throwing up, but luckily haven't. i'm just so thankful i feel pretty fine in the mornings so that i don't ever get really starving or worried about nutrition. my favorite food of the week was saturday at steph's baby shower... her friend, lydia, made these amazing gluten free cinnamon pecan muffins that were to die for. the taste and texture were so out of this world perfect. i got the recipe. i ate two muffins while i was there and took another one with me when i left. ; )
Symptoms: afternoon/evening nausea and headaches, fatigue, crazy weird dreams.
Gender: my heart is happy about another little girl to wear abigail's too small clothing.
What I miss: waking up feeling like i actually went to sleep. these dreams and airplane sleep are getting the best of me and when i wake up, i'm just needing some down time. i want to feel unconscious... just close my eyes and see black.
Milestones: i hit 30 weeks! holy cow, only ten to go!Theme: the week of morning sickness gaining momentum
What's different this time around: ehh, i'm too lazy for this question.
Extra: i'm shocked at how many people ask how far along i am or when i'm due and then follow up with "ohh, yeah, you've got a ways to go" or "yeah, that's not for a while" or whatever. umm, am i the only one that feels like ten weeks might as well be four minutes?! i am sooo not ready to have three kids. or a newborn. to start this whole thing over from the very beginning with another tiny human? holy cow. so i'm a little bit freaking out with how fast pregnancy is flying by... although i'm apparently the only one, because everyone else thinks june 4 is forever away...
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| 3.27.15 at 30 weeks, 1 day |
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
my little rav 4
i wrote last week about the impending changes necessary for welcoming a third kid to our family. and how for maybe the past two months, i've been getting so nostalgic about letting go of replacing my rav 4 with another car. i'm a sentimental person to begin with and it's a fun car to drive and it's got a lot of memories. well... saturday morning, honey sold it to a craigslist buyer while i was at steph's baby shower and that night, we bought a new minivan. it's super nice, but of course i'm still missing the familiarity of the rav 4... so here's a post with some crappy pictures i took of it while cleaning it out thursday evening...
first, i had to get real life pictures of it.
the tassels in the top left are from our graduation hats (two yellow from byu and one black from stanford), my makeup in the ziploc bag in the cupholder, my lipglosses in the other little compartment, and the passenger side filled with library books, mail and grocery store ads, my purse, and abigail's preschool tote bag. typical thursday.
my everyday view.
the two carseats in the back with toys.
and the mess underneath the carseats. i just gave these seats a scrub down two months ago... that's how fast and easily they get dirty. that's why honey kept insisting that i needed to get a car that wasn't very nice... because our kids would trash it. but that's also why i told honey i needed a dark color car that had leather seats... so it wouldn't look dirty so fast. i won. ; ) although i will say that honey didn't really put up a fight at all after i explained the reasoning of it all. he's a good guy.
the car looked so much better after removed all the carseats and kid crap and it felt so much bigger too. honey was shocked at how much better it looked and was even pretending to be hesitant about selling it.
but that wasn't an option. and in the daylight, it showed more of its true colors. ha.
it served us well. and a nice little couple bought it for their teenagers to share so i'm sure it'll serve them well too.
so long to my little rav 4...
first, i had to get real life pictures of it.
the tassels in the top left are from our graduation hats (two yellow from byu and one black from stanford), my makeup in the ziploc bag in the cupholder, my lipglosses in the other little compartment, and the passenger side filled with library books, mail and grocery store ads, my purse, and abigail's preschool tote bag. typical thursday.
my everyday view.
the two carseats in the back with toys.
and the mess underneath the carseats. i just gave these seats a scrub down two months ago... that's how fast and easily they get dirty. that's why honey kept insisting that i needed to get a car that wasn't very nice... because our kids would trash it. but that's also why i told honey i needed a dark color car that had leather seats... so it wouldn't look dirty so fast. i won. ; ) although i will say that honey didn't really put up a fight at all after i explained the reasoning of it all. he's a good guy.
the car looked so much better after removed all the carseats and kid crap and it felt so much bigger too. honey was shocked at how much better it looked and was even pretending to be hesitant about selling it.
but that wasn't an option. and in the daylight, it showed more of its true colors. ha.
it served us well. and a nice little couple bought it for their teenagers to share so i'm sure it'll serve them well too.
so long to my little rav 4...
Monday, March 23, 2015
Monday Monday
Saturday night, we paired my new car to our garage door. Then sometime that night while we were sleeping, it opened. And it did the same thing while we were at church on Sunday. So we got a little concerned about the safety issues of a garage door that opens at will and I googled the issue but didn't find a whole lot of help. Then that night, I discovered that our garage door code wasn't working anymore. What the heck?!
Luckily, my honey is great, and I woke up to this.
When honey came home, he got to fixing that too. And during his process of putting his ear up to figure out which one was beeping (what is it about the beeping sound that makes it impossible to identify where it's coming from?!), it stopped. So that was great. Except I'm sure it'll start again tomorrow as soon as honey goes to work and I'll get to listen to it for even more hours tomorrow! Ha.
Our trash and recycling used to always get picked up between 9:30 and 11:30. The past two weeks, trash pickup has been before 8am. And today... With our 30mph winds, recycling didn't come until literally after 5pm. Our street was literally covered in trash. Someone's big bin up the street had blown over and papers and cereal boxes and soda cans and water jugs were everywhere. Honey and brady and I did our part cleaning up and luckily Abigail and her friends got trash bags and helped too. Four trash bags later, it was all cleaned up.
Sadly, stuff was still getting blown over as the guys were doing pickup so there's still trash in everyone's yards, but it's not horrendous like it was before.
Brady was so excited to see the truck but wouldn't take his hands off his ears. He's always been a little sensitive to loud noises. ; )
And around noon, brady was being super cute playing with his pretend food. And the chirping started with some smoke detector battery that was apparently low.
I had brady skip his nap today... because I swear my kids know when nap time is and they choose that moment to run to the playroom and then play quietly and get along perfectly for an indefinite amount of time... And because he slept late and I didn't get him up til close to 11 when my visiting teacher came over. So of course when I decide that it's late enough that they can just play and we'll forgo nap time, they both come down and want to help me make dinner. So we all made stuffed peppers together which was fine because it was early in the day and we had plenty of time. Honey got home early, we picked up trash and played outside, ate, went on s walk to the playground, and then had the kids in bed by 7. Today was good but it felt long. A lot happened compared to our typical days. ; )
Sunday ballet bun
Sunday morning, Abigail asked if she could have a "ballet bun" in her hair for church. I thought it was great. And for the first time, we attempted a swirly ballet bun. I'm happy to say that it stayed mostly intact for the day.
Ps- why do kids go in and out of being able to smile on command?!
It's a legit swirly ballet bun.
I went to choir (we've been practicing he is risen and come thou fount) and found brady still awake in his crib when I got home and honey left for home teaching with Abigail in tow. Turns out he pooped and so we scrapped the nap. Right then, my mil texted and asked to stop by and see our new car since she was in the area so that was perfect since brady was sad that Abigail and daddy had left him. After Klaudette left, brady played bikes on the driveway a bit and then we walked to the church building. Honey and Abigail were already there setting up for a special fireside on parenting in a wild of technology.
And then I finished the day by taking a picture of my big belly (while brushing my teeth) and crawling in bed.
It was a good day.
Saturday, March 21, 2015
An epic odyssey
The day started any any other day.
And then I went to steph's baby shower since she's in town for the weekend.
She's due exactly a week after I am.
Brady dressed up. Because he's always doing that.
Honey posted my car on Craigslist.
And sold it.
We picked out a new car and honey stayed at the dealership for paperwork while I took kids home and got them in bed.
Say hello to the beast. Bring on the third kid. I drive a minivan now.
Friday, March 20, 2015
i got out the big camera
i don't even know how long it's been since i took real pictures of the kids. and today, i still didn't. but, at least i got out the big camera and captured a moment.
i asked the kids to sit next to each other so i could get a quality shot. but brady immediately wrapped a fuzzy sock around his neck and then abigail took one glance and decided to do the same. the next picture i took was my favorite of the day.
the rest are just bonus for fun.
maybe since the weather is warming up, we'll have an opportunity soon to take some quality pictures. in the mean time... these sure make me smile.
Thursday, March 19, 2015
29 weeks
How far along: 29 weeks (3.19.15)
Theme: the week of being sooo tired
What's different this time around: with abigail, i started getting really tired during the beginning of the second trimester and it stayed until the end of pregnancy... no burst of energy or nesting at the end. with brady, i never got the extreme fatigue, but i think i got a normal amount of tired during the third trimester and then got the burst of energy from 36-38 weeks. so this is just kind of in the middle i guess.
Total weight gain/loss: 20 lbs. for the past two weeks, the numbers have been higher during the week, but when thursday rolls around, it's already come back down again. i'll take it though!
Maternity clothes: same as before. i'm honestly shocked that i'm doing so weel with my jeans still. although the ones that are still fitting fine now are the ones that were always falling off my hips before. i wore my black maternity dress on sunday for the first time.
Sleep: not the best but not horrible. i hate to complain because i'm not getting out of bed a million times a night for bathroom breaks or up for hours at a time... but i'm still having weird dreams, and the past few nights, i've had a lot of airplane sleep where i feel like i'm awake and dreaming. also, i'm waking up more easily so like this morning, i was aware when chris woke up sometime during the four o clock hour and then aware when we went to the bathroom, ran on the treadmill in the basement, shaved, showered, got dressed, etc. i wasn't wide awake, but i was fully aware of everything going on and just half sleeping through it. as a result of all of this... i am exhausted all day, every day. so so so tired. not falling asleep on my feet like i was with abigail, but i'm almost incapacitated with fatigue. i spend a lot of time sitting in bed and browsing the internet because i don't have enough energy for life but yet, i can't go to sleep in the middle of the day while the kids are running around.
Best moment this week: man, i dunno. it's been just a fun and normal week. nothing in particular, but it's all been nice.
Movement: holy cow it keeps getting stronger and more constant! what week does it start to slow down from lack of space? because this is intense. i love feeling the baby moving all the time, but it's kind of consuming and tiring. also, i can tell she's getting bigger because she is so down low and so high up in my ribs. and she still prefers my right side.
Food cravings: it's getting kind of hit and miss with eating again. i still like frosted flakes with whole milk (in bed) every morning. and i still like my usual scrambled eggs on toast for lunch. but after 2 o clock... food just looses its appeal and it's such a struggle to come up with something to feed the kids. and i haven't made a proper dinner for honey since we got back from our trip. i need to get with the program but i'm just so tired and any food requiring more than five minutes of prep time just isn't worth it. i will say that i've had a few otter pops this week that have really hit the spot.
Symptoms: fatigue, laziness, weird dreams, airplane sleep, headaches, and nausea
Gender: girl ; )
What I miss: having energy
Milestones: ehhh...Theme: the week of being sooo tired
What's different this time around: with abigail, i started getting really tired during the beginning of the second trimester and it stayed until the end of pregnancy... no burst of energy or nesting at the end. with brady, i never got the extreme fatigue, but i think i got a normal amount of tired during the third trimester and then got the burst of energy from 36-38 weeks. so this is just kind of in the middle i guess.
Extra: i'm too tired and lazy to think of anything right now.
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Monday, March 16, 2015
we're entering a new stage of life
i'm at the point in pregnancy where i have to remind myself that i'm not going to be perpetually pregnant... with two kids. eventually i'll turn into not pregnant... with three kids. that's kind of terrifying to me because this current stage is really nice and easy and i feel like i have the benefits of three kids while only having to do the work required for two kids.
the transition from one kid to two kids wasn't a huge deal. i mean, brady was kind of a nightmare of a newborn, but in all of the practical aspects of having kids, it wasn't a big deal. we were already used to having toys in all corners of our house, a highchair at our kitchen table, and diapers in my purse. adding another carseat to our car wasn't a big deal and adding a kid to a previously empty bedroom was also no big deal. the transition from two to three though is requiring more of an adjustment. first, we've kind of maxed out the bedrooms in our house. i realize i'll sound spoiled explaining this, but it should come as a surprise to no one that i'm high maintenance so let's just get over the spoiled part, okay? we have a four bedroom house. one is the master bedroom, one is abigail's room, one is brady's room, and one is the guest room. we don't have any spare bedrooms this time around and every day i'm changing my mind and freaking out and having all this anxiety over how i should configure things to make life with this new baby as easy as possible. with abigail being our easiest and deepest sleeper, it makes sense to put someone in her room with her... either brady or new baby. the problem though is that i don't really want to mess with brady, and i have no clue what new baby will be like. another idea is to put a pack n play in our master closet, but from my experiencing having brady sleep in a moses basket/carseat by my bed for several weeks, i've gotta say that it's a pain having your child sleep in a place that doesn't have a designated spot for nursing, diaper changing, and dressing. i need everything to be in the same spot. we could also put new baby in a corner of the playroom but i'm not sold on that. or we could put new baby in the guest room (as a guest herself) and just make do for a while... which is actually our best option at this point... hoping that after a few months, it will be clear whether we should move brady in with abigail or new baby in with abigail. another option is to just finish our basement... but that's not the most financially sound thing to do because we won't recoup the costs when we sell... which will likely be before baby number four. anyways... those are my thoughts during the day.
also, i was planning to keep my rav 4 until we had four kids. it's really small, but i figured that i could make it work if i bought three slim fitting carseats. well, after a lot of research online about our rav four, i discovered that the latch and seat belt configuration and spacing wouldn't allow for a safe install for any carseat in the middle position. so that eliminated my dreams of fitting three across and i talked to chris about needing a new car. well, we're likely going to get a minivan in the next two weeks. i'm excited for the change, but also getting really nostalgic and sad about letting go of my rav 4. i've never really loved this car, but lately i've realized how much i've actually learned to like it! i really enjoy driving stick... not just for the extra safety in the snow, it's just kind of nice day to day. although it is a pain when i need to do something like collect brady's banana peels before he throws them overboard. because driving stick requires all four limbs. but even aside from being fun to drive, it's just a nice little compact car that turns well and is easy to park and whatever. also, it's not super nice or flashy... it just blends in and makes you feel at home. and has never made me anxious to have my kids eat in the car or get their dirty or snowy shoes all over. it was really basic and had cloth seats and, as i said, never stole my heart or had me excited to drive it. whatever minivan i get will be far nicer... so that's great. but the rav 4... i've known it the whole time i've known my honey. this was the car he had at byu when we met. when i got interested in my honey and learned that his car was manual, i told him i'd always wanted to be able to drive stick shift (goodness bless diana and lisa, because despite putting in so many hours with me during high school... i was still horrific) and he took lots of time teaching me. when we got engaged and realized i would need to be able to actually drive that car in traffic and on hills, we had even more lessons. it's crazy to me now that i've been driving this car for our entire marriage. who would have ever thought on those first few dates and group outings to the ice skating rink that years later, i'd be trucking our two kids around in that car... to preschool, the library, playdates... and that we would take family roadtrips and outings together in that car. it's been fun to have it grow with us over the years. my first memory in that car was sitting in the middle of the back with my roommates and honey's as we drove someplace super exciting like to ice skating or wendy's. i remember listening to some sort of punk rock music and berating honey for not wearing his seatbelt and laughing with sawah about who knows what. it's all pretty crazy since that was in january of 2006. ; )
the transition from one kid to two kids wasn't a huge deal. i mean, brady was kind of a nightmare of a newborn, but in all of the practical aspects of having kids, it wasn't a big deal. we were already used to having toys in all corners of our house, a highchair at our kitchen table, and diapers in my purse. adding another carseat to our car wasn't a big deal and adding a kid to a previously empty bedroom was also no big deal. the transition from two to three though is requiring more of an adjustment. first, we've kind of maxed out the bedrooms in our house. i realize i'll sound spoiled explaining this, but it should come as a surprise to no one that i'm high maintenance so let's just get over the spoiled part, okay? we have a four bedroom house. one is the master bedroom, one is abigail's room, one is brady's room, and one is the guest room. we don't have any spare bedrooms this time around and every day i'm changing my mind and freaking out and having all this anxiety over how i should configure things to make life with this new baby as easy as possible. with abigail being our easiest and deepest sleeper, it makes sense to put someone in her room with her... either brady or new baby. the problem though is that i don't really want to mess with brady, and i have no clue what new baby will be like. another idea is to put a pack n play in our master closet, but from my experiencing having brady sleep in a moses basket/carseat by my bed for several weeks, i've gotta say that it's a pain having your child sleep in a place that doesn't have a designated spot for nursing, diaper changing, and dressing. i need everything to be in the same spot. we could also put new baby in a corner of the playroom but i'm not sold on that. or we could put new baby in the guest room (as a guest herself) and just make do for a while... which is actually our best option at this point... hoping that after a few months, it will be clear whether we should move brady in with abigail or new baby in with abigail. another option is to just finish our basement... but that's not the most financially sound thing to do because we won't recoup the costs when we sell... which will likely be before baby number four. anyways... those are my thoughts during the day.
also, i was planning to keep my rav 4 until we had four kids. it's really small, but i figured that i could make it work if i bought three slim fitting carseats. well, after a lot of research online about our rav four, i discovered that the latch and seat belt configuration and spacing wouldn't allow for a safe install for any carseat in the middle position. so that eliminated my dreams of fitting three across and i talked to chris about needing a new car. well, we're likely going to get a minivan in the next two weeks. i'm excited for the change, but also getting really nostalgic and sad about letting go of my rav 4. i've never really loved this car, but lately i've realized how much i've actually learned to like it! i really enjoy driving stick... not just for the extra safety in the snow, it's just kind of nice day to day. although it is a pain when i need to do something like collect brady's banana peels before he throws them overboard. because driving stick requires all four limbs. but even aside from being fun to drive, it's just a nice little compact car that turns well and is easy to park and whatever. also, it's not super nice or flashy... it just blends in and makes you feel at home. and has never made me anxious to have my kids eat in the car or get their dirty or snowy shoes all over. it was really basic and had cloth seats and, as i said, never stole my heart or had me excited to drive it. whatever minivan i get will be far nicer... so that's great. but the rav 4... i've known it the whole time i've known my honey. this was the car he had at byu when we met. when i got interested in my honey and learned that his car was manual, i told him i'd always wanted to be able to drive stick shift (goodness bless diana and lisa, because despite putting in so many hours with me during high school... i was still horrific) and he took lots of time teaching me. when we got engaged and realized i would need to be able to actually drive that car in traffic and on hills, we had even more lessons. it's crazy to me now that i've been driving this car for our entire marriage. who would have ever thought on those first few dates and group outings to the ice skating rink that years later, i'd be trucking our two kids around in that car... to preschool, the library, playdates... and that we would take family roadtrips and outings together in that car. it's been fun to have it grow with us over the years. my first memory in that car was sitting in the middle of the back with my roommates and honey's as we drove someplace super exciting like to ice skating or wendy's. i remember listening to some sort of punk rock music and berating honey for not wearing his seatbelt and laughing with sawah about who knows what. it's all pretty crazy since that was in january of 2006. ; )
Saturday, March 14, 2015
back in the game
holy cow! i can't believe we've already been back for an entire week! that's so crazy how fast it has blown by! we got back sunday evening and i feel like i've just been trying to catch up since then. no playdates or hours at the library this week, but hopefully we can do it all next week!
monday- we stayed home while i did a million loads of laundry. normally this wouldn't be an all day event but for some reason i woke up at 7:30 super energized, and was dead to the world just two hours later. soooo tired all day long and i was 100% dragging. but, eventually laundry got done and put away so we'll call it a success anyway. the initial plan was to go grocery shopping as well, but that definitely didn't happen. not a huge deal though because i'd left two unopen gallons of milk in our fridge (that i'd gotten just a few days before we left town) and had at least a dozen eggs as well as bread, cheese, etc. so even though we didn't really have any fresh produce, we were fine not to immediately rush to the store. and that was really really really nice to have that option. my biggest win of the day though was that brady slept til noon and i didn't get him out of his crib til 12:20! can i just say that we put the kids to bed at 7 the night before so that kid must have been exhausted?! 17 hours of sleep!
tuesday- abigail had preschool so i dropped her off and made a quick stop by the library to return a book and pick up a book i had waiting for me on hold. then we made our way to walmart and shopped there til it was time to get abigail again. the rest of the day was pretty standard with naptime/quiet time and then honey came home early and we went to texas roadhouse for dinner.
wednesday- i had my 28 week appointment so we went to that (side note... one time we got chick fil a chicken biscuits and ate them as a little picnic on the hill outside of our doctor's office. when we walked past that hill on the way to our car i thought to myself "mmmm chick fil a" at the exact time that abigail said "mom, maybe we should go to chick fil a for lunch." ha. but also, after our previous appointment, we'd met honey for lunch at costa vida, so when i got to the car i kept thinking "mmm, should i call honey and see if he wants to meet up at costa vida?" happily for my waistline, i did neither.) and then stopped by our neighborhood playground on the way home and played there for a long time while i talked on the phone with grandmother and then with mom. it was such gorgeous t shirt weather... probably sunny and 55. brady went down the big green slide by himself a bunch of times. and then went down on his belly and busted his lip. poor guy. ; ) we had lunch and nap time and then at the end of quiet time, abigail and i went outside to play on the driveway for the rest of quiet time. so i brought my book and she played. lucy and presley came out and decided to come over and join us. so i pulled up a camp chair for stephanie and we had a blast talking about the joys of parenthood while all our kids played and covered themselves in their homemade paint (when you combine sidewalk chalk with fistfulls of snow melted and rubbed on top) and it was just perfect.
thursday- abigail had school again so we dropped her off and brady and i headed to costco. we ran into kylee in the parking lot so that was fun. and even though there were no samples at first (and only a few later), we had a pretty good time. brady spent the first while whining about what i thought was a basketball? which confused me because we hadn't seen one but he kept pointing back where we'd been. eventually, i stopped and focused on what he was saying, realizing it wasn't working to just brush him off and he wasn't going to let it go, and found out he wanted a hot dog like he'd seen on the big menu at the front of the store. so once we decided to share a hot dog at the end of our shopping trip, we were golden. $300 and a hot dog later (but i need to write down for my memory that brady kept calling me "mommy mommy" any time he wanted another sip of lemonade "i need more juice please, mommy mommy mommy." why he always did two or three mommys... who knows... but it was making me laugh out loud), we were off to pick up abigail from preschool. the biggest plus to running errands, but only making one stop, during preschool is that we're always ten minutes early to pick abigail up. the rest of the day was kind of down hill since abigail lied about going potty and then wet her pants during story time. but honey came home early because he was in the area for a meeting that got cancelled, so he picked up abigail and took her with him to walmart to fix his broken glasses and to hobby lobby to frame a painting we got in brazil. meanwhile, i talked on the phone with emmy and she gave me parenting advice from a book she's been reading. brady woke up and i sent him outside with honey and abigail. we survived the rest of the night just fine but it wasn't the best. why have i been getting soooo tired lately?!
friday- the house was in major need of some love so we stayed home. the kids got up late i think... maybe close to ten? i got them up and we read books in abigail's room for a while (apparently we were having a princess party and she had decorated so we just needed to read books???) and then headed downstairs for breakfast. but it was so late already and one of the kids asked for cereal so i decided we could all enjoy a bowl of cereal. and then we all thought it would be a great idea to turn on a dora show while i did laundry and cleaned the kitchen. lucy came over around 12:30 and presley came by not too much later. so that wasn't really going well for brady's nap, but the kids were all having a great time playing together. eventually, sometime after two, the girls all decided to go to lucy's house and even though brady got his shoes and tried to put them on by the door where the other girls were getting their shoes on, he had to stay behind and nap. so brady and i enjoyed some bagels and cream cheese... in the great room at the end table since i'd just swept the kitchen and had taken the chairs all out in preparation for mopping... and then i put him down for nap. i did laundry and put all the sheets and blankets back on our bed and gave the kitchen a thorough mopping on the counter tops and cabinets and floors and got brady up at 5. and then honey came home and i picked abigail up from lucy's and we all went to texas roadhouse. i ordered my steak medium rare (as i've been doing for a few months), but this time it was a super thick steak and it was more rare than it's ever been. it tasted great, but honey kept making faces at me because he either thought it was gross or was worried our baby would die from rare, diseased meat or something. came home and put the kids to bed and we were out.
saturday- honey went skiing. the kids and i went to the library and treated it like a normal weekday. we had eggs and cutie for lunch and then naptime and quiet time. i struggled to stay awake. honey got home sometime after 3. quiet time finished around 4, and right on cue, lucy, presley and kalia came over to play. brady semi played with them too. he wants to be involved but a lot of times just isn't interested enough if they're playing something complex with a lot of pretending. we hung out, played outside a bit, ate paninis for dinner (with costco rotisserie chicken and provolone on french bread) and both kids downed theirs... and the remainder of mine, as well as too much avocado. man, those kids know how to eat! and then we went to bed. so so tired.
monday- we stayed home while i did a million loads of laundry. normally this wouldn't be an all day event but for some reason i woke up at 7:30 super energized, and was dead to the world just two hours later. soooo tired all day long and i was 100% dragging. but, eventually laundry got done and put away so we'll call it a success anyway. the initial plan was to go grocery shopping as well, but that definitely didn't happen. not a huge deal though because i'd left two unopen gallons of milk in our fridge (that i'd gotten just a few days before we left town) and had at least a dozen eggs as well as bread, cheese, etc. so even though we didn't really have any fresh produce, we were fine not to immediately rush to the store. and that was really really really nice to have that option. my biggest win of the day though was that brady slept til noon and i didn't get him out of his crib til 12:20! can i just say that we put the kids to bed at 7 the night before so that kid must have been exhausted?! 17 hours of sleep!
tuesday- abigail had preschool so i dropped her off and made a quick stop by the library to return a book and pick up a book i had waiting for me on hold. then we made our way to walmart and shopped there til it was time to get abigail again. the rest of the day was pretty standard with naptime/quiet time and then honey came home early and we went to texas roadhouse for dinner.
wednesday- i had my 28 week appointment so we went to that (side note... one time we got chick fil a chicken biscuits and ate them as a little picnic on the hill outside of our doctor's office. when we walked past that hill on the way to our car i thought to myself "mmmm chick fil a" at the exact time that abigail said "mom, maybe we should go to chick fil a for lunch." ha. but also, after our previous appointment, we'd met honey for lunch at costa vida, so when i got to the car i kept thinking "mmm, should i call honey and see if he wants to meet up at costa vida?" happily for my waistline, i did neither.) and then stopped by our neighborhood playground on the way home and played there for a long time while i talked on the phone with grandmother and then with mom. it was such gorgeous t shirt weather... probably sunny and 55. brady went down the big green slide by himself a bunch of times. and then went down on his belly and busted his lip. poor guy. ; ) we had lunch and nap time and then at the end of quiet time, abigail and i went outside to play on the driveway for the rest of quiet time. so i brought my book and she played. lucy and presley came out and decided to come over and join us. so i pulled up a camp chair for stephanie and we had a blast talking about the joys of parenthood while all our kids played and covered themselves in their homemade paint (when you combine sidewalk chalk with fistfulls of snow melted and rubbed on top) and it was just perfect.
thursday- abigail had school again so we dropped her off and brady and i headed to costco. we ran into kylee in the parking lot so that was fun. and even though there were no samples at first (and only a few later), we had a pretty good time. brady spent the first while whining about what i thought was a basketball? which confused me because we hadn't seen one but he kept pointing back where we'd been. eventually, i stopped and focused on what he was saying, realizing it wasn't working to just brush him off and he wasn't going to let it go, and found out he wanted a hot dog like he'd seen on the big menu at the front of the store. so once we decided to share a hot dog at the end of our shopping trip, we were golden. $300 and a hot dog later (but i need to write down for my memory that brady kept calling me "mommy mommy" any time he wanted another sip of lemonade "i need more juice please, mommy mommy mommy." why he always did two or three mommys... who knows... but it was making me laugh out loud), we were off to pick up abigail from preschool. the biggest plus to running errands, but only making one stop, during preschool is that we're always ten minutes early to pick abigail up. the rest of the day was kind of down hill since abigail lied about going potty and then wet her pants during story time. but honey came home early because he was in the area for a meeting that got cancelled, so he picked up abigail and took her with him to walmart to fix his broken glasses and to hobby lobby to frame a painting we got in brazil. meanwhile, i talked on the phone with emmy and she gave me parenting advice from a book she's been reading. brady woke up and i sent him outside with honey and abigail. we survived the rest of the night just fine but it wasn't the best. why have i been getting soooo tired lately?!
friday- the house was in major need of some love so we stayed home. the kids got up late i think... maybe close to ten? i got them up and we read books in abigail's room for a while (apparently we were having a princess party and she had decorated so we just needed to read books???) and then headed downstairs for breakfast. but it was so late already and one of the kids asked for cereal so i decided we could all enjoy a bowl of cereal. and then we all thought it would be a great idea to turn on a dora show while i did laundry and cleaned the kitchen. lucy came over around 12:30 and presley came by not too much later. so that wasn't really going well for brady's nap, but the kids were all having a great time playing together. eventually, sometime after two, the girls all decided to go to lucy's house and even though brady got his shoes and tried to put them on by the door where the other girls were getting their shoes on, he had to stay behind and nap. so brady and i enjoyed some bagels and cream cheese... in the great room at the end table since i'd just swept the kitchen and had taken the chairs all out in preparation for mopping... and then i put him down for nap. i did laundry and put all the sheets and blankets back on our bed and gave the kitchen a thorough mopping on the counter tops and cabinets and floors and got brady up at 5. and then honey came home and i picked abigail up from lucy's and we all went to texas roadhouse. i ordered my steak medium rare (as i've been doing for a few months), but this time it was a super thick steak and it was more rare than it's ever been. it tasted great, but honey kept making faces at me because he either thought it was gross or was worried our baby would die from rare, diseased meat or something. came home and put the kids to bed and we were out.
saturday- honey went skiing. the kids and i went to the library and treated it like a normal weekday. we had eggs and cutie for lunch and then naptime and quiet time. i struggled to stay awake. honey got home sometime after 3. quiet time finished around 4, and right on cue, lucy, presley and kalia came over to play. brady semi played with them too. he wants to be involved but a lot of times just isn't interested enough if they're playing something complex with a lot of pretending. we hung out, played outside a bit, ate paninis for dinner (with costco rotisserie chicken and provolone on french bread) and both kids downed theirs... and the remainder of mine, as well as too much avocado. man, those kids know how to eat! and then we went to bed. so so tired.
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