End of May

Peanut dresses himself

I dress Peanut

Peanut got sick last night :( All over the living room. But then has been acting just fine since, other than a low grade fever when I checked him before deciding on school or no school this morning. We have lots of grand plans tomorrow so I figured I'd keep him home today to help ensure he doesn't get worse.

Almond had hiccups last night, I kept all night going "why won't this girl sleep????" only to finally have the aha moment of... I don't think she's actually kicking me! Nothing major going on with her, a friend sent some artwork for the kiddos room, pretty stoked about that, along with some cloth diapers and cloths. Love love love her!

It's the cat's birthday today, 8 years old. Of course they're locked up for being asscats at the moment ;) I suppose I should let them out. They'll get a present tonight and some wet food and forget all about... well their transgressions.

Tomorrow is Peanut's last day of school for the year and afterwards we plan on celebrating with train rides and an afternoon at the splashpad. It's hubby's day off so assuming everyone is healthy it should be a really great day.

AMTRAK!!!!

--- A few weeks ago, neglected to publish ---

Almond Joy Update! Nothing to report. HAH! The Mister felt her kick for the first time, but there hasn't been any major sicknesses or painful periods related to her lately, so behaving good. She continues to make my butt look big and not my belly. I'm feeling her tons now though, she seems to like to kick me while I'm making conversation with someone, and I get to ignore the constant popping.

Peanut Update! We rode on an Amtrak train - very exciting. Our whole trip to Mtown was a success. We had a kind of a weird weekend coming up. MeeMaw was busy and Friday would be my loooooooong day.... but I switched up The Mister's plasma donation to Saturday and we could make a thing out of it. Went to Target and bought more trains, then ate cashews at a park.

I'm planning after this nap to take him out and plant our squash. We have a couple chilly mornings coming up, but it should be before they germinate. It isn't going to make him happy, for some reason he can only play with his Enterprise in the Front Yard. It's Front Yard only. And if he can't play with his Enterprise then he needs to ride his bike, which he also can't do in the Back Yard. It's going to be a lot of drama. But hopefully The Mister is able to get out early today, and if he puts up a stink they can go for a bike ride while I do it. I'd love to include him, but he does plant some spinach seeds occasionally anyways. They were already planted, but he decided to disturb the soil and then cry and cry about planting something, so I said whatever, plant a few more in there.

So many clothes!

Piles of Children Clothes

Friday's garage sale was a success. One tiny bummer, I passed on a toy chest, and it was gone the next day, but I let that one happen, so hey! I can take it! We were even having some problems with finding the clothes we wanted, which shows a little, but at the end of the day we persevered. The main problem we found was that almost all the baby girl clothes seasons were reversed. 3-6 months would be pretty spring dresses and 9-12m would be winterwear. Which is not what we need. So it took a lot of search through stuff (at least it doesn't matter when you're buying footsie pajamas) to find the gems and a lot of "this would be soooo cute! ... if only I'd actually put it on her in January."

By the end of the day I was moving pretty slow, but we decided to stop at a pink garage sale I had seen on my way over. It ended up being an expensive one, and the one next door had squat. There was one more house next door, teeny tiny little one car garage one that we couldn't see inside of. We braved it, and not only found a cute outfit, but Almond's first room decoration, a very pretty vertical sunflower garland. With some cute wooden bugs on it for more room inspiration. Ended up being very much worth it.

Fixing his train

Peanut did really well too. I wasn't sure it was going to be enough, but now that I have things hung up, I think he's sitting rather pretty for the next year. It will need a few more specific pieces (like a hoodie and more socks) but on the whole, it's looking damn good. Of course I won't know for sure until I see how he grows. Usually by the end of winter his arms are mostly grown into the next size, and he's legs are just starting. Which makes things awkward if I don't have enough bought ahead of time, as he has to make it a few months until garage sale season starts up. And to compound the issue, we're in full blown preschool boy mode, which means all the jeans at sales have worn through knees that he'll have ripped through before spring.

Even the Mister is sitting pretty, we have already found one pair of work pants and 2 work shirts for him. With that and our really excellent retail shopping trip, he could rip through 3 tops at this point and he'd still be fine (trust me, he will). I even found a maternity top, in the right season that wasn't garish in my size (again with all the spring baby girls, every sale seemed to only have long sleeved maternity).

So now we move onto the actual doing up of the rooms. I've cleared off the crafting stuff off of the changing table to use as a dresser for now. She's still going to need one but the only dressers I saw at the sales were all part of sets, and the only one of those I liked had been sold. It's going to be a ton of work to get everything moved and organized down here. I underestimated my endurance last night and ended up on the couch late afternoon yesterday for hours unable to do anything - I had wiped myself out. I think it was more the combination of that and the garage sales the day before, two extremely active days just ended up being too much. But at least the washing machine can take a break today (I might go through a few more of Peanut's bags though for gender neutral items.)