Okay... so it's been interesting around here. We had a rather brief thunderstorm yesterday morning. It contained lightning. It just happened to hit our house or close enough to it that we lost a few things. It fried Josh's computer, the tv in our bedroom, the modem, the router (or at least the power cord), and the garage door opener... of all things. Luckily, the garage door guys came out that same day, so I wasn't stuck trying to manually open and close the door. Josh has the internet up again (hallelujah!). I'm not sure what I ever did before I had the internet. Unfortunately the tv is beyond repair. A moment of silence please. Okay. I'm better now.
On a totally different note... I recently took Maddie's crib bumpers out. She's working on learning how to pull up on things, and I didn't want her to suddenly learn to climb in the middle of the night, use the bumpers as a step, fall out of her crib, and traumatize me for life. I know. I can be a bit neurotic. I've accepted that. One of the immediate (and kinda funny) consequences was her getting her little legs stuck through the bars. She's never really moved around her crib much before, but she's kinda doing the half-crawl baby push-up thing. The first couple of times it happened she screamed until I came in and freed her. This time she was so tired that she just fell asleep where she was stuck. Don't worry. I straightened her out as soon as I snapped a picture. But you have to ask yourself what kind of mommy I am that I immediately thought, "take a picture of this for the blog before you fix her!" I put the bumpers back in place today.
Caleb had an awesome surprise today. He got a card in the mail from his Aunt Sandra and Uncle Nathan. Not only did his card have cars all over it, it had stickers inside. He's still talking about it. He's very interested in mail these days, so to have "mails" of his own was just the best thing ever.
Notice the stickers already on his shirt? Well, guess where the rest of them are as I type? Yup, they're already stuck down his legs. He keeps running in to show them to me. He's so proud.
Simple pleasures. :-)
Notice the stickers already on his shirt? Well, guess where the rest of them are as I type? Yup, they're already stuck down his legs. He keeps running in to show them to me. He's so proud.
Simple pleasures. :-)
What's even sweeter is that Caleb actually asked to be in the photo! He usually runs from the camera. They're getting so big.
This morning while I was getting ready I noticed Caleb making trips back and forth from my closet to my bedroom where I had Madeline in the pack-n-play. I had a bunch of extra kiddie sized hangers down on the lower bar where Caleb could reach them. He was systematically taking them in and giving them to Maddie one color group at a time. She thought it was hilarious, but he wasn't so pleased when she wouldn't hand them back to him.
And on a totally different note... If you know me at all you've realized by now that I use crafty stuff as my creative outlet. In fact, I have CADD (craft attention deficit disorder). It's very hard to stop myself from trying my hand at every type of crafting imaginable. Lately I've been doing a lot of sewing. It's fun. It's therapeutic. It's a great way to avoid scrubbing floors! Here's my latest project. It's a small tote bag with a fabric flower pin attached. It's so small because I had just made....
this apron and that's all of the material I had left over. It was just enough fabric to sit there and mock me. Who wants to waste that much material? I thought this was a good use for it. It's like a gift bag that the recipient can reuse. :-) I know this isn't a good picture of the apron, but it's the flower material on the top and stripes on the back (fully reversible) with the white pleated trim. So cute. Although I did end up taking the flower off and putting it on the bag. It's a pin. It can migrate if it wants to. All of that being said... I thought it was a cute little gift set. I haven't made a tote bag in a while and I'd forgotten how easy it really is.
Maddie cracks me up. She's so sweet and lovable.... but let me tell you this girl has a temper! She changes moods so fast you can barely keep up sometimes. I don't even want to think about her teenage years.
Just look at that face.
Have a Munchkin-tastic day!
Here's Caleb's first baseball game hot dog. I think it's some kind of requirement to have a hot dog at a ballgame. One of the guys had some peanuts, but we declined. All that was missing was a box of Crackerjacks!
Unfortunately, it was 100 degrees outside (plus the heat index) so we decided to leave early and visit Uncle Bobby. Pretend that I remembered to take a picture. Just imagine it's here. Thanks. Then we went to Red Robin. It's our favorite burger joint. I wish we had one closer.... but maybe it's a good thing we don't. :-)
It was a long, hot afternoon.
But we had fun!
We go through that place like we're in some kind of wonder land. He picks colors and I sprinkle them into the bag. I have to be very careful. It takes a lot of restraint to get such small amounts.
We always taste one as soon as we leave the store.
The rest never make it very long. We go home and pig out until our bags are empty.
And here's a completely unrelated picture of him sleeping. He doesn't always nap anymore, so I usually become suspicious if he gets too quiet. I went in to check on him and this is what I found. Hehehe. Too cute.
This is pretty fun. When I push the keys it makes noise and lights flash on and off.
And these buttons up here play songs... I think I like this.
And it tastes good too!
