Lots of Good Stuff

Some weekends you get nothing done. Others seem uber productive. We swayed toward the uber side this weekend and it felt soooo good (because more often than not we are very un-uber!)


- Friday night the kids were both in bed by 8:15pm. A major accomplishment seeing as lately X has been quite the challenge at bedtime.

- Friday night also marked the first night ever that Wesley slept in his crib in his own room. I've loved having him in the pack n play in our room, but we decided he needs to get familiar with his crib. He's not sleeping quite as well in there, but hopefully it's just a quick adjustment.

- This weekend Walter and I got new cell phones. We bid farewell to our archaic cell phone plan and got matching blackberrys (buy 1 get one free plus upgrade discounts - cause you know, I gotta get a deal!) Now we just have to figure out how to use them! We are probably close to the last people on earth that don't text or have internet on their phones. It will be interesting to see if we end up liking all this additional technology or not. Walter's work covers a big chunk of the cell phone plan so without that we would have never been able to consider it. And the kids were so well behaved at the cell phone store too!

- We went to church, put both kids in childcare, and they stayed in for the entire service!!! I wasn't worried about Wes because as long as he's fed and rested he's a pretty happy go lucky guy. The big accomplishment was we weren't called to come rescue X during the middle of the service! This has never happened. And, he actually had a good time. There were a few tears when we dropped him off (it didn't help that he fell in the parking lot and skinned his elbow on the way in!) but after a few minutes he was fine. He played playdoh, had a snack, and even made a Jesus picture. I can't tell you how nice it was to attend the service without the kids. We could actually pay attention! We are really liking this new church - I'll write more on that later.

- We sold our old fridge on Craigslist. It had been on about a week with no calls. Walter lowered the price a little on Sat. morning and we had a call within a few hours. They came, they saw, they bought, and they hauled it away!

- Today Walter power washed the front porch, back deck, and patio. That lovely layer of pollen over everything is now gone.

- In prep for Walter's bday party next weekend we picked up several items needed from my parent's house and got most of the basement cleaned up and ready to decorate.

- Wesley had his very first bottle EVER tonight. In hopes that I can maybe get out once in awhile, I decided to give the bottle thing a try. To my surprise he knew exactly what to do and drank 5 oz then fell sound asleep! We'll do a few more test runs with it before I actually go somewhere, but it's nice to know it might be a possibility.


Hopefully we can keep up with more good stuff this week! And maybe I'll take some pictures because that's the one thing I have barely done lately. But here's 2 cute ones of Wes for those that just read the blog for the pics!