I am just testing my new phone out. I am able to post from my cell phone. I love technology.
It took about a weeks worth of work, but I was able to successfully turn THIS:
Into THIS:
It is so amazing how great of a feeling of accomplishment I feel right now. I am still planning on refinishing the wood, but I just couldn’t wait to show everyone how the cushions turned out. I guess, as it turns out, I’m not have bad at sewing! I’m sure there will be many more projects to come!
So, I did notice that my blogging over the past several months has been sparse. Sorry about that. I am going to blame it on my work schedule. I never had more than three nights off in a row (and usually no more than two). To someone who doesn’t work nights, that might not sound so bad, but when fitting in sleep and children and random day to day stuff, it didn’t leave too much room for anything else, much less blogging. But life is good again. I now have a schedule similar to what I had at Saint’s. In fact, it might even be a little better. Every three weeks I will have a week off. I am not sure how I was able to manage getting this schedule, but I am SO happy. This means I will be blogging at least every three weeks :).
Unfortunately my first long stretch off hasn’t been that great. Grant started getting sick on Wednesday and then Friday morning both Chad and I woke up early early early throwing up. Friday was a PJ day for the whole family. Grant was obviously still sick because he cuddled with us on the couch most of the day. He even fell asleep next to me for over an hour. Saturday we were still feeling a little off, but no throwing up. Things were on the up turn. We had dinner plans with Heather and Melissa (two of my favorite NICU nurses/friends) and their husbands. We wern’t about to miss the evening of fun, and luckily we didn’t have to. We went to Applebee’s and then back to Heather’s gorgeous house and played games. The girls, of course, kicked butt. Honestly, I haven’t laughed that hard in quite a long time. I hope we can do this again real soon.
I had so much fun Saturday night that I couldn’t fall asleep when i got home. Chad got up at 3:30 in the morning to drive his mom back to airport in Detroit (and this was only shortly after I fell asleep..darn working nights…). At 5:00 I woke up to Grant talking to himself and banging on the wall in the basement. I ignored him hoping he would go back to sleep, but by 5:30 it was evident that there was no chance of that. I went downstairs and was met by the familiar odor of vomit as I opened the door to his room. Great. No sleep and I get to clean up vomit. Oh the joys of motherhood. By 6 am i had him and his bed cleaned up and his sheets in the washer. I tucked him back in and told him mommy was going back to sleep. Thinking ahead, I decided to wake Eric up and feed him, so maybe i could sleep past 7… After doing all this, it took me a while to fall back asleep again. I am pretty sure it was about 6:45 by the time I fell back asleep, only to have the boys wake up for the day around 8. Needless to say, today was another PJ day.
Of course, the cutest member of PJ crew playing with the kitchen that Grant got for Christmas.
Best purchase we ever made.
If you guess Chad, you’re wrong. He turns 30 this year…
But I turned 27 last week Tuesday.
My birthday this year was awesome because it got spread out to a week long event. I’m thinking we should make that into a tradition. The day before my birthday we went out to the mall to buy me a new dress for the weekend. I looked in several stores and finally found one on the clearance rack at Younkers for $13 (marked down from $60). Since I spent so much less on my dress, I justified getting a new pair of shoes.
On Tuesday (my actual birthday) I got several phone calls, texts and facebook messages wishing me a happy birthday. It really made my day. That night I had to work, but Chad had gotten me a pumpkin cheesecake and whip cream to bring in to celebrate.
Friday was the real big day (and the day that I got pictures). We started out the morning by picking up Grant’s friend Jonathan and going to the Children’s museum. It was so fun to watch the boys together because they not only play well together, but they were enjoying the museum so more than they have in the past. They spend about half of their time in this car:
I think they especially liked it because it is set up to be at a drive up window at a bank. Grant loved putting the carrier back and forth through the tube. Some of the other favorites:
Pushing Eric through the grocery store
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Playing in the little kids area
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Painting.
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And the Penguin ball pit.
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After the Children’s museum we took the boys to Pizza Hut for lunch. We really get our money’s worth there since the boys still eat free. Eric especially loved the breadsticks and also got his first taste of pizza.
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After Pizza Hut we went home and all the boys and mommy took a nap. (I love afternoon naps…I think that is the best part of night shift for me…always getting to take them.)
At 5:30 Katie came over (she was home from college for a few weeks and was able to watch the boys). Chad and I went to The BOB downtown for dinner, went to the comedy club, and went dancing. After all that fun (and some super sore calfs from those gorgeous new wedges I bought) we went hot tubbing to have a relaxing end to our evening.
I couldn’t have asked for a better birthday. I got to spend some awesome family time with my boys and spend an evening alone with my wonderful husband. Oh, and every last bit of it was planned by him. Thank you sweetheart for such an amazing week!
And he is standing…
Pulling himself up, scooting like a mad man, crawling on all fours (except he still prefers scooting because he can go faster that way). The little man can even climb up to the landing at the bottom of the stairs. All I know is that he is growing up way too fast.
He is starting to eat table food as well. He loves food just as much as his brother. I am pretty sure that our grocery bill is going to double sometime in the next few months….