Gretchen is officially in 3-6 month clothes. I got the tub down and the clothes looked far to large for her, but when I put them on they fit fine. A little roomy since she's not as chunky as Olivia was, but they don't look too big at all. The timing is a little inconvenient, though, since I'm trying to switch out her entire wardrobe as I pack.
Gretchen has a move that I like to call "the flying squirrel." Sometimes when I pick her up she throws all of her limbs out like she's leaping from tree to tree. I'm assuming it's something that all babies do, but I don't remember it from when Olivia was little. It seems to be mostly a startled reflex that is accentuated by the fact that she doesn't have full control of her extremities yet.
With both girls in diapers and currently residing in separate rooms, my biggest problem was making sure I had enough wetbags to go around even when I was doing laundry. To further complicate the logistics of the situation, the waterproofing in my two big wetbags has lately been looking tremendously unhealthy. One tends to doubt the effectiveness of waterproof material that is covered with little cracks. Rather than buying a new wetbag, I decided to just make my own. After all, I made the one in the kitchen to hold snapkins, and it works fine. So I bought a yard of orange PUL and a yard of brown PUL and made two fabulously large wetbags. I even have some PUL left over, should I want more small wetbags later.
Last Sunday, we managed to be ready for church half an hour earlier than necessary. (How does that even happen?) Since it was a nice day, we decided to walk to church. We set off (dressed in our church clothes, obviously) with Olivia in the stroller and Gretchen in the wrap. As we turned onto the main road, we saw a parade of people headed the other direction carrying signs. It turns out that the local Baptists also decided to walk to church and they were organized enough to have banners inviting others to join them. The obvious discussion ensued: Why didn't we think to bring OUR signs? We continued our sign-less walk and managed to stop traffic with our adorable family. As we crossed the street, a car stopped in the intersection so that the driver could tell us how wonderful we looked and what a great picture we would make. Similar sentiments were expressed by a walker that we passed a little later. Bryan and I decided that, while our family IS adorable and picture worthy, the most probable reason for people stopping us was the fact that the Baptists were out in force and were just excited to see people who looked like they were going to church on Sunday morning. It should be pointed out, though, that neither comment was from people in the Baptist parade.
One of my four tomato plants has one flower! Hooray! Also, my plants are big enough that I had to stake them upright to keep them from falling over. Of greater note, though, is the fact that I also have carrots sprouting in my garden. As I finished off a bag of carrots a couple of weeks ago, I saved the ends. I generally toss produce scraps out the kitchen window anyway, so I figured I might as well put dirt over these scraps and see what happened. After all, isn't that how the school project where you grow carrots in a cup works? What happened is carrots! They're little still (judging from the leafy part sticking out of the ground), but they look promising. :)
Pictures:
Gretchen being happy:
Gretchen Wakes Up
Olivia found daddy's hats... and wore all of them at the same time:
Olivia likes to wear daddy's ties. Of course, if something is this great then EVERYONE must participate.
On a walk with the girls and Olivia's bear:
Two points if you can guess what Olivia is playing with here. Eight more if you know why we have it.
Family photos:
I can't tell what Olivia is playing with here, so I must have taken the picture because of her hair:
Gretchen wearing a ladybug outfit that someone from church gave us:
Olivia weathers the storm:
Photo courtesy of Olivia:
A giant laundry pin (I think that's what it's called...it hangs clothes on clothes lines) for hanging your wet bags?
ReplyDeleteIt's a giant laundry clip fridge magnet. You use it to hang your dish towels in the kitchen for further use.
ReplyDeleteTwo points to Jillian; it is a giant clothespin. Jacque, although you are correct in saying that we currently use it to hang dish towels, that is not WHY we own it in the first place.
ReplyDeleteOH! Then you own it because it was one of the gifts in the girlfriend test things that Bryan administered back when you were dating.
ReplyDeleteYou are correct. I don't remember which test it was or even if I did well (for some reason, I think the giant clothespin was a "you did better than terrible, but not really great" gift), but it was indeed a prize from a girlfriend challenge.
DeleteThe eight points are no longer up for grabs, but I'll accept your interesting guesses anyway!
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