Well, our 'new' baby is now 6 weeks old and I'm beginning to remember why it's so hard to have an infant and still get everything done in the day. Especially in the summer, when I spend most of my time doing last minute things with friends, garage saleing and taking random drives in nice weather.
However, I have found that I've got a few minutes of peace and quiet right now, so here we go.
Daddy is still at church, Elia is sleeping in the bouncer, Lars is sleeping in his new toddler bed and Eden is outside in the sandbox, waiting for me to come out and finish painting her doll house. Painting her doll house is conditional on getting the garage cleaned out enough to GET to the doll house, which I dug out of the storage unit on Tuesday, something she has been asking me to do since the week before Elia was born.
The doll house was purchased (garage sale) when Eden was just a baby. I fell in love with it, couldn't wait to fix it up, and immediately saw many future hours being spent playing pretend with it. It came complete with several pieces of doll furniture, something that will come in handy for a 5 year old's birthday next month. It's been in the garage since Friday when Daddy brought it home and she's spent much of her waking moments playing with it, in the midst of it's massive renovation.
In good news this week, Eden began swimming lessons and will continue with them another week. She's done surprisingly well thus far and is enjoying herself immensely. I even saw her go under the water without force! It's worked out most mornings that everybody gets up and around, eats breakfast and gets into swim suits. With Daddy at work, I get snacks and drinks together, then throw everybody in the stroller and walk the 1.5 miles to the pool. Eden swims, Lars plays with a cup on the side of the kiddy pool and I feed Elia for the half hour time slot, then we load back up in the stroller, grab the snacks and walk back home. I'm hoping the sweat that pores off me is taking the baby pounds with it!
In bad news this week, the Buick had a very costly trip to the maintenance shop, coming home just in time for the Ford to begin making 'a weird noise' under its hood. Whatever it is, it's not going to be good, so it's hoping to go to the shop on Monday. Now Al tells me another warning light came on in the Buick. Am I the only one who thinks Britain's public transportation service would be welcomed in America??
The weather has been hot all week and is forecast to be hot all next week, as well. With all the water we've had, the heat has made mosquitoes breed in triplicate. Lars is covered with bleeding and swollen bites, but he refuses cream or band-aids, so I've been washing sheets and clothes frequently to get the stains out. Is that just a boy thing?
Can't believe it's already the end of June. Summer is half over here. I better get out and enjoy today before it, too, disappears!
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