More strep

Poor Doug's got it now. I'll be happy to be healthy again. We take another "well visit" to the doctor's office next week. I hope that we stay "well' afterward instead of contracting something like last time.

Oh, how I long to be in two places at once...

So, I'm finishing nursing Robert and Mary calls out from the bathroom that she's finished and needs to be wiped. So, I let her know that I'll be right there. As I round the corner after putting Robert in his room, William comes up to me muttering something, but all I can see is white on his shirt mixed with some kind of crumb and a greasy coating on his hands. I start to put two and two together and walk in the kitchen. There is a crumb covered step stool in front of an open (and greasy finger printed) cardboard cake box. I peek inside to find that he's eaten one of the 2 remaining stale and crispy cake pieces that were left after our church 2:42 group threw us a surprise baby shower Saturday night. So I clean the boy up, take care of Mary, change Robert's messy pants and come back to see him staring longingly into the box again! "I didn't touch it mom!"

I hated the baby gates on our kitchen, but they are sounding better and better all the time.

Yuck.

I have strep and I don't feel good. I want to have a pitty party.

Silence

Why do I doubt the silence that's come over the house is a good thing?

Gotta figure out what they're into!!

Re-Org!

Since Lisa and I decided not to move we're trying to reorganize our house to make it more livable. This means Mary needs her own room and Lisa's stamps need a better home. The only room available for Mary's new room is the office...so everything currently in it will be displaced. This means a desk, a computer, two full bookshelves, a sewing machine, some musical instruments, and a closet full of crap has to go elsewhere. The desk, books, sewing machine, and some closet crap will go to climate-controlled storage until we move in a couple years. The computer will need to go into our bedroom, so we're on the lookout for a piece of furniture to conceal it all.

Lisa's stamps will come out of the closet and into the living room. We're also looking out for a place to store her 100+ stamp boxes, and have so far come across this cabinet. It's a little pricey, but ultimately worth it.

The house is a small disaster area, but hopefully over the next few weeks it'll come together.

Doug

More cutie pie pictures

I put up some more pics of Robert. I'd forgotten how hard it is to photograph newborns. Once they're fed and happy, they are usually gassy and squirmy or they spit up on the blanket or their shirt. So, you try to catch them sleeping, but their face is squished or shadowed. Despite the funny looks, they are still the most adorable tiny things you've ever seen.

It's official.

We've decided to stay in our house for another couple of years to save more money toward the new house.

The current plan is to move the office junk into storage and the computer into our room. Mary will move into the office to solve the sleep issues. It does still leave our nighttime potty training problem unsolved. We're looking for a nice computer cabinet. We've found a few cabinets, but the space for the tower is too small. Keep your eyes peeled for any compact computer furniture, please.