My Heart Is Broken

I'm in love with these plates from Anthropologie. However, I'm not rich, so I was trying to buy them one at a time, until I had a whole set. So I got to three, and they're suddenly not on the website. Who the heck has dinnerware in sets of three? Nobody does. Well actually, I do. I'm obsessed enough that I sent them an email. They said that they were more popular than expected, so they are no longer available, and they have no plans to reorder more. How is that good business strategy? And how do I live without at least three more?

If any of you reading this love me, AND are near an Anthropologie, please look for one for me, and I will pay you. Whatever you ask. As long as it's no more than the cost of the plate. Ha.

Yes, I realize I'm more saddened by this than anyone ever should be. But that's how I roll.

Blinded by the Light

Tonight we had a nice first family swing on the porch swing. Except that I tried to take pictures of us and Jess laughed mercilessly at my feeble attempts to point the camera properly for a self (and family) portrait. And then some more at how ridiculously long the flash lasted.


And Paige also accidentally stuck her thumb about an inch and a half into my left eye socket just before Jess took this. It hurt quite a bit.

Judging by the look of my eye, I think she was probably looking at blood on her thumb.

ZEEEEWOOOOO

I wasn't going to blog, because I'm feeling sick. But Paige went ahead and rocked our worlds yet again, so now I must. I was lying on the couch with Cason and Jess was sitting on the floor with Paige, feeding her a burrito. She was between bites, and held her hand up toward me, like she had something small between her fingers. I leaned closer to try and see, and asked her "What do you have?" She smiled and said "ZEEEEEEEEWOOOOOOOOOOOOO" (which is "zero"). Nobody but Jess and I could ever understand how cute this was without seeing her expression and hearing her voice, but I'm blogging about it anyway. Because this is what our blog is for, to remind us of wonderful little things like this that we might forget otherwise.

His Legs..

..were nearly too fat to fit in this bumbo seat today.

Pigtails on the Porch Swing

Today was a good day. We got a lot of house stuff done. I painted shelves and drawers in the kitchen, and put in beautiful contact paper. Now they're lovely.


My love and his dad put up our new porch swing, and I LOVE it.

They also started chipping away all the bricks behind the wood stove so they can take it out soon. It's in the room we're mostly going to use as a play room, so it's not exactly safe to keep that thing. Hot metal with sharp corners.

Aunt Veronica put Paige's hair into pig tails for the first time.

I didn't even think it was long enough for it yet, but oh it is. She looks so cute, and so much older with her hair like that. She knew she looked cute, and pranced around to show them off.


She got to to go lunch and the park with Dan, Veronica, and Lily, while we worked on the house. Well, really these boys took a nap. Jess rarely gets to nap with him, so they took a nice long one.

Cason also did some happy leg presses with his Grammy and aunt Veronica.

A couple more views of those pigtails. Now I just need Veronica to do them every day, because I'm not sure I can make them look like that again.

2 Pairs o' PJs

Poor Paige and her sensitive skin have a rash all over that may have to do with a new laundry detergent I tried. So she's itchy and has to wear a one piece pajama so she can't scratch. So we had another "let's go all day without brushing our hair or leaving the house" day. But it was fun.

And tonight she put her new Wall-E pajamas on over her one piece no-scratch pajamas, got a bowl of cheezits and settled in to watch the very movie depicted on her pjs. (The outer ones)

And We're Back

We finally got the internet going in the new old house today! We've been here a week, and still have lots of stuff to do.

We set up the little ones' rooms. Paige helped Jess put together Cason's new crib.


Went fishing.


And balanced dinos carefully on her hands. Look at the concentration.


I was measuring and cutting contact paper for the cupboards, and she helped me with her little tape measure.

Cason mostly took cozy naps,

He also got a little fatter and spent some time looking incredible.


He's now 3 months old and 16 pounds heavy.