Sleep

I like sleep. In general, I’d say I get about enough. I can usually nap with the little one a bit in the daytime if the previous night didn’t go so well.

C is transitioning from two naps a day down to one. This transition is not going as smoothly as the transition from three to two. Today, she didn’t really get a good, solid nap at all. She got about 30 minutes in the morning, 30 minutes around 4p, and then…. maybe 10-15 mins in the stroller while I was jogging tonight. Poor kiddo. I don’t know what to do. For a while, she was going down at 10a and then about 2:30p and sleeping like a good 90 minutes each time. Then the naps spaced out… still going down about 10a-10:30a for a morning nap of about 90 minutes, but that afternoon nap is happening later and later… to the point that I have to be careful that I don’t let her sleep too late into the evening, or she won’t go down at night. I’m thinking I need to try and push her morning nap to like 11:30a or noon, and see if after she wakes up, I can just get her down for an early bedtime instead of a second nap.

My little one is growing up! She did so great tonight at the potluck our church lifegroup had. She figured out how to climb into and out of a little toddler-sized lawn chair. ❤ It was adorable. She really liked Caelyn’s toy cash register and the ride-on train toy, too. I think a ride-on toy may be in our future toy purchases sooner rather than later. I hadn’t thought C was all that into them, but that seems to have changed! So many fun times ahead. 🙂 I think the toddler phase has the potential to be a lot of fun, not just a lot of ugh. 🙂

I’ve offered up some things on the Buy Nothing Bothell facebook page. Ugh, people are hard to work with. One of the women I gave something to came fairly promptly to pick the stuff up (my Avent bottles and manual pump) but the other one – ugh. The bag full of baby food is still sitting in my living room. I may just donate it, this is ridiculous. It’s not that it’s any skin off my back to just have it here, but I don’t really want some of the lesser-respectul youths that inhabit the neighborhood to run off with it. Because that’s just uncool. So, I try not to leave the free items out over night. Ugh.

About 300 days until our trip to see friends from college! I need to work on my body in that time. I need to get some baby weight off, LOL. I think I’ll work on myself in 30-day increments. I’ll need to do photos, for accountability. Ugh. I do *NOT* like my waistline right now, but hey… no humiliation, no motivation, it seems. I need to pick some shorts and a top that I can do photos in every 30 days to keep track of progress. I’ll probably need to go to a dressing room at a store to take the pics, so I can get neck-to-feet.

Between Jun 30, 2014 and May 1, 2015 is 305 days. This is do-able. 🙂

I made mashed red potatoes for the potluck tonight. I think I was the only one who ate any though… they kind of got hidden on the side. Oh well. I am probably going to throw the rest out, since they’ve been sitting at room temp for a long time now haha.

C is a lot more into trying solid foods at this point. This is a huge part of why I’m FINALLY comfortable trying to get some baby weight off for real. I’ve been so afraid of losing milk supply all this time. But now that she’s eating a bit of solid food, I can afford to lose some milk. I’ll still let her nurse for comfort and going to sleep and stuff, but I think she’s not quite as dependent on me for calories. 305 days!

I have a little bit of a headache. 😦 But it’s almost 11:30p… I’m afraid to take Excedrin now. I’ll be awake for hours.

I still haven’t ordered the new organic skincare stuff. I need to get on that, I think it’ll help with the blackheads.

I think I’m tired. 😛

Fun week!

C has been down for almost 3 hours. Of course, as I sit down to write this, she is likely to wake up. LOL. I should have come over here to update earlier tonight.

This has been a great week. 🙂 Last night was interesting, haha. I had dozed off in the rocking chair with C. She hadn’t taken a second nap for the day yet. S wasn’t home, but I was expecting him around 6:30p or so. I woke up from my little snooze about 7p. Still no S. I carried C over to my bed and lied down with her. She was still asleep. I laid there for another 20 minutes or so. No sign of S. Soo… I decided to come downstairs because I thought perhaps he had managed to sneak into the house while I was asleep in the chair and had then sat down at the computer and I just wasn’t aware he was home. So I come down. No S. Hm…. I take a peek at my phone. TWO missed calls and TWO voicemails. Uh oh. Both were from S. Stuff at the office had gone haywire and he was on the last bus to the Lynnwood P&R. He needed me to come pick him up around 7:30p. !!!!!!! I looked at the clock – 7:29p. Haha, yeah um…. so I called S. Told him I’d literally JUST gotten the messages, I’d been upstairs with C. No biggie, he had no problem hanging out for a bit at the bus stop while I got me and C together and drove over to get him. At least it was a really nice day. So I had to wake C up… and then we all went and had a late dinner at Blazing Onion. 😛 C did great, even ate some mac n cheese with me! It was a little challenging to get her down again after we got home, but after a couple of failed attempts to put her down and then get up to come downstairs and clean up, I just brought her downstairs with me. I was frustrated and S definitely knew it, but eventually everything got taken care of.
Then, early this morning, I got C up and we drove S over to the other bus stop since his car had sat *there* overnight. I kind of like driving him to the bus stop in the mornings, I really like getting out early. 🙂
After taking S this morning, C and I cruised through the grocery store. I bought too much. I should not go to the store hungry! Blargh, oh well. I got myself a shirt, too…. I still don’t have a whole lot of shirts in my current larger size. I don’t want to stay at this size much longer, so I’m kind of putting off buying any new clothing. Now that C is getting more interested in solid foods, I’m hoping my days of relentless fat retention will come to an end. 😛
C and I came home, put groceries away, and eventually took a nap together. It was wonderful. I love getting to fall asleep with her. Then at some point we managed to get out of the house and return an item to BRU.

annnnnnnnd she’s awake!

Money

Sit n Spin: $5
24 childrens books: $6
2 foam alphabet mats: $20
4 assorted foam puzzle mats: $10
VTech push toy: $15
Elliptical: $60
6-panel gray play yard: $45
6-panel multicolor play yard: $40
Summer Infant decorative gate, with extensions: $45
Size 4 Pampers Swaddlers Sensitive diapers, about half a box worth: $20
Toy Dish set & Pots: $15
Fisher Price Precious Planet highchair: $50
Toddler PBK chair: $40
Lakeshore Learning soft block set: $20
FP Learning Kitchen: $10
Aerobic Stair (set of 3!): $10
Step 2 “Kid Alert” safety sign: $10
Little Tikes Swing Along climber: $85
Carlson gate with pet door, Extra Wide: $20
Radio Flyer red wagon: $55
Plush rocking horse with sounds and movement: $20
Hit and Wobble Penguin: $8
Step 2 Push Buggy: $25
Pink Rody – $30
Play Forms: set of 5, and Fisher Price soft toy box: $30
Toy organizer, primary colors: $20
12 children’s books: $6
Little Tikes toy box: $39
Zany Zoo Activity Cube: $35
Neurosmith Jumbo Music Ball: $40
Little People Zoo Talkers and Noah’s Ark sets, plus extras: $30
Little People Zoo Talkers set (with extra animals), Safari Truck set, Tractor Tow ‘n Pull set: $40
Melissa & Doug soft birds shape sorter: $15
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SOLD
Sophie Giraffe teether: $5
Temporal Artery Thermometer: $20
Fisher Price Zoo Talkers base set: $25

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LOL, doing well over here! I sold that Zoo Talkers set on Thursday for $10 more than I paid for it, LOL! Is that craigslist-cheating? Well, it’s in great shape and everything works, and the same set new would be about $70, so I think it was fair.

I keep getting emails from the Melissa and Doug website about deals and promo codes. *sigh*…. it’s a blessing and curse. I have a LOT of emails coming in every day from carter’s, OshKosh, Target, etc… and that’s all well and good, since none of those places are particularly tempting. I only open an email from them when I’m in the market for something they have that C needs. Well… M&D is proving different. I *LOVE* their toys. I love giving them as gifts, I love getting them for C. It’s horrible. It’s one online retailer I have a seriously hard time saying “no” to, LOL! But I force myself to resist. Money doesn’t grow on trees, after all. We have all we need, but that won’t be the case if I go on a M&D spending binge.
Speaking of spending, I want to save up for some expensive skincare items. I’d like to work on my pores a bit – see if I can get them cleared up better. And of course, I’m way past and totally over the hormonal treatments for achieving such ends. I found some organic products I want to try, but they are NOT cheap. So, I’ve re-done my personal spending budget. S and I talked it over… it’ll be tough to really rein in that hard, but I think I can do it. It’ll mean planning things out even better – I really like planning our dinner menu for the week in advance, it certainly lowered the grocery bill a bit *and* helps keep me mentally organized. It lowered the restaurant total spending column, too, since we’ve been eating at home more often.
I think my new budget will work. I just put it together this month, to “go-live” in July. It’s a much tighter budget. I mean, our basic expenses of mortgage, utilities, and other standard expenses and contributions from month to month won’t change, this is just a tighter budget of the money that is left over.

I’m titling this post “Money”, but I have to mention pole, too! I actually got some really good pole time in one day this week. My triceps were even sore the next day! 😛 I really need more pole in my life. I think *some* of my core strength is coming back, now that I’ve been doing some planks and pole crunches a little bit more frequently. Inverting is still awkward. I can still get into basic inversions, but it is definitely more, um, sloppy. C took a THREE HOUR nap on Friday, so I got in some serious quality time with the pole. Even did a little dancing with some new downloaded tunes. It was a good day.

Oh, the ZOO!!! Thursday night PDZ had a members-only night. I took C down right after a gal came over to buy the Zoo Talkers set from me. C slept the whole way down, it was perfect. We got to walk through the elephant barn. We got up close to a polar bear – chain link fence between us of course, but still!! – and there were free carousel rides! C totally loves the carousel. The first time I took her onto the carousel she cried at the beginning and acted scared. But once it was moving, she was very happy and loved it. So, when we were down at PDZ on Thursday, I was hoping she would remember the good experience she’d previously had on the carousel – and she did! No tears! It was great. We got to pet a hedgehog, learn about how the water is cleaned and purified as it comes out of Puget Sound and gets pumped into the exhibits, and we had an ice cream cone. 🙂 It was a really great time.
C did cry on the way home. I should have nursed her some more before we started our drive back to the north suburbs. So, that was my fault. It all worked out – we got home and nursed and cuddled up and all was well. Overall, a really great day. S wanted to go but couldn’t get away from work in time. Next time, we’re going to try to go the three of us. ❤

I am a truly blessed wife and mommy!!! I just never get over it!

I’m excited to see how I do with the new budget for my discretionary money.

Good things!!!

What a great day!

So C ate LOTS of solid food today. This is the first day she’s actually eaten those Puffs that so many kids love. We have the purple ones. She ate a lot of them! None of them got spit out! 🙂 Wow. So I’m happy. Puffs actually have some Vitamin D and Iron. She also ate some Kraft Mac n cheese with me today. I would cut one of the noodles in half with my spoon and feed it to her. She had some Puffs with Ragu on them, too, LOL… but she ate all those!
Then S and I went out for a fabulous dinner at Emory’s. We haven’t been there in several years. So tonight, along with C, we had a really nice dinner of Copper River King Salmon, tomato bisque, and 2 different desserts – I ordered the S’mores Pie and he got some Berry Pie thing. C got some bisque, some mashed potatoes, some strawberries – wow. It’s like someone just flipped a switch and suddenly now she’s really into trying grown-up foods. Not complaining! I have loved nursing her for so long – and I am privileged to have been able to do so – but I am glad she’s branching out. She’ll get more tastes and start getting iron and learn the wonders of dark chocolate. 🙂 😀 I think there is a lot of fun in store in the future. But I think, also, that I’ll still be nursing her at least at night for a pretty long time. And that’s just fine by me. ❤

Toys. Wow. I used a coupon this week at Toys R Us in Tukwila that I got for C’s birthday, and I bought her this very great-for-restaurants toy: The Leap Frog Discovery House! Seriously. After C lost interested in the pieces of bread we’d given her to play with, and after she had lost interest in the toy keys I found at Target that have proven to have “secret-weapon” powers in terms of being able to distract her, this little toy house was perfect. It has 4 sides of entertainment, and C would keep turning it around and around on the table playing with the different sides. I held it down on the table, using the handle on the “roof”, so she didn’t knock it off. We got about probably another 20 minutes or so after I brought that out. 🙂 It was a truly fabulous dinner. S and I each had a glass of wine, there was yummy dessert, and yummy fishy – ahhhh, I am blessed! And C behaved sooo well! We got compliments on how adorable she looked and how calm she was.

Tomorrow is our zoo trip! I am very excited. I have to be at home at 3:30p, so no early trip down to Southcenter, but that’s ok because at 3:30 a lady is coming over to buy something I had listed on craigslist. It’s the duplicate Zoo Talker set I paid $15 for… I’m selling it for $25. 😀 Woot!!!

I’m going to go lie down with little C and snuggle her. ❤

Father’s Day

Sheesh, how did a week go by since my last post! I try not to let that happen.

We’ve moved the rocking chair into the master bedroom. Today, during C’s morning nap, I re-arranged her room and changed the sheet on her bed. We’ve moved the gates around so that the playroom *and* her bedroom each have their own gate now. Makes it easier to keep all the toys in that one room. 😛 I don’t have any toys in her bedroom – only bedtime books. And it’s weird because we often don’t even read at bedtime, haha.

I have gone down 3 pounds this week. Sheesh. Well, least it’s moving in the right direction.

This weekend we had a pretty great Father’s Day with S. ❤ Mmmmm, yummy mac n cheese with chicken at Blazing Onion. Then we got one of those big cookie sandwiches with cookie dough ice cream and smothered in chocolate sauce, dang! LOL. AND… I surprised him by getting a Coldstone cake: the Tall, Dark, and Delicious one! We loved it – we’d been at Coldstone the day before, and S had read the description of this Father’s Day special cake. He was all like, “Huh, this sounds like one I’d actually really like…” So I ordered one on the fly as soon as we got home and he was out of the room. I picked it up, rushed it over to the Prugars for them to hide before we got there to hang out later in the afternoon. S was actually pretty surprised! 😀 Everyone loved the cake. It’s all I can do to resist eating all of it right now… S did say he wants to have some more of it. 😛 Ahhhh, so tempting!!! The remainder is sitting in our freezer… I must remind myself that it was *his* present and he should get to have some more of it, LOL!

Anyway. C and I went down to PDZ last week. Had a great time, as always, but I think it was not the best day to go because it seemed like it was school-field-trip day or something. TONS of K-6 kids running around. It seemed like there were chaperones all over yelling, “slow down!” or “no running!” or “watch in front of you!” or something. But we had a great time. 🙂 I’m planning to take C down to Point Defiance again this week for PDZ’s special Members-only evening.

The alphabet mats on our kitchen floor are about shot. The cats have just torn them up. The next set we put down will be treated with the No Scratch spray. It works well for the furniture, so I’m thinking it’ll work out for the foam flooring. I didn’t bother with this set, since it was only a <$20 craigslist investment. But the next set I think will be a bit nicer. We spend A LOT of time on the kitchen floor playing with toy food and stuff. We’re starting to talk about colors and shapes and how-many of the different foods. I really like toy food, I think it’s just so useful. I kind of wish I’d just gotten C a *new* FP learning kitchen, since the used one we bought gets SOOO much playtime… but it’s only because it’s missing that one piece. And it doesn’t really matter, C has a great time without that one piece and doesn’t know the difference anyway. 😛

I got a little birthday check from S’s mom. Of course, I spent it on C. We got 2 new toys out of it, LOL! I haven’t opened them yet. I’ll wait until we need to rotate something else out.

I count my blessings every day. We had a great Father’s Day, my family is healthy.

Productive day

C got two really good naps today. Each one was about an hour and a half. I’ve gone back to putting her down for sleep on my bed. It’s just more comfortable to lie down there with her and nurse her to sleep. It’s also cooler in that room, especially later in the day. We spent all day at home except for a trip to the grocery store. Actually two trips: one to Freddie’s, one to Albertson’s. Haha… I realized after I’d gotten home from Freddie’s that I had forgotten the stewed tomatoes. I needed them for this really neat Cheesy Sausage Pasta recipe I tried tonight. It turned out great! S liked it a lot. I’ll be making it again.

During C’s first nap I was a whirlwind of productivity! I washed and folded a total of three loads of laundry today. I dumped both litter boxes and rinsed them out in the yard, dried them out, and refilled them with fresh litter. I swept up the laundry room floor. I got the fridge cleaned out (mostly, still need to wipe the shelves). I did a LOT of dishes. I don’t really remember what I did during her second nap…. I got some pole time in, yes. And I took pictures of the Sharkie cat! 😛 He’s such a big wonderful cat.

The puzzles I ordered from Melissa & Doug should be here tomorrow or the next day. I’m excited! C is really getting into puzzles, and she can even do the knob puzzles some. She can get the pieces back into their places sometimes. It’s really fun to watch her dexterity develop! 🙂

I think I might go for a jog in the morning tomorrow. I’ll pack up C early and try to get out in the morning before she gets fussy as we head toward naptime #1. I really want to get back into that habit – and I admit that it’s laziness holding me back at this point. One day at a time, ugh.

I was so happy to get just a few minutes of pole time today. I am definitely far weaker than I used to be, but that can be fixed. Maybe I could regularly get a little pole time during C’s second nap…

I’m tired. I should sleep.

A really great day

S and I spent the whole day together. And C, of course. We had mac n cheese at Blazing Onion, then we went to Pinkabella for some [expensive!] cupcakes. We bought 4 and brought one home to be used as the Smash for C! Kitties are into it… grr. They bat everything around, LOL.
Then we went to Olive Garden for dinner tonight. Yum! I was just craving a big piece of lasagna. Good for the milk supply, you know! 😛 Then, on a whim, we had a little wine with dinner. I felt really nice afterwards. I really should be in bed… I should be sleepy, especially with the wine. But I’m not. I’m tired, yes, but I want to remember this day.

I wore one of my new dresses today. The tan/white one from Macy’s. I’m amazed at how well it fits. It’s a petite small.

Annnnnnnd the little one calls for Mama, I think….

craigslist sales, JCP photos, my first M&D order

Sit n Spin: $5
24 childrens books: $6
2 foam alphabet mats: $20
4 assorted foam puzzle mats: $10
VTech push toy: $15
Elliptical: $60
6-panel gray play yard: $45
6-panel multicolor play yard: $40
Summer Infant decorative gate, with extensions: $45
Size 4 Pampers Swaddlers Sensitive diapers, about half a box worth: $20
Toy Dish set & Pots: $15
Fisher Price Precious Planet highchair: $50
Toddler PBK chair: $40
Lakeshore Learning soft block set: $20
FP Learning Kitchen: $10
Aerobic Stair (set of 3!): $10
Step 2 “Kid Alert” safety sign: $10
Little Tikes Swing Along climber: $85
Carlson gate with pet door, Extra Wide: $20
Radio Flyer red wagon: $55
Plush rocking horse with sounds and movement: $20
Hit and Wobble Penguin: $8
Step 2 Push Buggy: $25
Pink Rody – $30
Play Forms: set of 5, and Fisher Price soft toy box: $30
Toy organizer, primary colors: $20
12 children’s books: $6
Little Tikes toy box: $39
Zany Zoo Activity Cube: $35
Neurosmith Jumbo Music Ball: $40
Little People Zoo Talkers and Noah’s Ark sets, plus extras: $30
Little People Zoo Talkers set (with extra animals), Safari Truck set, Tractor Tow ‘n Pull set: $40
Melissa & Doug soft birds shape sorter: $15
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SOLD
Sophie Giraffe teether: $5
Temporal Artery Thermometer: $20

Doing well over here. We hadn’t used the temporal thermometer at all, it was just taking up space in C’s closet, so I sold it. I think we paid $26, so getting $20 is pretty good.

The pictures at JCP went all right. C was unsure about their big black camera, but we spent some time (the photographer and I) playing with her, getting her soothed and showing her different toys they had at the studio. She calmed down and we eventually got some good photos. Since the Wednesday trip for photos didn’t work out, I took C to the Macy’s home department that day and just put her on different bed spread set-ups and used those as backdrops for some really cute pictures. ❤ C had fun climbing around on the comforters, and I got some great shots. Well, great *amateur* shots, LOL! All I had was my phone, but it was so fun. I did some in each dress.
Thursday, C and I ended up staying out of the house pretty much all day. I went for the appointment at JCP at 11:40a. C was not gonna have it. She was afraid of the camera, poor kiddo. We got maybe 2-3 half-way decent shots. So, we re-scheduled for 5p to try again. She had her afternoon nap in the car. Thankfully it was a long one. We got an appetizer and some cheesecake at Boston’s… where I discovered that C really likes cheesecake, LOL!! (She’ll certainly be getting more of that in the future!) We returned to the portrait studio at 5p. This time, we spent a lot of time getting C acclimated to the room. I took her into the photo room beforehand and just let her look around and explore. I think it helped. The photographer girl helped a lot, giving C lots of different things to look at. Eventually, we did get some really good shots. I can’t wait to pick up those pictures next week!

Friday was C’s 12-mo check-up. 18 lbs 1 oz, and 29 1/4 inches long/tall. She’s gained a little over half a pound and a little over an inch in the last 3 months. So she’ll be in her 12 mo clothing for a while yet, I think. She does wear some 18 mo clothing, though, too.

Yesterday I decided to order some puzzles from the Melissa & Doug site. I’d gotten an email coupon for 10% off of puzzles. They also provided a code for free shipping on orders $45+. But wait there’s more… they also said that on orders $45+, they’d throw in a free set of the play grocery cans (sells for $10)! I thought… huh, free shipping + 10% off puzzles + free play food cans…. = ok, I’ll bite. So I headed to the site, picked out some cute puzzles for C  (different types/ones we don’t have) and ordered the puzzle rack to hold them in. Order came to like exactly $45, LOL. I got the free shipping, the grocery cans, but…. the 10% puzzle coupon didn’t seem to be calculating correctly. I called the helpline. I spoke with a very helpful lady who did a mock order and agreed with me that, yes, I was not getting the entire discount. She fixed it for me, and I am a happy customer.
I kind of laughed as the customer service rep (Cheryl?) explained to me that someone had only applied the discount code in the system to include *some* of the puzzle items, instead of all of them! 😛 She also mentioned that it was weird that the site let me have free shipping, since normally only one promo code can be applied per order. Teehee, I feel like I got quite a bit here. Free shipping, free grocery cans toy set, AND discounted puzzle items. But I wonder… if they fix the puzzle code in the system, are they also going to fiddle around and make it so that only one promo code will work per order? That’s no fun, LOL. If I hadn’t been able to get free shipping, I might not have made the order. Shipping was going to be something like $9. That would eat up any discount I would have had. *shrug* I dunno. I’m just glad it worked out! 😀

C is down for her morning nap. S and I are planning to go for lunch at an Italian place we’ve never tried before, then walk through the towncenter, then go for a Pinkabella cupcake with C. It’ll be her official “smash cake” for her first birthday. 🙂 ❤

Life is fun right now. ❤

I am one highly blessed mommy! Thank you, Jesus, for S and C.

It’s been a YEAR already?!?!?!?

My little one turned 1 today. Wow. Where has the time gone??? A year ago right now, I had already pretty much forgotten the pain of labor, and I was hopelessly in love with the little bear.

We’ve been having all sorts of fun. Today, I tried to get some pictures of her taken at JCP, but apparently “walk ins welcome” actually means you need to have an appointment. Ugh. So, I had C all packed up and her two dresses for photos and I’d gotten her all cleaned up… I arrived at JCP at 11:30a, thinking the wait time wouldn’t be too bad – and I’m told they can’t take us until 4p! Ugh. I’m over at Alderwood probably twice a week, and I almost never see anyone in the portrait studio. Hence, I thought we’d be able to walk in at our convenience after C woke up from her morning nap. Ah, not to be. Oh well. I made an appointment for Thursday. Should work out.

Oh! Someone is coming to the house tomorrow to buy Sophie. I found a Sophie the Giraffe teether on the ground outside Cold Stone a week or so ago. I cleaned her up and posted her for sale, since C doesn’t need it. I have a buyer! It’s like finding money on the ground, LOL!

Soooo I won some bids on ebay that I didn’t think I’d win, LOL. So C is going to have a nice little collection of farm animals for her Little People playsets. *shrug* We’ll be getting some boxes. We’re having a lot of fun with the animals we already have, we’re spending more and more time in the play room these days. 🙂

^ Hehe. The rubber blocks are so fun for making animal corrals! I got a Little People Farm on ebay last weekend. It’s the previous model, not the current model, but I think it looks nice and the seller is including lots of extra animals. Works for me!

^ Adorable birthday card my mom sent for C. ❤ I let C play with it, but didn’t get a good shot of her with it 😛

^ Zoo Talkers that I bought new. My understanding is that the Zoo Talker set and animals are being discontinued. Well, the prices are high for the individual animals because some of the animals are hard to find. Ugh. I think this set cost me $40-50 dollars!!!! Yikes. Each animal was anywhere from $5-12, I think.

^ Good thing there aren’t many more animals. Blah…. I’ve never had a complete set of any toy before, so this *is* kind of fun… at least C really seems to enjoy playing with them. She especially seems to like the sea turtle. 🙂 I’d read some reviews saying that some of the animals didn’t work or they didn’t all interact with the Zoo properly, or didn’t say the right name or right sound… but I haven’t had any problems.

C and I went to Woodland Park Zoo (WPZ) yesterday. It was kind of cool and gray outside – not what some would consider a “good zoo day” – but it turned out to be a perfect day for a trip to the zoo. The animals were a bit more active in the cooler weather. It was gray out, so no squinting, really. And there weren’t too many people there. I took C for her first playtime in the Zoomazium. I think we’ll be spending more time there, for sure! She really likes to climb on the boulders they have in the toddler area. I have to help her get *down*, but that’s ok. I love zoo trips. PDZ (Point Defiance Zoo) is having a members-only special later this month – the zoo will be open from 6-9p for members! That’ll be a lot of fun, more of the animals will probably be awake and active at that time. I’m planning to take C down there at least one more time before that day. It’s a big zoo with an aquarium. They actually have big sharks!!

^ 😀 We had a lot of fun at Black Angus tonight for C’s birthday. S got some chocolate flourless torte that I thought tasted ok, and then C and I pretty much shared the cookie with ice cream. Ok, I ate most of it. 😛

^ C’s official birthday present from me and S. Melissa and Doug K’s Kids Musical Farmyard Cube. I think it’s pretty cute. I ended up buying it at BRU, it wasn’t too expensive. It has activities suggested for kids at 6m, 12m, and 18m. I think C will enjoy it.

I got a nice nap with C today after the JCP incident. C had a good morning nap, and we both got a good afternoon nap. I love sleeping with her, it’s always so warm and cuddly. Tonight, when I was putting her down for sleep, I thought she was totally asleep and so I started moving to get up. She kind of opened her eyes, rolled to her tummy and lifted up her chest and head and put them on me. So she was lying on her stomach halfway on top of me, LOL. It was really sweet. So I just laid there a bit longer, letting her sleep. Within about 10 minutes, she decided it was more comfortable on her back, and she rolled back over. I got up and came down for some quality time with S. ❤ ❤

Tomorrow – craigslist sale, get C cleaned up for pictures, pics at noon – shouldn’t take long – then laundry. Must. Do. Laundry!