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June 29, 2009

need coookies.

booboo is napping and i was going to make cookies to take on our camping trip this weekend but i'm out of vanilla AND oats so i guess i'll just have to wait. humpf.
instead of internetting i should be picking up boo boo's toys. it is really messy in here.
speaking of messy, there is a lady moving out of one of the apartments in our building. she is the only person who has lived here longer than us. she had her door open today and it was FILTHY. like really gross. she had a people moving some garbage out for her. yesterday she was putting stuff in the dumpster and spilled stuff all over the stairs in the inside. jeeze.
anyway. yeah.
i'm sleepy and need caffeine.
/end boring blog

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June 26, 2009

i made pants

yesterday we went to the goodwill to look for some bargains. i found two turtleneck shirts that i wanted to make pants for boo boo with and a headband for myself.
i also found some jeans that i couldn't try on because boo boo was going to have a fit. so i tried them on when i got home and they don't really fit. ( huh. i just said fit twice. )

pants for boo boo

they are kinda low rise so he probably won't wear them much.

the other ones.......

these are nice and he'll wear them a lot. i like this fabric, it's really stretchy and makes a nice headband.

we're supposed to go camping on the 4th of july weekend but i'm not sure. camping with a baby??? we are having major sleeping issues over here. nobody is getting much of any and camping seems like a lot of work for me (more then normal, which i can't keep up with anyway) and that on top of being in a different place that is not as comfortable makes me nervous.

okay. boo boo is napping so i gotta run!

p.s. i can't stop eating newmans own chocolate sammich cookies.

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June 16, 2009

never ending bread basket of laundry

so today me and boo boo went on a walk to the library and the playground. when we walked by the bus stop i noticed a lady with a stroller talking to somebody. now that i have a baby it's like second nature to just look at other peoples strollers to see their babies. as i turned to see the baby i noticed a balled up fist and it looked like the baby was sleeping. so i kept walking but turned around again because i thought the baby hand looked strangely fake. then i looked at the face again thought 'fake baby? no, it couldn't be...could it?' so i turned around AGAIN because i just really didn't know. the stroller looked hardly used and the woman with the baby was grandma age. i thought it must be one of those fake real babies. which made feel sort of sad and weird so i called corey and left a message saying "i just say a lady with a fake baby and i'm buggin you gotta call me back!!!"
he called me back and i told him about the real fake real baby and then we hung up. then, a few blocks later i saw the bus go by and i saw the lady holding the "sleeping baby" over her shoulder. WEIRD. and just as i was starting to feel more sadness and weirdness for this lady who must want a baby so bad that she gets a pretend baby and then strollers it all around town the "fake baby" OPENED ITS EYES and MOVED IT'S HEAD. it's aliveeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!

speaking of real babies : my sister in law had a baby on friday. this is my first nephew and he is super special! he weighed 10 lbs 3 oz which i can't stop thinking about.
our baby, who is really a too-dler now, is getting bigger and stronger and louder. he squawks a lot and makes big messes everywhere around the apartment. it is very hard to clean, especially when i don't want to clean in the first place. our vacuum is still broken which is even more dumb.

p.s. i got a metric butt-load of strawrburries this weekend and i want to make hand pies. HAND PIES YUMM.

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June 2, 2009

it's hot out

some things that have happened today:
- got an email that our bugaboo bee stroller was recalled due to break failure.
this has been happening to our stroller along with the handle bar not being able to retract or whatever. when the breaks started getting weird i figured it was "just me" or something. they didn't always fail. sometimes one would work, somethings the other would work. and then sometimes you just had to step on the things a few times and they would work. then i was checking out reviews and read that a lot of other people were having the same problems. i contacted the company and they wanted me to take a picture of the brakes but i hadn't gotten around to it yet (you know, busy with a baby... not enough time for things that are important). anyway, it was only a matter of time before i figured they would recall it. now we are getting a little kit to fix the problem and hopefully it will be better.

-on the way back from the zoo booboo tossed one of his new-ish sandals out of the stroller. corey just noticed it now after dinner and was like "there is only one sandal in here". i feel bad but they are going to retrace some steps and hopefully find it. i found one of his socks that way once. unfortunately he's lost more socks than that though.

-it's really hot and stuffy out.

tomorrow is esmond's 1st birthday which is beyond amazing/exciting/weird/hard to believe. it's really been a year? one whole year?
i'm not sure what we'll do yet. corey has the rest of the week off and we're going on a vacation-type thing for a long weekend. it's not really our choice though - we have to leave the apartment (including the kitty) to have the tub and sinks re-surfaced. and we have to be out for 3 days. so meh.

okay. i need to pick up toys and then use a crappy vacuum to try and suck of crumbs that will probably stay stuck in the carpet.
boof.

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