I’m not very good at keeping track of details these days so I’ve decided to keep a little list on my phone of daily events that I want to include in my blog, in an effort to remember. I suppose I still need to remember to put them on my list but its just a new idea. I’ll see how it works. But it worked today anyway!
Brady was expecting this entire week to be slammed busy but lucky for us, he tends to underestimate himself, and worked so fast that he didn’t need to go to work today! I hope I can speak for my whole family when I say we have an AMAZING day!
While nice, quiet family time is always great, I have started to feel a little stir crazy within my four walls. So we all went to the city today to get a few things done that had piled up over the last week or two. Nothing too crazy at all, luckily. Just a nice list of places to go, and if we didn’t get to all of them, nothing would suffer or be put out.
Sigh. My phone just died. No list. But it’ll come back soon so hopefully this post won’t be too haphazard.
We started at Dollarama and Brady just ran in for crackers, a drain plug, and vinegar. We use the vinegar to clean our tub. Right now, I’m taking a soak every evening and in order to help my body heal up in the best way possible, we spray it down with vinegar every night and then rinse it out. I think this is the cleanest its ever been! And at Dollarama, the vinegar comes in a 4L jug for $2. WIN!
After Dollarama we hit up Preston Crossing. We hauled both of our kids into a cart and dragged them through Walmart for three things. Three things that we didn’t find, that is. Thanks for nothing, Walmart. We headed to the other chunk of box stores and stocked up on Thank You cards. I never wrote any thank you cards after we had Dekker and I always felt guilty about that. So I bought a whole heap of them at Michaels and am definitely planning on diligently handing them out to anyone and everyone who has helped us, hospital staff included. Reeeaaally hoping I haven’t forgotten anyone on my list!! But if I just don’t get there, no judging please!
At that point, we realized we all needed to eat something, so we hit a nearby Wendys for some quick lunch. I have to say, it was probably the worst experience I’ve ever had at Wendys. Ok, is this complicated? I order the chicken strips combo, and change my side from fries to cheese nachos. I know, healthy right? But its delicious. I waited at a table with the kids while Brady ordered and brought the food back. It took forever. When he did make it back to the table, he said they had made my nachos chilli cheese (even though he specifically asked for “just cheese”) and they had also tried to convince him to swap out my chicken strips for nuggets because they strips took longer to prepare. That mistake has been made before and I do not like the nuggets one bit. So he waited for the strips and they were quite undercooked. By that point I just didn’t want to keep getting after them. So I ate nachos for lunch 🙂 Delicious, and better than nothing. The highlight of Wendys was my beautiful little girl, milk drunk.
Such a sweetie pie.
A recent decision that Brady and I made was to bite the bullet and buy a strap to help hold Dekker’s glasses up. I really haven’t wanted to, not for any particular reason really, except that his glasses adjusted correctly stay on his face where they should! But the principle of that is less important that my sons vision. So we had asked about one at Walmart and they recommended the place on Broadway called Saskatoon Vision Centre. And that guy was incredible!!! We will most certainly go back there again. A man with a serious pirate moustache helped us out, and actually taught us a few things about Dekker’s glasses that we didn’t know, and about patching. He was a great resource and sold us a great, super inconspicuous strap for $9. We put it on Dekker at our next stop and without even tightening it too much, those glasses absolutely stay put! I’m so relieved 🙂
I felt like we had already been to a lot of places at this point, but we had actually accomplished very little of what we came out to do. So we drove downtown and parked underground at Midtown Mall. We killed a bit of time there looking for boots. I still have $50 of birthday money and I really want cute boots!!! Getting into the mall was where our embarrassment began.
The sit and stand stroller. Sigh. That thing is a monster. The only aspect of it that is “compact” is the fact that it fits beautifully in the trunk of our Mazda3. It fits better than our original single stroller. But when I finally figured out how to open it, the thing was a good mile long. I had a heck of time jimmying the baby seat to make it click on, and then Dekker. Poor, poor Dekker. He was sitting on the little seat but he couldn’t find a comfortable position and ended up basically hanging by his crotch. It was actually hysterical, and took us an awkward amount of time to get both of our kids situated. And after all of that, there was nowhere to stow our enormous diaper bag. Brady and I were laughed so hard, I was almost peeing my pants. First time parents, apparently. For whatever reason, we were horribly embarrassed of our enormous stroller. We barely fit in the elevator!! I don’t know how people get used to the double stroller concept. Anyone?? And who puts the baby way the heck on the far end and the toddler who is used to looking out front facing back?!
Our big plan had been to finish at the mall and then drive to the upper section of the parking lot, return some stuff at Babies r Us, and then let them validate our parking from the whole mall visit. Grand plan, right? Sigh. We accidentally paid leaving the mall. Of all things. But the return went uneventfully so I guess thats a plus. (PS: Ashley, Brady said he saw you there, rocking the exact same stroller that I’m so choked about! How do you use that thing?!?!)
We drove a couple of blocks over to our jeweller. Second embarrassment of the day was bringing two children who had JUST pooped and stank to high Heaven into a nice office where people talk about gold and diamonds and spend lots of money. Either way, we picked up my family ring, with our new Laela strand 🙂 I LOVE it!
I couldn’t get a much clearer picture, unfortunately, but you get the idea. Dekker’s strand is yellow gold and Laela’s is rose gold, or red gold if you’re a jeweller who actually knows what they’re talking about. We’ll see if future kids will all have different colors or we’ll stick with yellow for boys and pink for girls. Any opinions out there?
Finally, we made our very last stop at Costco. Both bebs were sleeping so I just ran in on my own and picked up a Christmas present for Dekker. After finding it a week or two before Laela was born, then having Laela and being home for a bit, I wasn’t sure there would be any left, but we got him a sweet little ramp and eighteen Hot Wheels cars! I guess I’m counting on Dekker still loving “zoom zooms” at Christmas as much as he does now! I paid a really good price and ran back out to the car to both of my kids sleeping in the backseat. Lucky for me, Dekker didn’t see his present 🙂
Tsk. Look at those lips!
The kidlets slept the whole way home. We each took one and changed a bum upon arrival, and Dekker went down for a nap. Sadly for him, he thought he was down for night and was sooo sad to be woken up for supper. Had we known, maybe we would have left him, but its not uncommon to have a later nap and eats around 7pm. Well, he cried and cried. EVentually he calmed down and ate some crackers and cheese and grapes. But it was still pretty touch and go. When he got down from the table, he took a small spill and it was really quite downhill from there. Brady did great with him though, and tickled the crying away. Of course as soon as the tickles stopped, he would cry again. Very mixed emotions. But it worked, and Dekker went down just a little bit earlier than normal, without too many tears after Brady left. Now, of course, he’s “woooooing” away in his crib, but at least he’s happy.
Miss Laela is not. She is eating and eating and eating, but she is sooo gassy, poor little girl. We have a pretty good handle on it, and are doing all the things we know to do to help her get some relief, but its not a fun time. I’m sure we’re not the only ones who have experiences gassy babies. Dekker was the same. Hopefully she’ll have a better night tonight. Hopefully we all will.
Can’t WAIT to see my brother, sister in law, and two sweet little nephews tomorrow!!!