'til my head falls off

I just disappeared!

Yeah, so I did. We just got annual passes to the zoo (Noel's favorite part? fish), though, and signed up for swimming lessons, and well, we just have other things to do. Things that don't involve me typing.
Also, Noel has taken to zipping in his commando crawl directly to cords and piles of dog hair, so I have to be on guard for that constantly. He's quick! He's also started sort of standing. If he's on a lap, he will push with his legs to a standing position, but he still needs some stability support. Anyone know if this is OK before he's creeping (hands and knees)? I know we should discourage standing so we can work on the creeping thing first, but he really isn't interested in creeping at all. I've tried and tried, and he will pop himself right out of the position. Still no EI, either, after we got back on the list. Of course, I haven't called to yell at anyone yet, but it's nice not having to do the 'omg, therapist is coming' clean-up.
I'm looking into some private therapies in the meantime.

And I didn't mean for it to have a theme. Themes are pretty cheezeball, if you ask me. When the husband and I got married, people would ask me what the theme of the wedding was... and I'd say, 'uh, marriage?'. Eh.

So when the pond situation started looking like it had a theme, I tried to undo it, but it started growing on me. Exactly like a fungus. Or perhaps algae, in this situation. Anyway, the pond started looking sorta French Quarter-ish, and I went ahead and let it. The bricks are not finished, and I know they look like crap- we still need to do some digging and shuffling of the liner there, so the edges aren't done. The only plant we have in there right now is a floater called anachris, for some oxygen action, and it's not pretty. The thing that was going to be a waterfall is now going to be more of a fountain, and it's going to be made out of some old brass instruments- which isn't done yet. Oh, yeah, and the filter I made out of a storage box. Didn't think much about the fact that the lid was blue... oopsie. It's really blue. There's still a lotalot to be done, but here's a recent picture of the hole I dug in the ground.

posted by steph at Wednesday, June 27, 2007 | 5 comment(s)

This is important! Pay attention!

OK, well, it'll be important after some pictures.

First of all, I dug a hole for a pond. There's still a hole, still no pond. The wheels of inspiration turn slowly here.


Second of all, pipsqueak got his hair cut. He may not be crawilng or standing (yeah, still), but he's certainly no baby. This is my toddler. Maybe he'll start to toddle soon. He looks for all the world like a big boy, now that we've gotten the hair out of his face.


And the important part? Are you in the market for a new carseat? Have a S.ears store in your area? Call all of them. See if you can bag the clearance B.ritax for 54.99, like we did. For real. We got 2. They're the Roun*abouts, so you know. And also? Some stores still have them at full price, but as long as you can tell them that a different store has it for the clearance price, they should price match. Ours did. But move quick, because we think we found the last two carseats in the entire central Florida area. And a little of north Florida and some of south Florida, too. I called 27 (not joking) stores before we found them.

That's my public service announcement of the week. Don't say I never gave y'all anything, now.

posted by steph at Wednesday, June 06, 2007 | 2 comment(s)