I am sad to say goodbye to this weekend. It has been a great couple days.
Saturday morning we had a garage sale. Or rather, I helped my sister-in-law have a garage sale here. She’d told me she had a ton of baby clothes to sell, but I didn’t fully appreciate what that meant until I saw the enormous mountain of tiny onesies and dresses. I began laying everything out in nice neat little rows organized by size, “awwwing” over each adorable little outfit and remembering my own girl in some of them…but I quickly realized the futility of that effort and resorted to just dumping the clothes in one huge pile. And when I say huge, I mean HUGE!! Here’s a rough idea of the quantity – we sold everything for 50c per item and we made over $200, and that was with cutting a lot of deals. And, that was only about half of it; finally at 2:00 we packed up the remainder and dropped it all off at GoodWilll. So, I really don’t think it would be exaggerating to say there were a thousand pieces of baby clothing lying in my driveway. Wow! And there were a lot of quality, name-brand clothes there, in near-perfect condition. I could see the joy in the eyes of the Mamas digging through those piles of clothes. “Jackpot!” those eyes said. I know I’d feel like I’d died and gone to heaven to find a similar sale with the next size up in clothes!
That afternoon we had a birthday party at The Little Gym. I must say, I love that place! Nadia loves it, too, but not so much because of the balance beams and bars….she’s just happy to be with the babies! It’s quite ironic to me that my little monkey climbs and jumps and rolls around everywhere else, and yet every time we’ve been to the gym she hangs back and loves on the babies, not really participating in the group activities. Funny kid! She also made me laugh by trying to drink her cup of lemonade with a fork. Yes, with a fork. She repeatedly dipped the fork in that sugary yellow goodness and reported that it was “mmm, good” with every single lick. She offered be a few forkfuls, too. I might have to try that again sometime, it kept her busy and in one spot for 15 minutes! I have pictures of it, too, but haven’t had the chance to go through them yet…so I’ll post those later. Oh, and we had a big girl moment – the first potty in the potty chair in a public restroom!
Today we went to the pumpkin patch. We let Nadia totally lead that show, and the first half hour was spent just running around in circles, pointing and saying “wow!” at all the cool stuff. Hay rides, train rides, bounce houses, hay bales jungle gymns, mazes, cutouts, horses…and it was all free, except for the pumpkins and the cotton candy! Wanna know what my kid’s favorite thing was? The jail. Crazy kid had the best time in there! She also loved the train…until we got on it. Then she freaked out and wanted off, so we just watched Daddy ride it instead. We came home with two round Nadia-sized pumpkins which we’ll be carving tomorrow. Again, I’ve got pictures but haven’t gone through them yet….I don’t think I got anything good, tho. I was really looking forward to some great pumpkin pictures, but I was pretty disappointed. There were plenty of great picture spots but between a kid that was constantly in motion and a husband that is always annoyed by my stopping to get a shot, I hardly got a single decent picture. Oh well.
While Nadia napped the afternoon away, hubby and I watched a movie. I’m too frugal/cheap to shell out $5 to rent a movie, but we discovered Redbox about a month ago and now I love being able to get a new release for $1 per night! So we watched “You, Me and Dupree.” It wasn’t the best movie of all time, but it was great for a couple hours of light entertainment. And the timing was perfect, as Nadia woke up 5 minutes after the movie ended and we spent the rest of the afternoon outside enjoying the beautiful crisp fall weather.
And now I’m going to go crawl into my cozy bed with my husband and my baby girl. As usual, Nadia really didn’t want to leave our bed for her crib tonight at bedtime, so I told her that as long as she is quiet and still she can stay there but if she wants to play she need to go to the crib. We tell her this almost every single night and almost every single night she ends up in her crib. But tonight she actually laid down, snuggled up, and went to sleep! I was shocked and delighted! Of course I had to sneak back out of the bed for some computer time (for both work and play!), but now I’m heading back to reclaim my spot next to her soft, warm little body.
Good night!
