Sunday - My parents came to visit for the day. They brought Liam a new-to-him Little Tykes cozy coupe car. They also brought the broken pack n play that died the last time Liam and I were at their house. Caleb wanted to take a look at it and see if he could fix it. He ended up cutting open the padding around the rails and found that it was definitely broken. I had him take pictures of the broken parts and told him that I would contact the company the next day.
Monday - This was just one of those days where everything seemed to be going wrong. I don't remember exactly what all happened, but I do remember that when I tried to contact the pack n play company I got a busy signal when I called their phone number and then according to the BBB they are no longer in business. Hmm...I wonder why. So, never buy anything used that is Simplicity brand!
We also hadn't gotten our tax refund. I contacted our tax accountant and she looked up our refund and said that the government wasn't accepting our Earned Income Credit and that instead of getting a refund we were going to have to owe $2200. O.O *gulp* [Fast forward about a week, I got a letter from the IRS and they changed their tune and said that we were still getting a refund but it would be a few hundred dollars less. Our tax accountant is sending them a letter explaining why we are owed what she has recorded. We are still waiting to hear back about that, but the smaller refund did hit our account! Phew!]
I got Liam's swing hung up in the backyard. Our new swing set isn't made the easiest for putting different swings on it, but I got it figured out.
I was going to have him try out his slide but this booger was hanging out on it and I couldn't tell if it was dead or alive. I think it was alive but it was cold so it wasn't moving very fast.
Caleb worked more on hanging up some of our pictures on the wall. Liam had to go get his hammer and he wanted to hammer every nail too. :-)
Tuesday - I had intentions of getting laundry folded and put away, but I was having a hard time finding motivation to get it done. Fortunately my friend, Lydia, texted me and asked if we were busy because she wanted to come visit. What a perfect excuse to put off laundry for another day! Liam and his buddy, Ellie, played so well together once they got over the fact that neither one of them could hog all of the stuffed Curious Georges. I didn't get any good pictures of the two of them because if trying to get a non blurred picture of one toddler is hard enough, trying to get a non blurred picture of two toddlers is almost impossible. Lydia did bring me some essential oils that I had ordered! We combined our orders in April to save on shipping and it gave us a good excuse to get together! Also, I just so happened to order the two oils that they temporarily discontinued a few weeks later due to a shortage. Good timing!
Thurdsay - I had my 30 week appointment. Caleb wasn't able to get the day off work and my sister was planning on coming for the day but she ended up having to work too, so guess who got to tag along to my appointment! I took the stroller so I had a place that I could restrain Liam in while I had my appointment. He made me totally scatter brained though. As soon as they called me back Liam smashed his fingers in a drawer in the end table in the waiting room. So, he's screaming and I'm trying to calm him down and console him while trying to unlock the wheels of the stroller and get over to the nurse. I finally got him calmed down and put in the stroller so the nurse could take my weight and blood pressure. After that I went to leave my pee sample but as I was leaving the bathroom I realized that I forgot to leave a sample.
After the doctor we went to walmart and I finally found some fabric that I liked for potential new throw pillows for our living room. It's more of like a duck cotton so I wasn't sure if it would be soft enough for pillows. I asked Liam for his opinion and took his response as approval.
Saturday - Christa was doing a craft fair here in Centralia. Caleb had men's Bible study that morning and so once he got home I went and hung out with Christa. Caleb and his dad went to a yard sale at a house where some people were moving and they ended up getting lots of good deals and free stuff.
Caleb's family came over that afternoon to hang out. Liam got to read some books with Grandpa.
Monday - Caleb had office hours but didn't have to work at Orscheln. That afternoon he had a meeting with someone from church but he just drug Liam along with him (they just all hung out in the backyard) and I got to have some time to myself! I love being a mom, but it's also nice to have time to myself. Sure, he naps every day, but I usually have to nap too and there's only so much I can get done during nap time. I got my sewing machine out and made the new throw pillows. Our current ones were looking pretty sad. We got them whenever Caleb moved to Hannibal, which was almost 5 years ago. They've gotten a lot of use and are either flat or hopelessly misshapen. For the stuffing I used some old pillows we had in our linen closet and I also shoved in some of the stuffing from some of the old throw pillows just to fluff them up a little bit more. They are SO COMFY! I love them. Caleb said he isn't sure that they match our couch/living room, but I think they are cute and match just fine.
After I got done with those I took Liam and Caleb was outside working on hanging a strand of lights from the house out to the shed. It will give us more light outside at night and also it gives Caleb electrical access in the shed. The landlord had told us that there was an outlet under the house next to the sump pump. Caleb got under there to plug in his extension cord and found that the sump pump wasn't working and underneath our house was just standing water. YIKES! He called the landlord but he didn't have a clue why it wasn't working. He doesn't live close by so he couldn't come take a look. Caleb at least got the sump pump plugged in to an extension cord running from the inside of the house and it started pumping. He got to looking around and finally figured out that there was a cord in the furnace closet that wasn't plugged in all the way. Apparently it gives electricity to the sump pump. I'm glad he found that and hopefully nothing started molding under there. When all of this was going on, it just reminded me how much I dont want to own a house.
Monday night was girlfriend's cafe at church so I got to have another break for a few hours!
Tuesday - We were having a normal day at home but that afternoon Liam was kind of crabby so I laid him down for an afternoon nap. He slept about 30 minutes and after he woke up I could tell something was bothering him. I felt him and he had a fever. That night all he wanted was cuddles. I dont think Caleb was too upset to come home to a tot who just wanted to cuddle him. :-)
Wednesday - Since Liam wasn't feeling well, I needed to make a run to Target to get some things for him. I was able to get home before Caleb needed to leave for his office hours so I was able to go solo! I can't tell you how many times I kept looking in the mirror in the van to check on Liam even though he wasn't there.
Wednesday night Liam still had a fever so he and I stayed home from church. He seemed to be feeling fine other than having a little bit of a cough, so I took him outside to play for a bit.
I gave Liam and cup and asked him to pick up all of the helicopters.
Thursday - Caleb got a bunch of free books from that yard sale last weekend. He and I had gone through the books and I picked out which ones I wanted to keep. I put a few of them in with Liam's toys. When he found the bunny book he was so excited. (If we weren't having a baby in a few weeks I'm pretty sure we would be getting this boy a bunny.)
Amy came to visit after she got off work! She just got a new car this week so she got to give it a whirl on the highway. :-) That night we of course HAD to go get half priced shakes at Sonic.
Friday - After we got up that morning we went out to a few yard sales. We didnt get anything. It looked like there were a few better ones in Sturgeon and Hallsville but I didn't feel like driving that far especially with my tiny bladder. We were going to go to story time but since Liam still had a fever and was a little runny in the nose I figured he's better off not being around any other kids.
We did go visit the fishies over at the Chance Museum place (I'm not sure what it's called)
After lunch Amy went back to St Louis and I had to go to the eye doctor. I wasn't having problems seeing but I only had one pair of contacts left and I needed to get my glasses adjusted because a certain tiny person had whacked them off of my face and bent them a few weeks ago. The doctor told me that my vision had actually gotten better by three clicks. I'm not totally sure how much a click is, but apparently it was really good! She said it's probably because I have been wearing my glasses a lot more. I told her I was just too cheap to buy a year's worth of contacts. With my astigmatism in my left eye, just a six month supply for that one eye is $67! Thats crazy. Maybe next year I'll just give up contacts all together, but I'm not quite ready for that yet.
When I got home Caleb told me that Liam didn't nap very well because he kept coughing. I got out some more of my essential oils and kept them on him every half hour or so and then diffused them in his room Friday night. He finally woke up fever free on Saturday morning and he slept a whopping 12 1/2 hours! He hasn't slept that long in a long time. If we end up getting more tax refund money back, I have a feeling I know where my half is going. More oils!
I also decided Friday morning that our house must have gremlins. After the whole sump pump thing this week, we were also having problems with Liam's baby monitor. It plugs in to the wall but it also has to have batteries for back up. About every six months or so the batteries die and it will start beeping in the middle of the night and I have to go change them. That happened Tuesday morning, then again Tuesday night, and Wednesday at naptime. I thought it was just bad/cheap batteries so I went and bought the good expensive lithium batteries. Again sometime Friday night it started beeping again. I was really getting frustrated because his monitor wont work at all without batteries and our room is at the opposite corner of the house from his. I have a back up monitor that someone gave to me second-hand, but it tends to have static and it picks up his sound machine and clock and all of that. His good monitor is voice activated so if Liam isn't making noise then the parent unit sound shuts off. Anytime it starts picking up sound I immediately wake up, so to have his other monitor constantly making noise I can't sleep at all. (Caleb is a completely different story). So Friday morning after I got Liam up I pulled away his dresser to get to the outlet where the monitor is plugged in and lo and behold it wasn't plugged in. How in the world does it get unplugged when it's behind a dresser? I've never had that problem with it before. Obviously there's only one plausible conclusion and that's gremlins.
Saturday - Caleb had Bible Study and Liam slept in. When Caleb got home he told me that he wasn't feeling well at all so he went and slept for the afternoon. I started getting a little wheezy and Caleb told me that's exactly how his sickies had started, so I got out the essential oils and kept them on me!
Here are some more pictures:
On his way to church with his essentials....cereal and his bunny.
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