Taking a bit of a break while Maddy takes her second nap so I thought I'd quick check in.
I took a long hot shower both yesterday and today. I must say, it's felt really nice!!!
My parents made it in just fine! They were about a 1/2 hour late, but not too bad! That was good anyway because before we knew it, it was 10:10 and Matt hadn't left the house yet!
We picked up Five Guys for lunch and their burgers are always fabulous!
They've had a great time playing with Maddy. She's had a blast with them. They can't believe how differently she is proportioned now that she is crawling and moving so much. I'm contemplating moving her down a size in pants since her tummy is so small now! She's still got pudge on her legs, arms and cheeks but her tummy is pretty small!
Mom and I did the grocery shopping for the week (well most of it) and made a meal list. I couldn't believe how many groceries we bought! Holy cow! But, it's basically done! As we were getting out of the car to go grocery shopping I showed mom the new purse I bought and she loved it so much she wanted to get one too!
So off to the mall we went that night! I am buying the purse for her for Christmas and we also bought Maddy her birthday dress, too. I went upstairs to People's Pottery to use my $25 Gift Certificate I had and bought a necklace for a friend. I think she'll like it. I will mail it tomorrow!
After that we went to Walmart to pick up a couple things for Matt, some baby shoes to go with her dress and more tights. We looked at the toys but I didn't buy anything. We got home but Maddy was already down to sleep.
Matt was psyched to go drive out to see the Leonid Meteor shower that happened last night so we went out to 7-11 to get 1/2 regular and 1/2 decaf coffee (we needed gas anyway) and then over to Arby's to pick up something to eat since it was 9:00 and we never had dinner! Mom and I were out and the guys were out before that, so we just never sat down to eat! On the way home we realized it was getting very cloudy so the Meteor watching was a bust. Oh well!
Today my mom made her homemade sloppy joes for Matt and I to freeze. That will come in handy so much! I love her sloppy joes and they freeze great! They will be wonderful on a cold night when I don't have much time to prep for dinner. Maddy loves them too! I put together my crockpot beef stroganoff for us for dinner. We'll see how well that goes over since dad likes mom's best.
We changed around the couches from our living room to our family room. Boy that was a big rig-a-marole. I'm glad we did it though, since now my parents can sleep on the pull out sofa in the family room. They are really worried about waking Maddy up at night with their snoring. Well, last night Maddy did wake up at 4:30 am. But I'm not sure if it was the snoring or if she was just cold, her teeth hurt. Who knows. But she did go back to sleep and slept in until 8:30. But dad moved to the family room from the living room when Maddy woke up. So dad was crammed on one couch and mom on the loveseat! That won't do for 7 days! But we vacuumed underneath where each couch was and it was really gross. Then the vacuum caught a pull in the carpet and snagged it about a foot. So I fixed that up with super glue and a knife. (I have a lot of practice with that since Joe used to pull up the carpet.) I meant to fix that snag for a while but we were out of superglue. I finally did buy some at the grocery store when mom and I went but I still didn't get around to it. So it serves me right for not taking care of it right away!
I bought Maddy her bithday cake yesterday! It will be ready to go on Thursday morning. It's a pinapple, orange carrot cake with pinapple curd in the middle and plain white butter cream frosting. I asked her to decorate it with rubber ducks and/or flowers. As long as it says, "Happy first birthday Madeline" it's all I really care about. I was just glad that she was willing to make it for me on such short notice! I bought it from Stephanie's Cakes.
Joe bit Maddy today. He didn't break skin, but did bite her. She grabbed hold of his paw and squeezed it. She moves so fast that sometimes it unavoidable to have her grab him sometimes. All we can do is try to minimize the amount she bugs him, but we can't stop it all together! She handled it well though. Didn't even cry.
I still haven't taken any pictures though! I will get on that ASAP and post them up!
Tea of the day: Ahmad English Breakfast (Dad had some too!)
WO of the day: None since it's the weekend, eating yesterday was BAD, BAD, BAD--I had FRIES two times!!!!!