Sunday Six

1.) A few months ago I picked up a few of those re-usable grocery bags from Wal-Mart and I am wondering why I didn’t do this sooner.  The straps are long enough to sling them over your shoulder, which makes them considerably easier to carry in from the car.  It also forces the cashier to pack the bags entirely, instead of having 2-5 items per bag, which drives me crazy.2.) Speaking of Wal-Mart, I was there today and was almost run over by an unruly little boy who was “helping” his dad push the cart.  As I passed, the dad said, “Now don’t you run into that lady, or she’ll whoop you good.”  I turned around, baffled, but they had already passed and didn’t look back.  I didn’t think I looked that intimidating in my LCU sweatshirt and jeans, but who knows?

3.) My sister-in-law once commented, when I complimented her Christmas decorations, that she used to put out every Christmas thing that she owned, whether she liked it or not, simply because it was Christmas-y.  More recently she started only putting out what she really liked, even if it didn’t end up being a lot in quantity.  This is good advice and has been in my mind as I’ve been rummaging around my Christmas boxes.   

4.) I still go back and forth about whether or not I like it when Jayce looks like a big boy.  But sometimes these grown up outfits are just too hard to resist.

5.) Jayce spent lots of time playing with his Aunt Melanie and Uncle Matt at Thanksgiving.  In true 18 month old fashion, he was most enamored with their electronic things, like phones and cameras.

6.) Luckily Uncle Matt was around when we were trying to get a family picture, and kept Jayce laughing while we snapped away.  If only we all could have remembered to look at the camera.

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Sunday Six

1.) My mom found this little tractor at Goodwill for $11 and we got it for Jayce.  He loves it so much that he would barely get off of it.  Even when he wasn’t pushing himself around he would just sit contentedly.

2.) Actually, when he first woke up from his nap and saw it in the house, he threw down his essential naptime bear, removed his pacifier and flung it on the ground, and ran to the tractor.  I have never seen him do that with anything.  These little comfort items typically will accompany him everywhere until I take them away, so I was surprised to see them willingly surrendered.

3.) He thinks that the tractor’s trailer is a vacuum cleaner.  Or maybe a shopping cart.  Either way, he keeps detaching it and pushing it around separately.  (Trailer? Is that right? I don’t know much tractor lingo so feel free to correct me.  I’ve stopped referring to combines generically as tractors since living in Illinois, so there is hope for me yet.)

4.) He wouldn’t get off the tractor to let mom clean it, so instead she cleaned it while he drove.  He even helped a little.  Kind of.

5.) His favorite part? The steering wheel. It’s his only toy with one, (he mostly has bikes and horses, no cars yet), and he won’t let go of it.  My favorite part?  He thinks it’s a train.  We’ve been telling him it’s a tractor but he’s been “choo chooooing” whenever he’s on it.  I guess it’s like a two car train to him. 

6.) A Sunday Six entirely devoted to a new toy?  It appears that I am either pressed for time or material.  I assure you that it is the former and not the latter.  I actually have too much to tell and not enough time tonight.  Or to be more accurate, too much to still accomplish tonight to spend more time blogging.  Darn this NaBloPoMo I committed to.

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Sunday Six

This week I will attempt to actually only do a list of six, unlike last week when I overzealously did seven, and didn’t realize it until it was already published.  :)  Oh well.

1.) Last week after arriving home from the grocery store, I realized that our new half & half container was leaking.  I showed Chris and he recommended that we store it in the one beverage container that we have an excess of-a sippy cup.  I put it in one of the ones that Jayce never uses, but I have worked so hard to drill into my head to not give it to Jayce this week that he may never drink out of it again.

2.) Though we have a few trees in our backyard, most of the leaves blew out of our yard and didn’t really require any raking on our part.  Luckily the neighbors were kind enough to let Jayce play in their leaf piles with their kids.  Can you find him?

3.) Last week I switched fabric softener from whatever watery super cheap kind I had been buying to the still-cheap-but-costs-a-little-bit-more Gain fabric softener.  There is a load running as I type this, and as soon as the washer goes into the spin cycle the whole living room fills with the scent of fabric softener and stays that way until I switch it to the dryer.  I can’t tell if the clothes are actually softer, but this still seems worth the extra $1.50.

4.) Chris, Jayce and I watched Pixar’s “Up” this week.  We were excited to have our first ever little family movie night, though Jayce went to bed about 30 minutes into it.  I was surprised to discover that though it is a really lovely story, it also has some incredibly sad moments.  I highly recommend it, just have some Kleenex nearby.

5.) Though the Halloween costume is now put away, we are still finding use for one part of Jayce’s costume: the feet.

6.) Actually, I guess he still does wear the “underneath” part of his costume.  And strangely enough, he looks rather monkey-ish in it as well.

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