I am kind of annoyed by bloggers who never post. And now I am one. Such a hypocrite!
We've had a lot going on! I'll start with Easter pics...
I. LOVE. THIS.
(My mom is my hero--literally. This pic is so special and so beautiful of the 3 of them.)
Blade of grass to eat, anyone? {What was going on here? I have no idea.}
Are they siblings or what?!?! They look so much alike to me here.
During Mac's naptime, Arden and I hung out on the back porch. I think she's so beautiful! I love her eyes!
Later that week, Mac was running down the sidewalk and tripped. He caught himself with his knees and his face. So this isn't a funny expression he made...it's his swollen lip. It was twice it's normal size after he fell, but seemed much better an hour later. He had 2 skinned knees. Poor baby!
Sorry for the blurry pic--but doesn't this just make you smile??
My view. We walk all the time: for exercise, for errands (grocery store, pharmacy, other places close by), to the park, to visit friends and neighbors. I love baby legs and toddler knees. They are so sweet.
This one makes my heart want to burst. This might be my favorite picture of the two of them ever taken. Yet.
Mac likes to ask, "Please carry two babies!" Now that Arden can hold her head up well, Brad and I can both hold them simultaneously. He LOVES it.
Arden turned 6 months old Friday! So we started rice cereal. She loved it. She's wearing a very *loud* bib. I realized that I have a serious bib shortage (otherwise she would be wearing a more understated bib for her monumental first feeding). It started when Mac was this age. I just never invested in good bibs. That will change this week. (Good bib qualities: very big, waterproof back (or at least very thick), not loud (just my taste), with a built in food catcher/fold in the bottom). I realize that I need to buy about 1,000 bibs that fit this description.
Mac is potty trained {mostly}! I told him last Monday, "Soon you're going to wear big-boy underpants." (I keep putting it off and saying things like this to him to make myself feel better.) He immediately ran to his room and brought me a pair. He was totally ready. It was so much easier than I thought!!! For the first few days I made him sit on the potty about once an hour. The past few days I've waited for him to tell me. He's nearly accident free! (I say nearly because we have not yet mastered #2 on the potty. We're getting there...!)
I will say, that though I'm glad we've accomplished the feat, it is a little bittersweet. Diapers were the last real babyish thing in Mac's life. Now he's officially not a baby, and I'm a little sad about this. He's truly a little boy now. It's GREAT, but a little sad for this mama.
Last but not least, we had a huge yard sale yesterday. My sisters and I sold loads of stuff. We all got married but never really moved out of my mom's house. We all still even had clothes in our drawers and closets! So to help her with the overwhelming clutter of 3 teenage/college girls' rooms (because that's the stage we left them in!), we've all been working on cleaning up and clearing out her house (our rooms in particular). The Goodwill pile got so big we decided to try to make bank on it! It was a success!! It was cool to see how the yard sale helped so many people, too. An elderly man bought an exercise bike for his wife who just had heart surgery. A middle aged woman bought tons (TONS) of books for "the center" (some sort of after-school program for kids, I think). A newly divorced mother of three bought clothes and a toy chest. A teacher bought stuff for her classroom. A non-English speaking family bought clothes and a sweet little pocketbook (for play) for their little girls. It was really special to meet the people who were going to use these things, and really cool to see how this was helping many of them. (We gave super-great deals to some of the people who seemed down on their luck. They could not have done better at a thrift store.) By the end of it all, we were FLAT OUT exhausted, but it was worth it and I'd do it again. We arranged for a charity to come pick up unsold items, so it was nice not to worry about what to do with all of it (but not so nice that they were 5 hours late!!!). All in all, a good day though!
(By the way, if you're ever going to do a yard sale, don't put stickers on items. We saved loads of time by not pricing things. We just told people as they walked up, "Items in this half of the yard are $5, in this half are $1, and driveway items are priced as marked." We negotiated with lots of people. Many folks who frequent yard sales thanked us for the clarity of this. I've also heard that stickers are a waste of time because people change them. This system worked so well for us and saved us countless hours of pricing items.)
It's been a great, busy, wild couple of week in the Anderson house!
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