Stuff and nonsense
Mother's Day sucked this year. Corwin was up too late Saturday night, and still awoke around 7:00 as usual on Sunday morning. So he was short a couple hours sleep, which led to him being a defiant pill to deal with all day. This made Andrew and me into grumps, too, which just generally doesn't make for a good day in our house at all. I made waffles for dinner, since those are a kind of comfort food for me; I figured if no one was going to spoil me, I may as well pamper myself a little, even if I did have to do the work. :P
This morning was much better. Even after getting put to bed at 7:00 last night, Corwin didn't come in to get me up 'til about 8:45 this morning. I guess he was finally bothering to make up for his sleep debt. And of course that meant I got to sleep in, too, which was GLORIOUS! :) Andrew was a bit annoyed that Corwin decided to sleep late for the first time in ages on a day when he had to get up early for work anyway.
Corwin and I ran errands this morning -- the main ones being to Home Depot for AC filters, and Pottery Barn Kids to pick up the finials for the curtain rod and tiebacks in Corwin's new room. These errands were broken up by lunch at Jason's Deli and playtime at the children's playscape at the mall. Which has a new sign at the entrance saying "Children under 6 only" and no longer has the 42" max height requirement. Yay for Corwin (who at 3 is already 41" -- he was going to outgrow the place by height long before he was too old for it developmentally)! We also stopped at the Crocs display just inside the mall entrance, as I was thinking about getting him some to wear for water play this summer. But after waiting 15 minutes for the clerk to check her inventory (elsewhere in the building) we were told that they don't have his size in the color he wanted. But she did give me a coupon for free shipping if I want to order them from their web site. So I need to look into that option.
We also met the new neighbors on the far side of our house this morning, as they were coming back from a walk as we were leaving for our errands. There is a newly 1-year old boy named Christopher living there. Lots of kids around age 1 here -- Christopher, Jack's little sister Taylor on the other side of us is 10 months, and just around the corner there is another little girl who recently turned 1. And across the street is a set of twins who I haven't managed to meet yet, but they also appear to be somewhere in the 1-year age range. Too bad Corwin's too old and my next kiddo will be too young to play with them (at least for a while still). At least there is Jack next door who is only 2 1/2 months older than Corwin. :)
We also met last Friday, around the corner, a set of 5 1/2 year-old twin girls, who were outside playing in their sprinkler. Corwin wanted to say hi, and the girls were very friendly and kinda took him under their wing. They played with him a bit in the front yard, and then took him in the back to show off their swingset and their garden boxes. Corwin actually interacted better with them than he does with Jack next door, but I think that's because they're old enough to have learned to share and have more patience with Corwin than Jack does. Jack tends to grab toys away from Corwin, not always even because he wants to play with them -- I've seen him grab something out of Corwin's hand and immediately just toss it away. His mom disciplines him for this behavior, but it still frustrates Corwin. Of course, Corwin is not good at standing up for himself yet, either, so maybe he'll learn that skill from interacting with Jack. Hopefully he won't un-learn sharing. :P
Our AC seems to be struggling in the last several days or so -- I noticed the upstairs was too warm in the middle of last week, but I had it set way high (mid-80s) and thought it may have just been the way it anticipates what temperature you want it at next. But then late Friday afternoon, the downstairs temp was about 3-4 degrees higher than where we had it set, which was uncomfortably warm. We changed most of the AC filters this weekend, but couldn't change one because we didn't have the right size filter on hand. Picked that up this morning, and hopefully Andrew will get it changed tonight. The AC did fine this weekend because it was cool, but this afternoon we're back up to 77 in the house when I have the AC set to 75. Gonna see how it does tomorrow after we get the last new filter in place, and if I don't see improvement I'll be calling the warranty folks for our house to get someone out to look at it. Our AC -shouldn't- be failing, as we're in a brand new house that was completed in November. *sigh* Ah well, at least if there IS a problem, it should be covered by the warranty.
This morning was much better. Even after getting put to bed at 7:00 last night, Corwin didn't come in to get me up 'til about 8:45 this morning. I guess he was finally bothering to make up for his sleep debt. And of course that meant I got to sleep in, too, which was GLORIOUS! :) Andrew was a bit annoyed that Corwin decided to sleep late for the first time in ages on a day when he had to get up early for work anyway.
Corwin and I ran errands this morning -- the main ones being to Home Depot for AC filters, and Pottery Barn Kids to pick up the finials for the curtain rod and tiebacks in Corwin's new room. These errands were broken up by lunch at Jason's Deli and playtime at the children's playscape at the mall. Which has a new sign at the entrance saying "Children under 6 only" and no longer has the 42" max height requirement. Yay for Corwin (who at 3 is already 41" -- he was going to outgrow the place by height long before he was too old for it developmentally)! We also stopped at the Crocs display just inside the mall entrance, as I was thinking about getting him some to wear for water play this summer. But after waiting 15 minutes for the clerk to check her inventory (elsewhere in the building) we were told that they don't have his size in the color he wanted. But she did give me a coupon for free shipping if I want to order them from their web site. So I need to look into that option.
We also met the new neighbors on the far side of our house this morning, as they were coming back from a walk as we were leaving for our errands. There is a newly 1-year old boy named Christopher living there. Lots of kids around age 1 here -- Christopher, Jack's little sister Taylor on the other side of us is 10 months, and just around the corner there is another little girl who recently turned 1. And across the street is a set of twins who I haven't managed to meet yet, but they also appear to be somewhere in the 1-year age range. Too bad Corwin's too old and my next kiddo will be too young to play with them (at least for a while still). At least there is Jack next door who is only 2 1/2 months older than Corwin. :)
We also met last Friday, around the corner, a set of 5 1/2 year-old twin girls, who were outside playing in their sprinkler. Corwin wanted to say hi, and the girls were very friendly and kinda took him under their wing. They played with him a bit in the front yard, and then took him in the back to show off their swingset and their garden boxes. Corwin actually interacted better with them than he does with Jack next door, but I think that's because they're old enough to have learned to share and have more patience with Corwin than Jack does. Jack tends to grab toys away from Corwin, not always even because he wants to play with them -- I've seen him grab something out of Corwin's hand and immediately just toss it away. His mom disciplines him for this behavior, but it still frustrates Corwin. Of course, Corwin is not good at standing up for himself yet, either, so maybe he'll learn that skill from interacting with Jack. Hopefully he won't un-learn sharing. :P
Our AC seems to be struggling in the last several days or so -- I noticed the upstairs was too warm in the middle of last week, but I had it set way high (mid-80s) and thought it may have just been the way it anticipates what temperature you want it at next. But then late Friday afternoon, the downstairs temp was about 3-4 degrees higher than where we had it set, which was uncomfortably warm. We changed most of the AC filters this weekend, but couldn't change one because we didn't have the right size filter on hand. Picked that up this morning, and hopefully Andrew will get it changed tonight. The AC did fine this weekend because it was cool, but this afternoon we're back up to 77 in the house when I have the AC set to 75. Gonna see how it does tomorrow after we get the last new filter in place, and if I don't see improvement I'll be calling the warranty folks for our house to get someone out to look at it. Our AC -shouldn't- be failing, as we're in a brand new house that was completed in November. *sigh* Ah well, at least if there IS a problem, it should be covered by the warranty.