yay! i'm prime!
had the bestest birthday ever, or, well, um, it was really great. I have no doubt the last few hours will be awesome as well. spent the morning (after waffles & coffee!) sorting and folding all of clara's old clothes by size and putting them all away for future munchkins and no, i'm not pregnant, or at least, not yet, or i don't know if i am. but her closet has been driving me insane recently and with the change of seasons i needed to get in there and put away the too small stuff and the too warm things. her room is so clean it's fantastic. i did a massive amount of laundry, which seems like not the thing to do on your birthday but it's what i felt like doing, so i did it, and frankly, it was nice. and it will be nice to wake up on the saddest day of the year and have all of my clothes all sparkly clean and organized.... and i changed the sheets so i will have nice clean sheets tonight. sigh. i love clean sheets.
clara and i went to the library kid's program again, trying to improve on our experience from last time. i was really nervous actually that it was going to ruin my whole b-day, because the last time we went, with the tantrums and then the refusing to nap and the horrid KFC not understanding my order 3 times and ending up with mayo on my chicken, well, i didn't want that to happen again. but i vaguely remembered all the parent's hauling out snacks right before story time (it's set up as 1hr play like maniacs, clean up toys, then 15 minutes of singing/book reading.) and then there is the story time. well, last time we got to story time and clara went all, 'fuck you, i'm not sitting quietly in a circle!" and we had to make a less than graceful exit. this time, i brought snacks, drinks, and emergency m&m's and it worked! we stayed for the whole thing and she climbed the stairs out of the library like a big girl and we had the bestest time. she took a 2 hour nap, while i continued operation organize and then we played more and made dinner.
then we went to the maul for girly time, we got milkshakes and went to the smell good store (lush) and got smell good things and then we went to crate & barrel to get replacement goldfishy glasses for the goldfishy glass that i sadly broke last year and this awesome picnic bento box that we'll start using as soon as ms. thing starts to like real lunch. very exciting. now she's sleeping.
but what a day. there was this moment where i was sitting in the food court at the maul and clara was sitting next to me at the table and we were sharing our milkshake and i was so happy to be there with her and i could almost feel the joy from the hopefully dozens and dozens of birthdays we get to spend together. it was the best present ever.
and here is josh with my riesling! yay birthday!
clara and i went to the library kid's program again, trying to improve on our experience from last time. i was really nervous actually that it was going to ruin my whole b-day, because the last time we went, with the tantrums and then the refusing to nap and the horrid KFC not understanding my order 3 times and ending up with mayo on my chicken, well, i didn't want that to happen again. but i vaguely remembered all the parent's hauling out snacks right before story time (it's set up as 1hr play like maniacs, clean up toys, then 15 minutes of singing/book reading.) and then there is the story time. well, last time we got to story time and clara went all, 'fuck you, i'm not sitting quietly in a circle!" and we had to make a less than graceful exit. this time, i brought snacks, drinks, and emergency m&m's and it worked! we stayed for the whole thing and she climbed the stairs out of the library like a big girl and we had the bestest time. she took a 2 hour nap, while i continued operation organize and then we played more and made dinner.
then we went to the maul for girly time, we got milkshakes and went to the smell good store (lush) and got smell good things and then we went to crate & barrel to get replacement goldfishy glasses for the goldfishy glass that i sadly broke last year and this awesome picnic bento box that we'll start using as soon as ms. thing starts to like real lunch. very exciting. now she's sleeping.
but what a day. there was this moment where i was sitting in the food court at the maul and clara was sitting next to me at the table and we were sharing our milkshake and i was so happy to be there with her and i could almost feel the joy from the hopefully dozens and dozens of birthdays we get to spend together. it was the best present ever.
and here is josh with my riesling! yay birthday!