1. I'm weaning the baby. Mostly because she isn't all that interested and partly because it would be great to release myself from that physical obligation of Mandatory Presence. There are movies I want to see, vacations I want to take, things I'd like to do AWAY FROM MY BABY.
The thing about Charlotte is she has never been the kind of baby that loves to nurse. Sure, she was comforted by it and she was into the nutritional part but she just never, ever seemed to WANT to nurse. She never fell asleep while nursing. She never got into a legit schedule with nursing. If I offered, she accepted and that's about as far as it went with her.
This gets a little hilarious now that we know she's a baby that eyes your plate of enchiladas and then EATS AN ENTIRE ONE. (With jalapenos and onions!) She will eat anything. It feels almost like she's been holding out for the good stuff and now that she's mastered a sippy cup she's really not interested in me. I think we'll be done in the next two weeks or so.
Oddly, I don't feel any wah-wah-this-might-be-my-last-baby feelings on the topic. Looking at her, it's hard to see her as a BABY, since she's all huge and wiggly and can mimic sounds like UH-OH and DADA and HIIIIII. (I hesitate to call these true words because she really is only mirroring what she hears, when she hears it. I have yet to get a HIIIII when someone enters the room.) I feel like we left that sweet-sleepy-baby nursing part a few months back. Claire weaned at 11 months and it appears Charlotte will as well.
2. I found a totally sweet new fabric shop. I went to my normal online fabric shop to finally purchase a yard of the Bermuda Zig Zag, after eyeing it for months.
I might use it for kitchen curtains, but I'm not sure. I'll thumbtack the yard up and see what I think. If I like it, I'll use it along with a larger order and if I don't like it on the wall I will turn it into sofa pillows. Anyway, my normal place didn't have it, so I had to Google and I found my new sweet shop where I ordered my yard of fabric PLUS another yard of sweet fabric that I am going to use to make a little cushion for this rocking chair I used to sit in at my Grandad's house:
I could have ordered a LOT more fabric but I restrained myself. They shipped this stuff to me for a flat $3.75, which I was a big, big fan of.
3. Every time we go to Walmart these days, Claire sees the chocolate bunnies and says, very solemnly,
"I really hope the Easter Bunny comes shopping here and brings me one of those chocolate bunnies."
(Her bunny of choice is a Lindt chocolate rabbit.)
So, HRM. This appears to be a topic the literature doesn't address: How does the Easter Bunny acquire his goods for distribution to children? Santa has a workshop and the Easter Bunny has.....Walmart? According to Claire, he has Walmart.
4. Because I am an amazing mother, I let Claire paint with legit tempura paint today. In the house. She did a really good job with keeping it reasonably clean and only painting when Charlotte was napping.
5. Look at what I found in the washing machine. (Bloated, dead.) (Oh my gosh, just typing that made me vomit a little.)
I don't think it's as bad as the time I found a tail-less gecko (bloated, dead) in the washing machine but it's SURE CLOSE.
6. Elizabeth posted about her summer uniform a few weeks ago and while I LOVE Elizabeth's idea and plan it is just not for me because there is no way all of those things would be clean, folded and easily accessible all at the same time at my house. Perhaps Elizabeth is better at laundry than I am, but I know I'd have a pile of orange and navy garments in a corner of my room within two weeks. (Why is the folding and putting away so haaaaaaard?)
For the past few summers, all I have let myself buy are dresses. This works for me because it's waaaaay harder to find a dress I like than a cheapie shirt at Target or Old Navy, and this cuts down on frivolous purchases that fall apart. I have no use in the hot Texas summer for jeans and I already have enough shorts to make a good rotation, so this leaves dresses/skirts. And, I know myself, if I bought "uniform" shirts to go with skirts I would just spill salad dressing on them and turn them into pajama shirts and never, ever get rid of them and be reluctant to replace them and I HAVE ENOUGH OF THAT SHIRT THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
So. Dresses. They make me feel less frumpy, I look semi dressed-up, I can wear them with flip-flops, they require no matching. That's my plan for Summer 2012. (There's also the part about how I figure since someone barfed on me for all of last summer my "look" will be much improved no matter what I wear.)
7. This is the first dress I think I want to buy. $35! Yes! WINNAH!
Somewhere (book, cartoon, something) I have read/seen/heard that the Easter bunny has a field full of bunnies and they all paint the eggs.
Posted by: HereWeGoAJen | April 05, 2012 at 07:16 PM
My summer outfit will be light weight pjs pants from Target and Old Navy with nursing tanks from Target. Glamorous. I am hoping that they will not be vomit covered, but if Darby is any indication I will be enjoying my last chocolate shakes, slices of pizza, cheese burgers in these next 3 weeks and vomit will be a part of my immediate future. Oh well.
Posted by: Vanessa Napolitano | April 05, 2012 at 07:41 PM
Oh, and I love the zig zag kitchen fabric. LOVE!
Posted by: Vanessa Napolitano | April 05, 2012 at 07:42 PM
I'm ready to be DONE with this weaning thing. I'm not enjoying being halfway there.
Posted by: Jesabes | April 05, 2012 at 07:50 PM
Paint in the house is really not that bad!
Posted by: Erica | April 05, 2012 at 11:39 PM
I like that dress! Can't wait to be able to shop again!
Posted by: Natalie | April 06, 2012 at 08:19 AM
I am a dress gal all the way. Mostly because I am pear shaped and shorts look absolutely horrific on me.
Also, that spider is heebing me out to no end.
Posted by: K | April 06, 2012 at 10:37 AM
I agree with no-jeans in the summer. Dresses and flip-flops for me.
Posted by: Erica | April 06, 2012 at 01:20 PM
OH MY WORD. That chevron-y zigzag fabric is heaven! I think I will order some too and make curtains for my kitchen too. Not to copy you... but because my kitchen walls are grape green and I just put this adorable turquoise plant stand in there yesterday and now the blinds that have been there since we bought the house are drab and OH MY WORD, that fabric. And oh look! Photgraphic evidence of my color scheme, this fabric will be perfection: http://instagr.am/p/JI5au8GKVw/
Posted by: alison | April 08, 2012 at 01:09 PM
Yes! Dresses! Mostly because I am certain my pants are never ever going to fit me again. But dresses I can do. I love that one, I'm going to order it RIGHT NOW HA!
Posted by: Maggie | April 10, 2012 at 09:55 AM
Claire has excellent taste in chocolate!
Btw, on Monday I found what I thought was a grape in the washing machine (assumed it was food from Will's bib pocket - except we never give him whole grapes!) Once I picked it up and turned it over turned out to be a grub/catepillar thing of some kind...grooooosss!!! The fact it had been washed was somehow even more disturbing.
Posted by: Lolly | April 10, 2012 at 01:17 PM
Landry weaned much in the same way as your girls, just lost interest. Life is far too fun to be stuck on a boob (says a woman).
I have spent a ton of money at J. Crew this year. I decided that it was time to update my look at the fact that I die with "I WANT! I WANT!" everytime I walk in to the store at NP, I figured it was time to just splurge and enjoy. I haven't let myself go clothes crazy in years and man it feels good to be on the other side of 2 babies ENJOYING my clothes.
I love that dress! I hope you bought it!!
Posted by: Mel | April 19, 2012 at 03:37 PM