We had a wonderful Easter weekend. Friday night we went to the Fergus side of the family's annual Easter Potluck out in Dayton. It's always so nice to see them since we don't get to see them that often. Saturday we had lunch at my parents house (homemade pizza, yummy) and I arranged an Easter egg hunt for my nephews and niece. I'm not sure who had more fun, me putting it together and hiding the eggs or the kids going and looking for them. It'll be super fun next year when baby Claire can join in. Saturday evening we had a easter/birthday get-together with Levi's Mom's family. We always have a great time with them too. The food was to die for, we ate way too much as usual. Claire got some wonderful presents from her grandparents and we got her an Easter dress which I just realized we haven't put her in yet, oops. Sunday was General Conference, which for those of you that don't know is when we get to listen to the counsel of the leaders of our church on TV. It happens twice a year and it was pretty cool that this year it just happened to fall on Easter. It was our first (hopefully annual) ConferenceBowl with some friends. That was super fun and good food!
What do you guys think of the new blog design? My friend Lacey suggested that we get a new design and after going through a dozen of them that wouldn't work (maybe someone knows why it keeps cutting the sides off? Levi said it might be because we don't have a widescreen monitor) I finally found one that didn't get too cut off.
So we've been borrowing an exersaucer from a friend and Claire really likes it so last week we decided to buy her one from Craiglist. It's really neat, it has a bar that has some hangy-down type toys and I thought I was getting a good deal at $40 (originally over $100, I know ridiculous right!?). Well after looking it over I told the nice lady I'd take it. The minute I got it in the car Levi said it smelled like smoke, which I hadn't noticed because of an always-stuffed-up nose, but no big deal I was going to clean it up anyway. After getting it home I started scrubbing it down and noticed that in every little nook and cranny there was caked-in dirt, grime, whatever you want to call it. So I now have a toothbrush out cleaning each individual toy very meticulously. Then I get to a toy that has ribbon and notice tiny dark spots all over it. I tried to convince myself that it was just dirt but Levi confirmed my fears... MOLD!!! All the plush toys and the toys with any ribbon on them (6 total) are affected. I had to take apart all these gizmos and gadgets (I think it lights up when certain ones are pulled) to get the toys out. So as we speak they are soaking in a vinegar bath and after that they will be going into the washing machine on hot with extra stain remover followed by the dryer (we'll see if my Google search on how to clean mold out of fabrics/stuffed animals worked). So about now I'm wishing I would have just bought Claire a new ghetto-off-brand-not-quite-as-cool one from Walmart that sells for $40-$50. I'm not even sure after cleaning all this that I'll even want to risk putting her in it. But if they don't come clean I'll just buy new toys and try to get them into the mechanism. And I'll probably end up spending way more, ahh irritating!
So on to less stressful projects. We decided to start an herb garden. I've been cooking super delicious meals lately (Rosemary Roasted Pork Tenderloin, South of the Border Meatloaf, Asian Pork & Noodle Skillet, Amazing Lasagna, just to name a few) and I've been spending so much on herbs. The only fresh Rosemary I could find was labeled organic and for this tiny little box it was like $4! So we went to the Wilco Farmstore today and bought 6 terracotta pots & saucers, potting soil and seeds for Rosemary, Basil, Oregano, Cilantro, Chives and Parsley all for $16, thank you Levi's discount. And we got them all planted, I'm so excited. I'm just hoping I don't kill them like the love fern Levi gave me when we were dating, the easter lily we got free with our Christmas tree the first year we were married or the supposedly un-killable cactus we bought a couple years ago. Good thing I've had much better luck keeping a husband, dog and baby alive!
Claire's favorite things to do:
Almost getting her knees underneath her
Grabbing anything within reach
Suck on/play with her toes
Squealing/screeching so ear-piercingly loud we're considering investing in aviator ear muffs
Almost sitting on her own, she's hasn't quite got the balancing thing yet
Loves to stand with us holding her up
Laughs hysterically at Roxcy, raspberries being blown on her tummy or us talking in silly voices
Playing in her exersaucer or tummy time mat
Looking at everything, she doesn't miss a thing
Rolling all over the place
You killed a non-killable cactus? Good luck with those herbs!!
ReplyDeleteNever fear with the rosemary! (although I recommend buying one already started from Home Depot...) It's next to impossible to kill them once you get going. Admittedly, I have managed to kill two of them, but that was when I forgot to water them for 4 months. :)
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