- It finally warmed up today. Ryan received an air rocket launcher for his birthday (over a month ago), and has been dying to use it, but it has been too cold. Today when he saw the sun was shining, he said, “Today is a nice day. Can we go to the park and shoot off the rocket?” After breakfast we headed out, only to discover it was way too windy to shoot the rocket off. We took the boys to the park instead, but the wind was very strong, and was making it cold yet again. After about 15 minutes, we had to call it quits.
We came home, had lunch, and then the boys took a nap. When Cole woke up I took him to the health food store, and the grocery store for groceries. The wind had died down, and it was wonderful. Cole and I didn’t even need our jackets. Joe took Ryan to finally shoot off his rocket. We all got home at the same time, and Ryan had so much fun with the rocket. He kept saying he hopes it is warm tomorrow, so he can go again.
- While we were eating dinner, Cole was particularly fussy- he didn’t want to eat, but he kept pointing to my plate. When I offered him my plate, he would just start fussing again. We couldn’t figure out what the problem was. I was trying to get Cole to eat something, but to no avail. I tried bribing next- I told Cole if he ate his food he could have dessert. Even that didn’t work. But Ryan, not missing a beat, had to point out that he was already done with his dinner and he was going to get dessert. I told him that was correct, but we were going to wait for dessert until Cole had eaten. Frustrated, Ryan pulls says to Cole, in his best stern Sir Topham Hatt voice, “Coley, you are causing confusion and delay.”
I just burst out laughing- it was so funny, and just perfect timing. Later, as they were getting dressed after their bath, Cole was goofing around, and was not being very cooperative, when I was trying to get him to stay still, so I could put his diaper on. Again, Ryan tells Cole, he “is causing confusion and delay.”
- I got my hair cut yesterday. I realized it had been almost six months, since the last time a pair of scissors had touched my hair. It was to my shoulders, and I got about three inches cut off, and got it thinned out. I always forget how much lighter my neck feels when I have this done. I like it. I didn’t get it a new cut, but it feels great to have it trimmed up again.
- My Alzheimer’s is behind me! I finally, finally, found the bag of art supplies I have been looking for now, for several weeks. Were they in some obscure place? Nope. They were in a Dillard’s bag, in the front closet- the closet I have checked at least 20 times before. Don’t know why I never found them before, or how I missed them, but I was very happy when I came across them yesterday.
I think what threw me was the Dillard’s bag. I hardly ever shop at Dillard’s. I can’t say when the last time I was there. I don’t know where the bag even came from, so I think when I saw it, I figured it was something really, really, old in there- like clothes that need to be donated or something like that, and I just skipped right over it. Now we’ll see if we get another snowy day, in which the boys could actually use the supplies before next winter.
- My Alzheimer’s is gone, but now it has hit Joe. He has a bad habit of forgetting to close the garage door. Someone could walk right in our house this way, or just help themselves to his myriads of tools on the shelves in there, and we would never know they were gone, until that day he is looking for that one tool, and can’t find it. Joe carried in the groceries for me this afternoon around five. We carry them in through the garage, since it leads right into the kitchen.
Tonight at 11, the doorbell rings. We were watching a movie, and wondered who in the world would be at the door that late? Joe answered it, and it was our wonderful neighbor across the street. He told us he was sorry to bother us, but they were getting ready to go to sleep, and had noticed that our garage door had been open all night, and he knew we usually keep it closed, so he wanted to let us know. Thank goodness he did. That would have been great- leaving the door up all night. I check it sometimes before I go to bed, but not always. I told Joe we need an alarm or something.
- Tomorrow it is supposed to be warm again, and no wind. I desperately need some new clothes. I won’t complain, because I finally, finally lost all my baby weight for good, and then some. I have forced myself to stop eating dessert every (only occasionally now) night, and surprisingly lost almost 10 pounds. So once again, I don’t have any jeans that fit great. I’m hoping to sneak off to the mall for some shopping. I also have a friend who is due in March with her first baby, and she is having a boy. I know they are having some great sales right now too, so I want to get her baby some goodies. 🙂 We’ll see how that goes.
- I have to take my Jeep back into the shop on Monday. We had it in last week for a tune up, and the shocks were shot. After we got it back, it idled very rough, and the check engine light came on. Guess they didn’t fix it right, or did something wrong. So I hope to get all those little things done tomorrow, since we’ll be home-bound on Monday.
Hope you can stand all the excitement around here. At least we aren’t sick. J