A Day of Running Around

Having a child makes it difficult to run errands. I am always under a time frame with Jacob. When I do have errands to run, I try and get up and get out the door early so that we are home in time for him to eat his lunch a noon and then take a good long nap (since he has to skip his morning nap). Previously, in my eagerness to get all of my errands done, I end up at the store before it opens. Thankfully today my timing was almost perfect (even though we left the house at 8:30am!). We had a full day of going to . . .

• Target: they have the best prices on baby food
• Babies R Us: for diapers, they have a frequent buyer card and your 10th value size box of Pampers diapers is free!
• Family Christian Bookstore: they had a sale on Bibles and I would like a new one; the one I liked was not on sale and is $75 so I think I'll wait a little
• Dillard's: I found an Easter dress and I think I like it, but I need Adam to help me be sure: Jacob did great and just played in the dressing room with his stroller while I tried on 20+ dresses!
• Toys R Us: their Little Tykes toys were buy one get one free and I had a $15 gift card; I got 2 toys for $6.30!!!!!
• Costco: we needed more chicken; they have the cheapest boneless, skinless chicken breasts
• Wendy's: to buy a coke because I had a bad headache and didn't have any coke at home

Jacob did great. About 5min from the house he started crying and would not stop, but it was 12:45 and I had pushed him as far as I could.

He is getting so big so fast. I love watching him grow and discover things. Now he . . .

• Walks most of the time and actually picks up his legs some instead of just shuffling his feet (he does look drunk and it is sooooo funny!)
• Says so many words
• Says "down" when he wants down
• Gets so excited when Adam gets home from work he crawls like crazy in a random pattern and screams
• When you sing Itsy Bitsy Spider and get to the part "down came the rain" he says "down" with you
• Loves watching TV. I let him watch Handy Manny, Little Einsteins and Veggie Tales
• Shakes his head really funny (and it shakes the rest of his body) when he hears music (he even did it to the patterned sound of the shopping cart today)
• Says "hi dada" all of the time (even to me!)
• Says "hi" and waves to everyone
• Tries so hard to say words. He even tried to say "elephant" and it came out so cute!

I take him to the doctor Friday and hope he weighs enough (22lbs) to upgrade him to his big-boy car seat.

So today was the first day that I bought him a toy and he actually showed that he was excited about it. I got him this guitar at Toys R Us. He loves it. He didn't want to let go for them to ring it up and was really concerned when I put it on the floor board of the car to buckle him in. He played with it all of the way home.

Here are the next 2 toys I want to get him (and Handy Manny tool box and Rocket from Little Einsteins-it transforms into 3 different things!). Surprise, surprise, but we have a budget for him each month and since I loaded up on diapers and food on the first day of the month I have to wait until the end of the month to see if there is enough money left over to buy them. I do have 2 $5 off coupons (so they would be only $45 total) that are good until the 23rd. Hopefully he will be enjoying a late Easter present. He went crazy when he saw them and started dancing (there was no music). He LOVES Handy Manny and Little Einsteins.

It is raining again. UCK! I hate this humidity, but we need the rain. Off to fix dinner and do my other chores that didn't get done while I was shopping (I need to fire my maid; she isn't very good!) =)

Spring is Here

I did a “spring” photo shoot with Jacob in the backyard today. We got him his Easter outfit while we were in Atlanta (found it at the Children’s Place outlet store) and that is what he is wearing. I’m entering him in a contest that BabyTalk magazine is doing to find the cutest baby (he is going to win, no doubt about that) and I went to enter him today and read that I couldn’t use professional pictures so the JcPenny photo shoot pictures were out . . . thus the need to go outside and take some more. There are a ton. I started with 150 and narrowed them down to 48. Enjoy!

You can download them to print at: http://picasaweb.google.com/AdamAndAngela/SpringIsHere