Look at this picture:
This on its own could change any grumpy moment. This boy is so darn cute, I can't stand it. This picture was taken by Jared after we had been experiencing his spit up for a couple of minutes. A few moments prior to this episode, Corban had projected on Jared and largest amount Jared has ever seen. Of course Jared doesn't respond the way I do. I seem to always vocalize my irritation with the fact that this stuff doesn't stop coming. I deal with this spit up all day, everyday, in HUGE amounts much of the time. Jared usually calmly takes it and then wants to tell me how cool this particular time was- this one being the record breaking amount. Okay, we will let him believe that. Just remember, I am with this boy 24/7. I have seen the records.
Here is an action shot of one of the "smaller" amounts:
Corban has figured out how to laugh. We have been able to get him to laugh for awhile- with the encouraging tickle. But yesterday he was laughing for no reason, except that daddy does look funny. But Jared was just sitting by him, not even doing too much talking or encouraging and Corban just started to laugh/giggle. He did it over and over for a minute or two. It was so cute!On a not so cute side, he has been having trouble sleeping through the night. Well, that was never the case anyway, but he used to go back to sleep in his own bed once I fed him. Now he has to be close to a warm body all night long and at least once a night he wakes up in a screaming fit. I try everything I know to calm him down while he is clawing at my neck and making me more frustrated. Eventually he does settle down, many times by me laying him on my belly and just patting his back. So the case may be caused by him having a bubble that is hurting his tummy. Funny that it is happening every night for the past week. Nonetheless, I am not getting very much sleep because he is next to me all night long. I am not really excited about changing that though because I love holding him all night. My favorite part is when we wake up in the morning and he is all smiles. I hope that doesn't change, but I will get a lot of it in just in case it does change.
This Memorial Day weekend has been spent laboring. I guess that works because I usually confuse this weekend with Labor Day weekend anyway. Yesterday Jared installed our pantry shelves and I love it! Here are some pictures of that:
I LOVE it! I feel so organized and like I have a place for everything, now. It was all initiated by getting ShelfReliance, which fits perfectly in the small space in the back of the pantry.
I got it for Jared for Father's Day. He made a joke about me not needing to write off my purchases as "his", but I really did buy it thinking he would enjoy it. Guess I was wrong and everything that makes a house really is the woman's. Oh well, I tried. Once I got the one up in the garage, he enjoyed helping me size it for cans and then he really enjoyed filling the shelves. It reminds us of the old marble games. He was impressed once it saw it in action, so I don't think he minds so much that it is his Father's Day present.By the way, it isn't that Jared expects presents. Whew! He just likes it to be know that he is selfless in giving up HIS presents for his wife. Which is true, he would rather (so I believe) get me something than have something for himself. His birthday present went through a similar discussion because I gave him the Christus statue-thinking it would be something he would love as it could bring a great reminder in our home and who wouldn't be happy to have this great statue. He was thinking, she has always wanted it so she gave it to me as an excuse to be able to buy it.
I also had the old book cases that were being used to house our items that are now nicely fitting on the pantry shelves, moved to various places in the house. Jared would have loved for me to say that we were just going to throw them out. But no, my mind thinks of where we can use it next. So I cleaned out the laundry room for one of them. LOVE it! And the other one made it's way up to the guest bedroom to take the place of a less sturdy tall bookcase.
I don't understand why Jared wants to get rid of all this furniture, he isn't too happy when I have bought a new piece of furniture anyway. This week I purchased a beautiful new bench. Not because I needed it, not that I had the perfect place for it in the house. No, this was a purchase of complete desire. I couldn't live without this bench after I saw it in Home Goods (which is a discount store, by the way).
It is a lovely, dark wood with a white cushion on top (which can be removed). The back of the bench can be folded over to make a table top. It has one drawer, and then the other drawer actually has two TV-tray-type tables that pull out. Maybe I made Jared mad that night by having him go pick it up for me, or maybe it was my instructing him how to drive now that we had this fragile piece of furniture in the back of the truck, or maybe it was when he found out that I just paid $300 for the bench. Whatever the case be, when we got it home and I asked what he thought, his response was, "We will see." We will see? What?! You can't just look at this and love it?
You don't find a piece of furniture like this everyday. It is one of those pieces that you will take with you from house to house because it is a piece of art, not just a bench. You gather these kinds of pieces over time because it would be way too difficult to find, needless to say too expensive. I am making a bigger deal out of this than it really needs to be. But my point is, decorating and furnishing a home takes time, so you can't rid your life of the past "fine goods" all at once. You do it piece by piece. I am still missing my linen cabinet (that is what I used it for when I was single) that he had been wanting to get rid of since we moved in to the apartment, so I consented during the remodel. I can still think of places I would use it! By the way, this "throw away" attitude drifts into many parts of his life ($60 pair of flip-flops is what we are dealing with today because they are "bowed") EXCEPT when it comes to his old clothes. That is the one place I wish it existed. He is attached to way too many non stylish clothes. I do appreciate that he doesn't really care about what he looks like- that way I can do the shopping and can dress him the way I want him to dress. The flip side is that he doesn't care what he wears, so you will see him in unmatching, underdressed, stained, or 10 year old shirts that either don't fit anymore, or they appear their age. I didn't get compliments on the bench from a few friends who have since been in my house, and that was enough for me.Speaking of ridding ourselves of "junk", the other thing Jared accomplished this weekend was cleaning out the Jacuzzi so we could take pictures for Craig's List. This is a website that you can post things you have for sale or that you want to give away. Prior to the cleaning we were figuring we wouldn't be able to pay someone to take this hunk of junk, so we posted it for FREE. Then while taking pictures we started to get the thought of, "Hey, maybe we do want to keep this." I am sure we won't regret getting rid of it since we NEVER use it and we have lots of ideas of what we want to do in the backyard. It turns out that a handful of people are interested and I left it as a first come, first serve basis. This gets it out of our hair faster. So David will be by with his boys tomorrow morning, 8:30 am. Now we just have to figure out how they are going to be able to remove it. Best of luck!
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