Another Successful Garage Sale Weekend

We did a few garage sales again Saturday morning and had some great finds! Found two places that had some fall/winter clothes for Lorelei for 50 cents each, another tunnel that actually stays folded up, a Laugh and Learn Puppy, and out favorite...the picnic basket! I have been wanting one for quite a while so was thrilled to get this one for $5!!! It still had the tag on it and the plates etc were even still wrapped up. :) We really look forward to using it.

We decided to make a little trip to the new McDonald's down the road for lunch after having some play time. Lorelei really enjoyed people watching. She is now in the phase of waving to everyone we pass (well except for the people who really want her to wave, then she smiles like "I can but I'm not going to") so she had some fun doing that as well. Then during Lorelei's nap I ran over to the mall in search of a few things for the big wedding weekend coming up, and then we made a family trip to the library!

Sunday we just hung out around the house after a very loooong church service of Lorelei not wanting to sit still for even two seconds. We enjoyed a nice chat with Grandma Stahl and company that evening as well. :) We are so excited to visit them in about a month!

Low: STILL not getting our parts for the grill because they were out of stock!; Lorelei thinking she never needs to go to sleep...

High: great finds at the sales, good family time

Quote from Brad: "She was like Godzilla walking through the city destroying things... must be how her toy's feel."

Just Keeping Busy

Well this week we have done many things from trips to two parks, Lowe's, and a farm, to swimming with Dad and just plain dealing with a stubborn 10 1/2 month old!






Brad started a new schedule this week. He is now working from 7-4. This is awesome for us...although at 5:15 am he is a little hesitant to get up. :) This gives him much more good time with Lorelei though. So far we took a trip to Puppyville and also went swimming! Before this there wasn't time to do much after work other than a bath. :) As you can tell she is thrilled to get more Daddy time.


Lorelei is consistently enjoying driving us mad throwing her food and cup on the floor...we have gone from ignoring, to lecturing, back to ignoring again...we'll see what happens. The good news is she is on mostly all "grown up" food now! This picture is of her digging her food out of her bib because I took the tray away...







We took a trip out to a farm on Friday. A couple of other moms from our moms group were going and I thought Lorelei would really enjoy the animals. Plus it was FREE! We were also supposed to see a magician, but got there a little late so it was very full and not a good view of the guy. We saw turkeys, chickens, cows, horses, sheep...you name it. Of course the only thing I took a picture of was the pile of manure...apparently the picture is too small but it says FREE MANURE. :)

Copy Cat

Lorelei is in the phase of wanting to copy everything we do...this is quite entertaining to us. She has an amusing fake laugh she does when we are laughing. We did get a decent video of one of her tricks. ;)

Here he is....the Darth Vader duck!

Well I told you I'd put up a picture when I found him again....so here he is! I was going to put this to music but decided it probably wasn't worth the effort! Just try to imagine Darth Vader's theme song and weird breathing...plus I did a bit for you on the video. :) Enjoy! Creepy eh?

Great Deals

Well I must start off by saying I LOVE CRAIGSLIST!!! It is wonderful around here. I know it isn't as exciting for those of you not in the city, but for us it has been great! I have been looking for a Laugh and Learn Home for a couple of months. Lorelei seemed to really enjoy it when playing at our friends, Lily and Sara's house, so I knew it would be a hit. It is apparently quite the hot item though, because each time I found one on Craigslist they had already sold it! Checking multiple times finally paid off and we got one for a great price. :)

I then looked for garage sales that I knew had chilren's toys (you can put that into the search on craigslist) and then picked some that sounded promising in our area. We had a very successful morning garage saling, and Brad was thrilled to find some computer parts that he will resell. (hopefully soon as I was not thrilled about this sitting around the house, but he does have a good plan. :) ) The best find probably was the toy box. We plan to either re stain or paint it but for now it serves its purpose!



The puppy is actually from my sister and she loves it! She is starting to get a bit more attached to her stuffed animals. She probably gives them more hugs than she does her parents! :)

Low: having to figure out how to get a smaller gas tank for the grill - much more work than we thought it would be!

Highs: well finding great deals, obviously! :) ; spending Friday with Sara and Lily - the girls had fun playing together (of course forgot my camera, but you can click on her blog to see a cute video, she is a "follower" on our blog) and we had a great time exchanging recipes and just having other adult conversation!; helping Mirinda register at BRU and finding some more good deals on a couple of fall dresses at the consignment store!

Here is what my sister showed me from a book after I told her about our weekend...thought it would be a good quote for this post. :)

"I can't believe I bought three pairs of shoes at one time. You're a bad influence" - Jenna

"They were on sale" - Lucy

One pair was on sale - Jenna

You saved money on the one, so it's not like buying them."

"It's not?"

"No," Lucy said in reasonable tones. "It's like saving on them. So look at it that way: you only bought two pairs. And one of them's for the wedding. Those you were obligated to buy. Really, you only bought one pair."

"Your logic is wise. And confusing." - Jenna

Playpen Fun

We had a couple of days of beautiful weather with no humidity! It was amazing so we had to get outside to enjoy it. After a swim that afternoon, I took the playpen out to the balcony (the wood and nails are not ideal for crawling.) Lorelei is in the phase of dropping things from the high chair...She will hold her cup out and wait until we look at her to drop it, just to get our reaction (yes we are learning not to react!) This also applies to the playpen and she thinks its hilarious. You will hear her "evil" laugh before dropping her poor Noah.

Then we enjoyed a fun game of catch...
I cant get the video to load, but it was very amusing and she enjoyed throwing the ball for me from the playpen. :)

Low: Lorelei being cranky from teething, how can one tooth cause so much whining?

High: warm chocolate chip cookies with milk to comfort me after days of whining :)

Cute story: I was packing up to run an errand and had all my stuff ready and said "okay see you later" to Lorelei (I really did want to leave her there that day!) and she just looked at me and waved goodbye like, "Ok Mom have fun!" :)

Verse: "Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - think about such things." Philippians

Workin on Walkin!

Well as you have heard Lorelei is always wanting to walk now! We had been trying one of the little children's "walkers" for a while and she would always lean to far without walking...well Brad tried it this morning and all of a sudden she could do it!



And of course she has been taking a few steps on her own for a couple of weeks now. She has gotten to about five so far. :)



Also had a couple of fun anecdotes for the last few days...

Brad to Lorelei: "Say fish, fish, FISH"
Lorelei to Brad: "EEEEEE"

Me after Lorelei was trying to take the teether off the turtle because it doesn't belong there (she does this with everything out of place): "I think she is going to be anal like me."
Brad: "What do you mean 'going to be?'"