Friday

Its 8:00 and I’m in bed.  This is the way things are going lately.  Eli is teething and it seems worse at night (or just worse because he’s sleepy), so the dogs and I are getting into bed early to stay near him if he wakes up. 

It’s been a long week for numerous reasons.  However, today, we went shopping.  Lucy starts the 5^th grade on Tuesday and we went looking for clothes.  My goodness I had no idea the taste of 10 year old girls is the same as back in 1988. Neon everywhere.  If they bring back hyper color and hammer pants, I think we really need to do something about this.   She managed to find some things she liked and we spent the rest of the day relaxing around the house until she got picked up for the weekend. Lucy got new clothes, Eli got this guy:

Lucy didn't want to put on her new clothes for photos.  Maybe next time.  

Eli is on the verge of crawling.  He bounces up and down when he’s sitting and reaching, leans forward, just about reaches the hands and knees and then….face plant!  Luckily he thinks it is pretty funny. 

Currently Listening to: Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself

Things I currently love:

My new Apple Airport Extreme. 

While I have a built in hatred for anything labeled “extreme”; this morning the router went out.  While I’m sure I could have spent hours upon hours trying to troubleshoot the damn thing, it wasn’t very strong anyway.  Unless I was hard wired, everything loaded very slowly.  Today I decided to avoid the stress of customer service phone calls and trouble shooting on a computer that has been infected with laziness.  (I have a sort of keyboard virus which constant types z’s.  I won’t even go into the lengthy process on how I just got those 2 into this post. Anyway, now I’ve just dumbed it down to my computer has a lazy virus that it can’t seem kick).  The point of that entire ramble, I got a new router.  It is fantastic.  

Homemade Iced Tea

Yes, I can get this at the store, but it never tastes quite the same.  Plus, I’ve got the ratios down perfectly to my liking. 

Remote Shutter

Relying on the timer on my camera is just too much when trying to get several kids into a photo.  This thing is extremely handy. 

Tomorrow:  Polaroid Coasters.  Let’s see how that goes.