Weekender
This morning, we took Audrey for her second "real" haircut. We like this salon because it's only for kids, and they provide fancy chairs (today, she was in an old-style fire truck) and play videos to keep the toddlers distracted. Not a unique concept, I'm sure, but novel to me. Of course, you can hold your baby in your lap, if it's more comfortable for one or both. For one little boy, even being in his daddy's lap didn't make the experience any less frightening. Poor little guy.
It's in situations like these that I'm so thankful for Audrey's happy personality. She's rarely afraid of anything; rather, she's game for pretty much any new experience. I'm not naive enough to think that I or Marshall is responsible for this. Audrey is who she is, and we're just fortunate to be given the opportunity to guide her along.
After the haircut--a sweet little bob--we went to Target. With money tight as it's been, we haven't allowed ourselves a trip to Target, and now I remember why. We went intending to buy some new drinking glasses and look for a VCR Guard. We walked out with two pairs of pajamas, two pairs of pants, five shirts, a large pack of diapers and a Fisher-Price Little Mommy baby doll--all for Audrey--and a $6.00 pillow for Marshall. The grand total? More that $90.00. How did that happen? All the clothes were on clearance!
Thank goodness we only have to pay for a half-week of daycare next week (Mom and Dad are coming up and will babysit Audrey while I'm in D.C.).
When we got home, it was about an hour past nap time, so Audrey crashed without lunch. I crashed after lunch for a loong nap (thank you, Marshall!), then sorted through Audrey's clothes, packing away the too-small summer stuff and looking for gender-neutral newborn stuff for my cousin (due next May). We have four big ol' Sterilite tubs full of Audrey clothes, and she's not even two years' old. If we don't have another daughter, I'll be donating so many clothes.
And that's the Saturday report. I'm trying to read Life of Pi, but I keep getting distracted by the Prey series by John Sanford. My aunt brought the whole series over for me to read this past May, and I'm just now getting to them. They're awful and formulaic and way too addictive. That its all.