{"id":806,"date":"2013-05-19T04:46:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T04:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/19\/sliding-through-may"},"modified":"2013-05-19T04:46:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T04:46:00","slug":"sliding-through-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2013\/05\/19\/sliding-through-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Sliding through May"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amanda pointed out that I haven’t posted in a while, so let me give you a quick run down of our May so far.<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 The house purchase is going extremely well.\u00a0 The offer, inspection, objections, appraisal, loan, and closing preparations are all going so remarkably well, the realtors are even amazed.\u00a0 At least half of our house is already in boxes.\u00a0 Jack spent the morning playing Transformers with Brian while Ben and did a packing spree.\u00a0 In addition, we’ve been doing a couple boxes a day for the last few weeks. I have met with carpet and paint people to prepare our townhouse for market.\u00a0 I feel like I have all my ducks in order.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 I declare Jack potty-trained!\u00a0 He took to it really well.\u00a0 After a week I started leaving his diaper off during naps too, and he wakes up dry every time.\u00a0 We carry about our days normally and he’s able to use all public restrooms or hold it until we get home pretty much all the time.\u00a0 I’d say he had two minor accidents in the last two weeks – and I blame myself partly for putting him in a tough situation.\u00a0 He still wears a diaper at night.\u00a0 I’m told that part will come much later.\u00a0 It wasn’t exactly easy to train him.\u00a0 It took a lot of work.\u00a0 Diapers sure were easy.\u00a0 But hopefully we can enjoy a few months diaper-free before starting over again with the newborn.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 We have a short list of names for the new little boy, with two that we really like.\u00a0 Not certain on the middle name yet, but we have a list for that too.\u00a0 We’re going to keep all our ideas under wraps again.\u00a0 We don’t get too much negative feedback on names we actually love, and so we might change our minds last minute if needed.\u00a0 But I will say that Elmer Lightning Mason is no longer on our lists \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 Been doing lots of dishes, lots of laundry, lots of grocery shopping.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 I took Jack to the zoo a couples times.\u00a0 We also go to the playground most days.\u00a0 And . . . here are some pictures to jog my memory.<\/p>\n

Zoo trip on a Friday.\u00a0 Silly me, I didn’t realize it would be crawling with school groups and other moms, happy to finally have a nice weather day to take out our kids.\u00a0 I brought his stroller because he hurt his foot that week, and carrying him isn’t an option for me anymore when he gets tired.\u00a0 It had been at least a year since he rode in it.\u00a0 Maybe more.\u00a0 He didn’t recognize it.\u00a0 He was SUPER into the stroller.\u00a0 Then he went all old school with his hat, duck, and puppy.\u00a0
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The carousal ride was on Tuesday this week, where we met Erin and her daughter Nora.\u00a0 Jack and Nora are a month apart, and so are our due dates for our next kids!\u00a0 I hope we can spend more time playing together now.<\/div>\n
Library story time and grocery store horse ride = classic combo. (Although these pics were on separate weeks)
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Making Mother’s Day cookies for Grandma Susan.\u00a0 (I had a fantastically relaxed Mother’s Day.\u00a0 Ben treats me very well.\u00a0 I’m only sad that I remembered several days too late to take a portrait of me and Jack.\u00a0 This one will have to stand in for this year.)
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Ben taught him to use the big swings.\u00a0
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Cold weather day spent at CC mall.
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Completed hat and sweater (minus buttons) for the baby.\u00a0 I’m halfway through sweater #2.\u00a0 Yay for autumn babies!\u00a0
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Snuck into Pre-opening night at Cafe Rio in our neighborhood and got a free dinner.\u00a0 It was so busy we ate it outside.\u00a0
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Jack was cold, so we improvised.\u00a0 Ben declared this photo “Glorious.”
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Play time with Wolfie.\u00a0 These movie trades are great.\u00a0 They were seeing Iron Man 3.\u00a0 The Saturday before we got to see The Great Gatsby (at the Alamo, of course!).
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That brings us to this Saturday.\u00a0 The day was spent packing, more Cafe Rio for lunch, and nap time for all three of us.\u00a0 Then we went to H Burger with Brian and Amanda, and dessert at Sweet Action ice cream.\u00a0 It was 30 minutes past Jack’s bedtime and, again, too crowded inside.\u00a0 We ate on a sidewalk table.\u00a0 After asking “How about inside?” I went to the car to get his blankets again.\u00a0 This was met with “You have undies for my hat?”\u00a0 Not wanting to make another trip to the car, we got over our giggles and made a head wrap.
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Amanda pointed out that I haven’t posted in a while, so let me give you a quick run down of our May so far. 1.\u00a0 The house purchase is going extremely well.\u00a0 The offer, inspection, objections, appraisal, loan, and closing preparations are all going so remarkably well, the realtors are even amazed.\u00a0 At least half […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}