Picnicing in 1771

Today we visited a working 1771 farm. They had all the buildings and people in costume working the fields. They also had period animals and I guess, period port o potties. We brought a picnic lunch and Will slept right through it. He looked very much like Uncle Patrick in his cool sunglasses. I carried him in the baby bjorn since strollers wouldn't roll well on the rough paths. We went to Georgetown after and walked around. We stopped in at Baby Gap and bought some socks on sale and a monkey shirt, also on sale. We then found our way to Starbucks and had a cool drink. After that we headed home to start on the great switching of the rooms for Will to start his life as a big boy. I may get it all switched over by tuesday and I may not. We shall see....

William needs his own space!

Will wearing his fuzzibunz

I am considering changing Will to his own room this long memorial weekend. He is a noisy little guy and he wakes up occasionally in the night and does a strange series of grunts and coos and wiggles a lot until he falls back asleep. I wake up from this of course, and though he is not crying it does keep me awake for a while. I think if I move him, I will only hear him when he really needs us. For 2 nights he slept straight through and then last night he was up every 3 hours eating. I am not sure if this was a growth spurt or he wasn't feeling well, but it sucked. This is why I hesitate to move him. If I have to get up over and over, I would rather do it in my own room than have to go to his and sit on the loveseat. Though we may both go back to sleep sooner if we do it that way. It is hard to decide, and if I do it I won't want to switch it back as it involves moving a great deal of electronics and furniture. We'll see how it goes tonight. If he sleeps through again I may do it. Otherwise, we have been having a good time. I ran errands yesterday, returned some things I ordered from Lands End to Sears -I love that you can return stuff there and not have to pay shipping back. I bought Will a cute outfit to wear home. I am gearing up for our big trip to Washington. I am a little nervous about making through 3 airports with just me and the baby. We have a layover in Wisconsin and I will be awfully tempted to get in a taxi and run back to Madison. My mom is going to meet us at the airport and then we will go meet Jason's mom for lunch. Jason arrives the following week, getting in on Thursday night. Molly's graduation is Saturday, the 14th. I still haven't figured out what to get her. The fuzzi bunz by the way, are working GREAT! They are so simple and I really love them. I am even using them out and about so I am now using 1 disposable at night and that is it! Go Green/Save Green!

Ahhh Precious Sleep, How I've missed you!

Last night William Olen Simmons slept from 10 until 6 am. That's right....8 hours! It was wonderful to wake up and see daylight creeping in. Tonight he went to bed at 9:40 and I haven't heard a peep since. Amazing. But it is only 9:59..... Today we met up with our dear friend Rachel and she took us to Bethesda for lunch and to go to a consignment shop that had used cloth diapers. We went to a microbrewery, even though we weren't drinking. It was very good, I had the pulled pork BBQ. The consignment shop had fuzzibunz, which are about as close as you can get in a cloth diaper that is as easy as a disposable. They are normally very expensive, about 17 dollars each. They had 36 of them, 18 in small and 18 in medium for only 3.50 each! Great deal! They normally sell used for 10 each. I don't think the shop lady knew anything about them, or she would have charged much more. I started using them tonight and Jason and I both love them. They are really adjustable, and really easy to put on. And I got enough of them to only have to wash every 2-3 days and sizes that will fit till he weighs over 30 pounds, all for the cost of 3 months worth of disposables! My BPA free bottles came today too. They are very nice and he seems to like the nipple shape. I will post some random pics from the past couple of days.

Happy Birthday Gabriela!

Sunday we went to Solon and Andrea's for Gabriela's first b-day party. It was great, Will got lots of attention of course. He loved Alessandra, he watched her a lot and would just smile over and over when she was close to him. She is so gentle and lovable with him. She is just exploding in vocabulary right now and her fine motor skills are very impressive. She made a bead necklace with really small beads, which is pretty good for 2 and a 1/2. Gabriela was walking a lot and can stand up in the middle of the room now, and she took some steps towards her birthday cake with out holding on to anything. A girl will do a lot for chocolate. We gave her the fisher price gumball machine which she was crazy about. She loves to put things in right now so it was perfect. I didn't get many great pictures of her, she looks sad in most of them, so I won't put them up. Will bonded with Uncle Solon last night through opera. For some reason Will was captivated when Solon sang Italian opera to him. We were all amazed at how he smiled and cooed for it. It was very sweet. We came home pretty late so we went right to bed.

Fun Times While Dangling

Feelin Crafty....

I made some bibs today out of some cute prints and backed them with terry cloth for extra absorbancy. They turned out really cute, considering I made the pattern out of newspaper. We need a lot of bibs these days, Will spits up constantly.

We let Jason sleep in today and went out early to a big baby flea market. I found some nice toys really cheap and a couple of nice outfits. Other than that we stayed around here and hung out. We gave Will his bath tonight so he was very happy, until he got his face in the water for a split second and got very mad and scared. I felt terrible, he is just so slippery. He was fine though, and we completed bathtime with no further incident.

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