This morning started off with a bang. Or rather, a barf.
Bailey jumped up on Ryan to sit on the couch with him and um, let loose. On his lap. Much to his vast disgust. In her defence, she did feel pretty bad about it. Just not as bad as Ryan did.
While Cailin was busy harassing Bailey and Ryan, I started making pancakes for our Sunday morning breakfast. I found a recipe even Cailin will eat. Unfortunately I started making the recipe for blueberry muffins instead of pancakes, so I made both. The second Cailin found out I was baking without her, she grabbed a chair and pulled it up to the counter to help.
Bailey has been such a brat about meals lately that she has been banished to the other side of the baby gate while we eat. Mostly while Cailin eats. When the dog isn't swarming her for tidbits, Cailin really concentrates on eating. However, when Ryan went to pick Bailey up to banish her, she ran to me and hid between me and the stove and growled at him. We were both completely shocked, me more so than him. He picked her up and banished her anyway. I gave her heck. She sat on the mat at the back door and didn't say a peep. No worries; once breakfast was safely over, she got a little piece of pancake because she was being good.
Once Bailey was dealt with, I turned around to discover Cailin had dusted everything within reach in flour, including herself. She had also, ahem, soiled herself. Once the flour dust settled and she was fresh as a daisy, she sat at the table and hoovered most of a pancake in and enjoyed it thoroughly. Breakfast was such a treat this morning.
Ryan took it upon himself to really clean and tidy the living room while I baked and cooked. The rest of the toys have been delegated to the kids' rooms now, and the living room only has some kids' books in it. It looks so different without all the toys cluttered up in the corners.
Jellybean's room is nearly ready. We put a few toys in there for him and he now has some clothes freshly washed and put in his dresser. A lot of Cailin's toys are in there too, but they will eventually be sharing them, so I'm not too worried about it. For the meantime, she is really enjoying going in there to play.
I've been worried about switching Cailin to her toddler bed. I wanted her to be good and ready for the switch, and be in the bed full time for about a month before Jellybean is born since we need the crib for him. This means we would have to start sleep training her in the bed right away. Now that we're sleeping downstairs, I'm worried about her getting up in the middle of the night. Plus she is super attached to her crib and asks to be put in it randomly during the day. I was really worried about it the other morning when she asked to be put back to bed and lounged around in there for a long time. How am I going to boot her out of her crib and put a new baby in there?
However, Ryan called me not even half an hour later and told me his friend at work is giving away a crib for free and wanted to know if we wanted it. And he's giving away a bassinet as well. I told him to tell his friend yes we would take them and thank you ever so much. In a week or so we'll be the proud borrowers of a cherry wood crib just for Jellybean. I am so thankful. I can't believe we are just that much closer to being ready for our son.
So after breakfast was eaten, and Ryan finished up his living room project, it was on to the fun stuff. Outside time! I dressed Cailin warmly and out we went to the backyard. Where I proceeded to rake mass quantities of leaves (and dog poo) from the lawn and Cailin wandered around after Bailey. They had a great time. Last summer the neighbor gave us a slide and Cailin had lots of fun climbing the ladder and sliding all by herself. She also helped 'rake' by dragging a hoe around through my piles of leaves (and poo). At one point she decided she was too hot and lost the windbreaker jacket I put on over top of her sweater. I made her keep the sweater on though.
Ryan cleaned and organized the shed and then took a load of garbage to the dump. He also dropped off our old clothes to the donation bin. I finished raking all the grass that isn't covered in snow and Cailin organized her toys in the wagon she found in the shed. We still have a car to assemble for her that she got for Christmas and the wagon could use a good scrub, but we're very close to being ready for some serious warm weather playing.
The backyard is still kind of a mess, and only half of it is bare of snow. I'm also pretty sure I now know what Bailey spent the entire winter doing (ew!). Cailin got completely muddy and had a wonderful time outside; so wonderful in fact that she was an hour late in getting to her nap. She slept really good after all the fresh air.
After lunch and before dinner, we went out the front door and had a nice walk. Cailin is starting to get the concept of 'going for a walk'. She didn't wander too badly this time. When the sidewalk is free of snow and ice it will be easier I'm thinking. At any rate, we had lots of fun. Until we got back to the front door. Cailin got that little smirk on her face and gleam in her eye; she then took off and ran away from me. She didn't get far, but that was the end of playing outside. Well, once I caught her anyway. The complaining was long and loud over that one.
One thing I did learn today was that Cailin doesn't make a very good laundry folding helper. She grabbed the clothes I already folded and ran away with them, shirts and socks flying out of her arms as she laughed. She gave me that look with the little twinkle in her eye and dared me to object. (I did object). She thought it was funny as heck. (Me, not so much.)
All in all, it was a very successful Sunday. The muffin jar is full (we don't have a conventional 'cookie jar'), the laundry is done, the house is clean and the backyard is well on its way to being whipped into shape for the season. Ugh, the front yard is another story. Thankfully for another day.
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