08.30.10 :: 191 weeks old

Sean is 191 weeks old today.

I've made progress on this Roar. I finished the hat this evening (save for grafting in the last 10 stitches at the top of the head). Tomorrow I'll make the spikes and voila, sample knit 1 complete. I will cast on tomorrow for the 2nd sample knit. Then I have one more to do after that.

I am in the middle of moving Sean's wardrobe into Mack's drawers and putting Mack's clothing into baby boy #3's nursery closet for him to one day use. I started pulling out Sean's 4T wardrobe to see what we have and what we need. I had been working on his 4T and 5T wardrobe for a while now when I find things at good prices, and the last couple of times that my mom has gone to the USA she's picked up stuff as well for him. He also got stuff last year for his birthday and Christmas/Chanukah in 4T. While he's clearly in 4T shirts, the bottom situation is a little different. He is too tall for 3T, and so far, the 3x has been okay. He's tall and skinny. (No waist!) So I think 4T pants will be too big on him. He's not turning 4 until December, but he's definitely a growing boy. I did weigh him out of curiosity the other day, as I wanted to see if he's big enough yet for the next stage car seat (booster seat with the full back piece - I do not trust those booster seats that don't have the back for smaller children), but for now, he still has to be in the forward facing car seat, as he's no where near the 40 lbs he has to be in order to switch. He's tinkering around 35 lbs. I don't think he'll hit 40 lbs by his 4th birthday. And Mr. Mack, fits nicely now in 3T shirts, but has a tiny waist as well, and although he's outgrown his 24 month size stuff, he still needs his 2T pants (for now), due to his tiny little waist. They're growing too fast. I'm not ready.

I've got nothing to wear. Yesterday I picked up a bunch of stuff at Thyme Maternity but upon trying them on at home (it was way too hot in the store to try on anything), I didn't like the way anything fit. It's mainly the maternity that I am not a fan of, unfortunately. So that all went back to the store, and I started back at square one today. I did find a few more pieces today (tops is what I'm looking for - mainly fall stuff), at Walmart, (one of the last few Walmarts that actually has a maternity section in my area), but I'll try those all on tomorrow morning when I get ready for the day. If not, not sure what to do. I hate the feeling of going into my closet and not having anything to wear. Less than 4 months to go, I really don't want to be spending too much money on maternity clothes either.

I also picked up some supplies I was missing for an art project that I want to work on over the next few days - details on that coming this week. I hope it works out like I want it to.

Tomorrow is Mr. Mack's last day in the youngest class in his daycare. He moves on Wednesday (Sept 1st), to the next class, the class that Sean moved out of in June 2010. Sean's excited as some of his friends will be moving out of that class into his class, so he gets to be reunited with them again. I have a gift ready for each of Mack's teachers, I got them each a gift card to the local bookstore (I figured that if they didn't have any books that they wanted for themselves, then they could always buy books for the classroom). I wrapped them wrote a little card and Mack will bring each of them one tomorrow. I can't believe how fast it goes... that he's already moving up classes. It really goes way too fast. I do find that life is going faster and faster as I am getting older. The big 3-0 is coming up next year, and I bet it'll come before I know it. (And I'll have a 6-7 month old in my arms). Not too sure yet how I feel about the whole 3-0 thing... yet.

Alright, off to go read in bed, and drift off into la la land...