Monthly Archives: March 2009

That was fast.

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Seriously, have I mentioned that the new daycare seems to be going really well? She’s been there two weeks. TWO WEEKS, and spent the entire weekend (when awake) in underpants. Two weeks ago, she freaked when presented with a potty, and now she wakes up, takes off her jammies and diaper, gets a stool, hops up in the big toilet (with a family seat installed) and pees. You know, like, no big thing. WILD.

I go to Florida on Wednesday. I am SO excited to see Amy and family, and while weather is secondary, it’s pretty cool that it looks like it will be sunny and in the 80s. NICE.

That is all.

Oh, and I love my iPod Touch and am not sure how I lived without it for this long.

What I did

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I ordered free samples from Everyday Minerals and plan on trying them out this weekend.

I ended up with two iPods, basically. I ended up sending my cousin a check for the discounted one, and buying one from Amazon. But, my good friend and coworker was totally jazzed after playing with mine, so I’ll sell her the second one when it arrives, and we’re going to basically split the cost so that we both get a deal.

I have had a period for more than a week now, which is SO LAME. I’ve been saying it reminds me of waiting for my first period to arrive, I couldn’t wait for it to come , but when it did, I immediately thought “I was excited for THIS to happen?” That said, as soon as we’re done with building our family, I am sooooo getting a Mirena again, even if Dave gets a vas or something. Mirena forever.

Mineral makeup

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For anyone that’s still reading, has anyone tried mineral makeup? I’m feeling a little flush with cash right now, and considering going to a salon that does lessons and sells stuff. The place I get my hair cut sells Jane Iredale, and another place sells JI and Bare Escentuals. I feel like the mineral stuff, and a lesson from a mineral place, would be less clown-facey than going to the Clinique counter or something. And, let’s be fair, mineral makeup sounds way more my speed (earthy! dirt on my face!) than traditional stuff.

Separate from that, so, my cousin works for Apple and offered to hook me up with an iPod Touch at a nice discount. Only, he hasn’t done it yet, and I realllly want it for my trip to Florida. I’m tempted to just buy one and call it good, but I can also see one showing up from E before he tells me what I owe. I can afford to have two ipods come (and, quite honestly, I can see Dave being into it once he sees mine, and he’s already filled the 8gb nano I got him for our anniversary) and I can even afford to offload one if I need to (I do work on a college campus, afterall) but it feels a little…. weird to flirt with the possibility of being wealthy in iPods Touch. I’ve already pre-sold my current Nano to a friend (and Dave has a Shuffle that I can co-opt for gym use (which, egads, I need to get back to) and I don’t want to email E and be like “never mind,” because I think he’d actually be a little offended. (Hard to explain.)

Sooo, what should I do? I leave for FL on 4/1, and I have an Amazon Prime membership, so I can get it fairly quickly.

It’s just, I WANT IT NOW! I’m not an impulse shopper, really, I tend to research, obsess, decide and then NOT buy something, but after going to my conference where EVERYONE had an iPhone or a touch, and seeing what’s coming in June, and having a good chunk in savings now as WELL as a new stream of money from the paid blogger project, I WANT NOW.

What would you do? What should *I* do?

Daycare Update

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Well, this week was it — the big switch. We hyped it as going to Preschool, and the transition has been great. Shockingly great.

Day 1, both Dave and I did dropoff, she was like "yep, alright, see you later." and we left. She talked to them, had a good time, and didn't want to leave when I picked her up. When we got home, my mom called, and like I do ALL THE TIME, I asked Ingrid if she wanted to talk. However, instead of plugging her ears and saying "I DONT LIKE IT!" over and over, she hopped off the chair and came running over, grabbed the phone and said "I go to preschool, Grammy!" and proceeded to HAVE A CONVERSATION about it. Her first ever phone convo, EVER. She won't even talk to ME on the phone.

Day 2 was fine, Day 3, we followed preschool by going to My Gym for Kindermusik. It was a class we paid for at the old daycare, and the teacher is a college classmate, and Ingrid loved it. The Kindermusik class is what made us really want to find a smaller place for her, because everyone said she was just a totally different kid in there.  Anyway, I signed up for a month of lessons to get us through the last of the wintry weather, and since Dave is now working later in the evenings for a while, it gives us something to do.

We had done the four weeks of classes in january, after winning them, and it was fine, Ingrid really liked it and talked about it a lot at home. But yesterday, she was a different kid. More confident, choosing to sit rightnext to the teacher (who, granted, she knows) and answering the questions and sining the songs. WHen the teacher asked everyone to give their names and say what their favorite dessert was, Ing piped right up: INGRID! MAC & CHEE! I've never, ever seen her so outgoing.

Today, I picked her up after my doctor's appointment*, and the teacher said "She peed on the potty a few times!" SHOCKING. ACTUAL PEE. SHOOOOOCKKKKEEED. And so i said "you know, some mornings when she gets dressed, she really wants to wear underpants but I'm not sure if you'd be cool with that…." and she said "send her in! That's great! Just make sure you have a change of clothes, but that's not a problem!" Unlike last daycare, who just…. didn't support that. At all.

Not to mention, dropping her off is so different. No, there's no passcode security system or leather couch, but it's just so wild to drop her off at 8 am and have her there with one or two other babies/kids. Since it's so small, they all start in the big room, and so far, she's been just one of 3 or 4 kids at dropoff, MAX. Whereas at the old place, she was dropped off right in her own room, and by 7:30 there are already half a dozen kids or so.

Anyway, yeah. Feeling confident about the shift, if not a little guilty we didn't do it sooner.

*I've been disarmed. FWIW, IUD removal is totally painless and almost too easy. Just going to take a few months to get all systems in line (thyroid, cycles, etc) before really going for it, though.