Downs

• Calvin was teething again last night. He woke up at 2:30 and cried for a bit before going back to sleep. (I don’t necessarily believe in the “cry-it-out” method but if I go in to his bedroom in the middle of the night, it always takes much longer for him to get back to sleep.) He woke up at 5 crying again and this time he didn’t go back to sleep. Jaeger takes care of Calvin on Sunday mornings so I can sleep in so he got up. I made a bottle for them and gave Calvin some ibuprofen and then went back to bed. Jaeger got him back to sleep eventually and crawled into bed again around 6. Calvin slept pretty well until 7:30.
• Somehow my grocery list got corrupted and some of the items I needed to buy disappeared. I remembered a couple of the items that went missing but I didn’t remember to pick up the pears for the Pear-Almond Upside-Down Cake that I was planning to make tomorrow. Maybe I’ll make Cardamom Mexican Wedding Cakes instead.

Ups

• Jaeger got up with Calvin so I was able to sleep in. I always look forward to Sunday mornings
• We have new blinds for the living room! Cat5 mangled our old blinds so badly that I could no longer completely close them or pull them up. Last winter, I was hoping to replace all the mini-blinds on the bottom level with higher quality wooden blinds. However, I ended up in the hospital before managing to buy anything and life has been too hectic to deal with it ever since. Today Jaeger and I stopped by Lowe’s to look at blinds. After looking at all the options, we decided to buy a replacement set for $20. They definitely aren’t high quality. However, none of the more expensive options spoke to us so instead of upgrading all the window blinds, we decided to just get a replacement for the one window that needed it. Our old blinds were metal but we went with vinyl this times in hopes that it won’t bend quite as easily when 5 tries to nose her way to the window. Also, there’s a good chance we won’t be in this house in a couple more years so I was having trouble convincing myself it was worth spending too much money on the blinds.
• Jaeger gave Calvin his bath again this night so once again I got to eat supper before 7.

Cute Calvin Moment

• We took our weekly pilgrimage to Vitamin Cottage today. The clerks at Vitamin Cottage always coo over Calvin and he usually rewards them with a big grin. Today he was silently grinning at our clerk the entire time she was checking us out. As Jaeger was paying, she asked us, “is he always this quiet?” Jaeger and I responded with an emphatic “no” at the same time. Later, when we were at King Soopers, Calvin was happily babbling and Jaeger mentioned it was a shame the Vitamin Cottage lady wasn’t around. Without a doubt, Calvin is a people person. The more people that are around him, the happier he is. It’s almost like he puts on a “perfect baby” performance anytime he has an audience. I’m curious if this is his life-long disposition or if he will grow out of it. Apparently when I was in first grade, I would bounce up anytime a new person arrived in the classroom and happily introduce myself to them. I’m not exactly sure when this disappeared but it was definitely gone by high school.

Simplification

• Delegated some odds and ends I had lying around the house to the thrift store bin.