24 hours of small joys
Oct. 14th, 2009 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
norsegirlWent shopping yesterday. Bought cute baby clothes for Georgia from Wal-Mart and Old Navy. All on sale with the exception of one set of fuzzy socks. Fuzzy socks make her warm and happy and don't go on sale ever, so that's okay.
Also went to Ikea. They have their Christmas stuff in, yup, in October just like they always do. By the end of October it's always pretty picked over. Kinda ridiculous really. This year they are unfortunately limiting the colours of stuff available. Anything you want as long as it's white, silver or red. Kinda boring. But we need new stuff because we're moving up from mini-tree to a real tree this year and we're hosting Christmas this year, so I want to have a decent tree and all the old 1" ornaments would look underwhelming on a full-sized tree. I got some nice stuff in white and silver because our current "theme" was white/silver and purple, so it goes with all the old stuff. I decided to ask Jason what he wanted to do for the second colour and he insisted that he liked purple. Not sure what I'm going to do to get purple on the big tree. Will probably end up making stuff out of felt or something. Maybe painting some of the silver stuff? Anyway, it's all plastic and unbreakable, so that's good for doggies and daughters.
In the evening we got home from work late, but ran into someone walking a beagle cross when we picked up our mail. I invited her to drop in and visit our hounds (I'd actually invited her months ago at the HoA meeting, but it fell by the wayside in the whole childbirth thing). The beagles LOVE their new friend. We were treated to an hour of wild tearing around, howling, yipping and barking excitedly. Even Lizzy was feeling playful, and she usually avoids all other dogs and people at the park so it was nice to see her make friends. When Anna collapsed, exhausted Lizzy actually barked at her, like she was saying "we're not done bitch, get up and run so we can chase you more!", which Anna obligingly did. They've been exhausted lumps of furry, napping beagles all day, so that was very good for them.
Last night we got about 6 or 7 hours of uninterrupted sleep out of Georgia. Slightly wasted as I stayed up to watch the late airing of the Daily Show. The night before was only 5 hours, but both Saturday and Sunday night we got a full 8 hours! She's going for her first set of shots tomorrow, so that will probably shoot the sleep schedule all to hell again, but it was nice while it lasted.
Also, while in Ikea I picked up a little present for Georgia. I got her a Mus. I'm excited because this seems to be the first stuffed animal she's really responded to. She had it clutched somewhat clumsily between her little paws for the whole shopping trip. I suspect she likes it because it is an appropriate size for her to play with and manipulate and most stuffed animals are almost as big as she is. I think it's adorable that the little girl we've nicknamed "Mouse" has taken to this particular toy :)
Also went to Ikea. They have their Christmas stuff in, yup, in October just like they always do. By the end of October it's always pretty picked over. Kinda ridiculous really. This year they are unfortunately limiting the colours of stuff available. Anything you want as long as it's white, silver or red. Kinda boring. But we need new stuff because we're moving up from mini-tree to a real tree this year and we're hosting Christmas this year, so I want to have a decent tree and all the old 1" ornaments would look underwhelming on a full-sized tree. I got some nice stuff in white and silver because our current "theme" was white/silver and purple, so it goes with all the old stuff. I decided to ask Jason what he wanted to do for the second colour and he insisted that he liked purple. Not sure what I'm going to do to get purple on the big tree. Will probably end up making stuff out of felt or something. Maybe painting some of the silver stuff? Anyway, it's all plastic and unbreakable, so that's good for doggies and daughters.
In the evening we got home from work late, but ran into someone walking a beagle cross when we picked up our mail. I invited her to drop in and visit our hounds (I'd actually invited her months ago at the HoA meeting, but it fell by the wayside in the whole childbirth thing). The beagles LOVE their new friend. We were treated to an hour of wild tearing around, howling, yipping and barking excitedly. Even Lizzy was feeling playful, and she usually avoids all other dogs and people at the park so it was nice to see her make friends. When Anna collapsed, exhausted Lizzy actually barked at her, like she was saying "we're not done bitch, get up and run so we can chase you more!", which Anna obligingly did. They've been exhausted lumps of furry, napping beagles all day, so that was very good for them.
Last night we got about 6 or 7 hours of uninterrupted sleep out of Georgia. Slightly wasted as I stayed up to watch the late airing of the Daily Show. The night before was only 5 hours, but both Saturday and Sunday night we got a full 8 hours! She's going for her first set of shots tomorrow, so that will probably shoot the sleep schedule all to hell again, but it was nice while it lasted.
Also, while in Ikea I picked up a little present for Georgia. I got her a Mus. I'm excited because this seems to be the first stuffed animal she's really responded to. She had it clutched somewhat clumsily between her little paws for the whole shopping trip. I suspect she likes it because it is an appropriate size for her to play with and manipulate and most stuffed animals are almost as big as she is. I think it's adorable that the little girl we've nicknamed "Mouse" has taken to this particular toy :)
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Date: 2009-10-18 01:32 am (UTC)awesome icon btw :D