After a pretty decent stretch of weekend weather, we were horrified with our lot this past weekend (that's right, folks, I am blogging about the near past! I am so excited!!!). It rained both Saturday and Sunday - yuck - even though the meterologist on Channel 6, Kelly Lebreque, said it would be sunny. It's a running joke in our house on the weekends that if you want to know what the weather will be, take this particular meterologist's forecast and reverse it! She's TERRIBLE!
Saturday I went (sans Payson!) to my 3rd annual Children's Exchange at Greely Middle School in Falmouth - pretty much a big consignment sale with loads of good stuff in an affluent town. Before I even turned into the school I thought I had it made - I saw a bike trailer at a yard sale capitalizing on the traffic from the big sale at the school! However, it was $125 - a little pricy for a used one. The sale at both Greely MS and the neighboring elementary school were great - the latter offered bags of clothes (good ones, too!) for $2.00 a bag! I was on cloud nine.
Matt and Payson spent the morning yard saling themselves, and visiting with Matt's dad and stepmother, which was great as they had not seen Payson since our Easter excursion. Sunday we went to LL Bean's to let Payson run rampant around their flagship store. They have a great new display with fish that you can get "under" and feel like you're in the aquarium, swimming with the fish. And lots of animal heads on the walls; P. learned how to say "moose." Matt exchanged his waders for some new ones and got his fishing and hunting licenses.
Sunday afternoon the rain stopped so Payson, Zoe, and I headed to the Mountain Division Trail for a 4.5 mile run. It was not the best, I gotta be honest. The tires on Bob were rather flat, and I made the mistake of stopping half way through the run to see how Payson was doing (stopping and talking to her) and she assumed it was stop time, and proceeded to want OUT the remainder of the run. I entertained her by running through all the animal noises she knows - so picture me running down the trail pushing this flat-tired running stroller and a squirmy toddler (wearing the bracelets in the last blog's photos, no less) saying, "What does a doggy say?" - "What does a piggy say?" and so on. But hey, any run is better than no run at all and it was just nice to be outside after being cooped up inside all weekend. It's hard to find affordable indoor activities out of the house to do with a toddler in tow - you want something to do so they can move around freely!
Luckily Monday was beautiful, but unluckily there was a large black fly hatch so when you were outside black flies were swarming at your head. This mostly occured in the morning, thank goodness. Below are some cute pictures of our weekend's adventures.
I'm sure you want to hear about MORE pukes & poops, but I forgot to write that on Friday when Payson was with her Mimi & Papa for the day (a.ka. Shirley & Ray, Matt's mom and stepdad), they took her to the grocery whereapon she threw up all over herself and poor Shirley (luckliy in the parking lot). This poor kid is a Friday puker! She was out of sorts on Friday, and then she was fine all weekend sickness-wise, although she is cutting all 4 insisors so that's been tough for her. Go figure. But poor Shirley and Ray! Luckily they were good natured about the ordeal, finding the silver lining - Shirley said it was a good thing she wasn't carrying her in the other arm because she would have thrown up in her pocketbook! Ick!
That's it for now. I'm so excited I'm caught up with this blog, finally. I should be cleaning right now in preparation for my mom's visit for Mother's Day weekend (she doesn't care, but it's a good motivational excuse for a spring cleaning, and we NEED it), or eating my melting ice cream (have you tried Edy's Cookies & Dreamz yet? It's my all time favorite), or pumping (yep, still doing that occasionally!)... so I'm off to do one of those three. Guess which one? :)
Looking super cute in denim before Friday's puke fest. Payson picked out matching shoes on her own!
Ready to go spelunking with a $1 headlamp Payson and dad found yard saling.
The budding fashion sense returns as Payson adamantly wears a pumpkin hat all Monday morning.
Having fun on the swingset! (This tiny kid is pushing the buckle to the limit! Who designed this swing?)
She can climb up and slide down all by herself!
2 comments:
Payson is super cute! She'll have to teach Juniper a bit about fashion as her mom isn't as on top of it as Payson is.
Honestly, I am going to come steal Payson becuase she is soooo adorable. xoxoxo Lily
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